Wed.Oct 13, 2021

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3 Practices to Help Build a Strong Data Culture

Dataiku

Let’s be frank — creating a lasting data culture in your company isn’t going to happen overnight. No technology you install or datasets you gather will do that for you. You need time and, as we’ve seen across pop culture, it usually takes a new idea or innovation (or an old idea packaged as new) to change culture. This change usually falls on data leaders to drive because they have a unique perspective across data, technology, and the organization.

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Singapore-based insurtech startup Surer nabs seed round to bolster its product development

TechCrunch

There is an imbalance between demand and supply of general insurance due to the tedious workflow and processes that insurance intermediaries and insurance companies face. . Singaporean insurtech company Surer , which automates the workflow and processes via a cloud-based platform, helps insurance intermediaries get rapid access to insurance quotations and insurers to distribute their products more efficiently.

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IMAP vs POP3 vs SMTP – Know the Difference

The Crazy Programmer

IMAP, SMTP, and POP3 are the most widely used email systems on the Internet. Each of them serves a different purpose and method. Both IMAP and POP3 read emails from the remote server. While SMTP is for sending emails. In comparison, IMAP is much better than POP3. Image Source. IMAP. Known as Internet Message Access Protocol. IMAP is used to receive emails from a server.

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Smart growth tactics can put account-based marketing within reach for startups and SMBs

TechCrunch

Jonas van de Poel. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Jonas van de Poel is head of content marketing at Unmuted , an Amsterdam-based growth marketing agency. For many startups and SMBs, successfully setting up account-based marketing strategies can feel like a pipe dream. Startups still struggling to find product-market fit wouldn’t dream of being able to identify and map out their ideal customer profile (ICP) clearly enough.

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Streamlining Database Compliance with CI/CD Integration

IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d

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How to do DevOps without increasing your carbon footprint

TechBeacon

DevOps is about continuously compiling, producing, and deploying artifacts, but there's little thought given to the practice's impact on your operation's carbon footprint—especially as you scale. Think about the cycle: Whenever a coder makes a change, it gets submitted to a software repository. That kicks off an automatic process where the change is run through compilers and linked with other modules and then tested.

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Write Netlify Functions in Rust

Netlify

Netlify Functions give developers an unrivalled workflow for building the backend of a web application, allowing them to focus on writing the business logic instead of provisioning servers, orchestrating deployments, or navigating verbose configuration. With an integrated local development experience, it’s possible to make changes to functions with a very short feedback loop, with compilation or build steps taken care of automatically behind the scenes.

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Warehouse robotics firm Dexterity raises $140M

TechCrunch

Dexterity emerged from stealth in July of last year, touting a $56.2 million Series A. The Bay Area-based robotics startup was riding high on increased demand for automation at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. More than a year later, the pandemic is, sadly, still here, and investor interest in the company has maintained along with it. This morning Dexterity announced a $140 million equity funding and debt Series B, led by existing investors Lightspeed Venture Partners and Kleiner Perkins.

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Rethinking Your Approach to Ops Governance

DevOps.com

The “You build it, you run it” approach has changed the mindset of modern organizations that are increasingly adopting DevOps practices. No longer completely beholden to the requirements of operations, engineering teams are continually acquiring more autonomy to deliver rapid innovation. At the same time, more organizations are adopting platform teams to accelerate development, empowering […].

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Matik raises $20M to automate the process of creating personalized customer presentations

TechCrunch

Matik , which has created automated data-driven software for customizing Google Slides or PowerPoint presentations, has raised $20 million in a Series A funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). Menlo Ventures, BoxGroup and Oceans Ventures also participated in the financing, which brings the San Francisco-based startup’s total raised to just over $23 million since its 2019 inception.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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CyRC Vulnerability Advisory: SQL injection, path traversal leading to arbitrary file deletion and XSS in Nagios XI

Synopsys

CVE-2021-33177, CVE-2021-33178, and CVE-2021-33179 are SQL injection, path traversal, and XSS vulnerabilities in the popular application, service, and network monitoring software Nagios XI. The post CyRC Vulnerability Advisory: SQL injection, path traversal leading to arbitrary file deletion and XSS in Nagios XI appeared first on Software Integrity Blog.

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Weights & Biases raises $135M Series C to keep building MLOps software

TechCrunch

Update: The round in question was $135 million, not $100 million as originally noted. I apologize for the mistake! What do you call AI these days? ML in a suit. ML, or machine learning, is a big market today. That is thanks to modern corporations accreting data like hoarders and data science maturing as a work category. Evidence of the former can be found in the growth posted by Databricks in recent quarters, and the latter by just how much cash Big Tech companies are willing to drop on ML-focus

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Why You Need a Value Stream Delivery Platform

DevOps.com

While the pandemic was significantly challenging for businesses, it exposed the need to quickly adapt and change. Software products for internal or client use continue to provide an opportunity for a competitive edge in nearly any industry. Businesses will immerse themselves and compete in the digital economy by consistently producing better software products at an […].

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GitLab raises IPO range, targeting valuation of as much as $11B

TechCrunch

It’s no longer Hot Summer anything, sadly, as the seasons change. But perhaps we’re in for Warm IPO Autumn. Rent the Runway , NerdWallet and other companies are setting us up for a busy second half of October. But this week will see the debut of a company worth a multiple of those other venture-backed former startups as GitLab goes public.

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Top 5 Challenges in Designing a Data Warehouse for Multi-Tenant Analytics

Multi-tenant architecture allows software vendors to realize tremendous efficiencies by maintaining a single application stack instead of separate database instances while meeting data privacy needs. When you use a data warehouse to power your multi-tenant analytics, the proper approach is vital. Multi-tenant analytics is NOT the primary use case with traditional data warehouses, causing data security challenges.

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New Relic I/O Aims to Simplify Instrumentation

DevOps.com

New Relic today at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America conference launched a New Relic Instant Observability (I/O) initiative through which it is making available open source tools to simplify application instrumentation. Marck Robinson, senior vice president for engineering at New Relic, said the catalog of tools will help DevOps teams instrument a much wider […].

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Lively is building the modern health savings account that puts consumers first

TechCrunch

Alex Cyriac recalls his mother, who stopped taking medication because she didn’t have enough money for the co-pay. His friend, Shobin Uralil, and his wife had similar medical issues with their first baby. It was this kind of bonding over personal experiences associated with the costs of healthcare that got Cyriac and Uralil thinking. They recognized health savings accounts as a powerful utility to save on healthcare costs, but thought the way those were run — largely by banks offering the servic

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In a world as drastically divided as ours, empathy is more critical than ever for effective and inclusive leadership.

CEO Insider

Nearly every conversation I find myself in recently involves picking sides. It is as if I am plummeting toward a huge crevasse and I need to decide instantly – do I jump left or right? Liberal or conservative? Community wellness or personal rights? Should my kid play soccer or baseball? Everything is an either-or choice […]. The post In a world as drastically divided as ours, empathy is more critical than ever for effective and inclusive leadership. appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine

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Nothing raises another $50M

TechCrunch

In the wake of the July 31 launch of its first product, the Ear (1) , Nothing today announced a “Series A Extension” of $50 million, bringing its total funding to $74 million to date. The round follows the February announcement of a $15 million Series A. Shortly after that, Nothing announced a $1.5 million equity round aimed at tapping into the sense of community that founder Carl Pei’s former company, OnePlus, had long prided itself in developing.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday Roundup for October

TechTalk

Microsoft’s October Patch Tuesday offers fixes for more than 70 vulnerabilities, including four zero-days and updates for Windows 11. The post Microsoft Patch Tuesday Roundup for October first appeared on GFI Blog.

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General Catalyst, Tiger Global lead $25M investment into Blank Street’s micro specialty coffee shops

TechCrunch

Vinay Menda and Issam Freiha are two coffee-obsessed friends who came to New York from Dubai and Lebanon to study at NYU and Columbia, respectively, and started researching the New York coffee scene. In the U.S, they saw a coffee shop on every corner, but found the experience slow and overpriced: the shops were either a destination place or for buying coffee to brew at home, not a quality “grab and go” kind of operation, Freiha said.

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Low-code BPM platforms. What does low-code/no-code mean?

BPM

For some time now, we are seeing an increase in platforms that are categorized as “low-code/no-code” software. They are gaining popularity due to their flexibility and capability to automate complex processes in a very simple way. But what does “Low-code/no-code” mean? And, how does it help your company?

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Founders should use predictive modeling to fundraise smarter

TechCrunch

Billy Libby. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Billy Libby is the CEO and co-founder of Upper90 , a $1.5 billion hybrid fund that provides founder-friendly credit and equity to top disruptors in e-commerce and fintech. More capital is flooding into growth equity at earlier stages, and it’s happening faster than ever before. But even with the rampant enthusiasm for pouring bigger equity checks into startups, founders are now in a unique place in time where they can think differently about how

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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AgileQA: QA Framework for Agile Methodology

Exadel

Read all articles on Exadel QA. Why Agile Testing? The world is changing fast and being adaptive is not an option, it’s a must. Agile methodologies have proved their efficiency as a flexible approach in software development by delivering solutions faster and with the ability to respond to change. Scrum, Kanban, and Scrumban are commonly used Agile methodologies that have their own guidelines and frameworks.

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Aware raises $60M for tech that monitors internal messaging platforms for legal compliance, sentiment analysis and more

TechCrunch

Organizations have been using social media monitoring for years to get a better idea of how they are being perceived in the world at large, to pick up on themes or urgent issues relevant to them, and to generally be more responsive in a world that’s predicated on “engagement.” Now a company called Aware , which has built a similar framework aimed at organizations’ internal messaging boards, is announcing some funding — a sign of the growing interest in applying the

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The Definitive AWS Tagging Guide: 15 Best Practices & Strategies

CloudZero

Engineers want to innovate, fix issues, and improve existing code. Finance wants to report accurately on the company's return on technology investment. Yet, the cloud is like a menu without the pricing.

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Nexla nabs $12M Series A as it builds cash flow positive data operations biz

TechCrunch

Nexla , a company that participated in the TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield in New York City in 2017, has been building its data operations startup the old fashioned way. After launching in beta and securing a $3.5 million seed at Battlefield, it has proceeded to build a cash flow positive business. Today with a firm financial foundation in place, the company announced a $12 million Series A.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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New Dell Latitude Rugged: Extreme Laptops for Extreme Jobs

Dell EMC

When your work takes you to the world’s harshest environments you can’t afford for technology to fail you. Dell Technologies’ Rugged product line is designed to enable work from anywhere, no matter how rough things get.

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Dear Sophie: Marriage-based green card versus EB-1C green card?

TechCrunch

Here’s another edition of “Dear Sophie,” the advice column that answers immigration-related questions about working at technology companies. “Your questions are vital to the spread of knowledge that allows people all over the world to rise above borders and pursue their dreams,” says Sophie Alcorn , a Silicon Valley immigration attorney. “Whether you’re in people ops, a founder or seeking a job in Silicon Valley, I would love to answer your questions in my next column.”.

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Unveiling CNDR: eBPF-Based Cloud Native Detection and Response

Aqua Security

Today, Aqua announced the addition of a new, industry-leading detection and response capability to its Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP), called Cloud Native Detection and Response (CNDR). CNDR uses real-time behavioral indicators from Aqua’s cyber research team, Nautilus, to identify zero-day attacks from low-level eBPF events surfaced by Aqua’s open source project Tracee.

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