TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2021

Block Party , an anti-harassment startup that aims to help folks feel safer on social media founded by Tracy Chou, launched today. Currently only available for Twitter, Block Party helps people filter out the content they don’t want to see and into what Block Party calls the Lockout Folder. That’s where all of the filtered-out content lives in the event you want to review it later. “We think it’s important to still acknowledge that these people exist,” Chou told me.

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The Crazy Programmer

JANUARY 15, 2021

Hello everyone, i n this post we are going to go through a very popular and recently asked coding question. . Finding the k th smallest and largest element in an array. From the problem statement, it is clear that the main task is to find the kth smallest or largest element in an unsorted array. . You cannot loop the array and try to find the solution as we do for the minimum or maximum element as in the case of the kth element it is difficult to keep track of the number of elements before any p

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2021

GitLab has confirmed with TechCrunch that it oversaw a $195 million secondary sale that values the company at $6 billion. CNBC broke the story earlier today. The company’s impressive valuation comes after its most recent 2019 Series E in which it raised $268 million on a 2.75 billion valuation, an increase of $3.25 billion in under 18 months. Company co-founder and CEO Sid Sijbrandij believes the increase is due to his company’s progress adding functionality to the platform. “W

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 15, 2021

People are your number one asset, so how do you ensure your best people stay? In short: you love ’em! In this episode, we talk with Beverly Kaye, author of the #1 book ever written on talent retention. You’ll get simple, practical […]. The post Love ‘Em or Lose ‘Em – Interview with Beverly Kaye appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2021

German startup Moss has raised a $25.5 million (€21 million) funding round led by Valar Ventures. Existing investors Cherry Ventures and Global Founders Capital are also participating. Moss provides credit cards and a spending platform to small and medium businesses in Germany. The company has developed its own risk engine to come up with a credit card limit for your company.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2021

The dating and networking service Bumble has filed to go public. The company, launched by a former co-founder of the IAC-owned Tinder , plans to list its share on the Nasdaq stock exchange, using the ticker symbol “BMBL.” Bumble’s planned IPO was first reported in December. Whitney Wolfe Herd doesn’t care what she’s supposed to do.

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TechBeacon

JANUARY 15, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way many businesses do business—for some, irrevocably. It's also made them more aware of the need for resiliency and the role cybersecurity must play in ensuring that an organization can continue operations in the face of disruptive events.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2021

Some time ago, I gave up on the idea of finding a thread that connects each story in the weekly Extra Crunch roundup; there are no unified theories of technology news. The stories that left the deepest impression were related to two news pegs that dominated the week — Visa and Plaid calling off their $5.3 billion acquisition agreement , and sizzling-hot IPOs for Affirm and Poshmark.

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Dzone - DevOps

JANUARY 15, 2021

GitLab CI allows you to run tests much faster thanks to its CI parallelization feature. You can run parallel jobs across multiple GitLab Runners. In order to do it, you will learn how to split tests in a dynamic way across parallel tasks to ensure there is no bottleneck in GitLab Pipeline. Thanks to that CI build can be run as fast as possible so your Ruby and JS tests can be finely fast.

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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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2021

Last year, a number of startups building OKR-focused software raised lots of venture capital, drawing TechCrunch’s attention. Why is everyone making software that measures objectives and key results? we wondered with tongue in cheek. After all, how big could the OKR software market really be? It’s a subniche of corporate planning tools! In a world where every company already pays for Google or Microsoft’s productivity suite, and some big software companies offer similar plannin

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Xebia

JANUARY 15, 2021

Each organization involved in creating software eventually has a need to deliver that software. It is what we call the software delivery process. Typically, software delivery starts at the moment that a developer has written code locally and wants to publish it. Or, as Martin Fowler puts it: From the developer finishing the feature to […]. The post Improving the quality of software delivery utilizing technology, process and people appeared first on Xebia Blog.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2021

At-home health testing kit startup Everlywell has raised $75 million, following the close of the $175 million Series D it announced in December. The new funding comes from HealthQuest Capital, and sees the fund’s founder and managing partners Dr. Garheng Kong join the company’s board of directors. The new funding is a secondary sale, with proceeds used to provide liquidity to existing investors rather than further diluting shares, so the startup’s $1.3 billion valuation from D

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TechSoup

JANUARY 15, 2021

There are now 3.78 billion social media users worldwide in 2021 — about a 32 percent increase from just five years ago. These numbers are expected to continue to grow, meaning social media will become an even more useful tool for nonprofits to connect with their communities.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2021

GitLab has confirmed with TechCrunch that it raised a $195 million secondary round on a $6 billion valuation. CNBC broke the story earlier today. The company’s impressive valuation comes after its most recent 2019 Series E in which it raised $268 million on a 2.75 billion valuation, an increase of $3.25 billion in under 18 months. Company co-founder and CEO Sid Sijbrandij believes the increase is due to his company’s progress adding functionality to the platform. “We believe th

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DevOps.com

JANUARY 15, 2021

Development teams increasingly use technologies like cloud computing and microservices, in conjunction with DevOps principles, to innovate faster and remain competitive. But such progress comes at a cost. The fast pace of DevOps has left security teams scrambling to keep pace and install appropriate security guardrails. Traditional security practices used to occur in the final […].

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CTOvision

JANUARY 15, 2021

Ping Identity has announced the appointment of Hall of Fame CIO Paul Martin to its board of directors. Martin will help the security firm enhance its leadership strategy and IT innovation. […].

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Steve Farber

JANUARY 15, 2021

Pursuing a life in the arts is not for those who simply think of a way to earn. It can be tough, and career breakthroughs can arrive late. So why would anyone choose to. Read more. The post Unmasking What Matters: Life Lessons From Two Broadway Legends With Sandra Joseph And Ron Bohmer first appeared on Steve Farber.

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“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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CTOvision

JANUARY 15, 2021

As of November, 11 states and Washington, D.C., have legalized cannabis for adults, while 34 have legalized it specifically for medical purposes. In either case, local governments in those states […].

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Cloudera

JANUARY 15, 2021

Introduction. Cloud data warehouses allow users to run analytic workloads with greater agility, better isolation and scale, and lower administrative overhead than ever before. With the ability to quickly provision on-demand and the lower fixed and administrative costs, the costs of operating a cloud data warehouse are driven mostly by the price-performance of the specific data warehouse platform.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 15, 2021

The pandemic will burn itself out eventually, but its effects will not. We’re different people now – we’re intimate with streaming catalogs and we’ve learned to knit, yodel, or speak […].

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Dzone - DevOps

JANUARY 15, 2021

In this tutorial for JavaScript end-to-end testing, you will learn about Cypress test runner for UI automation testing and how to use it with the Jenkins CI server. Cypress helps with frontend automation testing using a headless browser or just a regular browser. E2E tests often take a long time to run and for bigger projects, those types of tests can take dozens of minutes or even hours.

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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 15, 2021

Read Boing Boing’s review of Cylance’s new anti-virus protection powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning: Malware is everywhere. 350,000 new pieces of malware are discovered every day, which breaks […].

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Palo Alto Networks

JANUARY 15, 2021

For me, the simplest way to summarize 2020 is with one word: unpredictable. Though each year has a level of unpredictability, 2020 was an extreme example. As we look forward into 2021, we hope for positive changes, but 2020 will always be a reminder to plan for unpredictability. In light of that, here a few network security predictions for the coming year.

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DevOps.com

JANUARY 15, 2021

After such a challenging year, we have finally made it to 2021. Although a new year has started, we are still trying to figure out what the “new normal” will look like once the COVID-19 pandemic is finally over. While the pandemic has affected many businesses and our daily lives in general, it also had […]. The post What Does the Future Hold for DevOps and CI/CD?

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d2iq

JANUARY 15, 2021

Last month, we held the second Cloud Native Virtual Summit featuring Kubernetes with Alcide , our virtual conference showcasing how modern enterprises are leveraging Kubernetes, CI/CD and GitOps to power their digital transformation. We were proud to host world-class organizations and leaders in cloud, data, development, and containers, who shared best practices and real-world stories during the event.

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Speaker: Liran Meir Frenkel, Performance Management and RPA Sr Product Marketing Manager at NICE; Harpreet Makan, Practice Director at Everest Group; & Santhosh Kumar, Practice Director at Everest Group

As contact centers navigate the challenges of delivering excellence within budget constraints and adapting to evolving employee expectations, optimizing agent tasks becomes crucial. Discover a holistic approach across three pillars - people, process, and technology - that is essential to excel in this dynamic landscape, and explore how next-gen technologies such as generative AI, performance analytics, and process intelligence play a pivotal role in transforming contact centers into advanced CX

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IDC

JANUARY 15, 2021

Explore IDC's top 10 predictions for the Future of Connectedness and connectivity for 2021 and beyond, straight from the latest IDC FutureScape.

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Dzone - DevOps

JANUARY 15, 2021

Infrastructure as Code (IAC) is more than just a paradigm. Developers are now able to deploy the code they have written on a capable cloud infrastructure without having to configure the cloud environment and provision resources manually. With the help of frameworks like Terraform , deploying supporting cloud infrastructure is as easy as writing a few lines of code.

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CircleCI

JANUARY 15, 2021

DevOps principles and practices for a successful engineering team. Welcome to the CircleCI guide on the essential principles for leading a high performing DevOps team. In this guide, you’ll find relevant resources to help your team cultivate a DevOps culture that allows for informed decisions and maximum operating efficiency. What is DevOps and why is it important?

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