Thu.Jan 27, 2022

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The Next Frontier in AI Networking

Arista

The rapid arrival of real-time gaming, virtual reality and metaverse applications is changing the way network, compute memory and interconnect I/O interact for the next decade. As the future of metaverse applications evolve, the network needs to adapt for 10 times the growth in traffic connecting 100s of processors with trillions of transactions and gigabits of throughput.

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Quan raises $1.15M from YC to tackle post-pandemic employee burnout

TechCrunch

With post-pandemic burnout on the rise, the shift to remote working, and the “Great Resignation” now passing into the lexicon, companies are struggling to hold onto talent. Culture platforms like Culture Amp and Glint were built for a different era, offering insights and reports to HR, but many are less tailored to 2022. And employee well-being is still going up the agenda.

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2 days in the life of a Domain-Driven Design trainee

Xebia

Why did I have a Domain-Driven Design (DDD) Foundations training? I’ve always been a big supporter of continuous learning and, as a social scientist, I know how easily we get trapped in cognitive bias and heuristics. That’s why I’m convinced that it’s crucial to continuously challenge your own perspectives, opinions, and judgments. And that’s how I ended up at the DDD training.

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Esusu becomes unicorn with SoftBank Vision Fund 2-led $130M funding

TechCrunch

More than 100 million Americans spend an average of $1,100 (over $1.4 trillion per year) on their largest monthly household spend: rent. But reports say 90% of these people don’t get credit for paying their rent on time. On a sub-level, over 45 million people in the U.S. don’t have credit scores, according to a 2020 report by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

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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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2 days in the life of a Domain-Driven Design trainee

Xebia

Why did I have a Domain-Driven Design (DDD) Foundations training? I’ve always been a big supporter of continuous learning and, as a social scientist, I know how easily we get trapped in cognitive bias and heuristics. That’s why I’m convinced that it’s crucial to continuously challenge your own perspectives, opinions, and judgments. And that’s how I ended up at the DDD training.

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Investing in Artificial Intelligence: How MLOps Drives Enterprise AI Wins

DevOps.com

Insight Partners had a banner year in 2021, with more than $50 billion in capital commitments across over 200 investments. While we invest in founders across a wide spectrum of businesses, this series focuses on outlining our theses on four verticals that we’re particularly excited about in 2022: Artificial intelligence (AI), fintech, cybersecurity and healthtech. […].

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Domestika raises $110M on a $1.3B valuation to expand its learning community for creative types

TechCrunch

The creative community has been a ripe target for startups building tools and services to serve their interests and needs as they transition from their traditionally offline practices into a digital present and future. In one of the latest developments, Domestika — a popular site that creates and sells online video tutorials and courses covering a range of visual arts and related skills, building a larger community around that content where members can also interact and learn from each oth

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Making the web better. With blocks!

Joel on Software

You’ve probably seen web editors based on the idea of blocks. I’m typing this in WordPress, which has a little + button that brings up a long list of potential blocks that you can insert into this page: This kind of “insert block” user interface concept is showing up in almost every blogging tool, web editor, note-taking app, and content management system.

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Atlassian acquires Percept.AI

TechCrunch

Atlassian today announced that it has acquired Percept.AI , an AI company from Y Combinator’s summer 2017 batch that offers an automated virtual agent support solution — a chatbot, basically — based on a proprietary AI engine for natural language understanding. Atlassian plans to integrate this virtual agent technology into Jira Service Management , its tool for helping IT teams provide better service to employees and customers.

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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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I Love You, Ringo

David Walsh

Some things happen in your life at exactly the right time. It could be meeting the right person, discovering an open source project you go on to join, or even starting a blog when you’re bored with a job you don’t enjoy. All of those things happened to me at the right time and brought me to where I am today. There’s no real logic in the charmed hallmarks in your life, but they happen and shape what you eventually become.

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IoT search engine Censys secures $35M — and a new CEO

TechCrunch

Censys , a search engine for Internet of Things devices and internet assets, has secured $35 million in Series B funding and a new CEO. The internet security startup, based in Michigan tech hub Ann Arbor , which started as an open source research project at the University of Michigan seven years ago, claims to provide a “complete database” of all devices hooked up to the internet in a bid to help organizations locate poorly protected assets.

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Google FLoC is Dead | Meta AI Supercomputer Lives | ARM Deal is Dead

DevOps.com

In this week’s The Long View: Google’s FLoC proposal is dead, Meta/Facebook is buying RSC—a huge AI supercomputer, and Arm “will IPO” instead of selling to Nvidia. The post Google FLoC is Dead | Meta AI Supercomputer Lives | ARM Deal is Dead appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Vesta closes on $30M in an a16z-led Series A to build a new kind of mortgage infrastructure

TechCrunch

If you’ve ever taken out a mortgage, you know how painful and tedious the process can be. In an effort to make it simpler, faster and cheaper, a pair of former Blend employees have teamed up to build mortgage loan origination software that will connect banks, credit unions, mortgage bankers and brokers. Or in other words, they want to make it easier for financial institutions to make the whole lending process easier and more transparent for customers. .

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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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A Pandemic Side Effect: Rampant Technical Debt

DevOps.com

On average, about a quarter of all IT budgets are allocated to handling technical debt each year. And this figure is set to rise, as 68% of organizations say their technical debt will increase in 2022. As digital acceleration continues to drive more IT investment across divisions, the technical burden almost seems like an inevitable […]. The post A Pandemic Side Effect: Rampant Technical Debt appeared first on DevOps.com.

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The Vets, a pet healthcare platform that provides at-home care, raises $40M led by Target Global

TechCrunch

The Vets , a tech-enabled pet healthcare platform that provides at-home care, has raised $40 million in seed funding led by Target Global, PICO Venture Partners and Bolt Ventures. Founded last year as part of co-founder Target Global’s venture building program, the team of co-founders including CEO Daniel Sagis, COO Dori Fussmann and Target Global aims to transform pet care by combining technological innovation and at-home care.

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The Role of CI/CD Pipeline in Software Development

Dzone - DevOps

The CI/CD pipeline includes continuous integration, delivery, and deployment. DevOps teams use it to generate, test, and release new software automatically. This pipeline benefits from regular software changes and a more collaborative and agile team process. You've probably heard about the benefits of CI/CD tools, which are used to provide code more frequently and reliably.

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10,000 subscribers later, This Week in Fintech has a venture fund

TechCrunch

If you keep up with financial technology, you likely know that the fintech community is a tight-knit, large (yet small) group of enthusiasts that includes all sorts of people — from founders, to investors, to fintech-focused employees at startups or large companies to journalists like me. Over the years, a few players have emerged with a special kind of knowledge and expertise in the space.

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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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6 Ways to Avoid Joining the Great Resignation

CEO Insider

The conversation around the Great Resignation is not letting up and for good reason. The severity of the news varies by industry and role (mid-career technology and healthcare workers are reported to be leaving most). But however your organization is classified, maintaining a roster of excellent team members is important to its health and resiliency. […].

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The.com launches a low-code, collaborative website builder that uses customizable ‘blocks,’ not templates

TechCrunch

A startup with the easy-to-remember name of The.com aims to modernize website building while also ensuring that web creators get credit for their work. The company, which is today emerging from stealth with $4.4 million in seed funding in tow, has created what it calls a “low-code, website building platform” that aims to ditch the template-based approach that’s become an industry standard.

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How To Get C++ Speed in Java Serialization

Dzone - DevOps

Using Trivially Copyable Objects To Improve Java Serialisation Speeds. For any low-latency software, it is vital that the most common operations introduce minimal latency. For example, in trading software, one common and time-sensitive operation is messaging between microservices. To minimize the memory footprint of the communication, all messages are serialized by the sender and deserialized by the receiver.

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Here’s how far VCs have lowered revenue expectations for seed through Series B

TechCrunch

New data from Kruze Consulting shows just how much the venture capital fundraising market has changed for startups in the last few quarters. Kruze, which provides accounting, tax and venture capital-related services to private tech companies, has access to hard data regarding startup performance. Healy Jones , vice president of financial planning and analysis at Kruze and a former venture capitalist, put some of that information to work, using aggregated, anonymized data from startup funding rou

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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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3 Things Every Engineer Should Know About Inclusive Design

Dzone - DevOps

Fact: Over 26% of adults in the United States have some sort of disability. To ignore such a massive part of the population would be ill-advised for any company, legally, financially, and above all, ethically. How can you stay ahead of the curve when it comes to maintaining a progressive and responsive organization? We reached out to two experts - Alwar Pillai and Perry Trinier of Fable – on the topic of designing products that have inclusivity for people with disabilities at their core.

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Bug bounty giant HackerOne lands $49M, thanks to cloud adoption boon

TechCrunch

Bug bounty and penetration testing startup HackerOne has raised a $49 million Series E following a year of massive cloud adoption fueled by work-from-home orders. The company — which mediates between hackers finding security issues and companies keen to fix them — said its recent growth was driven by a rise in zero-day vulnerabilities like the flaw in the ubiquitous open source logging platform Log4j, which put the internet on notice ahead of the December holiday.

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The Lego Approach to Overcoming the Developer Divide

DevOps.com

As end-user demand for new services continues to rise and businesses adapt to changing times, digitalization has never been more important. Pressure is increasing on organizations to deliver digital transformation initiatives more quickly as 55% of CIOs in 2021 said they were increasing staff to accelerate their digital programs. The cloud is essential for this. […].

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Edtech startups flock to the promise and potential of personalized learning

TechCrunch

The rise of remote instruction left many parents freshly aware of (and annoyed by) the shortcomings of Zoom school, but for Letha McLaren , COVID-19 brought an epiphany: the importance of a headset. McLaren’s son, who deals with executive dysfunction, was better able to focus through the screen because he used a headset that blocked out some other noises.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

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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How to Simulate a DockerHub Outage to Test Image Caching

Dzone - DevOps

First off, happy new year! After facing a few patches of public registry downtime at the end of the year (both Docker Hub and ECR ), one of our first goals of 2022 was to implement pull-through caching of public images. This would allow Shipyard users to continue building, testing, and reviewing their applications, even when outages happen.

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European, North American edtech startups see funding triple in 2021

TechCrunch

Rhys Spence. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Rhys Spence is head of research at Brighteye Ventures, a European edtech-focused fund, where he works with portfolio companies to help address priorities, with a focus on internationalization and HR. More posts by this contributor. The unbundling of professional learning and entrepreneurship education. What we can learn from edtech startups’ expansion efforts in Europe.

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Article: How the Financial Times Approaches Engineering Enablement

InfoQ Culture Methods

Companies need teams working on infrastructure, tooling and platforms; the way they work has to change so that they do not become a bottleneck. These teams need to be about enabling product teams to deliver business value. Investment in this area pays off as it speeds up many other teams and allows product-team engineers to focus on solving business problems that provide value to the organisation.