Tue.Oct 13, 2020

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Happy Birthday, CDP Public Cloud

Cloudera

On September 24, 2019, Cloudera launched CDP Public Cloud (CDP-PC) as the first step in delivering the industry’s first Enterprise Data Cloud. That Was Then. In the beginning, CDP ran only on AWS with a set of services that supported a handful of use cases and workload types: CDP Data Warehouse: a kubernetes-based service that allows business analysts to deploy data warehouses with secure, self-service access to enterprise data.

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Kegg, a connected fertility tracker and Kegel trainer for women, launches out of beta

TechCrunch

Fertility tracking has seen an explosion of startup activity in recent years. Femtech startup Lady Technologies is adding to this rich mix with the full U.S. launch of a dual-purpose device, called kegg , that’s designed to measure hormonal changes in a woman’s cervical fluid to help her determine the chance of conception on a given day.

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Continuous Delivery in a Restaurant

Agile Alliance

What value are you delivering? A few days ago I spoke with Vasco Duarte & Johanna Rothman about delivering a product into production with defects and the resulting time it took with fixing these defects. And I had a picture in my head of how that would be in a restaurant (I have a son … Continued.

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Armory nabs $40M Series C as commercial biz on top of open-source Spinnaker project takes off

TechCrunch

As companies continue to shift more quickly to the cloud, pushed by the pandemic, startups like Armory that work in the cloud-native space are seeing an uptick in interest. Armory is a company built to be a commercial layer on top of the open-source continuous delivery project Spinnaker. Today, it announced a $40 million Series C. B Capital led the round, with help from new investors Lead Edge Capital and Marc Benioff along with previous investors Insight Partners, Crosslink Capital, Bain Capita

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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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Thoughts writing a Google App script

Martin Fowler

Recently a friend of mine asked for a simple program that would correlate some data drawn from a couple of online services. I decided the best way to do this for him would be to use a google spreadsheet as the host, putting the code into the spreadsheet's script area. I'm no expert in Google App Script, but the exercise led to a few observations, which I feel compelled to share.

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The Next Generation Of Artificial Intelligence

CTOvision

Read Rob Toews take a look at the future of artificial intelligence on Forbes: The field of artificial intelligence moves fast. It has only been 8 years since the modern […].

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Is the Twilio-Segment deal expensive?

TechCrunch

The Twilio-Segment acquisition was the biggest story of the weekend, and in our current IPO lull, it is the most discussed deal of the moment. So it hasn’t been a surprise to see folks working to figure out if the $3.2 billion price tag Twilio expects to pay for Segment is cheap, reasonable or expensive. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.

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Ms. Eileen Vidrine, Chief Data Officer at US Air Force and US Space Force to Present at October 2020 AI in Government

CTOvision

AI in Government is where those working in and with the government get together to network, discuss, and interact on topics relating to AI, machine learning, and cognitive technologies. This […].

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Discuss the unbundling of early-stage VC with Unusual Ventures’ Sarah Leary & John Vrionis

TechCrunch

This year has been everything but business as usual for the venture and tech community. And we still have a presidential election ahead of us. So, why not listen to the aptly-named experts over at Unusual Ventures? Partners Sarah Leary (co-founder of Nextdoor) and John Vrionis , formerly of Lightspeed Ventures Partners, will join us on Tuesday, October 20 on the Extra Crunch Live virtual stage.

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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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JFrog Adds Free DevOps Tier in the Cloud

DevOps.com

JFrog announced today it is making a free tier of its namesake DevOps platform available on all three major public cloud service providers. Stephen Chin, senior director for developer relations at JFrog, said a free subscription to JFrog Platform running on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is now generally […].

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Join Yext’s Howard Lerman for a live Q&A right now

TechCrunch

Today’s the day! This afternoon at 2 p.m. EDT/11 a.m. PDT, Yext CEO Howard Lerman will join TechCrunch for a live chat. The conversation is part of our continuing Extra Crunch Live series, now in its second season. What are we up to in the second installment of the conversations? The same as before, bringing the most interesting founders and investors ’round for a chat that you can contribute to by bringing your own questions.

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10 Essential Leadership Qualities For The Age Of Artificial Intelligence

CTOvision

Read Bernard Marr list 10 essential leadership qualities in the age of artificial intelligence on Forbes: AI and automation will change the very nature of work. It’s really important that […].

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Commercializing the open-source FingerprintJS browser fingerprinting tech nabs Chicago entrepreneur $4M

TechCrunch

Chicago-based serial entrepreneur Dan Pinto has raised new cash and launched a new company looking to commercialize a years-old open-source project that purports to solve one of the web’s hardest problems — fraud prevention. The company he launched in January, FingerprintJS , touts itself as a new kind of toolkit offering browser fingerprinting as a service for any application.

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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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What is the Role of a Solutions Architect

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Edge computing startup Edgify secures $6.5M seed from Octopus, Mangrove and semiconductor

TechCrunch

Edgify , which builds AI for edge computing, has secured a $6.5 million seed funding round backed by Octopus Ventures, Mangrove Capital Partners and an unnamed semiconductor giant. The name was not released but TechCrunch understands it may be Intel Corp. or Qualcomm Inc. Edgify’s technology allows “edge devices” (devices at the edge of the internet) to interpret vast amounts of data, train an AI model locally and then share that learning across its network of similar devices.

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Location Data and Analytics for COVID-19 - A Zaloni Resource

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Genemod raises cash for its lab inventory management service used by research institutions around the US

TechCrunch

Genemod , a software for laboratory inventory management used by institutions like the University of Washington School of Medicine; the University of California, Berkeley; and the National Institutes of Health; has raised $1.7 million from a clutch of top venture investors. The small seed round came from Defy.vc, with additional commitments from Omicron, Unpopular Ventures, Underdog Labs and Canaan Partners.

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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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Cloud Orchestration Language Roundup: A Comparison

DevOps.com

What cloud providers do you work with? Google Cloud Platform (GCP)? Amazon AWS? Microsoft Azure? Which services? Are you using a managed Kubernetes such as GKE, AKS, Openshift or EKS? How do you manage your cloud resources? How do you manage the release cycle of the infrastructure and applications that you deploy? If the above […]. The post Cloud Orchestration Language Roundup: A Comparison appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Ureeka taps Kevin O’Leary (AKA Mr. Wonderful) to launch SMB curriculum

TechCrunch

Ureeka , an SMB mentorship platform for next-wave entrepreneurs, has today announced the Kevin O’Leary Bootcamp , which will offer members access to an exclusive curriculum of his knowledge and advice. The startup, which raised $8.6 million in April , looks to offer a full-scale mentorship platform for underrepresented founders across all industries.

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BizOps Coalition Publishes Manifesto

DevOps.com

The BizOps Coalition, which advocates for fundamental change in the way IT teams and business users collaborate during software development, today published a BizOps Manifesto framework that identifies 12 principles that focus organizations on business outcomes versus merely attaining and maintaining service levels. The goal is to close the historic divide between IT and the […].

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How Real-Time Materialized Views Work with ksqlDB, Animated

Confluent

All around the world, companies are asking the same question: What is happening right now? We are inundated with pieces of data that have a fragment of the answer. But […].

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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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How to deliver value sooner and safer

TechBeacon

Behavior, specifically leadership behavior, is the biggest lever for better outcomes, for delivering better value sooner, safer, and happier.

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Survey Uncovers Issues Even With Advanced IT Teams

DevOps.com

Even in the best of times, IT teams struggle with myriad issues related to managing their application environments A survey of 1,000 C-level executives at software-as-a-service (SaaS) application providers finds that while the bulk of respondents are “highly confident” or “confident” that their cloud applications were running efficiently (91%), many also are still concerned about […].

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3 ways criminals use artificial intelligence in cybersecurity attacks

CTOvision

Three cybersecurity experts explained how artificial intelligence and machine learning can be used to evade cybersecurity defenses and make breaches faster and more efficient during a NCSA and Nasdaq cybersecurity […].

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Red Hat Expands Scope, Reach of Ansible Automation Framework

DevOps.com

Red Hat, its online AnsibleFest 2020 conference today, announced an on-premises edition of Ansible Automation Platform dubbed Private Automation Hub and previewed technology to connect the Ansible Automation Platform managed as a cloud service by Red Hat and the on-premises edition. In addition, Red Hat is making available more pre-integrated workflows to its certified Ansible […].

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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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What you need to know to begin your journey to CDP

Cloudera

Recently, my colleague published a blog build on your investment by Migrating or Upgrading to CDP Data Center , which articulates great CDP Private Cloud Base features. Existing CDH and HDP customers can immediately benefit from this new functionality. This blog focuses on the process to accelerate your CDP journey to CDP Private Cloud Base for both professional services engagements and self-service upgrades.

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Optimiz Deploys Moogsoft Cloud for Observability of Modern Digital Infrastructure

DevOps.com

AI-driven observability leader enables managed service provider to accelerate alignment of clients’ IT and digital business models for unparalleled customer experience SAN FRANCISCO — Oct. 13, 2020 — Moogsoft, the AI-driven observability leader, today announced that Optimiz, a premier IT operations optimization partner for enterprises in the digital era, has deployed the Moogsoft Observability Cloud […].

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Data: The Crumbling Foundation of Finance, Our Once Trusted Advisor

Teradata

The most frequently asked question of Finance departments today is, ‘whose data do we trust’? Here’s how to ensure Finance always has the correct answer.

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