Next Level Blog
DECEMBER 15, 2020
Last week I had a thoughtful client ask me a question I don’t get asked very often – What makes a great leader? Since, as an executive coach, I’m usually the one asking the questions, she caught me off guard with hers. What followed next was a quick real-time distillation of long-held thoughts and observations on the nature of true leadership.
Erik Bernhardsson
DECEMBER 15, 2020
It's a popular attitude among developers to rant about our tools and how broken things are. Maybe I'm an optimistic person, because my viewpoint is the complete opposite! I had my first job as a software engineer in 1999, and in the last two decades I've seen software engineering changing in ways that have made us orders of magnitude more productive.
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TechCrunch
DECEMBER 15, 2020
In the midst of a major second wave of coronavirus infections across Europe, an Estonian startup that’s building an on-demand network to move food and people around in cars, on scooters and ( most recently ) on bikes across developed and emerging markets in EMEA is announcing a major round of funding. Bolt , which covers 200 cities in 40 countries with its delivery and transportation services, has raised €150 million ($182 million at current rates) in an equity round that CEO and co-founde
Hacker Earth Developers Blog
DECEMBER 15, 2020
Now and then we read about a new, all-important parameter of software development that has technical teams buzzing. However, before we get carried away with the latest buzzwords that the industry is enamored with, it might help to look back at the thought processes that got us to where we are today. One such concept has been floating around in the industry since 1992, following a talk by Ward Cunningham, who co-authored the Manifesto for Agile.
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TechCrunch
DECEMBER 15, 2020
You might not know yet of XYZ Venture Capital , a four-year-old, San Francisco-based seed-stage venture firm, but many veterans of Palantir are surely aware of it. XYZ says it has already backed 22 startups whose founders came out of the data analysis company, including most notably, Anduril , Lucky Palmer’s defense tech startup. In fact, the founder of XYZ, Ross Fubini, says his firm wrote Anduril its first check.
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TechCrunch
DECEMBER 15, 2020
Kryo, the company behind the ChiliSleep brand , is announcing that it has merged with another sleep technology company, Ebb Therapeutics , and also raised $37 million in new funding led by Ebb’s biggest investor KKR. Founded in 2007, Kryo/ChiliSleep’s products include the chiliPAD , a device designed to improve sleep by adjusting the temperature of your bed.
CTOvision
DECEMBER 15, 2020
Read Diego Asturias explain how Pulumi and Snowflake are enabling a big shift in how cloud engineering works on Silicon Angle: More than 10 years ago, cloud computing began offering […].
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 15, 2020
Fintech startup Revolut is tweaking its subscription plans with a new mid-tier offering called Revolut Plus — it costs £2.99 per month. Like N26 Smart and Monzo Plus , the new plan is a pandemic-proof package that doesn’t focus as much on travel. For the past couple of years, challenger banks and alternatives to traditional bank accounts have been packaging additional services into paid plans.
CTOvision
DECEMBER 15, 2020
Read Andrew Wooler explain how Kinetica can provide a cost-effective streaming data warehouse on Forbes : I recently watched the movie Ford v Ferrari, based on the true story of […].
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.
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 15, 2020
Rocket launch startup Astra has joined an elite group of companies who can say their vehicle has actually made it to orbital space – earlier than expected. The company’s Rocket 3.2 test rocket (yes it’s a rocket called ‘Rocket’) passed the Karman line, the separation point 100 km or 62 miles up that most consider the barrier between Earth’s atmosphere and space, during a launch today from Kodiak, Alaska.
CTOvision
DECEMBER 15, 2020
Sonatype, the leading provider of innovation-friendly open source security tools, announced the appointment of a key addition to its executive management team, Jon Mellon, who joins the company in the […].
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 15, 2020
BoxCast , a Cleveland-based company aiming to make it easy to live stream any event, has raised $20 million in Series A funding. Co-founder and CEO Gordon Daily said that when the company first launched in 2013, “streaming wasn’t something that everyone understood,” and you needed professional help to live stream anything. BoxCast is supposed to make that process accessible to anyone.
CTOvision
DECEMBER 15, 2020
Appian recently announced the latest version of the Appian Low-code Automation Platform. The new version makes it easier for IT professionals to drive rapid and substantial business value from a […].
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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.
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 15, 2020
Parsec , a startup that’s built streaming technology for both work and play, is announcing that it has raised $25 million in Series B funding. This brings Parsec’s total funding to $33 million, according to Crunchbase. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz, with the firm’s general partner Martin Casado joining the board. Previous investors Lerer Hippeau, Makers Fund, NextView Ventures and Notation Capital also participated.
CTOvision
DECEMBER 15, 2020
Tech unicorn UiPath, a startup that makes robotics automation software, is currently emailing users about a security incident that exposed their personal information online. “On December 1, 2020, UiPath became aware […].
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 15, 2020
Supabase , a YC-incubated startup that offers developers an open-source alternative to Google’s Firebase and similar platforms, today announced that it has raised a $6 million funding round led by Coatue, with participation from YC, Mozilla and a group of about 20 angel investors. Currently, Supabase includes support for PostgreSQL databases and authentication tools , with a storage and serverless solution coming soon.
Confluent
DECEMBER 15, 2020
Consuming messages in parallel is what Apache Kafka® is all about, so you may well wonder, why would we want anything else? It turns out that, in practice, there are […].
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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.
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 15, 2020
A startup hailing from far-flung Iceland is emerging as one of the key players in the race to distribute one of the key coronavirus vaccines around the world. Controlant — which has a unique real-time supply chain monitoring technology based on GSM networks and is specifically geared to areas like pharmaceuticals and life sciences — has confirmed it is providing its monitoring services to Pfizer as it delivers the mRNA-based Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine globally.
TechBeacon
DECEMBER 15, 2020
In many organizations, the first step toward automation and artificial intelligence/machine learning is the adoption of robotic process automation (RPA) technology.
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 15, 2020
Less than a year after it raised a $15 million Series B, Public , a social-focused free stock trading service, has raised a $65 million Series C. The startup is not the only company to raise successive rounds this year. Welcome has managed the feat , along with Skyflow and others. Public’s Series C, therefore, fits into the trend of investors doubling down into startups that they think have potential.
TechBeacon
DECEMBER 15, 2020
For many companies, 2020 was about accelerating their move to the cloud. The pandemic drove a dramatic expansion of remote work, developers focused more on cloud-native deployments, and application security teams had to adapt to a change in usage and, often, greater demand.
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TechCrunch
DECEMBER 15, 2020
James Cox spent much of his professional career at Uber trying to crack the problem of how to reduce congestion through ridesharing. As one of the architects of the Uber Pool service and a longtime proponent of ridesharing as a means to slash vehicle emissions, Cox leapt at the chance to harness technology developed at MIT that purported to perfect a dynamic routing and vehicle management system for transit authorities.
DevOps.com
DECEMBER 15, 2020
IBM joins the Crossplane Community to advance the development of hybrid cloud application platforms. By Chris Bailey, Paolo Dettori, John Ponzo Published December 15, 2020 Today IBM is pleased to announce that it is joining the Crossplane community and releasing an experimental release of a Crossplane provider for IBM Cloud. This enables IBM Cloud managed resources to […].
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 15, 2020
As 2020 comes to a close, some parts of the startup world are completing a loop, ending the year where they began. Startup valuations, for example, as seen in the Silicon Valley area are effectively back to where they were at the start of the year. According to a report from Fenwick & West examining data through October in the San Francisco Bay area, the percentage of startups that raised up rounds (rounds priced higher than preceding investments) came within spitting distance of its pre-COV
CTOvision
DECEMBER 15, 2020
Mindtree has announced that it’s partnered with data and artificial intelligence (AI) company Databricks to help customers implement cloud-based data platforms for self-service analytics, so users can develop rapid reports, […].
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TechCrunch
DECEMBER 15, 2020
Ready to explore an incredible range of space technology from the comfort of your own home or office? TC Sessions: Space 2020 starts tomorrow, December 16, and we’re here to point out just some of the events, presentations and fireside chats waiting for you on day one. You’ll hear from and engage with the world’s top space experts, founders, scientists, engineers and investors across public, private and defense sectors.
CTOvision
DECEMBER 15, 2020
Tom Krause, currently Chief Financial Officer of Broadcom, has been named President of the new Infrastructure Software Group, where he will shoulder the responsibilities of the company’s six software divisions […].
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 15, 2020
Rocket Lab has completed its 17th mission, putting a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite on orbit for client Synspective, a Tokyo-based space startup that has raised over $100 million in funding to date. Synspective aims to operate a 30-satellite constellation that can provide global imaging coverage of Earth, with SAR’s benefits of being able to see through clouds and inclement weather, as well as in all lighting conditions.
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