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Space startup Gitai raises $17.1M to help build the robotic workforce of commercial space

TechCrunch

Japanese space startup Gitai has raised a $17.1 million funding round, a Series B financing for the robotics startup. This new funding will be used for hiring, as well as funding the development and execution of an on-orbit demonstration mission for the company’s robotic technology, which will show its efficacy in performing in-space satellite servicing work.

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How to Respond to Rising Cloud Costs

DevOps.com

As organizations ascend to the cloud, their cloud expenses are floating to the same lofty heights. But are all cloud costs necessary? The answer is a resounding no — there’s a lot of waste. In 2020, organizations wasted $17.6 billion on idle cloud resources and cloud overspending, according to ParkMyCloud. Data egress, upgrades and subscriptions […].

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Justworks’ Series B pitch deck may be the most wonderfully simple deck I’ve ever seen

TechCrunch

It may be tough to remember, but there was a time long ago when Justworks wasn’t a household name. Though its monthly revenue growth charts were up and to the right, it had not even broken the $100,000 mark. Even then, Bain Capital Venture’s Matt Harris felt confident in betting on the startup. Harris says that, with any investment (particularly at the early stage of a company), the decision really comes down to the team and more importantly, the founder.

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How To Make a Good Decision

DevOps.com

The post How To Make a Good Decision appeared first on DevOps.com.

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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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Autonomous drone maker Skydio raises $170M led by Andreessen Horowitz

TechCrunch

Skydio has raised $170 million in a Series D funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz’s Growth Fund. That pushes it into unicorn territory, with $340 million in total funding and a post-money valuation north of $1 billion. Skydio’s fresh capital comes on the heels of its expansion last year into the enterprise market, and it intends to use the considerable pile of cash to help it expand globally and accelerate product development.

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6 Ways for Web Designers to Use Unused Website Designs

KitelyTech

Reusing your website’s design is one of the smartest ways to benefit from unused website designs and concepts. Every webmaster knows that a website’s design is what first attracts new visitors. This is because your website has to offer unique, creative content in order for it to be appealing to visitors and feature useful graphics, informative and well-written content, as well as an easy-to-navigate and search-engine friendly interface.

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Netlify Build Plugin of the Week: Gatsby Cache Plugin

Netlify

This week we feature one of our most popular Netlify Build Plugins: the Gatsby Cache plugin. It has remained one of our top 10 build plugins in the #1 position. Netlify Build Plugins add powerful capabilities to every build. You can click to install from a directory of community plugins or create your own. Plugin: Gatsby Cache. ?? Persist the Gatsby cache between Netlify builds for huge speed improvements!

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Worlds Collide

The Daily WTF

George had gotten a new job as a contractor at a medium-sized book distributor. He arrived nice and early on Day 1, enthusiastic about a fresh start in a new industry. His "office" turned out to be a huge warehouse stacked high with books. Upon greeting him, his manager pointed him to a PC in the corner of the warehouse, sitting on a desk with no partitions around it.

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Learn how Netlify Redirects give you control over CDN-level routing

Netlify

Jamstack Explorers , our video-based learning resource, now has a mission to help you get the most out of Netlify Redirects. Netlify Redirects give developers the power to control routing logic on Netlify Edge from within the code and configuration of their sites. Since Jamstack sites can be served without the need for web servers or application servers that could also house URL redirects and routing configuration, this logic can be transferred out to the CDN.

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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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Software Distribution Tactics to Win at DevOps

Dzone - DevOps

Deployment frequency is considered one of the finest DevOps metrics, and the elite performers in DevOps space deploy multiple times per day with confidence. The deployment process requires systems that promote trust between teams (Dev or Ops) throughout the pipelines- so they can ensure they’re using the latest builds for testing, approved binaries for deploying, etc.

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Weifu keeps diesel engine economy running

Beyond B2B

Diesel engines remain the number one preference for agricultural vehicles, manufacturing plants, the military, trains and ships.

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3 Startup Essentials That Cannot Be Overlooked

Strategy Driven

If you’re just starting your business journey and you have a company about to be launched, you might be wondering whether or not you’ve got everything in place. After all, you only have one chance to make a good first impression (or a bad one, come to that), and it can feel rather overwhelming when you consider how much you want your business to succeed and how much work you need to put into it.

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Echoes

The Agile Manager

In recent days, I’ve been reminded of some core company values, once fresh and different, later taken for granted. It was good to be reminded of them. * * * I was on a call the other day when a member of the client’s team said, “we don’t prioritize because something is easy, we prioritize something because it is hard.” They went on to acknowledge that some of my colleagues had counseled them to do this some months before I started working with them.

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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.