Thu.Mar 10, 2022

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How scaleups get constrained by talent

Martin Fowler

The second bottleneck in the series looks at talent, and how scaleups struggle to hire enough good people. Tim Cochran and Roni Smith explain how the small network and informal processes that allow early stage startups to grow begin to fail during the scaleup phase, and what signs indicate a new approach is needed.

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100ms secures $20M to power next generation of live video apps

TechCrunch

100ms , the live video conferencing infrastructure startup based in India, has raised $20 million in Series A funding to power the next generation of live video apps, coming barely five months after they closed the seed round. This latest round was led by Falcon Edge’s Alpha Wave Incubation, with participation from Matrix Partners India and LocalGlobe, and existing investors Accel and Strive.vc.

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Authenticate Once with Playwright

Xebia

Suppose you have a web application for which you would like to write browser tests using Playwright. This web application contains a login screen and after successful authentication, all functionality is loaded. This means that in order to test the application, each test requires an authenticated user. Because each test runs in isolation, each test needs to authenticate.

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Chris Dixon, Marc Andreessen back $30M fund exclusively investing in NFT art

TechCrunch

The world of NFTs is never dull — as long as the money never stops. While investors continue to pour billions into the sector, albeit at a slowing pace, more crypto buyers are spinning up funds to back NFT platforms, projects and the non-fungible tokens themselves. While dedicated funds solely devoted to NFTs as an asset class are starting to pop up, it’s still a risky space for the bigger institutional firms.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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Quality Management is Risk Management

Xebia

In my previous blog I wrote how embracing failure can be a viable strategy , depending on the current quality level. Before we can determine this quality level, we first need to understand what quality is and ask the question “why do we even want quality?”. . Many books have been written on the concept of quality and the Wikipedia page on quality provides the following summary: . “ Quality is a perceptual, conditional, and somewhat subjective attribute and may be understood differe

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Women Leaders in Data Discuss Breaking Bias on International Women’s Day

Cloudera

As an official sponsor of International Women’s Da y, Cloudera is excited to celebrate Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day, and to take up the mantle of this year’s theme #BreakTheBias. . Even in industries where women are underrepresented, like tech, women have made a lot of progress. Progress over many decades has slowly transformed the workplace into an environment where women’s strengths are recognized and valued.

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Nordic neobank Lunar raises $77M at $2B valuation, launches crypto trading platform and B2B payments

TechCrunch

Challenger banks have become, collectively, a force to be reckoned with in the world of financial services for consumers, and today one of the big players out of the Nordics — Lunar — is announcing growth funding along with two new services to continue filling out its ambition of providing a one-stop super app for its users. The startup has raised €70 million ($77 million at today’s rates), at what I understand from a person close to the company to be a $2 billion post-money va

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The role software developers play in the cybersecurity space

Lacework

Cybersecurity is the intentional practice of securing networks, data, and devices from unauthorized users. With the growing increase in cyberattacks and security vulnerabilities (most recently, the Log4j vulnerability ), it’s becoming increasingly important for developers to understand how to secure applications and think like cybercriminals to prevent these attacks from severely harming customers.

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YC-backed Curacel unveils new API platform that enables tech-led businesses to offer insurance

TechCrunch

Curacel , the YC-backed startup that is developing insurance infrastructure for the African market, has launched a new interface that allows digital businesses like those in retail, fintech, e-commerce and logistics to add insurance to their core products. The API-based tool, dubbed Grow, has so far been integrated with 22 tech entities across Africa including Topship, Barter by Flutterwave, Float, Fingo and Payhippo, enabling them to either bundle their main products with insurance packages or

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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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What are NFTs? Top 5 Remarkable NFT business ideas to adopt in 2022

Openxcell

With every year passing, the digital world evolves. The technological phenomenon is gaining new heights and is still growing into something everyone can recognize. In recent years, numerous advancements have been made, and significant progress holds the digital space’s bag of tricks: NFT technology. This superior technology is presently paving the path for this year’s different NFT development services and new business concepts.

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With founders hailing from Colombian unicorn Rappi, payments startup Yuno raises $10M from a16z and LatAm VCs

TechCrunch

As the Latin American startup scene has matured, founders and executives of multi-billion dollar companies in the region have started to move on to new ventures. On Wednesday, TechCrunch reported on Mara, a São Paulo-based startup that aims to “reinvent” the grocery shopping experience for the underserved in Latin America, and its $6 million raise. One of its co-founders is Ariel Lambrecht, who also helped start mobility startup 99, Brazil’s first unicorn.

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Changes to Intuit Program Restrictions

TechSoup

Intuit has been a TechSoup partner for over 20 years, generously donating a variety of QuickBooks products to more than 140,000 organizations to handle their accounting needs. Throughout this time, there have been many changes to technology. When the program first launched, we sent you physical discs to access the software. That changed to an online download that allowed you to access the software on your computer.

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Are we entering an NFT downturn?

TechCrunch

The market for non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, may be slowing after NFT activity grew sharply in 2021 and into the new year. The health of the NFT market is itself a fascinating data project. The historical volatility of the price of crypto tokens and other blockchain-based assets is high, which means that you might be fooled into calling a trend early, only for the markets to reverse and make you look silly.

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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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Flexible, Powerful DataGrad from Sencha (Sponsored)

David Walsh

Many of the web functionalities that we rely on once lived within individual desktop applications. From office suites, games, and financial tools, all of them are now web applications; they’re just as feature packed as their desktop counterparts. In the past I’ve used a variety of JavaScript grid widgets on client sites, and each had a number of pain points: performance, size, flexibility, etc.

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Topsort, an auction-based advertising startup, now valued at $110M after seed round

TechCrunch

When Regina Ye was in college, she was a Shopify seller and recalls being so fed up with advertising solutions that she spent finals week staying up late to figure out how ads worked on Facebook and Amazon. “It was super complicated,” she told TechCrunch. “I was an early adopter of B2B marketplaces, but advertising was this black box. I didn’t realize how much I would have to do this as a seller.”.

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How do you handle team members who have little aspiration for advancing their careers?

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Our reader poll today asks: How do you handle team members who have little aspiration for advancing their careers? I let them do their thing as long as they’re performing in the role 61.25% I show them the benefits of growing their careers and hope they latch on 28.68% I push them into roles of greater responsibility to drive their growth 8.78% I have no idea how to handle those situations 1.29% Educate on Growth.

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We’re breaking down usage-based pricing and growth strategies at TechCrunch Early Stage

TechCrunch

Software as a service (SaaS) — both a revelation and a revolution — completely disrupted the decades-old software selling paradigm. It turned buying software from an infrequent, high-cost and, for many companies, time-consuming process into a hosted, monthly and predictable cost-per-seat subscription service. SaaS has essentially become the de facto business model for early-stage startups right on up to global conglomerates.

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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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An Introduction to Data Mesh

Confluent

Decentralized architectures continue to flourish as engineering teams look to unlock the potential of their people and systems. From Git, to microservices, to cryptocurrencies, these designs look to decentralization as […].

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SafeBase bags $18M Series A to speed up vendor security auditing process

TechCrunch

Every company has to check the security credentials of its software vendors before signing on the dotted line to make a purchase. It usually involves a clunky non-digital process of signing NDAs and then requesting documents like pen test reports and SOC-2 compliance certification. This process can slow down sales while potential customers check the security posture of the vendor.

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The Cost of Ransomware

SecureWorks

The Cost of Ransomware Breaking down the state of ransomware economics and keys to effective ransomware defense Breaking down the state of ransomware economics and keys to effective ransomware defense.

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Synopsys contributes to the Linux Foundation Census II of the most widely used open source application libraries

Synopsys

Census II examines the most popular components of free and open source software and highlights the issues affecting the security of these libraries. The post Synopsys contributes to the Linux Foundation Census II of the most widely used open source application libraries appeared first on Software Integrity Blog.

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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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Article: Using the Problem Reframing Method to Build Innovative Solutions

InfoQ Culture Methods

Building products that customers love relies heavily on the problem space: how well you know your audience and how clear are the pain points and main problems your users are facing. This means that the solution to a problem depends on how we frame the problem. This article provides different practices and tools on how to apply problem reframing underpinned by a real case study.

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How To Repeat Strings In PHP : str_repeat()

Php,Mysql,Jquery Tutorial And Interview Question

The php str_repeat() function helps to repeat the string the specified number of times. The str_repeat() function generates a new string by iterating over the given string a predetermined number of times. PHP str_repeat() PHP has a built-in function called str_repeat() that repeats a string a specified number of times. The str_repeat() function requires two […].

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Projecting and Protecting Data in a Mesh

Dataiku

In this article, which is a continuation of my three-part ( 1 , 2 ) series on the topic, we will complete our journey to creating our data mesh, lifting those Dataiku-created data product services that we created earlier for exposing feature data and inference engines into a space where we can reliably discover those services, interact with, and choreograph them.

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Getting Started with Svelte and LaunchDarkly

LaunchDarkly

Since Svelte is just JavaScript, you don't need any framework-specific libraries to use it with LaunchDarkly – you can leverage the existing JavaScript libraries. Let's see how.

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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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Lunch & Learn: GraphQL on Springboot

OpenCredo

Every Thursday at OpenCredo we run internal Lunch & Learns for our developers to learn and share about the new tech they are working on, and now you can get to experience them! GraphQL on Springboot – Ebru Cucen and Alberto Faedda. GraphQL is a new approach to developing web APIs which allows easy read and write operations on the data published.

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Error'd: Past Time

The Daily WTF

This week we're throwing a bone to all the antipunsters in the audience and declaring a unilateral cease-fire on all alliteration, wordplay, jabs, jokes, or other japery. Starting now. Allie shares a redundancy that I think we've seen here before, saying "It may be _technically_ right, but I don't have to like it." . Dane. Christian sarcastically intones "Nice error message and if that's really the full stack trace I'm happy I'm not supporting this site."

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Water Cooler Talk: 5 Topics that Drive Conversations about Enterprise Storage

Infinidat

Water Cooler Talk: 5 Topics that Drive Conversations about Enterprise Storage. Evan Doherty. Thu, 03/10/2022 - 08:52. Engaging in topical conversations around the proverbial water cooler about industry trends and new developments in storage may seem like a social custom of a pre-COVID age, but even today, in a post-COVID world, meaningful conversations about topics that we should all care about in the enterprise storage industry continue around the virtual “water cooler” – online and otherwise.

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