The Crazy Programmer
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
According to tasks performed on the database by different users, we can classify database users in 5 categories as given below: Database Administrator. Naive Users. Application Programmers. Sophisticated Users. Specialized Users. Let’s discuss each one by one in detail. 1. Database Administrator (Super Users). A single person or a team of members can be a database administrator.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
A new venture from space infrastructure company Momentus founder and former CEO Mikhail Kokorich aims to build a hypersonic aircraft for autonomous cargo delivery around the world. While the craft is far from completion, let alone testing and certification, a $29M seed round should help things along. The stated plan is to build a hypersonic vehicle (i.e. multiples of the speed of sound) powered by liquid hydrogen and with only water as exhaust, which would enable point to point delivery nearly a
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Martin Fowler
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
The next installment of Poppy Rowse and Chris Shepherd's article on infrastructure platforms looks how to communicate the technical vision of platform. and how to understand the platform from the users' point of view. more….
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
Let’s say you’re a freelance engineer in Nigeria working for a U.S. company; how do you facilitate forex conversion from dollars to naira ? I bet it involves using a third party or a local Bureau De Change, essentially a foreign currency exchange office. Some people have worked with this model for years not because it’s perfect but other options are limited.
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Agile Alliance
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
Using concepts from Gretchen Rubin's book The Four Tendencies, learn how knowing each agile team member's individual tendency helps to enable change. How can you best encourage a teammate who is an Upholder to commit to a change in course? What information does a Questioner need before embracing a new idea? Why are Rebels great … Continued. The post Change Agents and the Four Tendencies first appeared on Agile Alliance.
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Agile Alliance
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
Organizations that thrive in the digital world are constantly innovating and financially nimble. The challenge for many organizations is that agile planning does not work with traditional project-based funding models. Successful companies drive alignment across the organization by bridging the gap between finance and execution—delivering business agility that connects teams, projects, and investment portfolios to … Continued.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
Last year was record-breaking for African startups. I know I’m probably starting to sound like a broken record, but the astronomical growth is worth highlighting again and again. In this piece , I spotlighted what influenced this venture capital growth — which, at the time, was pegged at a little over $4 billion. But similarly to years past, the total amount raised by African startups varies among different reports.
Agile Alliance
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
That dreaded "we need to figure out what happened to hold people accountable" meeting is approaching, which often means people are getting their fingers ready to point. When working with humans, blaming never leads to accountability. What blaming will lead is a loss of focus and waste of time towards the shared goal of delivering … Continued. The post Blaming is NOT Accountability first appeared on Agile Alliance.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
TechCrunch explored the changing state of the insurtech market last week , diving into category wins and losses from recent quarters and what’s ahead for the sector this year. Insurtech companies had a simply amazing fundraising year in 2021, setting records in both dollar and deal terms. But at the same time, the value of public insurtech companies fell sharply , with many recent sector IPOs managing to delete the vast majority of their market worth as the year ticked by.
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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.
DevOps.com
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
By now, most of us are familiar with the concept of site reliability engineering (SRE). The term was originally coined by Google and SRE has been gaining traction in recent years as a role dedicated to increasing the resilience of digital ecosystems. To accomplish this, a big part of the SRE doctrine is “automating your […]. The post Day in the Life of a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) appeared first on DevOps.com.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
A lot of SaaS products are sold on flat-rate subscriptions. But there is a growing trend, especially among more price-conscious customers, to demand more granular pricing, and we now live in a world where a mix of data science, predictive analytics and cloud computing can make that feasible. Today, one of the companies building tools to meet that demand — a startup called m3ter — is coming out of stealth, and as sign of the state of the market, it already has customers and a tidy sum
Aqua Security
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
Aqua Security’s open source project Trivy now includes scanning of AWS CloudFormation templates to help developers better identify and remediate security issues within infrastructure as code (IaC) templates. Building on the technology and rule sets behind our popular open source project tfsec, Trivy now allows developers to evaluate AWS CloudFormation code, either locally or within their pipeline, for configuration issues and violations of best-practice policies.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
Renowned Silicon Valley operator Adam Nash thinks you want to donate much more than you do, and he’s about to make it dead simple for you. Such is the message we received when talking late last week with Nash, whose most recent full-time roles include as a VP at Dropbox and president and CEO of the financial advisory firm Wealthfront, but who also serves on the boards of the auto e-commerce platform Shift and with Acorns.
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As a SaaS leader, you know that the more metrics, insights, and analytics you add to your products, the more engagement you’ll have – and the stickier your product will become with customers. At what point do you decide to keep building your analytics in-house or invest in an embedded analytics solution? Read our Build vs. Buy Analytics guide to learn: Top 4 benefits of embedded analytics A quick cost comparison of in-house analytics development vs embedded analytics 10 considerations to help yo
TechSoup
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
If you work at a nonprofit, it's likely that you've heard the words, "I think we should start a podcast" over the past year or so, and perhaps with good reason. Podcasts can maintain an audience's attention over time and build intimacy between host and listener, both of which help nonprofits nurture relationships with prospective supporters. Podcasting is gaining strength as a channel for nonprofits to reach existing and new audiences.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
Product-led sales and growth were big buzzwords last year, and startups are continuing to raise new infusions of capital as they develop their approaches. In Endgame ’s case, the company announced Tuesday it closed on $30 million in Series B funding. The company touts itself as “the world’s first product-led sales platform” and enables software companies to turn customer observations into go-to-market strategies.
DevOps.com
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
Charlene O’Hanlon and Rich Nanda discuss a new Deloitte study, “A New Language for Digital Transformation,” which explores why so many transformations fail to deliver concrete impact. The video is below followed by a complete transcript of the conversation. Announcer: This is Digital Anarchist. Charlene O’Hanlon: Welcome back to Techstrong TV.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
In climate circles we spend a lot of time talking about manufacturing and power generation in the effort of cutting CO 2 emissions. It’s pretty rare that I get a whiff of a company that has a clear path toward cutting global carbon emissions by a full percent — but that’s what Rondo Energy pitched to its investors and customers, raising $22 million and setting some very excited environmentalists’ hearts a-flutter in the process.
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The Daily WTF
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
AngularJS, (not to be confused with Angular, its successor project and ostensible replacement) made some… interesting design choices. Controllers existed in a tree, mapped to the DOM, and were glued together by a special object called $scope. You would store your data in the $scope , and depending on exactly how you did it, that data could be accessible at various levels within the tree.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PST, subscribe here. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Tuesday, February 8, 2022! Today we’re talking layoffs, blockchain infra, a called-off mega-deal, and chip-based national security. It’s a killer group of stories, bringing us around the world and from the earliest stages of startup activity to the top of governance.
DevOps.com
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
Have you ever thought about the history of incident management? If you’re an SRE, you might be so caught up in the day-to-day work of managing reliability and responding to incidents that you never take time to step back and reflect on the evolution of your role and your responsibilities. And that’s a shame because […]. The post The Evolution of Incident Management appeared first on DevOps.com.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
You can’t swing an outdated Python manual in this town without hitting half a dozen app analytics suites, but the same cannot be said if you’re a product manager hoping to figure out where you lose customers for smart home hardware. Ex-IFTTT head of product Yana Welinder today launches Kraftful Analytics , giving folks building connected hardware a deeper look into what the user journey is for users of IoT and smart hardware, in a bid to combat the surprising number of users who buy
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The buzz around generative AI shows no sign of abating in the foreseeable future. Enterprise interest in the technology is high, and the market is expected to gain momentum as organizations move from prototypes to actual project deployments. Ultimately, the market will demand an extensive ecosystem, and tools will need to streamline data and model utilization and management across multiple environments.
Coding Dojo
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
Pre-Dojo : Worked in Sales & Digital Marketing. Was forced into a career change due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Self-taught. … Read more >>. The post From Digital Marketer to Developer | How Raden Mantuano Reinvented Himself and His Career appeared first on Coding Dojo Blog.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
Chicken is the most consumed meat in the United States and the world. And yet, the system in place to breed and feed and raise all this chicken is incredibly detrimental to our overall well-being. It props up a conventional agricultural apparatus that focuses on corn and soy production, not to mention fosters a system where the vast majority of chicken available to consumers has been systemically inbred, lacking genetic diversity.
CEO Insider
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
For many years Artificial intelligence (AI) has been highlighted as a technology that can transform business by allowing companies to analyze much larger and more variable unstructured data sets and information, and use the results to take faster, better actions. However, despite the hype AI applications have not yet become as common as many had […].
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
Jean-Paul Smets. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Jean-Paul Smets is the CEO of Rapid.Space , a hyper open cloud provider offering virtual private servers (VPS), content delivery networks (CDN) and global IPv6 (SDN). Picture this scenario as a young enterprise: You are a customer of Azure, AWS, or the Google Cloud Platform, assuming they are the frontrunners.
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Dzone - DevOps
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
DevOps is one of the greatest cultural shifts the IT industry has ever had. It's a set of practices that brings together the development and operations teams to deliver high-quality products and services in a more efficient, faster way. A large number of organizations have shifted to the DevOps culture because they realize the benefits of DevOps. But getting the best out of DevOps isn't as easy as installing software and getting results.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
Hearts Radiant , a Spanish startup that’s building a “longevity coach” for seniors — with the goal of extending quality of life through app-based personalized coaching designed to combat and even prevent frailty — has closed a seed round of funding as it gears up to launch in the U.S., eyeing Florida’s 4M+ over 65s.
Ivanti
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
System Administrators may be feeling a little gun shy after the January Windows OS updates went awry with three known issues. Details in the following out-of-band update on January 18 stated, "This update addresses issues related to VPN connectivity, Windows Server Domain Controllers restarting, Virtual Machines start failures and ReFS-formatted removable media failing to mount,” which did look to stabilize matters.
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