Next Level Blog
APRIL 20, 2022
If your ambitions are big enough, you’re eventually going to reach the limit of the effort you can deploy to attain them. Much like the dilemma of determining when something needs to be perfect and when good enough is good enough , acknowledging that there is only so much effort to go around can be really difficult for high-achieving leaders and their teams.
TechCrunch
APRIL 20, 2022
Amazon Web Services (AWS) today launched a new program, AWS Impact Accelerator , that will give up to $30 million to early-stage startups led by Black, Latino, LGBTQIA+ and women founders. The Amazon company claims that the three-year initiative will help recipients build successful businesses while “accelerating” growth in their respective markets.
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Xebia
APRIL 20, 2022
On New Year’s Eve, I raised a glass (the last one for January) on four fantastic years at Xpirit (Part of Xebia) On a regular basis, I validate what I’m doing, both personal and professional. There’s definitely going to be a five-year celebration. My job gets a solid 10 out of 10. Actually, the only situation that could make me hesitate would be the F1 Red Bull team offering me the same job.
TechCrunch
APRIL 20, 2022
Strike Security, a continuous penetration testing platform that combines automation with ethical hackers , has secured a $5.4 million seed investment to make bug hunting more accessible to small businesses. Santiago Rosenblatt, the 25-year-old founder and CEO of Strike , has already racked up two decades of cybersecurity experience. “I started hacking when I was six-and-a-half,” he tells TechCrunch.
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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.
Xebia
APRIL 20, 2022
Since 2018 React Native team has been investing a lof of time and effort to re-build the current framework architecture. Last March 30, 2022 React Native version 0.68 was launched with a whole new main core implementation to get closer to Google Flutter framework. In this article I’ll try to keep things simple and explain the following main topics: Current architecture.
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DevOps.com
APRIL 20, 2022
Checkmarx, a provider of a platform for testing application security, this week disclosed it has discovered a malicious instance of a PyPi repository for Python code that has been downloaded more than 70,000 times. Tzachi Zorenshtain, head of supply chain security, said this discovery represents another instance where cybercriminals have made available a malicious copy […].
TechCrunch
APRIL 20, 2022
As consumers’ interest in the environment and nutrition rises, food-tech companies join the race to invent meat alternatives. In 2021, alternative seafood companies received $175 million in investment globally, increasing 92% from 2020. A South Korean startup called CellMEAT , which develops cell-based shrimp, has secured $8.1 million (10 billion KRW) Series A funding to compete with 120 companies around the world that produce alternative seafood.
TechBeacon
APRIL 20, 2022
In a software supply chain attack, a bad actor makes a malicious modification to a software component in the supply chain. This later affects any other software that uses the malicious component as a dependency.
TechCrunch
APRIL 20, 2022
A banking app built for online creators, Creative Juice announced its $50 million fund to underwrite creator businesses. YouTubers and other social media stars can apply for upfront cash to grow their businesses in exchange for a cut of their revenue over a certain period of time, usually between six months and three years. It sounds like a loan, but it’s not a loan (at least in the sense that Creative Juice isn’t a bank, so they’re not allowed to say they give loans).
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DevOps.com
APRIL 20, 2022
As an IT professional with decades of experience at every level of technology and organizations—from cell phone prototyping to banking enterprise architecture, from entry-level to CTO—I can state definitively that I have spent an inordinate amount of time dwelling on and dealing with security. And I know I’m not alone. This is a common theme. […].
TechCrunch
APRIL 20, 2022
Prepare yourself for the triumphant return of TechCrunch Disrupt — live and in person — to San Francisco on October 18-20 at Moscone West! . We can’t wait to welcome you and more than 10,000 other attendees to our flagship event — the epicenter of the startup ecosystem. . Registration is open: Take advantage of our launch special. Purchase a pass (General Admission, Investor or Student/Non-profit) before June 1, and you can save up to $1,500.
DevOps.com
APRIL 20, 2022
We’re living in the age of accelerated consumption and delivery. You can get a seemingly infinite selection of products delivered to your door within two days, for free, from thousands of miles away. You can access an endless variety of services online within mere seconds: Movies, music, games, education and even health care. These modern […].
TechCrunch
APRIL 20, 2022
The e-commerce market in Latin America has been gaining traction over the past two years and is poised to double in size and be valued at more than $100 billion by 2025. And like in the United States and elsewhere, customers in LatAm expect that when they submit an order online, it arrives at their homes accurately and quickly. This means that brands and retailers need enough workers to tend to all of the e-commerce orders.
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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.
TechSoup
APRIL 20, 2022
In April 2022, Microsoft took a major step in the direction of its cloud-first model for nonprofits , an effort to align Microsoft philanthropy efforts with the security and operational capabilities of cloud computing. Most donated, on-premises licenses were moved into discounted offers. It's the latest reason nonprofits are much better off moving to the cloud and leveraging its significant advantages.
TechCrunch
APRIL 20, 2022
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PT, subscribe here. Happy 20th of April, 2022, which has no particular significance and we are not making any jokes. It’s been a strange news day, but never fear, we have some great stories for you to peruse. Today’s Equity podcast is a good one, with Alex and Natasha discussing startup myths and assumptions.
Aqua Security
APRIL 20, 2022
As companies continue to adopt cloud native technologies at a rapid pace, an increasing number of cyber threats are targeting the cloud native environment. To defend against these threats, security practitioners must stay abreast of attackers’ evolving tactics, techniques, and procedures. For its 2022 Cloud Native Threat report, Aqua’s Team Nautilus analyzed attacks that were observed in the wild over the past year to highlight the latest developments in the threat landscape.
TechCrunch
APRIL 20, 2022
Advertising, particularly online advertising, isn’t a surefire way to bolster business. A report from ecommerce analytics platform Glew drives the point home: In 2015, 75% of retailers that spent at least $5,000 on Facebook ads ended up losing money on those ads, with the average return on investment landing around -66.7%. Obviously, that’s just one segment — retail.
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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.
Capgemini
APRIL 20, 2022
Data provides answers, but people drive change. “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” The famous quote by Peter Drucker is a perfect call out here as no matter how detailed and solid your data-powered vision and strategy are if the people executing it don’t nurture the data culture then your journey is likely to fail. Becoming a data-driven organization isn’t just about data or technology, it is about transforming the way decisions are made based on deep analysis of facts rather than intu
TechCrunch
APRIL 20, 2022
Sid Jain. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Sid is a senior analyst at ChartMogul , a leading SaaS subscription analytics platform. Churn gets a lot of bad press. Yes, it is complex and confusing, but as a metric, it is helpful. In the early stages of building a company, churn gives you quick feedback, which other metrics seldom do. Studying churn lets you run tests on your platform and get feedback in a few days or months.
Confluent
APRIL 20, 2022
When it comes to alerts, monitoring, and support for Apache Kafka®, how do you know when you’ve got a critical problem that needs your immediate attention? You likely won’t be […].
TechCrunch
APRIL 20, 2022
When it comes to presentation creation, PowerPoint and Keynote remain the de facto tools by incumbent advantage. PowerPoint has over one billion installs and 500 million users alone, thanks to Microsoft’s longtime bundling of Office with certain Windows editions. But this hasn’t stopped startups from trying to disrupt the status quo. Besides Prezi, there’s Pitch , a deck creation suite from the founders of Wunderlist.
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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.
CloudZero
APRIL 20, 2022
AWS introduced Savings Plans about a decade after launching Reserved Instances (RIs). AWS designed Savings Plans to be more flexible than RIs, resulting in less risk of vendor lock-in, over-provisioning, or underutilizing AWS services.
TechCrunch
APRIL 20, 2022
Front’s cap table reads like an honor role of investors. CEO and co-founder Mathilde Collin raised funds from numerous Silicon Valley firms and individual investors. On April 27 she’s speaking on TechCrunch Live to share her strategy that allowed her company to raise funds from less traditional VCs. One of those VCs is also speaking on the episode.
CircleCI
APRIL 20, 2022
When you think of software testing, what comes up first? For many developers, unit tests and integration tests are often top of mind. Both software testing methods are vital to writing and maintaining a high-quality production codebase. But they are not sufficient on their own. Your team’s testing practice should assess the entire application, observe the larger story of how it operates when functioning correctly, and raise alarms when deviations are found.
TechCrunch
APRIL 20, 2022
In mid-2020, short-term rental startup Lyric Hospitality shuttered most of its locations in what was widely viewed as another pandemic casualty. But the San Francisco company — which was out to help folks who struggled to decide between staying in a hotel or an Airbnb — wasn’t ready to go down without a fight. It is now spinning out the software side of its business, including a pricing tool for accommodation that it had built, and that spinout has raised $16 million in funding.
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Capgemini
APRIL 20, 2022
This article first appeared on Capgemini’s Data-powered Innovation Review | Wave 3. Written by: Jitesh Ghai. Chief Product Officer. Informatica. In today’s data-driven economy, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are powering digital transformation in every industry around the world. According to a 2021 World Economic Forum report , more than 80 percent of CEOs say the pandemic has accelerated digital transformation.
TechCrunch
APRIL 20, 2022
Bach , a group travel app for planning bachelorette trips, has announced $8 million in seed funding led by Corazon Capital. The app, which is available on both the Google Play Store and the iOS App Store , is designed to help users plan a group trip with their friends from start to finish. Mike Petrakis, the founder and CEO of Bach, told TechCrunch that the idea for Bach came from his personal experiences with travel.
Symantec
APRIL 20, 2022
Russia-linked group is continually refining its malware and often deploying multiple payloads to maximize chances of maintaining a persistent presence on targeted networks.
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