TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Based in Singapore with offices throughout Asia and Australia, Reebelo wants to make buying pre-owned tech as desirable as a brand new device. “What we have seen is that many younger generations are very much open to the idea of sustainable consumption,” co-founder Philip Franta told TechCrunch. “We see a lot of growth and momentum in the space globally, but also here in this region, because I think we are finally at the stage as a society where we’ve realized that the way we’ve consumed in the

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Agile Alliance

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

As a software developer with more than 20 years of experience, I witnessed and went through some awkward situations. I had to create unuseful documentation because my boss wanted to. I saw teams defining story points to a set of user stories and complaining that some user stories were more complicated than they thought at … Continued. The post Discovering the root cause of impediments using Lean Software Development and Data Science first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Large merchants, particularly those that operate in more than one geography, have to support an array of payments methods. Each payment integration requires in-house technical work and the remodeling of one’s platform to fit their plugins. . It’s an extensive process that has seen some Big Tech companies build dedicated teams to manage different connections, data and cycles with the payments gateways in the markets where they are present.

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Agile Alliance

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

As we embrace DevOps to optimize our Agility, we need to move away from slow, manually intensive processes into more of a continuous flow of software into production. Whether we are doing true "Continuous Deployment" straight to production or not, we no longer have time for slow, manual, late-lifecycle security assessments to determine if our … Continued.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Joby Aviation is partnering with Japanese airline ANA to bring aerial ridesharing services to Japan. Toyota Motor Corporation will be partnering with the two companies, as well, in order to explore ways to connect the air taxis to ground-based transportation. Joby’s intent to start up operations in Japan comes to light a week after the company announced plans to launch an air taxi service in South Korea in partnership with SK Telecom.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Soul Machines , a New Zealand-based company that uses CGI, AI and natural language processing to create lifelike digital people who can interact with humans in real time, has raised $70 million in a Series B1 round, bringing its total funding to $135 million. The startup will put the funds toward enhancing its Digital Brain technology, which uses a technique called “cognitive modeling” to recreate things like the human brain’s emotional response system in order to construct aut

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Agile Alliance

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

I work for ThoughtWorks, a leading global technology consulting firm. Since June 2019, I have been leading an engagement with one of Thailand’s largest banks for an organisation wide digital transformation. To create and sustain this transformation in a very traditional, hierarchical and risk averse organisation, we needed to promote simultaneous change in four … Continued.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Forrest Iandola. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Forrest Iandola founded DeepScale , which was acquired by Tesla in 2019. He now serves as the Head of Perception at Anduril Industries. Air conditioners are a major source of greenhouse gases. On Project Drawdown’s 2017 list of over 100 opportunities to reduce human-caused global warming, cleaner tech for refrigeration and air-conditioning is at the very top.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

By Sandra Burmeister and Kelli Vukelic. Early figures and forecasts show that the mining sector is in for one of the most robust years off the back of the soaring demand for commodities and the industry’s impressive rebound in the second half of 2021. Even so, the sector is still grappling with a plateful of hot-button issues, including social restructuring, environmental protection, and the global push for de-carbonization placing particular pressure on the coal and platinum industries.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Yann Leretaille. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Yann Leretaille is the co-founder and CTO of Wingback , a SaaS growth infrastructure company. The very first hire at our SaaS startup was (surprise!) not an engineer. It might seem counterintuitive, but the first person on board at Wingback was a Fractional Head of Remote — and it was the best decision we made.

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Coding Dojo

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

If you read just one of the best programming books this year you’ll be a step ahead of nearly everyone … Read more >>. The post The 9 Best Programming Books to Read Right Now if You Want to Distinguish Yourself appeared first on Coding Dojo Blog.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Mental wellness startup MindFi operates throughout APAC, but wants to deliver “culturally competent” care in each of its markets. To do that, it develops programs for its app, available as an employee benefit, with local providers that take into account religion, gender stereotypes, racial representation, communication style and values, co-founder and CEO Bjorn Lee told TechCrunch.

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Dzone - DevOps

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

DevOps has come a long way, and Kubernetes is quickly taking over the technology world. Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestrator system: it automates the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. It is a powerful tool to manage distributed clusters of containers economically and reliably. While it is considered a sophisticated tool, it can throw challenges at you if it’s not configured correctly.

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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.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Gaia is a startup that is effectively out to “de-risk” the whole process of IVF fertility treatment, using products like personalized insurance and payment plans. It’s almost BNPL for babies — but not quite. It’s now closed a $20 million Series A funding round led by London’s Atomico. Previous investors were Kindred Capital, Seedcamp, and U.S.

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DevOps.com

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

DevOps is not just about technology. In many ways, the technology aspect of DevOps is finite but the people, organizational and cultural aspects are infinite. We see many clients get so focused on the tools and technology that they forget about the impact beyond the technology. An important part of building a world-class DevOps process […]. The post The DevOps Journey: Continuous Mindset Starts With Cultural Change appeared first on DevOps.com.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

According to eMarketer , Japan and Korea’s e-commerce markets were estimated at $144 billion and $121 billion, respectively, in 2021. Despite the large e-commerce market size, both countries have fewer e-commerce aggregators than other countries with smaller markets, South Korean e-commerce aggregator New Vessel said. The startup announced today it has raised an undisclosed seed round co-led by South Korean internet giant Naver, CKD Venture Capital and Wooshin Venture Investment, with particip

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CircleCI

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

CircleCI’s Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04 Linux virtual machine (VM) images will be temporarily unavailable in late March 2022 and late April 2022, and they will be permanently unavailable as of May 31, 2022. If you are using either of these images, update your config with a newer Ubuntu machine image before the 14.04 and 16.04 images are removed at the end of May 2022.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Upcycling polyethylene (the normal ubiquitous plastic we are all familiar with) into high-value plastics that can compete with “virgin” plastic (meaning plastics made directly from petro-chemicals) is a fiendish problem to solve. The fact that it’s been extremely hard to do so means billions of tonnes of plastic is never recycled, and it’s out there polluting the planet and our oceans.

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Toptal

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

C# and C++ share a similar syntax but cater to different requirements, so which should you focus on? This article examines each language’s features and weighs the pros and cons.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

News that Just Eat intends to delist from the United States isn’t an indication that the European food delivery giant intends to immediately sell GrubHub, the U.S. company it bought back in 2020. Instead, Just Eat’s CEO said, the move is focused on cost-cutting. The value of Just Eat’s U.S. shares — listed on the Nasdaq — has fallen from over $22 per share in 2021 to around $8.50 this morning, a huge reduction in worth.

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DevOps.com

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

It has been almost a year since the phenomenon known as the Great Resignation started appearing in national news. The reports showed millions of U.S. workers leaving their jobs each month to look for something better. This trend, according to the latest news, is not going away. While labor experts have provided a steady stream […]. The post Great Resignation Spurs Interest in Tech Certifications appeared first on DevOps.com.

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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.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

If you’re a founder building a startup in the cloud and pinning your revenue on subscription-based services, annual recurring revenue (ARR) is an essential metric you need to understand. ARR is probably the most critical metric for a startup — it’s what investors look at to predict future growth and even measure relationship changes within your subscription base.

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DevOps.com

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Charlene O’Hanlon and Amy Hudson of Cyara discuss the concept of DevOps for customer experience, which takes DevOps methodology and focuses it on CX software. But there are pitfalls DevOps teams face when dealing with customer experience software. The video is below followed by a complete transcript of the conversation. Announcer: This is Digital Anarchist. […].

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

When I was in school — which, judging by how my spine feels most mornings, was fourteen thousand years ago — keeping track of how you were doing on your homework felt, itself, like homework. Parents, meanwhile, were generally in the dark about your overall progress until report cards came at the end of the quarter. If something happened that caused a student (or many students!

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The Daily WTF

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

One of Raquel 's junior developers was having some troubles. They had a Lua script that needed to call out to a Redis store to fetch data. The poor developer was getting useless "failed to communicate to redis," message and needed help figuring out what was going on. Of course, the Lua script wasn't the problem. The company was building a full on Inner-Platform.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

TechCrunch Early Stage is the ultimate educational resource for a founder who is just getting started. We’ve tapped experts across myriad startup core competencies, from fundraising to operations to marketing, to outline step-by-step guides on how you can set up and grow your business. Wondering how to recruit talent in this landscape? We’ve got a session for it.

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DevOps.com

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Credit Karma has launched an application platform, dubbed Talon Polly, that makes it simpler to deploy microservices across multiple runtime environments. Richard Pounder, principal software engineer at Credit Karma, said the consumer financial services provider expects to make Talon Polly available as an open source project next year. Written in the Rust programming language, Pounder […].

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Jio Platforms is investing $200 million in Glance, which serves media content, news and casual games on Android handsets’ lockscreen, the two said Monday, the latest in a series of bets from Mukesh Ambani’s empire as it looks to expand its offering to more than 420 million telecom subscribers it reaches in the South Asian market. Reliance Industries, the parent firm of Jio Platforms and run by Asia’s richest man, Ambani, said its investment is part of the InMobi Group subsidiary’s Se

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