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Mainframe applications are going hybrid

TechBeacon

As ubiquitous and powerful as cloud has become, mainframes still handle the back-end transactions that quietly and reliably keep the world running. But there are changes afoot.

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Colabs gets $3 million seed to expand across Pakistan, launch back-office SaaS solution

TechCrunch

Lahore-based coworking space startup, Colabs , is set to roll-out a SaaS product to enable businesses meet back-office needs including company registration, talent sourcing and management, payroll processing and legal and tax compliance. It also plans to hire more staff, which will include increasing the product team for its SaaS workspace business service that is emerging from the beta phase.

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Engineering a Successful New Car: Starting a New F1 Season with McLaren Racing

DataRobot

The 2022 season ignited a world of changes for McLaren Racing and Formula 1 with the biggest reengineering in modern F1 history. Each team now has a budget cap, and significant rule changes have been introduced, altering strategies and adding excitement for the fans. Another change that we’re thrilled about is that DataRobot is one of McLaren’s newest partners.

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It’s a fintech world, and we’re just living in it

TechCrunch

Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. It was a live recording this week, which was good fun. Our co-host Natasha was off, so Mary Ann and Alex teamed up with Grace to hammer our way through the news of the week live, with friends on Hopin, Twitter Spaces, and other locations on deck to hang out and ask questions.

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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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Why Your Business Needs DevOps

DevOps.com

One of the biggest headaches IT leaders face today is managing cross-functional teams to develop and deploy high-quality software faster. Not only does their work have to be continuous to stay productive, but there’s the need to save the business money, time and improve end user and customer satisfaction while fixing a seemingly endless parade […].

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How to Start Visual Studio Code Extension Development

Dzone - DevOps

Most developers have used Visual Studio Code at some point in their careers. It has been voted the most popular IDE of 2021 by respondents of the StackOverflow developer survey , and its appeal is clear as ever. While the base program provides a framework for an IDE, all of the language support and special features are delivered as extensions, which makes it easy to extend and customize your installation.

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Remote-work boom powers Firstbase to $50M Series B

TechCrunch

Firstbase announced a Series B round of funding today, led by Kleiner Perkins. TechCrunch covered the company’s Series A one year ago , when the world’s remote work shift was fully underway. Now in a more hybrid world, with corporations large and small trying to figure out how they will balance in-office employees and staff working from home, we were curious about how Firstbase is planning for the future.

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Project Management for Healthcare Information Technology

Agile Alliance

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Improving discovery for NFTs will amplify digital creators and marketplaces

TechCrunch

Alexandre Robicquet. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Alexandre Robicquet is co-founder and CEO of Crossing Minds, an AI-powered recommendation platform for e-commerce and content. An experienced Stanford AI scholar, he holds three Master's degrees in mathematics, machine learning and artificial intelligence. Four years ago, my team set an ambitious goal: build the smartest recommendation platform on the market.

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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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How a Love for Mathematics Inspired These Women to Choose Careers in Tech: Meet Mopé, Mélanie, and May

Dataiku

Ever wanted to know more about the people behind your favorite Everyday AI platform? You're in luck — every few weeks, meet some of the humans at Dataiku working to ensure customers and users find success as they systemize the use of data and AI in their organizations. To wrap up this year’s Women’s History Month, we spoke with three women in tech roles at Dataiku: Mopé Akande, Technical Curriculum Developer Manager, NAM; Mélanie Reversat, Director of Product Ops, EMEA; and May Phang, Lead Data

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TechCrunch+ roundup: PLG handbook, hiring early-stage sales teams, abolishing pro-rata

TechCrunch

In a previous era, startups that gained influence with CIOs could skate through the procurement process and start planning seminars for new customers as soon as contracts were finalized. Today, a decade or more into the End User Era, consumers have become the tail that wags the dog. Product-led growth models have been widely embraced: Instead of devoting resources to customer acquisition, PLG companies ship and scale quickly and more efficiently.

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Securing Your Logs in Confluent Cloud with HashiCorp Vault

Confluent

Logging is an important component of managing service availability, security, and customer experience. It allows Site Reliability Engineers (SREs), developers, security teams, and infrastructure teams to gain insights to how […].

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IT can play a major role in driving sustainability

TechCrunch

Jeff Kukowski. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Jeff Kukowski is CEO at CloudBolt, which helps companies automate easily, optimize continuously and govern at scale in hybrid and multicloud, multitool environments. With data centers alone consuming around 1% of global electricity demand , IT departments have substantial influence on their organization’s sustainability goals.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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Entry-Level Data Science Jobs: What to Expect

Coding Dojo

If you’re thinking about starting a career in data science, you might be wondering what to expect from an entry-level … Read more >>. The post Entry-Level Data Science Jobs: What to Expect appeared first on Coding Dojo Blog.

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As Instacart looks to cut its valuation, will it kick off a trend?

TechCrunch

Instacart is not done making news. Earlier this week, the well-known grocery delivery unicorn announced a software suite as part of a self-described third act. Today, Bloomberg reported that Instacart reduced its valuation from around $39 billion to $24 billion, representing a roughly 38.5% reduction in the company’s worth. Commentary indicates that the company’s new “valuation” was set by a 409a price change , not a decrease in the value of preferred shares sold in its last round.

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Apache Kafka in Docker Container and Implement Its Functionalities with Python

Dzone - DevOps

According to the website, Apache Kafka is an open-source distributed event streaming platform used by thousands of companies for high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration, and mission-critical applications. In this post, I am going to share a basic way to start using Apache Kafka with python.

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Bigblue raises $15 million for its D2C order fulfillment service

TechCrunch

French startup Bigblue has raised a $15 million Series A funding round. The company operates an order fulfillment platform for direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands. In other words, a D2C brand can outsource all things related to logistics to Bigblue so that they can focus on product and marketing. Runa Capital is leading the round with LPV acting as the ‘secondary lead investor’.

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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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The 7 Best Cloud Financial Planning Solutions For Managing Costs

CloudZero

Making better decisions doesn’t always require more data. Finding the right data and making sure the right people have it at the right time does. This is particularly important for companies that use the cloud.

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How To Enable CI/CD To Boost the Potential of DevOps

Dzone - DevOps

This is an article from DZone's 2022 DevOps Trend Report. For more: Read the Report. DevOps is a hot topic that is quickly becoming the way of software development. It aims to promote development speed and reduce costs while increasing productivity and efficiency in your organization. DevOps is powered by automating your entire development, delivery, and operations processes.

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Article: Insights into the Emerging Prevalence of Software Vulnerabilities

InfoQ Culture Methods

The software exploit landscape is constantly evolving and organizations need to be structured to stay ahead of these risks. A solid platform built on software best practices, education, and a good understanding of the threat landscape is critical to a strong defensive posture. By Cynthia Freeney.

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Best Workplaces in Ireland Award 2022

Cloudera

Over the past decade, Cloudera has matured to become a leading-edge technology company, supporting a diverse range of customers, across the globe. At Cloudera, we are passionate about helping our customers identify opportunities for innovation and growth, enabling them to accelerate their digital transformation, and aiding them to solve some of societies’ largest challenges.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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The Integrator, A Change Management Framework For Achieving Agile IT Project Success

Agile Alliance

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Kubernetes Hardening Tutorial Part 3: Logging and Auditing

Dzone - DevOps

In the first two parts of this tutorial, we discussed: How to enhance your Pod security in your Kubernetes cluster. How to harden your Kubernetes network security. As the third and final part of this tutorial we are going over the authentication, authorization, logging, and auditing of a Kubernetes cluster. Specifically, we will demonstrate some of the best practices in AWS EKS.

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Error'd: Dirty Deeds. cheap.

The Daily WTF

I saw my doctor this week and he told me I needed to go on a new diet. So here you go: all natural, no snark added. Overachiever Bill T. reflected on his life achievements: "I had to fill out demographic information - but is this really a cognitive test in disguise? Find your level of education!" . "Is this even legal??" exclaims. Julien M-A. "I knew big tech had no conscience and also that you can buy anything on Amazon, but really I did not expect it to sink to these depth

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Multi-cloud Asset Management – Managing and Securing Complex Applications

CloudSphere

The complex IT infrastructures and interdependencies found in most organizations only adds to the importance of having an effective strategy before migrating IT assets to the cloud. An essential part of any cloud strategy is complete visibility of all cyber assets and business services before, during, and after any migration. The benefits of cloud migration are well-known: reducing costs and increasing efficiency and flexibility allows organizations to better compete.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

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.

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Top 4 Benefits of Software as a Service (SaaS)

KitelyTech

As is the case with most technology trends nowadays, Software as a Service (SaaS) has become a sort of buzzword people stumble across on the internet. The term may sound vague, easy to overlook. But really, this groundbreaking alternative to traditional software installation has been revolutionizing life online for the past twenty years. What is Software as a Service?

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Total Experience (TX) = No More Silos. Learn From Real-life Use Cases

Trigent

Gartner recently announced the top technology trends for 2022 to enable organizations to deliver growth, digitalization , and efficiency for the next three to five years. These trends help CIOs and IT leaders discover direct digital routes to connect with their customers while protecting margins and cash flow. Total Experience (TX) has been identified as a key trend that can drive greater customer and employee experience through holistic management of stakeholder experiences.

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4 Tips To Improve Your Cybersecurity

CTO Academy

Cybersecurity has never been more important and if it wasn’t a major priority before … it absolutely should be now. The post 4 Tips To Improve Your Cybersecurity appeared first on CTO Academy.

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