Martin Fowler
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
Juntao Qiu completes his article on modularizing react applications by identifying that the last change smelled of Shotgun Surgery and taking the steps to fix it.
CIO
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
Straumann Group’s Sridhar Iyengar has a bold mission: To transform the nearly 70-year-old company’s data and technology organization into a data-as-a-service provider for the global manufacturer and supplier of dental implants, prosthetics, orthodontics, and digital dentistry — and to provide business stakeholders machine learning (ML) as a service as well.
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TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
Stelo Labs , a web3 security company, raised $6 million in a seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz, the company exclusively told TechCrunch. The company was co-founded by Ben Scharfstein, CEO, and Aman Dhesi, CTO. Both have backgrounds in product management — Scharfstein worked at Google, and Dhesi held roles at Facebook, DoorDash and Square. Stelo Labs’ goal is to make web3 “safe and understandable for everyone,” Scharfstein said.
The Crazy Programmer
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
Are you planning to start a career in the field of cyber security ? If so, this article is what you need to read! An expert in cyber security serves the same purpose that a guard dog does in the physical world. Experts in cybersecurity are often employed by private companies and public institutions to safeguard the integrity of the latter’s computer networks and the confidentiality of sensitive data.
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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.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
Venture capitalists often say that they don’t just back a company because of its vision, but also because they believe in the founder or founding team and think they’re the right people to execute the startup’s goals. However, being the right person to bring an idea to fruition has no correlation with being a good CEO or manager of a resulting startup, and investors may find themselves tied into a yearslong relationship with someone who turns out to be problematic.
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TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
Marina Martianova Contributor Share on Twitter Marina Martianova, founder and CEO of Seamm , is a serial entrepreneur who launched her first startup at the age of 21. The global mergers and acquisitions market skyrocketed in 2021, with a total of nearly $6 trillion in deals recorded that year. The pace of deal-making slowed somewhat in 2022, but the market is again picking up steam, with large acquisitions making up 28% of total deal value last year.
DevOps.com
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
A survey published today suggested that technical debt is starting to take a heavier toll as IT environments continue to become more complex to manage. The survey of 4,000 IT leaders at organizations with 1,500 employees was conducted by Foundry, the market research arm of International Data Group (IDG) on behalf of Insight Enterprises, a […] The post Technical Debt is a Major Threat to Innovation appeared first on DevOps.com.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
Prince Boakye Boampong , the founder and CEO of Dash , which provides an alternative payment network with connected wallets allowing interaction between mobile money and bank accounts in Africa, has allegedly been temporarily suspended pending an investigation into financial impropriety, according to people with direct knowledge of the situation. Boampong founded the Ghanaian fintech in 2019 and is one of Africa’s well-known serial entrepreneurs after co-launching OMG Digital , a YC-backed Ghana
DevOps.com
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
As indicated in my prior blog, Optimizing Cloud Costs for DevOps With AI-Assisted Orchestration, an AI-assisted Kubernetes orchestrator is needed to optimize cloud costs for DevOps, DevSecOps and SRE. This blog describes the landscape for cloud-native optimization approaches and a features requirement blueprint for an AI-assisted Kubernetes orchestrator.
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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.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
Last year’s tech-wide reckoning continues. In 2023, layoffs have yet again cost tens of thousands of tech workers their jobs; this time, the workforce reductions have been driven by the biggest names in tech like Google , Amazon , Microsoft , Yahoo and Zoom. Startups, too, have announced cuts across all sectors, from crypto to enterprise SaaS. The reasoning behind these workforce reductions follows a common script , citing the macroeconomic environment and a need to find discipline on a tumultu
CEO Insider
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
Great leaders know that the first step in building relationships and resolving conflict is sitting down to listen to the point of view of someone with whom you may not want to agree. A self-confident leader is willing to engage in those moments – showing up when you say you will and being present in […] The post The Value of Showing Up and Following Through appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
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. It’s Fridayyyy. Tomorrow. We had you there for a moment, though, didn’t we? The most interesting story for the VC and startup nerds among us comes from Connie today. A class-action lawsuit just dropped that accuses Sequoia Capital, Paradigm and Thoma Bravo of promoting FTX to the detriment of its users.
Perficient
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
This is the second blog in a series that explains how organizations can prevent their Data Lake from becoming a Data Swamp, with insights and strategy from Perficient’s Senior Data Strategist and Solutions Architect, Dr. Chuck Brooks. In the first article in this series, I explained the five components necessary to prevent a Data Lake from Becoming a Data Swamp.
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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.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
CommandK , a startup offering a dedicated platform to manage enterprise security, has raised $3 million in a seed round led by Lightspeed. Companies accumulate a lot of sensitive data and store secrets, such as API tokens, SSH keys and personally identifiable information. But protecting that is a complex task and requires state-of-the-art security prowess.
DevOps.com
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
In this week’s #TheLongView: Denis Pushkarev is fed up with core-js freeloaders, and hundreds more malicious packages found at PyPI. The post Dev of core-js Will Flip Table ¦ Another 451 PyPI Maldeps appeared first on DevOps.com.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
If you’ve ever played free-to-play video games on your phone, you may have seen an advert or two, including mini-games and other content with variable quality and relevance. That’s the space where Incymo operates; it promises to leverage machine learning and other smarts to maximize advertising revenues for game publishers, promising its users a 30% increase in average revenue per user (ARPU) from new users and a 10% increase to paying customers.
DevOps.com
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
It’s already clear that, in 2023, corporate spending will be under the microscope more than ever. With software publisher price increases, rising energy bills and a global recession all contributing to the need for businesses to focus on cost, IT–and particularly software–is a prime place to focus. Concentrated efforts to monitor and manage software spending […] The post FinOps & ITAM Must Team up to Cut Cloud Spend appeared first on DevOps.com.
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TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
Transcelestial is on a mission to make the internet more accessible by building a network of shoebox-sized devices that send lasers to one another, creating a fiber-like network. Today, the Singaporean-based startup announced it has raised $10 million, with the goal of expanding its wireless laser communications system in Indonesia, India, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore and the United States.
TechBeacon
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
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TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
A $6 million venture capital infusion is helping Planetarians , a San Francisco–based company creating whole cuts of plant-based protein, move to its next phase of commercial production. Aleh Manchuliantsau and chef Max Barnthouse founded Planetarians in 2013 as a nutritional drink company. They funded it with a mere $500 and sold 1 million servings, but they were also competing with the likes of Soylent , which had Andreessen Horowitz money behind it, Manchuliantsau told TechCrunch.
InfoQ Culture Methods
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
Have you ever wondered about systems based on machine learning? In those cases, testing takes a backseat. And even if testing is done, it’s done mostly by developers itself. A tester’s role is not clearly portrayed. Testers usually struggle to understand ML-based systems and explore what contributions they can make. This is a journey of assuring quality of ML-based systems as a tester.
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Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
Micro-EV subscription startup Dance , which launched in 2020, has raised an additional €12 million in an equity and debt round led by existing investors HV Capital, Eurazeo and BlueYard. Dance was launched out of Berlin by former Soundloud and Jimdo founders, but since last year is now also available in Paris, Hamburg, Munich and Vienna. In 2020, Dance closed a $17.7M Series A, led by HV Holtzbrinck Ventures.
thoughtLEADERS, LLC
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
Our reader poll today asks: What kind of challenge do you find the most interesting or exciting? Taking something that’s been successful and building on that success 9.10% Taking something that’s failing and turning it around 49.67% Building something new that no one has ever built before 41.23% Give me a challenge! Read the rest of this post at thoughtLEADERS, LLC: Leadership Training for the Real World.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
Web3 gaming company Unagi today announced a €4.7 million ($5 million) seed round of funding, as the French startup prepares to expand its NFT fantasy sports platform beyond football (“soccer”) and into the basketball realm. Unagi, which doesn’t yet have its own website, was founded out of Paris by Charlie Guillemot , son of Ubisoft co-founder Yves Guillemot and formerly studio manager at Owlient, a free-to-play game studio acquired by Ubisoft back in 2011; and Remi Pellerin , a
MagmaLabs
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
Reading Time: 3 minutes Frequently you find yourself processing a list of files to read their content, process them, and produce results? Well, in this post I will show you how you can do it in Node.js. Keep reading! Introduction Suppose you have a set of files inside a directory and you want to get a new list with the file names and its MD5. Suppose that you have a directory with files inside and you want to get a list indicating the file name and its content MD5.
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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
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
The rapid adoption of digital payments has become a great challenge for finance teams. According to one report , teams spend as much as 40% of their time processing transactions. To blame is disparate, unstructured data, they say. In a separate survey , 48% of teams peg fragmented data as the largest impediment to closing their books. Tal Kirschenbaum is well acquainted with the struggle.
Dataiku
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
Self-service analytics refers to decentralized ownership of the insight production process (and isn’t just “pulling numbers from dashboards”). For example, in an ideal world, line of business professionals or analysts would be able to work with data to generate insights and data visualizations with little direct support from data scientists, IT, or the larger data team (though the data product itself and its greater platform should be supported by these profiles).
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
Pydantic , the popular Python library and open source data-validation framework used by some of the world’s biggest companies, has a new commercial namesake and the backing of one of Silicon Valley’s most storied venture capital (VC) firms. Pydantic Services Inc. emerges from stealth today with $4.7 million in seed funding led by Sequoia , with participation from ParTech , Irregular Expressions and a host of angel investors, including Zapier co-founder Bryan Helmig , dbt Labs founder
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