Dataiku

MAY 4, 2022

Bunge Loders Croklaan , the plant-based lipids business of Bunge, is a global leader in specialty oils and fats solutions for food manufacturing companies worldwide. As you probably know, the sauce on your favorite fast food chicken sandwich and the chocolate coating on your favorite candy bar didn’t grow on a tree. They were manufactured. Bunge Loders Croklaan makes lipid ingredients for those and many other products, from bakery and confectionery to infant nutrition and plant-based foods.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

Startup pitches with promises to provide various services to Africans — across different sectors — are commonplace now. And in trying to sweet-talk investors, what’s not taken into context or often disregarded is that Africa is a fragmented $3 trillion market. The continent is also home to more than 1.2 billion people with below-average disposable income, most living in landlocked nations.

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MAY 4, 2022

Ceridian SVP and CIO Carrie Rasmussen got a 7% bump in her IT budget for 2022, with her company’s growth, its ongoing digitalization drive, and security mindfulness driving the boost. More specifically, Rasmussen is boosting her spend on cybersecurity to help manage risk, a key element for enabling Ceridian’s planned global expansion. Some of the extra funds are paying for work to consolidate applications and services, a move Rasmussen classifies as an efficiency play “that will free up money to

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

Alon Laniado. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Alon Laniado founded tech-enabled human services startups Fitmate Coach and PathMotion. Previously, he was a Bain & Co. strategy consultant and a U.K. Treasury policy adviser designing employment schemes. Utilizing AI and other automation tools to enhance the delivery of human services can make exclusive services like career coaching available to more people.

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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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Agile Alliance

MAY 4, 2022

None of our work will matter if we can’t change the course of the climate crisis. Good news! We have many practices and methods for sustainability by Agile. The post Sustainability, penguins, and Agile first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Xebia

MAY 4, 2022

Google Drive for desktop. Drive for desktop gives you direct access to files on all your devices without taking up too much disk space. All your copies are synchronised. As soon as you make changes on one device, they are almost instantly applied on your other devices. Install Drive for desktop. If Drive for Desktop has not been installed by your organization yet, you can do this yourself (if allowed by your domain administrator).

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

Hundreds of rocket engines manufactured by startup Ursa Major will be going to space company Phantom Space over the next few years, part of a massive order that reflects Phantom’s bullish stance on the small launch market. “We placed the order based on how far out we could see the demand, and we see the demand as pretty strong and growing,” Phantom co-founder Jim Cantrell told TechCrunch in a recent interview.

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DevOps.com

MAY 4, 2022

Creating software is as much about the process as it is about the product. In recent years, we’ve seen the speed of innovation reach new heights due to more efficient development and quality control. DevOps has further accelerated development by combining software and operations in unified, self-improving teams. With automation taking care of rote tasks, […].

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

Masa Finance , a hybrid credit protocol and decentralized credit bureau founded by Pngme CEO Brendan Playford in late 2020, has raised $3.5 million in pre-seed funding. According to a statement, the company seeks to “disrupt traditional centralized credit infrastructure by providing individuals, businesses and developers with the tools to access credit” via blockchain technology.

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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.

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DevOps.com

MAY 4, 2022

Software delivery modernization should be done with care, especially with mission-critical mainframe apps. But for some, modernization will feel like a trip back to the future. Mainframe applications are typically systems of record with high-value transactions, significant compliance risk and an essential need for stability and security. They’ve been running reliably, often for decades, with […].

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

Porsche has read the room. With its first electric vehicle now outselling the quintessential 911 sports car, the German automaker is responding by upping its bet on EVs, in part via a hefty investment in lithium-silicon battery developer Group14 Technologies. Porsche injected $100 million into Group14 as part of a larger $400 million Series C funding round.

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Cloudera

MAY 4, 2022

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been a focus for research for decades, but has only recently become truly viable. The availability and maturity of automated data collection and analysis systems is making it possible for businesses to implement AI across their entire operations to boost efficiency and agility. AI has the potential to transform operations by improving three fundamental business requirements: process automation, decision-making based on data insights, and customer interaction.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

Zero trust security is an emerging paradigm in enterprise IT. It means that no one is trusted by default from inside or outside a network and verification is required from everyone trying to gain access to resources on the network. This added layer of protection has been shown to prevent data breaches, but surveys reveal that IT teams are struggling to implement it at their organizations.

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DevOps.com

MAY 4, 2022

A few years back, I wrote here that specialists—particularly infrastructure specialists—were not going anywhere. I think it is worth updating that prediction and reminding you all that specialists across the bulk of DevOps subdomains are still necessary—even if you have broken down their silos. Spend time in any of the variety of places that DevOps […].

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

Kimoa, the sustainable lifestyle brand created by two-time Formula 1 champion Fernando Alonso, is launching an electric bike during the Formula One Crypto.com Miami Grand Prix 2022. It’s not uncommon for F1 drivers to endorse products from sponsors, but this might be the first e-bike introduced by one. . The Kimoa E-Bike is made-to-measure for each rider, due to its custom 3D-printed carbon fiber frame, which is built by Arevo, an additive manufacturing company.

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Dzone - DevOps

MAY 4, 2022

Introduction. I will demonstrate how to request routing from service mesh to WebSphere Liberty Profile (WLP) application server Docker container image on Kubernetes. Further providing details about Istio Ingress gateway, Gateway, and Virtual service created on istio that routing traffic to Docker image with WLP installed. In the end, we will be seeing from Istio kiali dashboard request routing through Istio ingress gateway and another way directly hitting to service on Kubernetes.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

Folk , the next-generation CRM started by European startup studio eFounders , is going live today. If you’ve paid attention to TechCrunch, I’ve already covered Folk in the past. Since then, the product has evolved a bit and is now ready for prime time. “The biggest SaaS [software-as-a-service] category is CRM. The highest valuation in the SaaS industry is Salesforce,” co-founder and COO Simo Lemhandez told me.

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MAY 4, 2022

Making Agile work in the age of hybrid and remote teams requires extra effort to stay aligned and collaborative. This article explores how development teams can stay agile, even when face-to-face collaboration isn’t an option by using visual collaboration to build context and alignment, and adopting new practices for engaging meetings. By Varun Parmar.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

French startup Alan has raised a new €183 million funding round ($193 million at today’s exchange rate). The company sells its own health insurance products and has expanded to other medical products and services. In other words, Alan wants to build a healthcare super app and a one-stop shop for all your questions and needs when it comes to your health.

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Dzone - DevOps

MAY 4, 2022

Vault and Safe. Vault is a secret management service by HashiCorp. It is a tool that will help you in storing secrets (API keys, passwords, etc.) and accessing them securely. You can use Vault with a user interface as well as through CLI. In this post, we will not be going deep into what Vault is , but instead, will look at how we can migrate secrets from one Vault to another.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

“Like a pressure cooker, COVID blew the lid off what was a simmering mental health crisis for over a decade,” VC Tim Schlidt told TechCrunch. According to the World Health Organization, the global prevalence of anxiety and depression increased by a massive 25% in the first year of the pandemic. And when available treatment options showed their limits , both the general public and regulators became more willing to look into alternatives – including psychedelics.

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Allstacks

MAY 4, 2022

May is a busy month for the Allstacks team, and we couldn’t be more excited. Our team is presenting to engineering and product leaders at industry events and running our first webinar of 2022!

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

When Dock co-founder and CEO Alex Kracov was working at Lattice , an HR startup, he was in charge of a marketing team of 20 people, and he noticed that as the company grew and moved up market, the sales team was having trouble organizing collateral like the pitch deck, ROI analysis and feature videos for large potential customers. As Kracov pointed out, when you start selling into bigger organizations, you aren’t just convincing a single buyer, you are selling to a buying team, usually with one

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MAY 4, 2022

Keep your team performing well by quickly identifying and resolving conflicts. Conflict is inherent in cross-functional team structures. Be vigilant about identifying and resolving conflict before it severely impacts team performance. To identify conflict, monitor both project milestones as well as team member metrics. Talk with your team members frequently to suss out issues.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

Earlier today, payments giant Stripe announced a new product that fills in some significant gaps in its play to be the financial services layer for merchants and other businesses whose models are based on enabling transactions, as reported by TC’s Ingrid Lunden. That new product is called Financial Connections and the company says it will give Stripe’s customers a way to connect directly to their customer’s bank accounts, to access financial data to speed up or run certain kinds of transactions.

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CEO Insider

MAY 4, 2022

Twenty-five years ago, in the feature film Contact, Ellie Arroway (Jodie Foster) responded to her former mentor and nemesis, Dr. David Drumlin (Tom Skerritt), after having had a tough day testifying before Congress. Here’s a snippet of the dialogue: David Drumlin: “I know you must think this is all very unfair. Maybe that’s an understatement. […].

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

Amberdata , an institutionally focused digital asset data provider, has raised $30 million in its Series B, its CEO Shawn Douglass exclusively told TechCrunch. The company is now valued at $330 million and has raised a total of $47 million to date, including its seed round worth $2 million and Series A totaling $15 million. “We decided to do this raise right now because we grew so much in the past year that there’s an unlimited opportunity to go out and be the infrastructure that enables all ins

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CloudZero

MAY 4, 2022

A software development life cycle (SDLC) is the sequence of steps a software project moves from conception to completion. The SDLC process specifies how to build, test, maintain, and improve specific software.

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