DevOps.com
MARCH 30, 2022
Like organizing your garage, modernizing your applications can seem daunting before you start, but you know it will pay off once done. So, instead of thinking about this project as a technical challenge, let’s look at it in the wider context of the business. Just as getting rid of old junk in your garage frees […]. The post 3 Steps to Jumpstart Your App Modernization Journey appeared first on DevOps.com.
TechCrunch
MARCH 30, 2022
Six months after launching its end-to-end encrypted document editor , Skiff has bagged another $10.5 million in fresh funding to build out private and collaborative workspaces for its burgeoning customer base. We wrote about Skiff last year ahead of its launch: Skiff is a web app that has much of the same document-writing and sharing capabilities as Google Docs but is built on a foundation of end-to-end encryption , so Skiff does not have access to users’ documents like Google does.
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Agile Alliance
MARCH 30, 2022
Traditionally, we see “building the right product” and “building the product right” as two separate outcomes. In Agile delivery, these are two sides of one coin. The post Moving Forward by Working Backwards first appeared on Agile Alliance.
TechCrunch
MARCH 30, 2022
Credit card giant Visa has launched an NFT creator program in an effort to bring small businesses into the digital economy. “We’ve seen rapid growth in the NFT ecosystem over the past year,” Cuy Sheffield , head of crypto at Visa, told TechCrunch. “We think NFTs represent a new form of e-commerce.”. The idea of a small business is evolving from the traditional “brick-and-mortar mom-and-pop shops” to include other independent businesses with creators and entrepreneurs who want to build digital-fo
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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.
Agile Alliance
MARCH 30, 2022
When people hear “VAX assembly,” they immediately assume an application deployed once every year or two and developed using waterfall and a collection of antiquated technology practices. In this case, those are some very incorrect assumptions. Ticketmaster’s core ticketing engine is an almost 45-year-old platform primarily written in VAX assembly yet developed and deployed in … Continued.
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Agile Alliance
MARCH 30, 2022
Agile organizations have been successful in improving collaboration and reducing waste in software development. They have also learned to automate and streamline their software delivery process. The post MLOps: Reducing Frictions Through the AI Value Stream first appeared on Agile Alliance.
TechCrunch
MARCH 30, 2022
The race is certainly on in the electrification of boating … even if everyone is jockeying for position before the market materializes. Flux Marine is joining the likes of Pure and Zin in trying to convert some of our waterways’ gas-guzzling outboards to cleaner, quieter battery powered ones, and the company just raised $15.5 million ahead of a planned summer shipping date.
Coding Dojo
MARCH 30, 2022
If you’re thinking of building a website its likely you’ve heard the terms “HTML” and “CSS,” but may be wondering … Read more >>. The post Infographic: What’s the Difference between HTML vs CSS? appeared first on Coding Dojo Blog.
TechCrunch
MARCH 30, 2022
Quantum Machines , the well-funded Israeli startup that specializes in building control systems for quantum computers, today announced that it has acquired QDevil , a well-known Danish company that specializes in building control hardware for quantum systems. The two companies did not disclose the financial details of the transaction and, according to Crunchbase , the company only raised about €1 million, mostly in the form of grants.
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IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d
Cloudera
MARCH 30, 2022
Sometimes it takes a billion-dollar mistake to bring the murkier side of data ethics into sharp focus. Equifax found this out to their own cost in 2017 when they failed to protect the data of almost 150 million users globally. The catastrophic breach was bad enough on its own — but Equifax waited three months to go public with the news. As the public furore rose to a crescendo, the credit organization dragged its feet on disclosing exactly what kind of information had been leaked.
TechCrunch
MARCH 30, 2022
Shared micromobility company Tier Mobility said on Wednesday it has acquired Fantasmo , a U.S.-based computer vision-powered e-scooter parking startup whose tech Tier had been trialing in multiple cities in Europe. Tier will bring on all of Fantasmo’s 15 staff members and continue to invest in and develop what will now be an in-house Camera Positioning System (CPS) technology that the company says is more accurate than GPS and can validate e-scooter marking within 20 centimeters or less.
Let's Grow Leaders
MARCH 30, 2022
Staying Humble, Yet Also Ambitious. Today, I share part two of my Asking for a Friend interview with Amer Kaissi on the important intersection of humility and ambition. I was particularly struck by Amer’s practical leadership humility technique of “reflection with purpose” (1:36). 1:35 Cultivate Leadership Humility Through Reflection with Purpose.
TechCrunch
MARCH 30, 2022
Dapio , the U.K.-based cashless payment solutions provider for businesses, today announced that it has raised $3.4 million to fuel the launch of its ‘Tap to Pay’ solution for Android users in the U.K. and Europe. African payments giant Flutterwave co-led the growth round with Techstars. Daniel Gould, venture partner at Asymmetry Ventures, and PactVC participated.
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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.
Synopsys
MARCH 30, 2022
Two vulnerabilities affecting different Spring projects were identified this week. Here’s what you need to know about Spring4Shell and CVE-2022-22963. The post CyRC Vulnerability Analysis: Two distinct Spring vulnerabilities discovered – Spring4Shell and CVE-2022-22963 appeared first on Software Integrity Blog.
TechCrunch
MARCH 30, 2022
Mosaic, which aims to change the way CFOs of high-growth companies operate, has raised $25 million in a Series B round of funding led by Founders Fund. Bijan Moallemi, Joe Garafalo and Brian Campbell started San Diego-based Mosaic in 2019 after meeting at Palantir Technologies, where they worked on building out that company’s finance organization to 2,500 people and over $750 million in revenue.
Dzone - DevOps
MARCH 30, 2022
This is an article from DZone's 2022 DevOps Trend Report. For more: Read the Report. Continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines have matured from new forms of automation to mission-critical systems. DevOps teams rely on pipelines to deliver value to their customers by tightening developer feedback loops and standardizing processes.
TechCrunch
MARCH 30, 2022
You rent out your apartment on Airbnb and the guests are throwing an all-night rager. You only find out three days later when the neighbors are furiously and passive-aggressively putting up signs around the apartment building about “someone” throwing loud parties on the third floor. Minut just raised $14 million to further expand its privacy-forward “shhhh, it’s time to take it down a few notches” solutions for the hospitality sector. “I was talking with one o
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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.
Dzone - DevOps
MARCH 30, 2022
The word “test” originally referred to “a small vessel used in assaying precious metals.” This meant that testing was a method of ascertaining the quality of gold or silver. It was also used in the process of refining valuable alloys, such as tin. Later, the term was adopted in other fields, and these days it’s common to find it in contexts such as education, medicine, or software development.
TechCrunch
MARCH 30, 2022
As cryptocurrency goes mainstream, attracting individual and institutional investors , digitally-savvy employers realize tokens are an increasingly attractive form of compensation, especially for their millennial staff. But paying employees in digital assets can create all sorts of administrative hurdles. Human resources managers manually record who has been paid what on a giant Excel sheet but can easily lose track of where the tokens are going, as transactions are largely decentralized.
CloudZero
MARCH 30, 2022
Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides over 200 fully-featured services, that aim to make the cloud affordable and cost-efficient for the companies that use the popular cloud provider.
TechCrunch
MARCH 30, 2022
It’s not a coincidence that TechCrunch has covered more African startups in the last year than any period in our history. Many of those companies are Nigerian, and when we look at venture capital data, we can see why. The country had an incredible 2021 as the most active venture capital scene in Africa, collecting more than $1.8 billion, or 34% of the $5 billion raised across the continent, according to Partech , a pan-African VC firm that also tracks investments.
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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.
Dataiku
MARCH 30, 2022
The last 20 years have seen staggering advancements in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). It used to be that “performing text analysis” meant reading hundreds of individual comments or documents to manually tag them and identify sentiment and key themes. Now, advanced machine learning (ML) models such as language transformers and dozens of sophisticated techniques for text preparation and enrichment make NLP one of the fastest-growing and most exciting areas of AI.
TechCrunch
MARCH 30, 2022
Dozens of startups in Y Combinator’s Winter 2022 cohort do something that could be described as artificial intelligence. Though the term has lost much of its meaning, it’s still an important part of the tech landscape, and both using it and enabling it are fertile ground for new companies. Here are 14 notable startups from the latest batch.
DataRobot
MARCH 30, 2022
This blog is meant to be a fun take on predicting Song and Record of the Year for the 64th Annual GRAMMY Awards. It’s that time of year again. The GRAMMY awards are right around the corner, which means that we have yet another opportunity to leverage DataRobot to make some fun predictions as to who will win Song and Record of the Year. Last year, Billie Eilish went back-to-back, winning Record of the Year for her smash hit “everything i wanted,” and H.E.R took home Song of the Year for her power
TechCrunch
MARCH 30, 2022
When Alex Zhou, founder and CEO of Yami, moved to the Midwest for college in 2007, he had limited access to Asian groceries and products. Zhou had to drive two hours to purchase his favorite Asian products at the nearest local Asian market. The experience inspired him to launch Yami , a direct-to-consumer marketplace for Asian food, skincare products, and household goods in the U.S., in 2013 after moving to Los Angeles. .
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“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.
Daffodil Software
MARCH 30, 2022
The industry standard amongst IT and cloud computing-based organizations dictate the need for rapid testing, deployment, and scalability of applications. At the moment, the best option at the disposal of these companies is container orchestration. The most popular and sought-after container orchestration tool in the market today is the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
TechCrunch
MARCH 30, 2022
Here’s a bummer of a statistic for you: Around 30% of bee colonies disappear every year. Scientists coined the phrase “colony collapse disorder” (CCD) to describe what’s been a devastating ongoing trend in the world’s bee population. No one issue has been identified, but experts tend to attribute the phenomenon to a number of culprits — many humanmade — including things like habitat destruction and pesticides.
Dzone - DevOps
MARCH 30, 2022
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams and Platform Engineering teams share similar goals, like maximizing automation and reducing toil, and similar methodologies. However, they have different priorities and use somewhat different tools to achieve them. What are SREs? What are platform engineers? How is each role similar and different? This article explains.
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