Thu.Nov 11, 2021

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5 ways to improve mental health for software developers

TechCrunch

Lorna Mitchell. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Lorna Mitchell is head of Developer Relations at Aiven , a software company that combines the best open source technologies with cloud infrastructure. With World Mental Health Day just behind us, I thought about how the tech industry can be a difficult place to stay mentally well. Working remotely, especially under unprecedented circumstances, can make a difficult situation worse.

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Article: Thriving in the Complexity of Software Development Using Open Sociotechnical Systems Design

InfoQ Culture Methods

The amazing progress made in technology has led to blindly following the technical imperative at the cost of the social and human dimension. Social sciences can help us create a work environment where people feel more at home and proud of what they produce. An organisation designed using open sociotechnical systems theory will be a more humane one where people are more engaged.

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Ro is in talks to acquire at-home sperm storage startup Dadi

TechCrunch

Ro , a direct-to-consumer health company valued by its investors at $5 billion, is nearing a deal to acquire at-home sperm storage upstart Dadi, per multiple sources familiar with the unicorn’s business. The deal would be Ro’s fourth acquisition in the past 12 months, along with Workpath, Kit and Modern Fertility. The deal is near close but could still fall through.

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Is Proof of Concept Approach Crucial in Software Development?

Dzone - DevOps

It’s a technique that we all love! PoC or Proof of Concept approach is a trend in software development to create a demo of a project in advance. It’s a fairly new method, especially when compared to old-school alternatives such as RFP (i.e. Request for Proposal). However, the big question to address is “ how essential is the PoC approach in SDLC? ”.

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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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Puls Technologies lands $15M to provide on-demand home repair service

TechCrunch

When you live in a home, something always breaks. And it can be difficult to know who to call and if you can afford the repairs. That’s where Puls Technologies come in. Now armed with $15 million in fresh capital led by Hanaco Venture Capital, the Livermore, California-based company, which offers on-demand home repair services through its mobile app, is also going after the home insurance market by launching an appliance warranty option for appliances like refrigerators, washers, dryers and oven

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Chilean proptech startup Houm raises $35M Series A to expand across LatAm

TechCrunch

Less than six months after raising $8 million in seed funding, Chilean proptech startup Houm has raised $35 million in a Series A round led by Silicon Valley venture capital firm Goodwater Capital. Fifth Wall also participated in the financing, along with existing backers OneVC, Elad Gil, Liu Jang and new investors Fen Ventures, Broadhaven and Rahul Mehta, managing partner at DST Global.

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Google Makes Fuzz Testing Integration Tool Available

DevOps.com

Google today made available a ClusterFuzzLite tool that makes it simpler to incorporate fuzz testing into a DevOps workflow. Fuzz testing refers to an automated software testing technique that involves providing invalid, unexpected or random data as inputs to an application to discover issues such as potential memory leaks. Jonathan Metzman, a senior software engineer […].

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Linktree partners with Shopify to allow users to add storefronts on its platform

TechCrunch

Linktree, the popular “link in bio” service, is launching a Shopify integration to give users a way to promote their businesses and products directly on its platform. With this integration, Linktree users can launch a Shopify storefront on their Linktree to showcase their products and services to drive more sales. The feature is available now for free to all Linktree users.

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4 Strategies to Manage Freelancers with In-House Dev Teams

DevOps.com

Remote workers are a growing segment of the global workforce. Freelancers account for a big part of that segment, especially when development teams need to bring in specialized skillsets for upcoming projects. Working with freelancers offers many benefits, but there can also be challenges when integrating freelancers with in-house teams. Here are four strategies to […].

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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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Demand Curve: How Zapier acquires customers via its homepage

TechCrunch

Joey Noble. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Joey Noble is community manager at Demand Curve. Your startup’s homepage should accomplish two things well: (1) Clearly explain exactly what you offer and (2) Convert visitors into active prospects. If visitors leave confused or your website isn’t able to convert, allocate the resources to fix it before worrying about marketing.

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Hacking season: Why Cyber Monday presents a cyber security nightmare

Darktrace

As ‘Bring Your Own Device’ (BYOD) drives digital convergence of our personal and professional lives, Black Friday scams targeting personal inboxes can easily spill over into corporate environments. This, coupled with an increased incidence of ransomware attacks over public holidays, is giving defenders plenty to think about this holiday season.

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Collectible card trading platform Alt raises $75M as it eyes other asset categories and preps its mobile launch

TechCrunch

When we last checked in with Alt back in March, it had just raised $31 million for its alternative asset platform — a platform, thus far, used primarily by those looking to research, trade and securely store high-value sports cards. Just a few months later, the company has raised a $75 million Series B from a roster of top investors and pro athletes, made big hires and is prepping to launch its mobile app, all while it starts to expand the scope of the alternative assets it covers.

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Data Theorem Adds Runtime Protection Enabled by Observability

DevOps.com

Data Theorem, Inc. this week added an Active Protection offering to its portfolio of application security services that makes it possible for DevOps teams to embed observability and runtime defenses in their applications via a software development kit (SDK). The Data Theorem cloud services are based on Trustkit, an open source framework the company created […].

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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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Flexbase unveils construction industry’s first credit card

TechCrunch

Flexbase is turning construction financing on its head with a new credit card — the industry’s first, according to the founders — that offers up to 60 days interest-free financing. The company, which develops automated payments tools for contractors and the construction industry, was started by Zaid Rahman and Hadi Solh to target small- and mid-sized businesses.

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A Popular npm Library Compromised in a Supply Chain Attack: What to Do

Aqua Security

In late October, a supply chain attack affected a popular npm library, ua-parser-js, which put many companies at risk of compromise. In this blog, we will describe the attack and outline a few ways that organizations can mitigate similar threats. This is an example in a growing trend of cyberattacks that leverage the software supply chain to access sensitive data and enterprise resources in the cloud.

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Here’s how Rippling, fresh off its Series C round, aims to center companies around ’employee identity’

TechCrunch

Late last month, Rippling , the now five-year-old company founded by serial entrepreneur Parker Conrad, raised $250 million in Series C funding in a round that pushed its valuation to a whopping $6.5 billion. Now, Conrad is taking the wraps off what had investors so excited about the outfit, which already helps companies manage their employees’ payroll, benefits, devices and apps, but which is adding an almost astonishing number of features to its existing lineup, beginning today.

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Prioritizing Scalability, Reliability and Security in Engineering

DevOps.com

As digital products and services are more deeply embedded in critical industries and infrastructure and the implications of problems grow in scope, engineering organizations are renewing their focus on building platforms that are scalable, reliable and secure. More importantly, they are recognizing that this isn’t the responsibility of an SRE or CSO, it’s an ethos […].

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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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Debt-as-a-service provider Sivo wants to power the next generation of lending startups

TechCrunch

A startup called Sivo wants to do for debt what Stripe did for payments: Make it as easy to access a debt facility as plugging into an API. And just as Stripe helped unlock a slew of new businesses thanks to the ease with which they could embed payments into their apps and services, Sivo wants to power a new generation of lending offerings. Early returns have been positive: In just about three months since launch, Sivo has received about $4 billion in demand and actually signed $1.5 billion in t

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Akamai Brings Web Application and API Security Together

DevOps.com

Akamai Technologies, Inc. this week launched a service that consolidates the process of securing both web applications and application programming interfaces (APIs). Amol Mathur, vice president of product management and strategy for Akamai, said with the launch of App & API Protector the managed security services provider is making it easier for IT teams to […].

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Framework raises $2M seed to create an ‘on-demand business school’ aimed at startups

TechCrunch

Business education is, let’s face it, finding it hard to keep up with a $3 trillion global tech startup economy that’s booming right now. High-growth companies are time-starved and so are their executives, but the courses they are offered are long, often boring, and varying in quality. Ideally, business education should be more on-demand, targeted, practical and byte-size.

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How to team up security and engineering on software delivery

TechBeacon

It has been observed that every company is now a software company. As such, more stakeholders are involved in the software delivery process; everyone is responsible for both code and data security.

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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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South Africa’s Root gets $3M, plans to expand low-code insurance platform to Europe

TechCrunch

Insurance lags behind other financial services in the adoption of digital technologies. Granted, a few unicorns have popped up from the modern digital insurance space such as Tractable and Lemonade; however , this sector hasn’t raced to the stage as quickly as say, payments or lending. With the global insurtech market worth over $5 trillion, there are different opportunities to be tapped despite the presence of large incumbents.

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Sustainable Happy Profit (Products and organisations that thrive)

Agile Alliance

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As valuations soar and IPOs accelerate, the public is taking on more startup risk

TechCrunch

With record venture capital totals , record numbers of startups worth $1 billion or more , and eye-watering revenue multiples available for private and public technology companies alike, you could be forgiven for having concern that we’re heading for a dot-com-style correction. The believers are not convinced. And for good reason, it turns out.

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Infinidat Named a Leader in Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for 4th Year in a Row

Infinidat

Infinidat Named a Leader in Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for 4th Year in a Row. Adriana Andronescu. Thu, 11/11/2021 - 13:30. Infinidat is fast becoming “the most talked about” enterprise storage solutions provider in the industry. The momentum is accelerating on the heels of being named a Leader in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Primary Storage for the fourth consecutive year (three years in the Primary Storage Magic Quadrant + one year in the 2018 Magic Quadrant for General-Purpose Disk Arrays

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A Tale of Two Case Studies: Using LLMs in Production

Speaker: Tony Karrer, Ryan Barker, Grant Wiles, Zach Asman, & Mark Pace

Join our exclusive webinar with top industry visionaries, where we'll explore the latest innovations in Artificial Intelligence and the incredible potential of LLMs. We'll walk through two compelling case studies that showcase how AI is reimagining industries and revolutionizing the way we interact with technology. Some takeaways include: How to test and evaluate results 📊 Why confidence scoring matters 🔐 How to assess cost and quality 🤖 Cross-platform cost vs. quality tr

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Oja bags $3.4M to build an online supermarket for ethnic products

TechCrunch

As investors continue to pour billions into super speedy on-demand grocery delivery — trying to dislodge the dominance of traditional supermarket giants via a hyper convenience lever (whipping up some local opposition to their 24/7 dark stores and delivery methods in the process) — other entrepreneurs are spotting opportunities to slow things down a little.

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A New Kind of Employee Experience

Ivanti

When you read the phrase “employee experience” (or even just good-old “user experience”), what comes to mind? One of the first things most of us think about, at least in an IT setting, is probably a system’s user interface. How hard or easy is the software to use? How intuitive is it? How appealing is its design? These are important considerations, but a good experience requires more than a good interface.

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CloudQuery gets $3.5M seed to build open source cloud infrastructure visibility tool

TechCrunch

As developers push code across multiple clouds, figuring out what infrastructure you own becomes a real challenge, usually involving writing custom scripts. CloudQuery , an early-stage startup, wanted to make it easier, and built an open source tool to do the work for you. Today, the company announced a $3.5 million seed round led by Boldstart Ventures with help from Work-Bench, Mango Capital and Haystack.