Thu.Nov 04, 2021

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NextArch Foundation Launched to Focus on Microservices

DevOps.com

The Linux Foundation this week launched the NextArch Foundation to define frameworks and specifications that promote interoperability between microservices that span multiple cloud computing environments. More than 40 organizations, including Tencent, Arm, Kong and Ampere, have committed to contributing to 10 technology projects in 2022 in addition to frameworks for three vertical industries.

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WhyLabs raises $10M Series A for its AI observability platform

TechCrunch

WhyLabs , a machine learning startup that was spun out of the Allen Institute last year, helps data teams monitor the health of their AI models and the data pipelines that fuel them. Last year, the startup raised a $4 million seed round and today, the team announced that it has raised a $10 million Series A round co-led by Defy Partners and Andrew Ng’s AI Fund.

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5 Tips for a Successful DevOps Implementation

DevOps.com

More businesses are turning to DevOps implementations to deliver software and updates with more efficiency. As much as business leaders know DevOps can help them to be faster and more agile, many of them are unsure how to get started. Many businesses even begin implementing DevOps only to run into unforeseen problems that hinder the […]. The post 5 Tips for a Successful DevOps Implementation appeared first on DevOps.com.

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More SaaS companies are shifting to usage-based pricing

TechCrunch

Has usage-based pricing (UBP) gone mainstream? That’s the case OpenView, a Boston-based VC firm, makes in its annual Financial and Operating Benchmarks survey. Out of the nearly 600 SaaS companies which responded, 45% say they are using this flexible pricing model, up from 34% in 2020. The report, though, isn’t just about measuring how many companies adopt a trend that OpenView has been cheering for.

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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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No-code Is for Coders Too

Dzone - DevOps

There is a common misconception that no-code (or codeless) platforms and tools are only for non-technical builders. This, of course, couldn’t be further from the truth. No-code and low-code solutions are typically created by developers as a tool to speed up their own development process. This is particularly true of backend-oriented tools created to automate the redundant and/or trivial tasks that are common with setting up a backend.

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Shift your UI testing to sprint zero by leveraging mockups and AI

TechBeacon

Have you ever noticed that testing is always late? I do mean always late. Testing, in fact, delays software delivery. You have to wait for the testing to happen, fix the bugs, then wait again.

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Rivian hit with gender discrimination lawsuit that alleges toxic ‘bro culture’

TechCrunch

Rivian, the electric automaker that recently filed for an IPO , has been sued by a former sales and marketing vice president for alleged gender discrimination. The lawsuit alleges that Laura Schwab, a former sales and marketing executive who had a long employment history with Jaguar Land Rover and Aston Martin before joining Rivian in November 2020, was fired after reporting gender discrimination to the company’s human resources department.

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The Power and Potential of Stored Procedures

DevOps.com

One way of saving time when writing code is with stored procedures; prepared SQL code that you can save so the code can be reused over and over again. Stored procedures are a powerful vehicle for speeding up your code and giving you gains in performance. Stored procedures have many benefits—they can be easily modified, […]. The post The Power and Potential of Stored Procedures appeared first on DevOps.com.

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PubNub raises $65M to build and run data streams for messaging, presence and other real-time aspects of ‘virtual spaces’

TechCrunch

Data streams with continual, real-time updates of information are a critical building block of how apps and sites function today, and now a startup that has built a platform to power those data streams is announcing a growth round of funding on the back of strong growth in its business into a wider set of use cases. PubNub , which provides APIs to power messaging and data updates for apps and other digital businesses, has picked up $65 million, a Series E that the San Francisco-based startup wil

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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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The Most Common Blind Spots in DevOps Governance and Compliance

Dzone - DevOps

If you work in a highly regulated industry, audits are a fact of life. Yet somehow, even though you know they’re coming, audits never seem to get any easier for your development team. Why is that? In many organizations, auditing is still an arduous fire drill. If your team isn't sufficiently prepared for an audit, it can be disruptive and invasive for everyone — leading to unplanned work and delayed progress.

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Sama taps into $70M to build ‘first end-to-end AI platform’ for training data

TechCrunch

Products developed to manage artificial intelligence data are still largely fragmented, solving one problem at a time for developers, but not the entire life cycle. Enter Sama , a company providing high-quality training data that powers AI technology applications. CEO Wendy Gonzalez said the company is developing the first end-to-end AI tool for training data through machine learning.

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Spinnaker Meets Minikube: Part 3

Dzone - DevOps

In the previous posting, we build a Spinnaker pipeline to pull images from Dockerhub to deploy to a Minikube cluster. In this article, we will build a pipeline that deploys to a second staging environment after waiting for the go-ahead from an approval step. Kustomize will, furthermore, be used to illustrate how Spinnaker utilizes its built-in kubectl command to manage configurations from one environment to the next.

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As companies search for hourly workers, Fountain brings in $85M to assist them

TechCrunch

You may have visited some quick-service restaurants or other retailers in the past few months and noticed signs posted with shortened hours or not being open on a certain day. Dubbed “The Great Resignation,” the mass exodus of hourly workers over the past 18 months has now resulted in a competition for talent. So much so that companies like Costco are raising their minimum wage to $17 per hour, while Starbucks said it is going up to $23 per hour.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

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.

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Error'd: Lost In Translation

The Daily WTF

No, it's generally not nice to pick on people who fumble a second language. But TDWTF isn't here to be nice, it's here to be funny, or at least interesting. If nothing else, our final submission this week qualifies as interesting, after. you go haring off down the trail of ambient context following your kreiselkompass. We start with an anonymous submission from a reader who writes. "The English in this config dialog isn't great so I guess I'll play the game in the alterna

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Why LatAm’s fintech boom is more than hype and superlative venture investment

TechCrunch

Of all the startup markets in the world, fintech in Latin America is one of the hottest. Capital is flowing into the region’s financial technology companies at a slicing pace, leading to a wave of startups that are building private-market value at a simply astounding rate. The sheer volume of capital flowing into LatAm fintech startups may appear overheated, but several reasons explain why the flood makes sense.

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Java vs.NET Core: Which Technology is Better for Your Software Project?

Radixweb

We grew up hearing that we can’t have too much of a good thing. But when you need to develop a product and struggle to choose the right technology, you might not strongly agree with this old proverb.Developing a successful software requires a lot of planning and brainstorming. Deciding on the right framework is something … Continue reading Java vs.NET Core: Which Technology is Better for Your Software Project?

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Push it jumps to No. 1 on App Store promising a way to send push notifications to friends

TechCrunch

A new app called Push It is sitting at the top of the App Store promising little more than the ability to send “push notifications to your friends.” The app features only two screenshots — one of a big red button and another basic, black-and-red screen with text that says “sending.” So what is going on here? And how is this app No. 1 in five countries when many people who install it can’t even use it yet?

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How Embedded Analytics Helps Product Managers Exceed Their KPIs

Embedded analytics can help you deliver cutting-edge analytics experiences to your end-users that align with KPIs that are critical to the growth and success of your business. Read this eBook to learn how an embedded analytics platform, like Qrvey, can help PMs exceed the following KPIs: Growing revenue while improving customer retention rate Delivering rapid time to value Earning a high net-promoter score Increasing Gross Margin / Profitability Conversion rate from trial to paid Don’t just meet

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Automate Cloud VM Compliance with Cloud Provider Tags and Labels

Aqua Security

Ensuring and monitoring compliance and security best practices policies at runtime can often be a barrier to both broader adoption of cloud native technologies and moving more cloud native applications into production at scale. Cloud provider attributes — tags, labels, and resource groups — are useful tools for determining what resources are in scope for compliance.

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Neuro-ID takes in fresh capital to combat fraud from all of our taps, types and swipes

TechCrunch

Much of our days are built around digital experiences, and companies are increasingly looking for ways to unlock conversion and optimize fraud screening. Today, a startup that has built a real-time behavioral analytics tool is announcing funding as it sees demand for its services increase. Neuro-ID , an analytics platform capturing real-time customer behavior at scale for digital organizations so that they can see and understand the intent of their digital customer and identify the root cause of

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How to Choose an OT Cybersecurity Solution Vendor

Tenable

Hint: choose a leader in ICS Security. As cyberattacks in critical infrastructure, such as those on the Colonial Pipeline, make headlines, cybersecurity experts must address the risk that this esoteric environment poses to their company. Investors, board members, customers and employees rely on their cybersecurity managers to protect them. One of the most important aspects of protection is deciding how to secure critical infrastructure and the Industrial Control Systems (ICS) and Operational Tec

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iRocket and Turion Space ink agreement for 10 launches to low Earth orbit

TechCrunch

iRocket, a reusable rocket startup based in New York, has landed its first commercial customer. The company said Thursday it had signed a multi-launch agreement with Turion Space , a recent Y Combinator grad that’s developing spacecraft for orbital debris removal and satellite servicing. According to the terms of the agreement, iRocket will send twenty of Turion’s forthcoming Droid satellites to orbit across ten launches. iRocket is developing fully reusable rockets, starting with its Shoc

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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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Food Charities Create Networks of Resiliency with the Tackle Hunger Map

TechSoup

In 2020, one in five U.S. residents sought out food assistance. That was an increase of 50 percent from the year before, according to Feeding America. The increased need continues to be seen across the country as families contend with rising costs of living. But it's not that there isn't enough food to provide for those in need; it's a matter of getting the right food to where it is needed at food charities when the needs arise.

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Propelo raises $12M for its AI-driven engineering excellence platform

TechCrunch

The number of DevOps tools has increased exponentially over the last few years and, with that, the amount of data these tools can produce to help businesses improve their software development processes. But most of the time, this data simply ends up in a dashboard for some scattershot analysis. Propelo (previously known as LevelOps ) wants to bring order to this chaos and aims to build an “AI-driven engineering excellence platform” that brings together a set of machine learning-power

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CI for Oracle Visual Builder Applications

Flexagon

Oracle Visual Builder Cloud Service (OVBCS) is a cloud-based development platform that provides various features to develop and deploy applications within Oracle Cloud. In this blog, we will see how FlexDeploy can help with it’s out-of-box capabilities to provide more efficient ways for managing visual applications developed using OVBCS. With a few simple steps, we.

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Gwoop raises $1.8M for its esports training platform as it starts working with high school gaming leagues

TechCrunch

Earlier this year I wrote about Gwoop , a team out of Minnesota building a collection of browser-based games meant to help you get better at video games overall. Their games measure things like how quickly you react, how accurately you move the mouse or how quickly you can aim at a randomly placed target, then provides all those stats in a dashboard to show how you’re improving (hopefully) over time.

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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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Automate Database Unit Tests with FlexDeploy’s utPLSQL Plugin

Flexagon

Test automation is a key component of DevOps, helping IT groups ensure quality as they increase speed and velocity of releases. As more companies bring automated testing to their Database changes, the absence of a method to automate and monitor test executions becomes a major roadblock. One tool developers use to implement complex business logic. The post Automate Database Unit Tests with FlexDeploy’s utPLSQL Plugin appeared first on Flexagon.

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Via’s Tiffany Chu on the importance of govtech for planning mobility ecosystems

TechCrunch

Tiffany Chu, SVP of Via and co-founder and former CEO of Remix, had been working in user experience design at ZipCar when, in 2014, she decided to take a year off for a fellowship at Code for America. With her background in architecture and urban planning from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Chu had always been fascinated by the way transportation acts the lifeblood for built environments as a whole.

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Delivering Rare Insights with Graph Analytics Solutions

Dell EMC

Advanced graph analytics is emerging as a powerful tool for uncovering complex relationships hidden in massive amounts of data.