Career Advancement
JULY 19, 2021
“Change equals self-improvement. Push yourself to places you haven’t been before.” – Pat Summitt. The future workplace will require its leaders to have a particular skillset that allows them to be adaptable and effective within a climate of change. Recently, I shared insights on the most in-demand skills for the future that the leaders of tomorrow’s workforce need to develop.
TechCrunch
JULY 19, 2021
Yin Wu. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Yin Wu, a three-time YC alum, is founder of Pulley , which offers cap table management tools that help companies better understand and optimize their equity. More posts by this contributor. How to start a company in 4 days. I’ve fundraised a lot. Tactically, fundraising is a skill like any other. You get better the more you do it.
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Let's Grow Leaders
JULY 19, 2021
Your Favorite Leadership Blog Posts So Far This Year. One of the interesting parts of being regular leadership writers (we’ve been blogging here at Let’s Grow Leaders since 2012), is to see which of our leadership blog posts resonate the most with our readers and why. We normally wait until the end of the year to share the top 10 leadership blog posts of the year (you can see the 2020 collection here).
TechCrunch
JULY 19, 2021
Rappi , a Colombian on-demand delivery startup, has raised “over” $500 million at a $5.25 billion valuation in a Series F round led by T. Rowe Price, the company announced late Friday. Baillie Gifford, Third Point, Octahedron, GIC and SoftBank also participated in the new funding event. Previous backers include DST Global, Y Combinator, Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital.
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.
David Walsh
JULY 19, 2021
Dark mode has seemingly become the desired visual mode for websites and mobile apps alike. Dark mode is easier on the eyes, especially for those like me who like to burn the midnight oil by coding and reading tutorials. Unfortunately not all websites offer dark mode, so it’s up to me to remedy the situation. Though it’s not a true “dark mode”, you can use CSS’ filter to create dark mode of your own: html { filter: invert(1); }.
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DevOps.com
JULY 19, 2021
Quality assurance (QA) isn’t a new phrase for developers. Most know it as a staple part of the software process that is crucial for producing quality code. But throughout the pandemic, with extreme pressure for businesses to digitally transform quickly, it’s a discipline at risk of being dismissed by organizations and tech leaders as a […]. The post Why IT Should Focus on Quality Over Velocity appeared first on DevOps.com.
TechCrunch
JULY 19, 2021
Welcome to the city survey of Bielefeld, Germany, part of our ongoing survey into European cities. If you’d like your city featured, just fill in this form and add your city name. Once we have enough entries from a city, we will put your city on TechCrunch! According to local media reports , Bielefeld’s has experienced a tech boom in recent years, with accelerators like the local Founders Foundation (backed by the Bertelsmann Foundation) and Garage 33 (at the University of Paderborn) attra
Dzone - DevOps
JULY 19, 2021
Introduction. DevOps is always improving. It has become an integral part of any project no matter the size. How awesome would it be to find top trending DevOps articles in one place so that you can always stay up to date with the latest developments? We dug into Google analytics to find the top 10 most popular DevOps articles in June. Let's get started!
TechCrunch
JULY 19, 2021
Online learning continues to see a huge boost of attention and use in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, and today a startup building tools specifically for enterprises to deliver on their internal education remits is announcing a big round of funding that points to the startup’s own growth and ambitions. Go1 , which provides curated online learning materials and tools to businesses using “playlists” that tap content from multiple publishers and silos, has closed a round of $20
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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.
CEO Insider
JULY 19, 2021
The pandemic recovery is finally in full swing. But the huge increase in online shopping over the past 18 months coupled with ongoing supply chain disruptions across multiple industries means that many businesses aren’t yet in full control of their destiny. As someone on the frontlines of the retail and manufacturing industries, I have seen […].
TechCrunch
JULY 19, 2021
Kdan Mobile founder and CEO Kenny Su. Image Credits: Kdan Mobile. Kdan Mobile , a company that provides a wide range of cloud-based software, including AI-based tech for organizing documents, has raised a $16 million Series B. The round was led by South Korea-based Dattoz Partners, which will also take a seat on Kdan Mobile, and included participation from WI Harper Group, Taiwania Capital and Golden Asia Fund Mitsubishi UFJ Capital.
Cloudera
JULY 19, 2021
Meet Veda Kadam. She’s relatively new to the Cloudera family. She started her journey here in June of 2020 when she joined our first ever fully virtual intern program. Now she’s a full time employee working as a Software Engineer on our Data In Motion team. From an early age, Veda knew she wanted to work in the technology industry. Her father worked in pharmaceuticals and her mother worked in accounting.
TechCrunch
JULY 19, 2021
Music app Breakr this week announced a $4.2 million seed round, led by Slow Ventures. The latest raise follows $700,000 in funding led by Andreessen Horowitz’s TxO fund –a round the people behind the service considered a sort of proof of concept as they worked to get the idea off the ground. It’s clear why Breakr’s offering is an appealing one for investors.
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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.
TechBeacon
JULY 19, 2021
What keeps cybersecurity professionals up at night? That question has always been a scare tactic in a sales pitch, but lately I've thought there is something that really can keep sleep at bay: the Internet of Things. IoT can present some scary challenges for information security pros.
TechCrunch
JULY 19, 2021
Recapped , a startup building collaborative sales software, announced the close of a $6.3 million seed round today. The deal was led by Charles River Ventures. Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator, CoFound, AirAngels, Prime Set, Twenty5Twenty, Peter Kazanjy, Alan Chunk and other angels also participated in the round. Recapped was founded by Mark Fershteyn and Ujwal Battar.
TechTalk
JULY 19, 2021
By Derek Koretpeter A research blog post from Armorblox is showing that or vishing attacks (the term is a mashup of “voice” and “phishing”) are seeing a rise in activity. Vishing simply takes the concepts found in social engineering attacks like phishing emails and applies them to voice interactions. That shady man on the phone […]. The post Vishing attacks on the rise with newest campaign first appeared on GFI Blog.
TechCrunch
JULY 19, 2021
As more consumers embrace plant-based diets and sustainable food practices, Rise Gardens is giving anyone the ability to have a green thumb from the comfort of their own home. The Chicago-based indoor, smart hydroponic company raised $9 million in an oversubscribed Series A round, led by TELUS Ventures, with existing investors True Ventures and Amazon Alexa Fund and new investor Listen Ventures joining in.
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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.
Synopsys
JULY 19, 2021
Learn what cyber security activities are critical to building secure automotive software systems using ISO/SAE 21434 as guidance. The post Practical solutions for a secure automotive software development process following ISO/SAE 21434 appeared first on Software Integrity Blog.
TechCrunch
JULY 19, 2021
Commercial real estate tenants and property managers have to abide by strict liability rules that any vendor entering the property must have insurance certificates and meet other requirements. The approval process for this currently can take days and is still largely done on paper. Enter Jones. The New York-based commercial real estate startup is curating a marketplace of pre-approved vendors for tenants and property managers to find and hire the people they need in a compliant way.
The Daily WTF
JULY 19, 2021
There's a lot of room for disagreement in technology, but there's one universal, unchangeable truth: Oracle is the worst. But a second truth is that there's nothing so bad a programmer can't make it worse. Someone at Ben 's company needed to take data from a database and write it to a file. That file needed to have some specific formatting.
TechCrunch
JULY 19, 2021
Youth sports are an integral part of our communities, bringing families together and helping kids all over gain confidence and skills. Most of us don’t think about all the work that goes into setting up, growing and maintaining these leagues. It’s a lot. Today, LeagueApps , which aims to be the operating system for youth sports organizations, announced it has raised $15 million in a Series B round of funding.
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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.
Dzone - DevOps
JULY 19, 2021
Security Testing is an essential part of testing, every organization wants to do at least basic security testing before releasing the code to production. Security Testing is an ocean it might be difficult to perform complete security testing without the help of trained professionals. Some of the open-source tools provide automated basic scanning of the website.
TechCrunch
JULY 19, 2021
When Ashley Sumner designed and launched Quilt, it was meant to be a response to digital social networking, preferring creating authentic in-person interactions between people who didn’t necessarily know each other. The app would match members for in-person conversations and informal meetups in their own homes — but when COVID-19 arrived, the fundamentals of the model obviously changed.
CloudZero
JULY 19, 2021
Every couple years, it seems the tech industry mashes together different team names to make up the latest discipline — whether it’s DevOps, DevSecOps, AIOps, or most recently, NoOps. The names can seem eye roll-worthy at first.
TechCrunch
JULY 19, 2021
Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest private market news, talks about the coming week, digs into some recent funding rounds and mulls over a larger theme or narrative from the private markets.
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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.
Coding Dojo
JULY 19, 2021
Pre-Dojo : Worked as a delivery truck driver. Wanted more out of life and felt he had untapped potential. After. … Read more >>. The post From Delivery Driver to Developer | How Bellevue Alumni Joseph Lee Unlocked His Potential appeared first on Coding Dojo Blog.
TechCrunch
JULY 19, 2021
If you spent any time this year desperately trying to figure out what the heck NFTs are, you probably have Dapper Labs CEO Roham Gharegozlou to thank for that. His startup’s crypto trading card marketplace NBA Top Shot went viral earlier this year with users dropping hundreds of millions of dollars on digital NBA collectibles. At the end of last year, the Top Shot platform was averaging around $20K-30K in digital collectibles sales volume per day.
Dell EMC
JULY 19, 2021
If you need flexibility plus extraordinarily high levels of Tier 1 compute in the tightest spots at the toughest edge, the new PowerEdge XR11 & XR12 servers are perfect for you.
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