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Matter Labs scores $50M from a16z to bring zero-knowledge rollup scaling to Ethereum

TechCrunch

As some of the most popular cryptocurrencies reach all-time highs, plenty of new users and decentralized app developers are embracing the Ethereum network and quickly discovering that the blockchain remains a pretty crowded place to do business. Ethereum’s insufficient network volume limits have led to slow transactions and prohibitively pricey fees, but it’s a familiar problem for longtime developers in the ecosystem.

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B.Tech IT vs B.Tech CS – Which One is Better

The Crazy Programmer

Do you know which one is better for BTech IT and BTech CS? Most of you who are interested in studying technology is looking for a BTech degree. But there are various specializations in which you can pursue your degree. And from those, IT and CS are the two most demanding specializations that confuse most students. As both are great in terms of scopes and career opportunities, IT CS is a versatile specialization, IT is excellent for information technology study.

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Landing AI brings in $57M for its machine learning operations tools

TechCrunch

Just over a year after launching its flagship product, Landing AI secured a $57 million round of Series A funding to continue building tools that enable manufacturers to more easily and quickly build and deploy artificial intelligence systems. The company, started by former Google and Baidu AI guru Andrew Ng, developed LandingLens , a visual inspection tool that applies AI and deep learning to find product defects faster and more accurately.

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How Leaders Can Build Team Commitment – Fast

Let's Grow Leaders

Cultivate team commitment with answers to deep questions. Trust takes time, but sometimes you need to get everyone working together quickly. You can accelerate team commitment by focusing on critical leadership behaviors that answer key questions your team is asking. Start with Shared Purpose. Be Real and Transparent. Care for Your Team and Have Their Back.

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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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Fidelity, Visa and Kingsway back South African fintech JUMO in $120M round

TechCrunch

JUMO , a South Africa- and London-based company that offers financial services to entrepreneurs and businesses in emerging markets, has raised $120 million in a new round of funding led by Fidelity Management & Research Company. The round, which marks Fidelity’s first investment in an African company, also saw the participation from fintech giant Visa and London-based investment management firm Kingsway Capital.

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For Them takes in pre-seed capital to launch wellness products targeting the queer community

TechCrunch

For Them announced $2 million in pre-seed funding as it launches its first two products for the queer community: a breathable binder and multi-use intimacy serum. Chloe Freeman, an actor, producer and entrepreneur started the company last year after completing an entrepreneur-in-residence program at prehype. They previously founded a production company, Boycott Entertainment, that raised more than $1 million to date for underrepresented creators.

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8 Automated Testing Best Practices for a Positive Testing Experience

Toptal

Testing doesn’t have to be tedious. With these automated testing best practices and tips, software engineers can leverage automated tests to boost their productivity and make their work more enjoyable.

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Taiwan-based FunNow, an instant booking app, raises $15M Series B

TechCrunch

FunNow is a booking app for spontaneous people. For example, you can reserve a manicure or restaurant seat and head right over. As people start to spend more time outside their homes, FunNow is prepping itself for expansion into more countries. The Taipei-based company announced today it has closed a Series B of $15 million. The round was co-lead by Perfect Hexagon Commodity & Investment Bank and Ascendo Ventures, with participation from the corporate venture arms of PChome, KKday and Wistro

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Scaling Apache Druid for Real-Time Cloud Analytics at Confluent

Confluent

How does Confluent provide fine-grained operational visibility to our customers throughout all of the multi-tenant services that we run in the cloud? At Confluent Cloud, we manage a large number […].

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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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How China’s regulatory crackdown whomped Vision Fund 1’s returns

TechCrunch

SoftBank lost some investing preeminence in recent years as names like Tiger and a16z rose to new heights thanks to rapid-fire deal-making and eager willingness to prepay for startup growth. But as SoftBank continues to cut checks from its Vision Fund 2, we’re still seeing results trickle in from the time when the Japanese conglomerate was the world’s key startup backer thanks to its megasized Vision Fund 1.

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How Retailers Can Prosper in the Age of eBay and Prime

DevOps.com

It feels like a long time since the beginning of the pandemic, where once malls and city centers were alive with the footfall of customers and any service could be found across a counter. The landscape of consumer services has now changed irreparably. Online marketplaces, which have increasingly dominated much of consumer purchasing habits since […].

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Curated wants to be the expert in your pocket when making that next big purchase

TechCrunch

With seven weeks left in holiday shopping, e-commerce platform Curated aims to help you find the perfect pair of skis or golf clubs and is attracting additional capital to expand its offerings. Following a hefty $39 million Series B announced in April, the company secured a $75 million Series C in a round led by CapitalG. Joining CapitalG in the round are existing investors Forerunner Ventures, which first came in during Curated’s $22 million Series A round in 2019, and Greylock.

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Developer Familiarity is Key to Digital Success

DevOps.com

For some time, the goal of digital transformation was to replace legacy systems. It became a battle between all that was new and shiny and that which was old, outdated and “had to go.” However, this philosophy has since shifted as companies realized two crucial facts. First, legacy systems are often too important to be […]. The post Developer Familiarity is Key to Digital Success appeared first on DevOps.com.

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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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Equity Monday: Elon Musk reinvents corporate governance

TechCrunch

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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The Ins and Outs of OKRs

Agile42

Goals are what drives us, and creates a path to our success. Whether you’re a student, employee, or entrepreneur, you should have one big goal in mind that informs everything you want to achieve. But what do you do when you have identified the goal and know what you want to achieve? It’s time to break this goal into smaller parts and measurable outcomes, and Objectives and Key Results (OKR or OKRs) can be the perfect framework to achieve this.

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Mixing the personal with the professional in startup fundraising

TechCrunch

By the time CapitalG signed on for Webflow’s Series B, the no code web design service was already profitable — a rarity for an early-stage company. It was a good position for the company and investors alike. For CapitalG, it was clear that the startup was already on the right path. And for Webflow, it meant a bit of leverage and — perhaps more importantly — an opportunity to be choosier about who it brought on as investors.

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From TDD to PBT via Kotest

Dzone - DevOps

In this post, we see how to integrate PBT into your Kotlin tests. Introduction. I’ve been a big fan of Property Based Testing for a number of years, based on my experiences with ScalaCheck. It’s always been an annoyance that Kotlin did not support this testing style, at least to the same extent. There was some functionality in Kotest (formerly KotlinTest), but it paled in comparison to what was available in Scala, F# and Python.

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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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Sneaker fit startup Neatsy.ai gets $1M seed after B2B pivot

TechCrunch

Sneaker fit startup Neatsy.ai has snagged $1 million in seed funding after a B2B pivot. Investors in the round include Cabra VC, Flyer One VC and some unnamed business angels. The U.S. startup, which was founded back in March 2019 by Artem Semyanov (the former head of the machine learning team at Prism Labs ), is now fully focused on selling its fit-tech to e-tailers via an SDK.

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Microsoft Expands Azure DevOps Portfolio

DevOps.com

Microsoft has made available a bevy of updates to its DevOps portfolio that, collectively, are intended to increase its share of a wave of applications that will be rolled out across the extended enterprise. Additions to the Microsoft DevOps portfolio were announced at the Microsoft Ignite 2021 conference and include DevOps Workflow Generator, a free […].

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HawkEye 360 raises $145M to scale space-based radio frequency data and analytics

TechCrunch

The biggest players in the Earth observation industry use imaging satellites to deliver intelligence and analytics, but startup HawkEye 360 is taking a different tack. The company monitors radio frequency (RF) signals, like those emitted by marine radios or emergency beacons, on the premise that invisible electromagnetic spectrum is as ripe for information as the visible world.

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Digital CxOs Have a Home, as Digital CxO Joins the Techstrong Group Family

DevOps.com

Hello, and welcome to the launch of Digital CxO, the premier destination site and community dedicated to fostering collaboration among business and IT leaders driving digital transformation initiatives. As part of Techstrong Group, which also includes DevOps.com, Container Journal, DevOps Institute, Security Boulevard, Techstrong TV and the newly formed TechStrong Research Group, Digital CxO creates […].

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

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.

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4 ways to ensure Latin America’s growing pot of capital drives long-term growth

TechCrunch

Sebastián Vidal. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Sebastián Vidal is the chief innovation officer at Puerto Rico Science, Technology and Research Trust and former executive director at parallel18. Business is booming in Latin America: Startups raised $9.3 billion in the first six months of 2021, and the region has produced a record number of unicorns, including Nubank, Rappi and iFood.

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GitLab vulnerability exploit detected by AI

Darktrace

With over 30,000 unpatched GitLab servers remaining unprotected against the vulnerability tracked as CVE-2021-22205, Darktrace’s AI has detected several compromises that have resulted in crypto-currency mining. This blog explores how Cyber AI Analyst connected the dots and revealed the full extent of the intrusion in different organizations.

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Rent the Runway co-founder Jenny Fleiss and Volition Capital’s Larry Cheng talk early-stage fundraising on TechCrunch Live

TechCrunch

Rent the Runway is more than 10 years old now and has raised upwards of $500 million, recently filing to IPO at a valuation north of $1 billion. Jenny Fleiss is a co-founder at Rent the Runway and sits on the board of several notable companies, including Shutterfly, Party City and, of course, Rent the Runway. She’s also a partner at Volition Capital alongside Larry Cheng.

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The Ins and Outs of OKRs

Agile42

Goals are what drives us, and creates a path to our success. Whether you’re a student, employee, or entrepreneur, you should have one big goal in mind that informs everything you want to achieve. But what do you do when you have identified the goal and know what you want to achieve? It’s time to break this goal into smaller parts and measurable outcomes, and Objectives and Key Results (OKR or OKRs) can be the perfect framework to achieve this.

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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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India’s Zoomcar raises $92 million to expand its car rental marketplace to new markets

TechCrunch

Zoomcar said on Monday that it has raised $92 million in a new financing round as it looks to expand its car-sharing marketplace to many new nations and explore the public markets next year. New York City-headquartered SternAegis Ventures led the eight-year-old startup’s Series E financing round, the two said. Bangalore-based Zoomcar, which has raised $207 million to date, allows users to rent cars by the month, week, day or even hour.

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Reducing Costs and Improving Efficiencies of Your Log Management Investment

Dzone - DevOps

People’s involvement has been inevitable with log management despite advancements in ITOps. Log management at a high level collects and indexes all your application and system log files so that you can search through them quickly. It also lets you define rules based on log patterns so that you can get alerts when an anomaly occurs. Log management analytics solution leveraging Robotic Data Automation(RDA) has been able to detect anomalies and aid predictive models over a machine learning layer.

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How Many Organizations Are Led by “Data People”?

Dataiku

In our previous article on building a strong data culture , we outlined an ambitious agenda for change — recognize how the company makes decisions and what needs to be changed, embed business translators and data product managers into the organization, and build an ideas factory instead of becoming too attached to early experiments or models.