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What Is DataOps?

Dataiku

As analytics projects move into production , the rubber meets the road, as they say, and analytics have to perform and help create value. Timely data is a critical driver for this value. Without fresh data, dashboards are out of date, and there are either poor or no predictions from models, causing end users to lose trust. So it should be no surprise that an entire field exists to ensure that production data gets from point A to point B when we need it — it's called DataOps.

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Lamport Clock

Martin Fowler

Next distributed system pattern from Unmesh is the Lamport Clock. Distributed systems can't assume that time is consistent between servers, and sometimes time goes backwards. Yet it's important to have some way to order events. more….

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Vercel raises $102M Series C for its front-end development platform

TechCrunch

Vercel , the company behind the popular open-source Next.js React framework, today announced that it has raised a $102 million Series C funding round led by Bedrock Capital. Existing investors Accel, CRV, Geodesic Capital, Greenoaks Capital and GV also participated in this round, together with new investors 8VC, Flex Capital, GGV, Latacora, Salesforce Ventures and Tiger Global.

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Hybrid Clock

Martin Fowler

While a Lamport Clock is often necessary to order events in a distributed system, clients often need to know the actual times too. The Hybrid Clock , Unmesh's next pattern, combines these two demands.

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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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Autonomous trucking startup Embark to go public in $5.2B SPAC deal

TechCrunch

Five-year old self-driving truck startup Embark Trucks Inc. said Wednesday it would merge with special purpose acquisition company Northern Genesis Acquisition Corp. II in a deal valued at $5.2 billion. Embark takes a different approach to autonomous trucking: As opposed to manufacturing and operating a fleet of trucks themselves, which is the route rival TuSimple is taking, Embark offers its AV software as a service.

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This QR code startup just raised $5 million co-led by Coatue and Seven Seven Six

TechCrunch

Amazon revolutionized one-click shopping, and it has a nearly $2 trillion market cap to show for the effort. Now, a 10-person startup founded by JD Maresco, who previously cofounded the public safety app Citizen, says it plans to make it a lot easier for retailers who sell directly to their customers to make re-ordering their products just as fast and simple through its QR codes.

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Overcoming One-Size-Fits-All Budgeting

Agile Alliance

Agile transformations can easily be disrupted by a traditional non-Agile budgeting approach that contradicts the flexibility, adaptability, responsiveness, and nimbleness required by Agility. The post Overcoming One-Size-Fits-All Budgeting first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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In its first funding in 7 years, profitable fintech Lower raises $100M Series A led by Accel

TechCrunch

Lower , an Ohio-based home finance platform, announced today it has raised $100 million in a Series A funding round led by Accel. This round is notable for a number of reasons. First off, it’s a large Series A even by today’s standards. The financing also marks the previously bootstrapped Lower’s first external round of funding in its seven-year history.

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Summary of the US Innovation and Competition Act of 2021 (USICA): Bipartisan, Bicameral Legislation For Action

CTOvision

The United States Innovation and Competition Act of 2021 (USICA), formerly known as the Endless Frontier Act, passed into law on 8 June 2021. It authorizes $110 Billion for basic and advanced technology research over a five year period. It includes investment in: Artificial intelligence and machine learning High performance computing, semiconductors, and advanced computer […].

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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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How many lives does bitcoin have?

TechCrunch

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. For this week’s deep dive Danny , Alex , and a bunch of the TechCrunch crew took on the recent happenings in the world of bitcoin. In a break from our regular format, we recorded live from a Twitter Space — it’s like a Clubhouse, but closer to where your social network is — so the audio quality is not going to be Utterly Perfect.

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Purpose-Driven Change Begins with Finding Your ‘Yes’

CEO Insider

Being an entrepreneur, or as I like to consider myself—a serial entrepreneur, one that has tons of ideas—I have to be a dreamer. I’m a dreamer who starts up a company and goes sailing with it. And then I have another dream. And then, another and another. The key is staying focused and that means […]. The post Purpose-Driven Change Begins with Finding Your ‘Yes’ appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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Investors’ thirst for growth could bode well for SentinelOne’s IPO

TechCrunch

Turning the page from the early-stage venture capital market to the super late-stage exit market, this morning we’re talking about endpoint security company SentinelOne’s IPO in the context of Sprinklr’s own. We’ll have more on the public offering market later today when Doximity and Confluent price their respective IPOs after the close of trading.

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How to Approach Writing an Interpreter From Scratch

Toptal

How source code becomes a running program is often opaque: "Just run the compiler" is all that developers normally need to know. Writing an interpreter from scratch—including its lexer and parser—is an illuminating challenge.

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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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Aircall raises $120 million for its cloud-based phone system

TechCrunch

Aircall has raised a $120 million Series D round led by Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Following today’s funding round, the company has reached unicorn status, which means it has a valuation above $1 billion — this is the 16th French unicorn. The startup has been building a cloud-based phone system for call centers, support lines and sales teams. It integrates with Salesforce, HubSpot, Zendesk, Slack, Intercom and other popular CRM, support and communication systems.

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The Data Dilemma and Its Impact on AI in Healthcare and Life Sciences

IDC

Discover the challenges in AI adoption and implementation for healthcare and life science organizations during the industry's recent digital transformation.

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Before an exit, founders must get their employment law ducks in a row

TechCrunch

Rob Hudock. Contributor. Rob Hudock is an experienced litigator focusing his 20-plus years in practice on helping companies recruit the best talent available while avoiding distracting workplace issues or lawsuits. Successfully selling a business has much to do with timing. For many entrepreneurs, it’s the high-stakes end game where they cash out and reap the rewards of their efforts.

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Hand Labeling Considered Harmful

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

We are traveling through the era of Software 2.0 , in which the key components of modern software are increasingly determined by the parameters of machine learning models, rather than hard-coded in the language of for loops and if-else statements. There are serious challenges with such software and models, including the data they’re trained on, how they’re developed, how they’re deployed, and their impact on stakeholders.

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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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Dear Sophie: What options would allow me to start something on my own?

TechCrunch

Sophie Alcorn. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” She connects people with the businesses and opportunities that expand their lives. More posts by this contributor. Dear Sophie: Is it possible to expand our startup in the US?

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Saxo Bank’s Best Practices for a Distributed Domain-Driven Architecture Founded on the Data Mesh

Confluent

Al data til folket (all data to the people) is a compelling proposition in an enterprise context. Yet the ability to quickly address integration challenges and deliver data to those […].

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Product design expert Scott Tong will join us at TC Early Stage in July

TechCrunch

Thoughtful and high-quality product design is no longer optional. Gone are the days that a startup could launch with a bare-bones app or website. The demand side of the design equation has only grown — consumers are used to beautiful, intuitive products — while the supply side is struggling to keep up. How are startups supposed to educate themselves in product design, hire the right people for those positions and think about product design as a core piece of their business?

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Some Technical Debt is Self-Resolving

DevOps.com

But don’t count on it. Fellow DevOps.com contributor Bill Doerrfeld recently wrote, “Enterprises Face Growing Technical Debt,” a great article about trends in technical debt, and it got me thinking about some of the things that have been going on in the industry over the last few years. As I’ve mentioned before, the changes underlying […].

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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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6 strategies for running more effective startup board meetings

TechCrunch

Sylvain Kalache. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Sylvain Kalache is the co-founder of Holberton , an edtech company training digital talent in more than 10 countries. An entrepreneur and software engineer, he has worked in the tech industry for more than a decade. Part of the team that led SlideShare to be acquired by LinkedIn, he has written for CIO and VentureBeat.

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AppSec Marketing in the Age of DevSecOps

DevOps.com

A while back, I had a conversation with a friend I went to school with (currently a senior member of the engineering team at a large retail chain) who was tasked with the job of identifying potential application security partners (he addressed vendors as partners, which I personally liked) to collaborate with on various areas […]. The post AppSec Marketing in the Age of DevSecOps appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Emergence’s Lotti Siniscalco and Retail Zipline’s Melissa Wong will join us on Extra Crunch Live

TechCrunch

For all that’s said about fundraising and working alongside investors, rarely do we get to see founders and their investors in candid conversation with one another. Extra Crunch Live is changing that. On the weekly live show, we sit down with founders and the VCs who funded them to talk about how they came together on the deal, what stood out about the other party that led to their commitment and how they operate today.

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Hasura Extends Scope of GraphQL API Platform

DevOps.com

During its online an HasuraCon ’21 conference, Hasura today announced that it has made it possible for developers to employ GraphQL application programming interface (APIs) to launch queries against data residing in multiple databases. At the same time, Hasura announced a preview of schema sharing capabilities along with support for workflows based on GitOps processes […].

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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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Healthcare Product Development: Addressing Two Unique User Groups

Toptal

Engaging with patients and clinicians in the healthcare product development process is vital to creating truly useful products. Finding the balance between these two user groups can be tricky, however, as each has unique needs and considerations.

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What is Python used for?

Coding Dojo

What is Python used for? Over the last few years, Python has become increasingly popular. And in 2021, it was … Read more >>. The post What is Python used for? appeared first on Coding Dojo Blog.

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Why and How to Budget for Your Website and Digital Communications

TechSoup

With the limited budgets that many nonprofits struggle with, prioritizing initiatives like marketing and website development can seem nonessential. However, there are many benefits to implementing a growth-driven approach to modernizing your marketing and website strategies.

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