Hacker Earth Developers Blog
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
Hackathons > Lessons from running 200 remote hackathons. Scene from the movie ‘The Social Network.’. A room full of boisterous Harvard undergrads. In the center: a small group of coders hunched over their laptops, typing away at warp speed. Jesse Heisenberg’s character, Mark, explaining to a perplexed Eduardo (Andrew Garfield) that he had walked right into Facebook’s first-ever hackathon.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
This week, flexible workspace operator (and one-time unicorn) Knotel announced it had filed for bankruptcy and that its assets were being acquired by investor and commercial real estate brokerage Newmark for a reported $70 million. Knotel designed, built and ran custom headquarters for companies. It then managed the spaces with “flexible” terms. In March 2020, it was reportedly valued at $1.6 billion.
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Let's Grow Leaders
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
You know the cliches: it’s lonely at the top. Leadership is a lonely business. In this episode, David shares a challenging situation where he felt very alone – and what happened that convinced him you’re never as alone as you might feel. […]. The post Leadership Doesn’t Have to Be Lonely appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
When Laura Wittig and Liza Moiseeva met as guests on a podcast about sustainable fashion, they jibed so well together that they began one of their own: Good Together. Their show’s goal was to provide listeners with a place to learn how to be eco-conscious consumers, but with baby steps. Wittig thinks the non-judgmental environment (one that doesn’t knock on a consumer for not being zero-waste overnight) is the show’s biggest differentiator.
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Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.
Xebia
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
Most threat model approaches (like e.g. STRIDE) assume you have a technical overview like a Data Flow Diagram. An interesting question therefore is; can you threat model when there is no such thing available? A common situation would be when your are forming an epic, but as an exercise let’s take a legal contract or […]. The post Threat modeling without a diagram appeared first on Xebia Blog.
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TechBeacon
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
To achieve the high-velocity goals of digital transformation, you need to improve your organization's ability to consistently deliver customer value through shared processes.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
BeGreatTV , an online education platform featuring Black and brown instructors, recently closed a $450K pre-seed round from Stand Together Ventures Lab, Arlan Hamilton, Tiffany Haddish and others. The goal with BeGreatTV is to enable anyone to learn from talented Black and brown innovators and leaders, founder and CEO Cortney Woodruff told TechCrunch. “When you think of being a Black or brown person or individual who wants to learn from a Black or brown person, there’s nothing that really
Xebia
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
Here we are. A fresh new year is beginning. Hopefully you were able to take a rest during the Christmas break. Typically, this period offers room for reflection. To not only think about what has happened, but also about what is yet to come. So, have you been making plans for 2021? And if so, […]. The post Reaching your objectives while handling the complexity of the organization appeared first on Xebia Blog.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
Robinhood has shown an impressive ability to raise enormous amounts of capital in the past few weeks to ensure it has the funds needed to allow users to trade and, presumably, provide it with enough cash until it goes public. Raising $3.4 billion so quickly is an extraordinary feat. But how the company managed to get investors to wire money with such alacrity has been a curiosity; what about Robinhood was so compelling that giving it a multi-billion dollar injection was such an obvious decision?
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IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d
DevOps.com
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
Mainframes are still in high demand and continue to be critical to modern IT strategies because of their power, security and reliability. The 2020 Mainframe Market Pulse Survey, conducted by Forrester and commissioned by Deloitte Consulting, dives into the role of the mainframe as a strategic component to hybrid cloud environments. Forrester interviewed 261 business […].
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
Tickr , an app that allows U.K. consumers to make financial investments based on their impact on society and the environment, has secured £2.5 million ($3.4 million) in funding lead by Ada Ventures , a VC which focuses on “impact” startups. The cash will be used for product development, expanding the user base, and eventually taking Tickr into other European countries from its current U.K. base.
Dataiku
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
Security is important, but it is also an uncomfortable topic, because it can’t be covered by one tool alone, and it’s also not easy to put a price tag on it. Usually, security measures mean extra effort instead of easy access. In daily life, this could be additional locks on doors and windows and more keys to schlep around. But the best locks are useless when you leave the balcony door open, either by accident or to get in more easily yourself.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
Twinco Capital , a Madrid and Amsterdam-based startup making it easier to access supply chain finance, has raised €3 million in funding. Leading the round is Spanish VC fund Mundi Ventures, with participation from previous backer Finch Capital and several unnamed angels. Twinco Capital also has a debt facility with the Spanish investment bank EBN Banco de Negocios, which is common for any type of lending company.
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.
Dzone - DevOps
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
"Docker builds images automatically by reading the instructions from a Dockerfile -- a text file that contains all commands, in order, needed to build a given image.". The explanation above was extracted from Docker’s official docs and summarizes what a Dockerfile is for. Dockerfiles are important to work with because they are our blueprint, our record of layers added to a Docker base image.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
Before he was a partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, Gaurav Gupta had his eye on Grafana Labs, the company that supports open-source analytics platform Grafana. But Raj Dutt, Grafana’s co-founder and CEO, played hard to get. This week on Extra Crunch Live , the duo explained how they came together for Grafana’s Series A — and eventually, its Series B.
Flexagon
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
In this blog article, we will be looking at how the release management of Oracle Data Integrator Deployment Archives has been simplified by FlexDeploy. ODI 12.2.1 introduced a new concept called Deployment Archives, which acts as a vehicle to promote various objects from one environment to another. While the introduction of Deployment Archives gives users.
DevOps.com
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced this week that the Open Policy Agent (OPA) project, which many IT teams are employing to manage compliance as code, has officially graduated. Torin Sandall, co-founder of the OPA project and vice president of open source at Styra, whose compliance management platform is based on OPA, said formal […].
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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.
Flexagon
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
FlexDeploy includes an out-of-box integration with a popular tool in the development toolchain – Azure DevOps! This article will focus on Azure Boards and Azure Repos, but FlexDeploy also integrates natively with Azure Key Vault. Azure Repos FlexDeploy’s integration with Azure DevOps goes beyond the basics, focusing on the use of webhooks to ease the.
Dzone - DevOps
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
It’s amazing how much we can get done by automating business processes. Whether it’s augmenting human labor, reducing risks, or making customers happy, when we do automation right, we can make big things happen in any organization.
Flexagon
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
Today I will describe the process of deploying ODI objects such as scenarios, datastores, packages, and sequences with FlexDeploy. We will source ODI objects (XML files) from a Git repository and import using Oracle’s OdiImportObject command. We will start from the beginning to show how you configure the build and deploy workflows, your topology, and.
DevOps.com
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
NEW YORK, FEB 5, 2021 – Women in Tech is thrilled to announce its Silver partnership with EPAM Systems, Inc., a leading global provider of digital platform engineering and development services. With more than 50,000 members worldwide, they’re accelerating the fight to close the gender gap and empower women by helping them embrace technology. Women […].
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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.
Flexagon
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
Good UX is critical to the success of any application. UX covers User interface and Usability among other aspects. At Flexagon, we understand the importance of UX, and regularly deliver improvements to make the user experience better and more intuitive. So here we present to you the top 12 FlexDeploy UX improvements delivered in the. The post Top 12 FlexDeploy UX Improvements in the Last Year appeared first on Flexagon.
TechSoup
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
In 2021, we expect to see the digital landscape continue to change as our ways of communication and connection settle back into a new normal. For that reason, we can expect social media to take an even more central role in nonprofits' ability to build, engage, and leverage their communities.
DevOps.com
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
Lightstep this week announced general availability of a Change Intelligence observability platform based on a time-series database that is capable of processing a trillion events each day. Ben Sigelman, Lightstep’s CEO, said as IT environments become more complex, thanks to the rise of microservices and cloud-native computing platforms, existing monitoring and observability tools will not […].
Dzone - DevOps
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
As digitalization takes over, there are more and more serverless applications on the market. If you choose to develop a serverless application, you don’t have to spend money on infrastructure, own room for it, or hire a team for server maintenance. There are a lot of cloud providers that offer the necessary tools for developing such applications. One of them is AWS, the leader in cloud computing with various services in one place.
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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.
DevOps.com
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
Recognition highlights the importance of surfacing actionable insights from observability data across the full cloud stack February 04, 2021 09:00 AM Eastern Standard Time SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Moogsoft, the AI-driven observability leader, today announced that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named Moogsoft as one of its 100 Coolest Cloud Companies for 2021.
Gorilla Logic
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
Much like a pod of whales or a pack of wolves, did you know that a group of gorillas is called a band? In this blog series, we’re going to introduce you to members of our band—engineers, technical recruiters, PMs, designers, and more who make up the most important asset in Gorilla Logic…our talent! Are you Gorilla material? Join the band today! Arturo Ramirez Valverde — Senior Web Developer.
Altexsoft
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
This is a guest article by Gabriela Molina from DistantJob. A report by WSJ tells the story of a data breach on Capital One’s server hosted on AWS (a cloud platform). The hacker broke through the bank’s firewall and stole the financial data of more than 100 million customers. The company remained unaware of this breach until months later when a good Samaritan pointed them in the direction of a GitHub repository where the hacker had deposited their data.
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