TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
Ralf Haller. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Ralf Haller is the executive vice president of sales and marketing at NNAISENSE. SaaS, PaaS – and now AIaaS: Entrepreneurial, forward-thinking companies will attempt to provide customers of all types with artificial intelligence-powered plug-and-play solutions for myriad business problems. Industries of all types are embracing off-the-shelf AI solutions.
Agile Alliance
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
How often in your working life do you or your team break your promises? Javascript promises are about committing to a particular action. But asynchronicity demands that they make no assertion about WHEN the promise will be fulfilled. When we are asked to make software delivery estimates and commitments, we don't get the same leeway. … Continued.
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TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
Sindhya Valloppillil. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Sindhya Valloppillil is the founder and CEO of Skin Dossier, a venture partner at Next Gen Ventures, a freelance writer and formerly a beauty industry executive and marketing professor. More posts by this contributor. It may not be as glamorous as D2C, but beauty tech is big money. We have been raised to believe in recycling, but it has mostly been a sham — only 9% of all plastic waste produced in 2018 was recycled.
Agile Alliance
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
This talk covers the following topics: 1) What, why and how and OKR - Psychological Safety check for Agile teams helped our organization 2) Quick tips and best practices to improve the Safety net for your agile organization MEMBER? PLEASE LOG IN. To view the content on this page, you must be a Member of … Continued. The post How a Psychologically Safe Working Environment Can Help Your Organization to See More Innovation and Growth first appeared on Agile Alliance.
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TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
Francophone Africa has its first unicorn, and if you’ve been following tech on the continent, you will be very unsurprised to hear that it’s coming from the world of fintech. Wave , a U.S. and Senegal-based mobile money provider, has raised $200 million in Series A round of funding. The investment is the largest-ever Series A round for the region, and it values Wave at $1.7 billion.
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TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
There are plenty of reasons why Vilnius, Lithuania’s capital city, has an increasingly visible startup sector. The country’s startup-friendly regulatory environment, a beautiful medieval town center, over 20 business hubs and accelerators and strong rankings in intellectual property production are most obvious at a high level. But what are the locals excited about on the ground?
CloudGeometry
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
A big side effect of the world’s new focus on work from home? Collaboration delivers leverage. Those of us who do software for a living are quite fortunate. Many of the habits we’ve learned in collaboration and wrangling a distributed workforce make a difference, particularly in the new work-from-home reality of Spring 2020. Lockdown and the pandemic, to paraphrase Mike Tyson , have punched us in the face with Everything-as-a-Service.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
Just like the automotive industry, aerospace has its sights set on going electric — but flying with battery-powered engines is a tougher proposition than rolling. Wright is among the startups looking to change the math and make electrified flight possible at scales beyond small aircraft — and its 2-megawatt engine could power the first generation of large-scale electric passenger planes.
DevOps.com
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
Last spring, we were inundated with headlines, tweets and Medium posts applauding the rapid digital transformation that businesses were going through—almost overnight—due to the pandemic and the shift to remote work. It made for an interesting feel-good narrative at the time, but it didn’t paint the full picture. Companies were thrown into the deep end; […].
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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.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
HoneyBee , a startup that aims to help companies provide access to financial support for their employees, announced today it has raised $5.7 million in equity in a round led by FFVC. Resolute Ventures, Afore Capital, Rebalance Capital, K50 and Financial Venture Studio also participated in the financing, along with two-time NBA all-star Baron Davis. HoneyBee has also secured a $100 million debt facility from CIM, an institutional impact investment manager that provides debt capital for innovation
Dzone - DevOps
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
To help you master DevOps and the key concepts in software delivery, we created this list of Top 10 must-read DevOps books. If you are a beginner or a veteran of DevOps, there is a book for you! 1) The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win. Authors: Gene Kim, Kevin Behr & George Spafford.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
Meetings are an inevitable part of the work day, but as workplaces became more distributed over the past 18 months, Vowel CEO Andy Berman says we are steadily moving toward “death by meeting.”. His virtual meeting platform is the latest to receive venture capital funding — $13.5 million — with the goal of making meetings more useful before, during and after.
DevOps.com
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
In my past experience as an SRE, I learned some valuable lessons about how to respond to and learn from incidents. If you want the TL;DR, I’ll summarize them here: Declare and run retros for the small incidents. It’s less stressful, and action items become much more actionable. Decrease the time it takes to analyze an […]. The post SRE’s Guide to Pragmatic Incident Response appeared first on DevOps.com.
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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.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
San Francisco-based startup Orbit Fab wants to be the go-to source for orbital refueling, and now it has raised over $10 million in its quest to get there. The money will go toward funding a refueling trial that’s due to launch as early as the end of 2022, in which the company plans to send to space two refueling shuttles that will repeatedly perform a three-step dock, transfer fuel and undock process.
DevOps.com
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
What does it take to power a successful DevOps conference? For DevOps World 2021, it all starts with the ‘engine’—the content. This year’s event, hosted September 28-30, brings more than 100 sessions divided into a number of tracks designed to teach, inspire and guide the DevOps industry to the future. The diverse lineup includes financial […].
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
Financial services, especially those for people who don’t have access to traditional bank accounts or lines of credit, are proliferating in Southeast Asia. Jeff App wants to give consumers a “super app” where they can compare many financial products and apply for them using the startup’s proprietary data-scoring models. For service providers, Jeff serves as a distribution channel, helping them find and retain customers.
Darktrace
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
When it comes to tackling the problem of ransomware, attack is the best form of defense. This blog explores how to spot the early indicators of ransomware, which can prove a pivotal advantage as the game develops.
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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.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
Brian Rothenberg. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Brian Rothenberg is a partner at Defy , a two-time former founder and growth executive. The “health” of a startup’s growth can be a strong predictor of how large and valuable it can become. Our generation’s most valuable startups have all sustained a high rate of user/revenue growth over an extended period of time.
DevOps.com
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
In advance of its ChefCon 2021 conference, Progress today unveiled a series of enhancements to its Progress Chef automation platform that includes managed services and a software-as-a-service (SaaS) edition of its offerings as well as tighter integration with cloud services and other third-party tools. Sudhir Reddy, vice president of engineering for the Chef business at […].
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
Peanut , a social networking app for women, initially found traction connecting women in the earlier stages of their motherhood journey. But over the years, the network expanded to support women through other life stages. Now, that will include menopause, as well — a life stage that will impact nearly half the world’s population at some point, but where opportunities there are few online communities where women can connect and learn. “We’ve been thinking about this life s
CEO Insider
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
The World is a Riskier Place: As the COVID-19 pandemic brought unparalleled disruptions to global, national and local supply chains across nearly every industry, supply chain resilience has catapulted to the top of the C-suite agenda where 93% of CEO’s are rethinking their supply chain operating models to become more resilient, responsive and agile.1 And […].
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TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
Warby Parker filing to IPO last week was one more sign that direct-to-consumer (DTC) is an extremely powerful e-commerce trend. But LA-based performance marketing agency MuteSix didn’t wait that long to build its business around scaling DTC brands. Created in 2014 and acquired by Dentsu in 2019, MuteSix was recommended to TechCrunch by Rhoda Ullmann, VP Consumer at Sense, a Boston-based startup building a home energy monitor. “They demonstrate best-in-class expertise with Facebook an
Tenable
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
Recently disclosed critical flaw in Atlassian Confluence Server is being exploited in the wild by attackers. Organizations should apply patches immediately. Background. On August 25, Atlassian published a security advisory for a critical vulnerability in its Confluence Server and Data Center software. CVE. Description. CVSSv3. VPR*. CVE-2021-26084. Confluence Server Webwork OGNL Injection. 9.8. 9.7. * Please note: Tenable’s Vulnerability Priority Rating (VPR) scores are calculated nightly.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
As developers look for ways to simplify how they create software, serverless solutions, which enable them to write code without worrying about the underlying infrastructure required to run their applications, is becoming increasingly popular. DigitalOcean announced today that it is enhancing its existing offering in this area with the acquisition of serverless startup Nimbella.
TechBeacon
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
Can we eliminate cybercrime? Probably not. But with the right level of international cooperation, it may be possible to greatly reduce it. The way that governments dealt with piracy in the 18th century might show us how to do this.
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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.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
Nick Psyhogeos. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Nick Psyhogeos is the co-founder of Fork , a startup with an AI solution that discovers career pathways to optimize the placement and growth of talent in the jobs of tomorrow. Managers are occasionally evaluated by their team’s occupational wellness — the sometimes-hazy calculation that rates employees’ professional and personal contentment.
Exadel
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
Read other Exadel articles about Agile approach. What is a Sprint Retrospective? The Sprint Retrospective is an integral part of the Sprint. Successful Agile software development can’t be done without an effective Sprint Retrospective. Let’s start with the definition of Sprint Retrospective from the Scrum Guide : “The purpose of the Sprint Retrospective is to plan ways to increase quality and effectiveness.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
After living through the global upheaval of the COVID-19 pandemic, many workers are re-evaluating their career path. Stefan Heinrich Henriquez, a former head of Global Marketing at TikTok and chief marketing officer at Cameo, is one of them. “I have been thinking about music since my time at TikTok, and I was really thinking about building something on my own, but then it took me another year to finally have the guts to do it,” said Henriquez. “Then when the pandemic started, I
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