TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Rebellyous , a startup that’s striving to build “a better chicken,” has raised at least $20 million in fresh funding, TechCrunch has learned. Based in Seattle, the venture-backed company calls its production tech the “most advanced plant-based meat manufacturing system on the planet.” Rebellyous aims to raise as much as $30.7 million in total, according to a public regulatory filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Revenue growth at Amazon’s cloud computing division, Amazon Web Services, continued to slow in the fourth quarter as enterprises advanced their cost-cutting measures, brought on by uncertain macroeconomic environment. Despite a 20% year-on-year increase in revenue, reaching $21.4 billion in Q4 2022, this growth rate is slower compared to the 27.5% and 33% growth seen in Q3 and Q2 respectively.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PST, subscribe here. Friday, cha cha cha! Fri-day! Cha cha cha! We’re doing a tiny, joyous, two-person conga line around our virtual Daily Crunch editorial Zoom meeting to celebrate the arrival of the first weekend in February. Yes, it looks ridiculous.

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Martin Fowler

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

I haven't posted much on my Mastodon usage in the this year, and that's because the situation has settled down for me. Reading-wise I check both my Twitter and my Mastodon accounts. I'm still posting to both feeds and intend to do that for the foreseeable future. I haven't yet done much analysis to compare activity between them.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Nature is healing, the tech show is returning to in-person events. I’m not sure I’m entirely over CES less than a month after returning from Vegas, but we’re already in full planning mode for TechCrunch’s return to Barcelona. We’ll be sending an extremely scaled down team to this year’s event, but while we’re in Catalonia, we’d like to meet with a few interesting startups.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

SunFi , the Nigerian clean tech startup that connects people and businesses who want solar energy access to payment plans that match their needs, has raised $2.325 million in seed funding. The self-described energy financial tech platform received backing from lead investors Nairobi-based Factor[e] and SCM Capital Asset Management and participating investors such as Voltron Capital, Norrsken Impact Accelerator, Ventures Platform and Sovereign Capital.

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Xebia

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

You start out really small, perhaps a Proof of Concept, a small app or data engineering pipeline. Or you want to go full Domain Driven Design, with all the bells and whistles? Sooner or later you will reach the point where you realise: I’ve created a mess, or at least, contributed to it. You change one thing here and ten other things start failing over there.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The venture secondaries market has been on the same roller-coaster ride as the broader VC market over the past few years, but it looks poised to break away in 2023. Like venture capital as a whole, the secondaries market was hot in 2021 as a bunch of new players — sound familiar? — entered the space as crossover investors and traditional VCs forayed into buying secondary stakes as a way to get into hot deals they couldn’t access primary shares in.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Show Up with More Executive Presence to Improve Your Leadership We often receive this question… “Hi Karin, my boss says I need more “executive presence,” but I’m not sure exactly how to DO that?” Such a good question! Receiving this feedback from your boss can be very vague…especially if the person asking you to step it up doesn’t define or describe what they are looking for.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

In October last year, Sendy, a Kenyan logistics scale-up, wound up its supplies service , which enabled retailers to purchase FMCGs directly from manufacturers, saying it was directing all its focus on its end-to-end fulfillment offering. Months later, the company is ceasing on-ground operations in Nigeria, one of its four markets in Africa. This means that it will no longer fulfill orders in the West African country, saying it has become “a fully-integrated tech solution” that will match online

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

What does it take to fuel human centered performance? In this episode, Jeannie Diefenderfer gives you what she found after conducting the Higher Ambition Leadership Alliance 2022 Study on How Human-Centered CEOs Fuel Performance. As a business leader who turns the challenges of modern corporations into profitable opportunities and with extensive experience as a senior executive in a Fortune 20 environment, Jeannie understands how to transform operations to focus on fueling human centered perform

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

I found an old leather jacket in the back of a closet recently. It’s a vintage item in fantastic shape — except for a huge tear in one of the front pockets. Two clothing donation centers rejected it, so I decided to see if it’s worth repairing. It was pricey when new, but with some attention and care, maybe it could find a second life. Vine, Twitter’s shuttered video-sharing platform that launched three years before TikTok, is much like my old jacket: Back in the day, it earned

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DevOps.com

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Azure migration refers to the process of moving applications, data and other resources from on-premises or other cloud environments to Microsoft Azure, which is a cloud computing platform and service offered by Microsoft. Azure migration can include migrating virtual machines, databases and storage to Azure, as well as re-architecting applications to take advantage of Azure […] The post Azure Migration Strategy: Tools, Costs and Best Practices appeared first on DevOps.com.

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As a SaaS leader, you know that the more metrics, insights, and analytics you add to your products, the more engagement you’ll have – and the stickier your product will become with customers. At what point do you decide to keep building your analytics in-house or invest in an embedded analytics solution? Read our Build vs. Buy Analytics guide to learn: Top 4 benefits of embedded analytics A quick cost comparison of in-house analytics development vs embedded analytics 10 considerations to help yo

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Information is power, especially when you’re just beginning your startup journey. Whether you’re in the idea stage or building on the friends-and-family plan or preparing to pitch investors, it’s imperative to understand the shifting VC funding landscape as you plan for future growth. It’s no secret that funding is harder to come by in this economy, and that’s just one reason why we’re thrilled that Kerty Levy, managing director at Techstars, will share her expertise at TechCrunch Early Stage on

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Kaseya

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Feeling like you’ve lost the spark in your work? If so, you’re not alone. However, with a few simple adjustments, you can find that motivation again to power through your tasks. Making small yet strategic changes can rekindle your passion for your job and improve your work-life balance too. Establishing clear goals and objectives and seeking new growth opportunities can culminate in creating a better work environment.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This week Natasha Mascarenhas and Becca Szkutak took to their mics to sing a duet about this week’s startup news. Just kidding! But we did highlight some fun companies raising capital and talked through some VC themes that look likely to be relevant throughout 2023.

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CloudZero

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

You know this already. Regardless of your size, you must keep up with technological developments in your industry — and, increasingly, in other industries, even those that seem unrelated. Embracing disruption can enable you to increase your market share, revenue, and profit margins.

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Dzone - DevOps

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Liquibase is an open-source database-independent library for tracking, managing, and applying database changes. It allows developers to version control their database changes and easily roll them out in a controlled and predictable manner. Kubernetes, on the other hand, is an open-source container orchestration system that automates the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.

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Synopsys

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

We examine the Log4Shell disclosure through the lens of the Black Duck Knowledge Base to understand how organizations respond to high-profile vulnerabilities.

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Dzone - DevOps

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Highly available and reliable Services are a hallmark of any thriving business in today’s digital economy. As a Service owner, it is important to ensure that your Services stay within SLAs. But when bugs make it into production or user traffic surges unexpectedly, services can slow down under a large volume of requests and fail. If not addressed in time, such failures tend to cascade across your infrastructure, sometimes resulting in a complete outage.

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Retailers are constantly seeking new ways to meet the ever-growing demands of their customers. In today’s digital age, customers expect a seamless and convenient shopping experience, whether they purchase online or in the store. With this in mind, it is crucial for retailers to consider the benefits of investing in technology that allows customers to access their order information online regardless of the purchase channel.

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Speaker: Shreya Rajpal, Co-Founder and CEO at Guardrails AI & Travis Addair, Co-Founder and CTO at Predibase

Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT offer unprecedented potential for complex enterprise applications. However, productionizing LLMs comes with a unique set of challenges such as model brittleness, total cost of ownership, data governance and privacy, and the need for consistent, accurate outputs. Putting the right LLMOps process in place today will pay dividends tomorrow, enabling you to leverage the part of AI that constitutes your IP – your data – to build a defensible AI strategy fo

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Dzone - DevOps

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

When I started working on this post, I had another idea in mind: I wanted to compare the developer experience and performance of Spring Boot and GraalVM with Rust on a demo HTTP API application. Unfortunately, the M1 processor of my MacBook Pro had other ideas. Hence, I changed my initial plan. I'll write about the developer experience of developing the above application in Rust, compared to what I'm used to with Spring Boot.

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Today is my first blog of 2023, like anything, a new beginning. Yesterday, I was on a phone call with a dealer friend of mine who was quite optimistic about 2023. This dealer was focused on transforming his dealership for electric vehicles and on consumer preferences that are changing the very nature of what an automotive dealership needs to deliver for consumers.

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Dzone - DevOps

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The 48th IT Press Tour had the opportunity to meet with Suresh Vasudevan , CEO of Sysdig. Their mission is to accelerate and secure cloud innovation. Falco is the open-source standard for cloud-native threat detection. It monitors system events coming from the kernel and supports hosts, containers, and Fargate. Workload security solutions built on Falco include Microsoft Defender for Cloud, StackRox, Sumo Logic, Giant Swarm, and several others.

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IDC

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

After surviving a year that brought us supply chain issues, record inflation, labor shortages, and massive layoffs, we are now faced with a tumbling stock market, a hike in interest rates, and an emerging recession. But as we have seen in the past, an economic downturn can be an opportunity instead of a threat. After [.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Four strategies to ensure you’re treating employees who disclose mental health challenges fairly.

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Dzone - DevOps

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Retrieving the page source of a website under scrutiny is a day-to-day task for most test automation engineers. Analysis of the page source helps eliminate bugs identified during regular website testing, functional testing, or security testing drills. In an extensively complex application testing process, automation test scripts can be written in a way that if errors are detected in the program, then it automatically: Saves that particular page’s source code.

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James Shore

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

In this weekly livestream series, I pair up with Ted M. Young, aka jitterted , to look at Nullables and A-Frame Architecture as an alternative to Mocks, Spies, and Hexagonal Architecture. Each episode combines a healthy dose of architecture and design discussion with hands-on coding. Watch us live every Tuesday! For details, see the event page. For more episode recordings, see the episode archive.

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