TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
Kai-Fu Lee. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Kai-Fu Lee is a co-author of AI 2041: Ten Visions For Our Future. The global pandemic has heightened our understanding and sense of importance of our own health and the fragility of healthcare systems around the world. We’ve all come to realize how archaic many of our health processes are, and that, if we really want to, we can move at lightning speed.
The Crazy Programmer
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
Nowadays, several job profiles in the IT field allow you to work in an organization. Some of the two significant positions are enterprise architect and solution architect. Both the professionals are an architect in the broad term but still contain several differences. Hence if you were also confused about enterprise architecture and solution architecture, read this crucial article.
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TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
Flippa , an online marketplace to buy and sell online businesses and digital assets, announced its first venture-backed round, an $11 million Series A, as it sees over 600,000 monthly searches from investors looking to connect with business owners. OneVentures led the round and was joined by existing investors Andrew Walsh (former Hitwise CEO), Flippa co-founders Mark Harbottle and Matt Mickiewicz, 99designs, as well as new investors Catch.com.au founders Gabby and Hezi Leibovich; RetailMeNot.co
The Crazy Programmer
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
Both the WebSocket and HTTP are robust communication protocols, mainly utilized in client-server communication. In actual-time applications, it’s imperative that we need enough information from our reliable servers upon availability. So, fundamentally, the quintessential HTTP request pattern isn’t up to the criterion. The probable reason implies that the server will be silent until a customer seeks an update.
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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 20, 2021
Six-year-old Bangalore-based fintech Razorpay, which was valued at $3 billion in a financing round in April this year, has courted one more high-profile investor: Salesforce Ventures. Razorpay said on Monday it has received a “strategic investment” from the venture arm of the American enterprise giant. The investment will help the startup “further strengthen its presence in the business banking space,” it said.
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TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
Today, TechCrunch is excited to announce the 20 startups pitching onstage in this year’s Startup Battlefield. Selected from the most competitive batch in TC history, selected founders from across the globe will pitch on the virtual stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021. Startups will be competing for $100,000 in equity-free prize money and the attention of international press and top investors from around the world.
CTO Universe Submitted Awards Articles
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
Today, businesses of every shape and size are reliant on the Internet - even the smallest ones have at least a website for representation and advertising, while some are run entirely online. However, maintaining a company’s own servers is a costly and tedious procedure, which creates the need in cloud computing services.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
Fivetran , the data connectivity startup, had a big day today. For starters it announced a $565 million investment on a $5.6 billion valuation, but it didn’t stop there. It also announced its second acquisition this year, snagging HVR, a data integration competitor that had raised more than $50 million, for $700 million in cash and stock. The company last raised a $100 million Series C on a $1.2 billion valuation, increasing the valuation by over 5x.
Dzone - DevOps
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
One of the most important differences between the way most organizations approach software delivery and management today, and the way they handled it until circa 2010, is that application development and application management roles have blurred together. Whereas in the past developers and IT operations teams rarely worked closely with each other, collaboration between these two types of roles is commonplace today.
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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 20, 2021
FloBiz, an Indian startup that is building a neobank for small- and medium-sized businesses in the South Asian market, said on Monday it has raised $31 million in a new financing round as it works to broaden its product offerings. Sequoia Capital India and Think Investments co-led the 18-month-old startup’s Series B financing round. Existing investors Elevation Capital and Beenext also participated in the round, which brings FloBiz ‘s all-time raise to more than $41 million.
Dataiku
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
According to the O’Reilly book “Machine Learning Logistics” by Ted Dunning and Ellen Friedman, “90% of the effort in successful machine learning is not about the algorithm or the model or the learning. It’s about logistics.” Many of these logistics fall within the confines of machine learning model management which, without a crystal-clear process in place for, is bound to cause errors (or worse, failures) within a given project.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
Small businesses in the U.S. now have a new way to source home and lifestyle goods from new manufacturers. Bzaar , a business-to-business cross-border marketplace, is connecting retailers with over 50 export-ready manufacturers in India. The U.S.-based company announced Monday that it raised $4 million in seed funding, led by Canaan Partners, and including angel investors Flipkart co-founder Binny Bansal, PhonePe founders Sameer Nigam and Rahul Chari, Addition founder Lee Fixel and Helion Ventur
CEO Insider
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
Whether you’re back in an office setting, following a hybrid schedule, or still logging into work from home, you’re likely familiar with one of the more thorny aspects of what it means to be a working person: how to navigate interpersonal dynamics with co-workers. Unsurprisingly, this is one of the most common problems we hear […]. The post How to Navigate the Minefield of Interpersonal Dynamics at Work appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.
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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 20, 2021
Business, now more than ever before, is going digital, and today a startup that’s building a vertically integrated solution to meet business banking needs is announcing a big round of funding to tap into the opportunity. Airwallex — which provides business banking services directly to businesses themselves as well as via a set of APIs that power other companies’ fintech products — has raised $200 million, a Series E round of funding that values the Australian startup at $
TechBeacon
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
Speed is the name of the game for developers. That's why security isn't always a top priority for them—it's seen as a slowdown or blocker for developers whose performance depends on their velocity.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
Founders like to create companies around what they know, and Frank Westermann and Anton Kittelberger know diabetes. They met and bonded over both having type 1 diabetes — Westermann was diagnosed over 25 years ago — and started the MySugr app for diabetes self-management in 2012 ( they won a TC pitch-off back in 2011 ). Four years later, Westermann moved to the U.S. from Austria to introduce MySugr stateside before the company was acquired by Roche for $100 million in 2017.
Kentik
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
Latency is not a new problem in networking. It has been around since the very first connections were being made between computer devices. It’s actually a relic of an issue that was recognized as a problem before the introduction of the ping utility , which was invented by Mike Muuss back in 1983. Yeah, that’s approaching 40 years. The challenge with fixing the latency problem is that it is difficult.
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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.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
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.
Darktrace
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
When a cyber-attack struck a national sporting body one week before the start of the Tokyo Olympics, Darktrace was on hand to autonomously stop the threat. This blog breaks down the attack in detail.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
Picking up where we left off Friday , let’s spend some more time in the GitLab IPO filing. It’s going to be an IPO week, mind; Toast and Freshworks are set to price Tuesday after the close of trading and begin to float on Wednesday. Expect final notes on the value of each and reports on how they trade when they do. The Exchange will also try to get on calls with the CEOs.
Dzone - DevOps
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
For Kubernetes users, handling data management tasks and other analysis needs can become difficult with the inclusion of edge based devices. Internet of Things (IoT) as a whole is designed to complement online services for devices commonly used by people such as air conditioning units, speakers, refrigerators etc. To implement such applications, users can look forward to K3S- a fully reliable lightweight kubernetes distribution that hinges on a reasonably low memory footprint.
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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 20, 2021
U.S. technology unicorn Toast filed a new S-1 document this morning detailing a higher IPO price range for its shares. The more expensive range indicates that Toast may be worth more in its debut than it initially expected , a bullish sign for technology companies more broadly. Toast’s rising valuation may provide a boon to two different subsectors of technology: software and fintech.
Dzone - DevOps
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
Working within the technology industry, you've probably noticed a significant shift in software development approaches to process automation and DevOps practices. According to the DevOps Trends Survey 2020 , 99% of companies using DevOps practices and implementing the CI/CD pipeline have noticed significant improvements, such as faster release cycles and improved software quality.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
Earlier today, TechCrunch examined the new IPO price range for Toast. The U.S. software-and-fintech company moved its valuation materially higher in anticipation of pricing tomorrow after the bell and trading on Wednesday. It was not alone in doing so. Freshworks is also targeting a higher IPO price range, it disclosed today in a fresh SEC filing. The customer-service-focused software firm now expects to charge between $32 and $34 per share in its debut, up from the $28 to $32 per-share range th
CloudZero
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
As companies migrate to the cloud, they often overlook costs, instead focusing on innovation, speed, and flexibility. They assume the cloud is inherently cost-effective and less costly than on-premise infrastructure.
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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.
Dzone - DevOps
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
Business leaders are being forced to rework their strategies and relook at their offerings in the aftermath of the COVID-19 crisis. Gone are the days when work took place as an established practice. The pandemic has opened multiple Pandora’s boxes for every business. As the pandemic’s impact deepens, I take a look at the importance of low code/no code approach for IT applications which businesses can implement for a faster recovery.
Ivanti
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
Here at Ivanti, we are excited about iOS 15 and iPadOS 15. I ’ m pleased to share that we offer zero-day compatibility and key feature support across the Ivanti product portfolio for the new features built into Apple ’ s updated OSs. iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 bring plenty of new things to see and experience with a combination of security, user experience, and performance.
Dzone - DevOps
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
Web Applications’ dynamic, rapidly-changing, and business-critical nature pushes the limits of traditional test automation tools and open source frameworks. Changes to your application require changes to your tests. Not just for the new features but also for your regression tests.
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