Tandem
AUGUST 9, 2022
Getting stuck on a problem is something Tandem developers and designers encounter often in their work, whether it be a messy codebase, a new pain point in the UI, or a wavering project team dynamic. Try not to feel defeated when you get stuck — instead, try some of our team’s most effective tips for getting unstuck: How to Get Unstuck While Coding.
CIO
AUGUST 9, 2022
What is a data engineer? Data engineers design, build, and optimize systems for data collection, storage, access, and analytics at scale. They create data pipelines used by data scientists, data-centric applications, and other data consumers. This IT role requires a significant set of technical skills, including deep knowledge of SQL database design and multiple programming languages.
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TechCrunch
AUGUST 9, 2022
Convertedin , an Egyptian startup that operates a marketing operating system for e-commerce brands, has raised $3 million in a seed round led by Saudi Arabia-headquartered Merak Capital. Other participating investors include 500 Global and MSAS. The company, in a statement, said it plans to utilize the funds for strategic hiring and further development of its platform.
CIO
AUGUST 9, 2022
In business, data science and artificial intelligence are usually geared towards powerful efficiencies and growth. User trust is often overlooked. This can quickly morph into a major problem, particularly when AI is introduced to support strategic choices. Data science and AI teams focus constantly on methodology and accuracy. This is critical, ensuring algorithms deliver valuable insights, analytics and support increased automation.
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TechCrunch
AUGUST 9, 2022
In this challenging fundraising environment, more startups than ever are turning to alternative financial solutions such as debt. Despite the negative connotation associated with debt, a startup should not view it as an act of desperation during downturns, as TechCrunch’s Kyle Wiggers and Alex Wilhelm have recently noted. Companies that have high recurring revenue and visibility into future performance — such as SaaS startups — in particular can benefit from debt financings, Alex poi
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TechCrunch
AUGUST 9, 2022
Spin Technology , a data protection software vendor catering to enterprise clientele, today announced that it raised $16 million in a Series A round led by Blueprint Equity with participation from Santa Barbara Venture Partners and Blu Venture Investors. CEO Dmitry Dontov said that fresh capital — which values Spin at $55 million post-money — will be put toward supporting growth, expanding Spin’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings, and growing the startup’s marketing,
CIO
AUGUST 9, 2022
Over the past decade, an ever-growing number of organisations have taken their infrastructure and applications to the cloud, delivering noticeable results impacting the bottom line and several other business metrics. This is why today, a cloud-first strategy is rightly recognised even by many non-IT corporate leaders as the catalyst for rapid digital transformation and a key enabler for businesses to respond to constantly evolving customer and employee needs.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 9, 2022
Social media marketing firm Hootsuite says it has slashed its workforce by 30%. “We need to refocus our strategies to drive efficiency, growth and financial sustainability,” CEO Tom Keiser said in a statement sent to TechCrunch. The company offered no specifics on what exactly is changing about the business. It did not disclose the specific number of workers affected, nor would it say if they received any severance.
Darktrace
AUGUST 9, 2022
The escalation of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine has led to fears of a full-scale cyberwar. In this discursive blog, analysts cover the most popular methods of attack in the conflict so far, some of the hacking groups involved, and the observations Darktrace has made in its own customer environments.
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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.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 9, 2022
When She Matters co-founder Jade Kearney launched her company while a graduate student at NYU, she was looking to train psychologists to be culturally sensitive to the needs of Black women experiencing postpartum depression, women often left behind or ignored by the medical profession. Since taking the company to TechStars at the end of last year, she has expanded on that idea to include a variety of problems related to Black women and postpartum health, partnering with healthcare systems.
DevOps.com
AUGUST 9, 2022
At the Black Hat USA 2022 conference, IBM today revealed it is making available a toolkit for launching simulated attacks against source code management (SCM) platforms. The toolkit was launched as a proof-of-concept. Brett Hawkins, head of adversary simulation for the X-Force Red arm of IBM Security, said the SCMKit takes advantage of the REST […].
TechCrunch
AUGUST 9, 2022
Jonathan Martinez. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Jonathan Martinez is a former YouTuber, UC Berkeley alum and growth marketing nerd who's helped scale Uber, Postmates, Chime and various startups. More posts by this contributor. How to run growth marketing during a recession. What to look for when hiring a growth marketing agency. You’ve managed to acquire a million users.
David Walsh
AUGUST 9, 2022
I’ve heavily promoted nvm , a Node.js version manager, over the years. Having a tool to manage multiple versions of a language interpreter has been so useful, especially due to the complexity of Node.js package management. One tip I like to give new developers is adding a.nvmrc file to their repositories. The file contents is just a simple string representing the version of Node.js the project requires: v16.
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
TechCrunch
AUGUST 9, 2022
Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but when it comes to getting ahold of an appointment for your hair or another treatment…that’s a different story: The bespoke nature of a lot of the work has meant that a large swathe of the professionals providing these services have stayed offline when it comes to interfacing with customers. But that is changing, and today, Boulevard — one of the wave of software companies that’s building a route to digitizing booking appointme
DevOps.com
AUGUST 9, 2022
At the Black Hat USA 2022 conference, CREST today shared a quality assurance verification standard to improve application security testing. The standard is based on the open source framework defined by the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP). Tom Brennan, executive director for Americas at CREST, said the OWASP Verification Standard (OVS) measures an organization’s […].
TechCrunch
AUGUST 9, 2022
Frederik Mijnhardt. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Frederik Mijnhardt is the CEO of Secfi , an equity planning platform for startup executives and employees. More posts by this contributor. Late-stage tech companies must do right by their employees: Reassess your 409A valuations. Inside Secfi’s 2021 state of stock options equity report. Last year was a record 12 months for the tech industry, with immense amounts of money flowing into both early- and late-stage companies as well as an all-t
DevOps.com
AUGUST 9, 2022
Observability has quickly become a major focus of enterprise DevOps. Yet tool sprawl and complexity can hold some observability initiatives back. The 2022 CNCF Microsurvey on observability trends found that 23% of organizations use between 10 and 15 tools for monitoring, metrics and gathering logging and tracing data. A full 50% also noted that engineers and […].
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Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 9, 2022
If blockchain, cryptocurrency, decentralized finance (DeFi) and web3 get your entrepreneurial motor running, do not miss our TC Sessions: Crypto daylong deep dive on November 17 in Miami. We have special launch pricing on passes and exhibitor packages, and you can save a chunk of change. But don’t pussyfoot around — supplies are limited, running low and going fast.
O'Reilly Media - Ideas
AUGUST 9, 2022
In a previous article , I wrote about how models like DALL-E and Imagen disassociate ideas from technique. In the past, if you had a good idea in any field, you could only realize that idea if you had the craftsmanship and technique to back it up. With DALL-E, that’s no longer true. You can say, “Make me a picture of a lion attacking a horse,” and it will happily generate one.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 9, 2022
The food service industry faces steep labor, quality control and sustainability challenges exacerbated by the pandemic. According to NSF International, a product testing and certification organization, more than half of quick-service restaurant (QSR) managers found staff turnover to be an issue for their business, with 20% saying that it had the biggest negative impact on operations within the past several months.
DevOps.com
AUGUST 9, 2022
GitHub has made generally available a two-factor authentication tool for the package manager for JavaScript applications maintained by its NPM, Inc. arm. In addition, all npm packages have been re-signed and there is now an npm command line interface (CLI) command to audit package integrity. Finally, GitHub has added the ability to connect GitHub and […].
Speaker: Dr. Greg Loughnane and Chris Alexiuk
Technology professionals developing generative AI applications are finding that there are big leaps from POCs and MVPs to production-ready applications. They're often developing using prompting, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), and fine-tuning (up to and including Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF)), typically in that order. However, during development – and even more so once deployed to production – best practices for operating and improving generative AI applications are le
TechCrunch
AUGUST 9, 2022
Product managers for software have a pretty thankless job — figuring out which features to put into a development sprint, how to prioritize what the developers work on and collecting requirements from internal teams, external customers and figuring out what the company can use in its marketing materials — it’s an endless game of balance and compromise.
DevOps.com
AUGUST 9, 2022
Confidence levels among IT workers have plummeted as tech teams’ jobs have become more complex. The reasons behind IT worker angst are unprecedented, signaling a shift paralleling other post-pandemic industries. Running applications across cloud and on-premises infrastructure, hybrid office environments with distributed workforces and the accelerated adoption of new and automated technologies have all contributed to […].
TechCrunch
AUGUST 9, 2022
It’s been just a few weeks since OpenAI began allowing customers to commercially use images created by DALL-E 2, its remarkably powerful AI text-to-image system. But in spite of the current technical limitations and lack of volume licensing, not to mention API, some pioneers say they’re already testing the system for various business use cases — awaiting the day when DALL-E 2 becomes stable enough to deploy into production.
thoughtLEADERS, LLC
AUGUST 9, 2022
Writing a problem statement helps you define your goals, boundaries, constraints, and assumptions when faced with a challenging project. . One of my favorite critical thinking and problem solving tools is a good problem statement. You should never just take a problem and rush off in a general direction, thinking you’re going to come up with a solution that will satisfy the needs of your requester.
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Just by embedding analytics, app owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework from Software Pricing Partners explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. You’ll learn: How to take a disciplined approach to pricing The three elements of the Packaging Decision Framework Ways to structure your new embedded analytics offering Download the White Paper to learn about How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 9, 2022
Online sales reached $1 trillion last year, and of that, $218 billion of merchandise was returned , according to the National Retail Federation. What’s more is that for every $1 billion of items sold, retailers incur over $160 million in returns. We’ve seen companies get creative — for example, Amazon teaming up with Kohl’s in 2019 for returns and Happy Returns partnering with retailers like Staples last year.
Daffodil Software
AUGUST 9, 2022
In an SDLC, there are several testing frameworks that help to assess if the application is progressing in the right direction. It could be in terms of usability, security, compatibility, performance, integrations, etc.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 9, 2022
Truework , a company that builds technology for mortgage and consumer-centric lenders to instantly verify the income and employment of borrowers, has raised $50 million in a Series C round of funding led by G Squared. Founded in 2017, San Francisco-based Truework integrates with payroll providers including Gusto, Zenefits and BambooHR, and enables mortgage providers and lenders (e.g. automotive, personal loans, and student financing) to verify and approve borrowers quickly within their own appli
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