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Kudos, with its cotton-based, eco-friendly diaper, soaks up $2.4 million in seed funding

TechCrunch

If you’ve experienced parenthood, you’re well versed in the surprisingly small world of disposable diapers. Help may be on the way. Kudos , a startup that is looking to reinvent the disposable diaper with sustainability in mind, announced the close of a $2.4 million seed round of financing today. Investors include Foundation Capital, XFund, PJC, Precursor Ventures, Liquid 2 Ventures, SV Angel, Underscore VC, Alpha Bridge Ventures, April Underwood and more.

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Then and Now: The Evolution of DevOps Culture

DevOps.com

There are many available resources dedicated to delivering better business value faster. Based on this advice, many organizations and teams are adopting common software delivery practices — even outside the usual use case of providing software (take, for example, SpaceX teams using agile, or leadership teams that use scrum practices and have daily stand-up calls). […].

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Molecule.one grows its drug synthesis AI platform with a $4.6M seed round

TechCrunch

Polish computational chemistry outfit Molecule.one has raised $4.6M to expand its quest to bring theoretical drug molecules to reality. Its machine learning systems predict the best ways to synthesize potentially valuable molecules, a crucial part of creating new drugs and treatments. Molecule.one went on stage at Disrupt SF 2019’s Startup Battlefield , where they explained the difficulty faced by the drug discovery industry, basically that they come up with lots of theoretical treatments

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How IT Can Use AI To Prepare For Uncertainty

DevOps.com

The past year has been unpredictable for businesses – from migrating to remote work to planning for a return to offices to keeping pace with shifting government guidelines. With so much in flux, it was and is a good reminder that organizations must be prepared for the unexpected and have contingency plans in place. From […]. The post How IT Can Use AI To Prepare For Uncertainty appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

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.

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Sprinklr’s IPO filing shows uneven cash flow but modest growth

TechCrunch

Another week, another unicorn IPO. This time, Sprinklr is taking on the public markets. The New York-based software company works in what it describes as the customer experience market. After attracting over $400 million in capital while private , its impending debut will not only provide key returns to a host of venture capitalists but also more evidence that New York’s startup scene has reached maturity. ( More evidence here.).

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Unit tests an easier way for workers to organize

TechCrunch

Work looks wildly different today than it did a year ago. In tech, every bit of the workplace has been tweaked to fit our new remote world. From scaling accountability and onboarding remotely to figuring out what old perks can be made socially distant — myriad decisions have been made at the hands of the employers. An early-stage startup thinks it’s time to give some of that decision-making power back to employees, too.

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Turning the page

Cloudera

Today marks the beginning of an exciting new chapter for Cloudera. Cloudera will become a private company with the flexibility and resources to accelerate product innovation, cloud transformation and customer growth. Cloudera will benefit from the operating capabilities, capital support and expertise of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) and KKR – two of the most experienced and successful global investment firms in the world recognized for supporting the growth strategies of the businesses

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Venrock’s Camille Samuels is joining us to judge Startup Battlefield at Disrupt 2021

TechCrunch

The team at TechCrunch is preparing for another epic Startup Battlefield competition this year at Disrupt 2021 on September 21-23 and we’re assembling a superstar team of judges that will choose the winner who gets to take home $100K and the Disrupt Cup. We’re thrilled to have Venrock’s Camille Samuels join us as one of our esteemed Battlefield judges at our second virtual Startup Battlefield.

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Learning ‘The First Way’ of DevOps – Continuous Flow

DevOps.com

Many organizations are struggling to realize well-engineered DevOps, even ‘the first way’ of DevOps – continuous flow. DevOps is an evolving body of knowledge. There is no one-stop shop that covers all roles and the complete range of skills required for DevOps. A DevOps-competent workforce requires an ongoing commitment to DevOps skills development and mastery. […].

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

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.

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Goldman Sachs leads $202M investment in project44, doubling its valuation to $1.2B in a matter of months

TechCrunch

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted a lot in the world, and supply chains are no exception. . A number of applications that aim to solve workflow challenges across the supply chain exist. But getting real-time access to information from transportation providers has remained somewhat elusive for shippers and logistics companies alike. . Enter project44. The seven-year-old Chicago-based company has built an API-based platform that it says acts as “the connective tissue” between transportation provider

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Streaming ETL and Analytics on Confluent with Maritime AIS Data

Confluent

One of the canonical examples of streaming data is tracking location data over time. Whether it’s ride-sharing vehicles, the position of trains on the rail network, or tracking airplanes waking […].

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4 proven approaches to CX strategy that make customers feel loved

TechCrunch

Rebecca Liu-Doyle. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Rebecca Liu-Doyle is principal at Insight Partners , a global private equity and venture capital firm. Her focus areas include high-growth software, marketplaces, and consumer internet. Customers have been “experiencing” business since the ancient Romans browsed the Forum for produce, pottery and leather goods.

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Lessons for Leadership: How Employee Experience is Your Bottom Line

scruminc

Lessons for Leadership: How Employee Experience is Your Bottom Line . by Scrum Inc’s Public Education Team. Gallup’s State of the Global Workplace Report found that businesses get the most out of their employees when they orient performance around basic needs for psychological engagement. Companies with highly engaged workforces outperform their competition by 147% per share.

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How Embedded Analytics Helps Product Managers Exceed Their KPIs

Embedded analytics can help you deliver cutting-edge analytics experiences to your end-users that align with KPIs that are critical to the growth and success of your business. Read this eBook to learn how an embedded analytics platform, like Qrvey, can help PMs exceed the following KPIs: Growing revenue while improving customer retention rate Delivering rapid time to value Earning a high net-promoter score Increasing Gross Margin / Profitability Conversion rate from trial to paid Don’t just meet

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Redacted comes out of stealth with $60M in funding and a new take on fighting cybercrime

TechCrunch

The cybersecurity industry has no shortage of technology to fight against network intruders, app corrupters, email hackers and other cyber criminals. Today a startup called Redacted is coming out of stealth with a different approach to tackling that malicious activity: It applies threat intelligence, and then proactively goes after the hackers to recover data loss and disrupt their activities.

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6 Things to Look for in a DBA Managed Service Provider

Datavail

Data plays an integral role in business, and the explosion in the amount of data poses a real challenge to database managers. Often, managers find that the hands-on management of all of this data overwhelming. So what options are there? Cloud-based database management provides organizations with database expertise when it is needed, where it is needed, and at the scale at which it is needed.

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Equity Tuesday: Everyone is raising money at the same time

TechCrunch

Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This is Equity Monday Tuesday, 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.

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How To Achieve Higher Testing Maturity

Dzone - DevOps

What Is Testing Maturity? The software testing process is an ever-shifting entity. It has to keep changing to accommodate changing requirements, device-browser-OS releases, and numerous other factors that show up with increasing frequency. Inability to change will cause the pipeline to stagnate and roll out software that doesn’t match current performance and design standards.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“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.

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How to get observability across your distributed systems

TechBeacon

The last decade has seen significant improvements in the approach to software quality. Practices such as test-driven development have created a new world, one where a project without automated unit tests tends to be a red flag for most engineers.

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The Data Bimodal – Agility vs Security

Dzone - DevOps

You’ve probably heard the term bimodal before. It is a popular term, coined (maybe adopted) by Gartner, to describe the two ways of approaching software delivery. To quote: “ Bimodal is the practice of managing two separate but coherent styles of work: one focused on predictability; the other on exploration.”.

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Synopsys named a Leader in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Security Testing for the fifth year

Synopsys

In the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Security Testing, Synopsys placed highest and furthest for the third consecutive year for our ability to execute and our completeness of vision. The post Synopsys named a Leader in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Security Testing for the fifth year appeared first on Software Integrity Blog.

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Top SRE Toolchain Used By Site Reliability Engineers

Dzone - DevOps

Introduction. Site reliability engineering (SRE) practices help organizations by ensuring smooth functioning of their deliverables with utmost reliability and resilience. These can be achieved by a set of well-defined tools that are deployed at every phase of the production system to keep up with SRE best practices. This blog identifies and lists the chain of top SRE tools and their significance towards ensuring the reliability of the architecture.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

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.

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Long Weekend and you Locked Yourself Out of Your Computer

Ivanti

The latest Verizon DBIR report is out and we all should realize, normal is not the new workplace. Picture this: You’re logging into the work account after a long weekend of gratitude, remembrance and maybe even getting to hug someone safely. *Please reset password.*. *Cannot use a previous password.*. *Must be 8-20 characters with one special character and a sprinkling of Latin.*.

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7 Industries Thriving During COVID-19 Pandemic

Daffodil Software

Almost every industry experienced a downfall during the COVID-19 pandemic. At worse, some businesses were even shut down. However, some thrived during the tough times and kept booming to date.

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ITSM and ITAM: Great Together, Like Peanut Butter and Chocolate or Gin and Tonic Pt. 1 of 2

Ivanti

Actor 1: “Hey, you got peanut butter on my chocolate.”. Actor 2: “Well you got chocolate in my peanut butter.”. This 1970’s ad campaign of “Two Great Tastes that Taste Great Together” put Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups on the map. Know what else makes a great combo? IT Service Management (ITSM) and IT Asset Management (ITAM). Historically Separate Disciplines.

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The Incident Review: 4 Odd Incidents Caused by Animals

Dzone - DevOps

If you ask an SRE to make a list of their biggest reliability worries, birds and beavers probably won't be on it. But these and other animals can and do cause critical disruptions. Whether it's Internet infrastructure, the power grid, or passenger aircraft, even the best-engineered systems can sometimes fall victim to mundane intrusions by animals.

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Revolutionizing Contact Centers: Next-Gen Tech for Enhanced CX

Speaker: Liran Meir Frenkel, Performance Management and RPA Sr Product Marketing Manager at NICE; Harpreet Makan, Practice Director at Everest Group; & Santhosh Kumar, Practice Director at Everest Group

As contact centers navigate the challenges of delivering excellence within budget constraints and adapting to evolving employee expectations, optimizing agent tasks becomes crucial. Discover a holistic approach across three pillars - people, process, and technology - that is essential to excel in this dynamic landscape, and explore how next-gen technologies such as generative AI, performance analytics, and process intelligence play a pivotal role in transforming contact centers into advanced CX

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Serverless Vs. Containers: Which One Should You Use?

CloudZero

Containers and serverless computing are two of the most popular methods for deploying applications. Both methods have their advantages and disadvantages. To choose the one that’s right for your business, you need to understand the pros and cons of managing your own containers versus using serverless services.

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Emerging Software Testing and Quality Assurance Trends to Consider in 2021

Radixweb

For most businesses, the pandemic has brought in a moment to rethink the existing strategies for quality assurance and software testing for the year 2021. To ensure companies do not become irrelevant in the future and achieve a competitive lead against competitors, companies should focus on the intelligent orchestration of software testing processes while improving the management processes.

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Prevent the 3 Most Common Ransomware Attack Vectors

SecureWorks

Prevent the 3 Most Common Ransomware Attack Vectors When it comes to ransomware incident response, the basics are an important first line of defense When it comes to ransomware incident response, the basics are an important first line of defense.

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