TechBeacon
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
A frequently asked question I hear often is"What is the career ladder for a test automation engineer?" That's a great question, as this role is often perceived as a flat one that makes it difficult for managers and practitioners alike to determine how a team member can grow within it.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
Aquarium , a startup from two former Cruise employees, wants to help companies refine their machine learning model data more easily and move the models into production faster. Today the company announced a $2.6 million seed led by Sequoia with participation from Y Combinator and a bunch of angel investors including Cruise co-founders Kyle Vogt and Dan Kan.
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Agile Alliance
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
This interview is in Spanish. However, you can read a summary in English below. In this interview, I had the pleasure of talking with Marc Oliveras. Marc is from Barcelona and for more than twenty years he has accumulated valuable experience working in various countries and companies. Marc is passionate about music and the technical … Continued.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
Over the years, there has been a growing trend of fintech infrastructure players around the world. In Africa, a handful of startups have launched in the past three years to provide such services. Stitch , a South African fintech startup, is one of them and today, it is coming out of stealth and announcing its seed round of $4 million. This makes it the largest round raised by any API fintech startup in Africa at the moment.
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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.
TechBeacon
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
The threat landscape faced by organizations is forever changing, but one constant in the battle against online menaces has been the security operations center. However, while most businesses see the SOC as a critical part of their cybersecurity strategies, there's growing dissatisfaction with what they're getting for their investment.
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CTOvision
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
The threat of cyberattacks was compounded in 2020, as Covid provided bad actors with a rapidly growing corporate attack surface to address, to further system and network breaches. Attacks grew […].
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
Back when I was a wee lad with a very security-compromised MySQL installation, I used to answer every web request with multiple “SELECT *” database requests — give me all the data and I’ll figure out what to do with it myself. Today in a modern, data-intensive org, “SELECT *” will kill you. With petabytes of information, tens of thousands of tables (on the small side!
DevOps.com
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
When I think about the challenges of DevOps transformations, I love the viewpoint expressed by Ryan Harmon, strategic accounts manager at Trace3: “DevOps is a complex maze that has many leaders frustrated. In many large enterprises, ‘DevOps’ is simply a buzzword they are striving to achieve but struggle with what the end state looks like […]. The post Engineering Practices can Overcome DevOps Challenges appeared first on DevOps.com.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
Big morning for Massachusetts tech companies planning to go public via SPAC. Shortly after Berkshire Grey unveiled its intentions , Watertown-based Markforged has announced its own plans. The metal 3D printing company intends to merge with ONE, a special purpose acquisition company created by Kevin Hartz, who will join its board. The deal, which could value the additive manufacturing company at around $2.1 billion, would bring in around $400 million in cash.
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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.
CircleCI
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
Learning how and where to segregate test environments. Bringing a new tool into an organization is no small task. Adopting a CI/CD tool, or any other tool should follow a period of research, analysis and alignment within your organization. In my last post , I explained how the precursor to any successful tool adoption is about people: alignment on purpose, getting some “before” metrics to support your assessment, and setting expectations appropriately.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
Joby Aviation, a startup that has spent more than a decade developing an all-electric, vertical take-off and landing passenger aircraft, will become a public company through a merger with Reinvent Technology Partners, a special purpose acquisition company from well-known investor and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman. The combined company, which will be listed on the New York Stock Exchange, will have a pro forma implied valuation of $6.6 billion.
DevOps.com
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
Application modernization has been a consistent theme for organizations year after year. Businesses today still rely on their legacy applications for the majority of their revenue generation, from mainframes to Java EE. New digital transformation initiatives and mandates have pushed application modernization back to the forefront, as a new generation of automation platforms and best […].
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
Singapore is quickly turning into a hub for food-tech startups , partly because of government initiatives supporting the development of meat alternatives. One of the newest entrants is Next Gen , which will launch its plant-based “chicken” brand, called TiNDLE , in Singaporean restaurants next month. The company announced today that it has raised $10 million in seed funding from investors including Temasek, K3 Ventures, EDB New Ventures (an investment arm of the Singapore Economic De
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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.
DevOps.com
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
Applause today unfurled a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that makes it easier to automatically create test automation scripts without having to write code. At the same time, the company is adding support for an application programming interface (API) through which DevOps teams can send new features to be tested by the Applause platform. Both offerings are […].
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
This morning MealMe.ai , a food search engine, announced that it has closed a $900,000 pre-seed round. Palm Drive Capital led the round, with participation from Slow Ventures and CP Ventures. TechCrunch first became familiar with MealMe when it presented as part of the Techstars Atlanta demo day last October, mentioning it in a roundup of favorite startups from a group of the accelerator’s startup cohorts.
Let's Grow Leaders
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
Why a Great Boss Can Wreak Havoc on Your Career Like other good things in life, a great boss relationship, taken to extremes, can wreak havoc with your career. I’ve seen otherwise smart and talented people lose credibility by over-aligning with a […]. The post How Your Great Boss Might Be Hurting Your Career appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
RecargaPay , a Brazil-based fintech that allows users to top off their prepaid cell phones online, announced this morning that they’ve closed their $70 million Series C. The company, which operates solely in Brazil, was launched in 2010 by Miami-based serial entrepreneur Rodrigo Teijeiro, who is co-founder and CEO. . Unlike in the U.S. where most people have a cell phone plan through a major carrier, in Brazil — a country where the minimum wage is currently $1,100 reals per month (roughly
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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.
CTOvision
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
Read David Hamilton explain everything you need to know about investing in The Graph on Securities.io: The Graph (GRT) seeks to facilitate the seamless exchange of data between blockchains and […].
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
Not every company’s founders find themselves on a first-name basis with the local bomb squad, but then again not every company is Noya Labs , which wants to turn the roughly 2 million cooling towers at industrial sites and buildings across the U.S. into CO2-sucking weapons in the fight against global climate change. When the company first started developing prototypes of its devices that attach to water coolers, the company’s founders, Josh Santos and Daniel Cavero, did what all good
CTOvision
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
Eddie Garcia is the chief information officer (CIO) at Cloudera. Previously he was vice president of infosec and engineering at Gazzang and chief architect of zNcrypt encryption products. He is […].
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
Kaleido, makers of a drag-and-drop background removal service for images and video, have been acquired by up-and-coming digital design platform Canva. While the price and terms are not disclosed, it is speculated that this young company may have fetched nearly nine figures. It’s the right product at the right time, seemingly. In 2019, the Vienna-based Kaleido made remove.bg , a quick, simple, free and good-enough background removal tool for images.
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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.
CTOvision
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
Read Haran Kumar take a look at top Security information and event management (SIEM) system and how Elastic Security solves them on Elastic Blog : Security information and event management […].
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
Patch , the carbon offset API developer, has raised $4.5 million in financing to build out its business selling customers a way to calculate their carbon footprint and identify and finance offset projects that capture the equivalent carbon dioxide emissions associated with that footprint. . Confirming TechCrunch reporting , Andreessen Horowitz led the round, which also included previous investors VersionOne Ventures , MapleVC and Pale Blue Dot Ventures.
CTOvision
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
Elon Musk is no longer the world’s richest person after Tesla Inc. shares slid 8.6% on Monday, wiping $15.2 billion from his net worth. Tesla’s biggest decline since September was […].
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
Bay Area-based AI startup Symbio today announced its “official launch.” Backed by a total of $30 million in funding, the company has struck deals with both Nissan and Toyota to implement its software in U.S.-based factories. The company says its SymbioDCS technology is capable of dramatically increasing automation with factory robots on the assembly line.
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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.
CTOvision
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
Read Maurizio Di Paolo Emilio take a look at the new qStream quantum random number generator (QRNG) developed by QuintessenceLabs on EE Times : The strength of the encryption depends […].
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
As far as fundraising goes, Berkshire Grey is in pretty good shape. When I visited its Massachusetts headquarters last year, following a massive $263 million Series B, the company discussed some pretty aggressive growth plans. Mind you, that was before the pandemic had really touched down in the U.S. in a meaningful way. If anything, COVID-19 has accelerated interest in automation, as companies look to safeguard themselves from the inevitable effects of future pandemics.
Tenable
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
Proof-of-concept exploit scripts for a critical remote code execution flaw, along with mass scanning activity, indicate that organizations should apply vCenter Server patches immediately. Background. On February 23, VMware released a security advisory (VMSA-2021-0002) to address two vulnerabilities in vCenter Server , a centralized management software for VMware vSphere systems, as well as a vulnerability in the VMWare ESXi hypervisor.
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