Thu.Jul 21, 2022

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Simplify Metrics on Apache Druid With Rill Data and Cloudera

Cloudera

Co-author: Mike Godwin, Head of Marketing, Rill Data. Cloudera has partnered with Rill Data, an expert in metrics at any scale, as Cloudera’s preferred ISV partner to provide technical expertise and support services for Apache Druid customers. We want Cloudera customers that rely on Apache Druid to know that their clusters are secure and supported by the Cloudera partner ecosystem.

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IT legend Charlie Feld on the CIO as chief integration officer

CIO

Few have had a greater impact on the CIO profession than Charlie Feld has. An industry legend, Feld shaped the CIO role decades ago and has gone on to change the narrative about technology and to transform entire industries. In fact, Feld has such an extensive leadership playbook that we recorded a special two-part episode of the Tech Whisperers podcast to capture his wisdom and insights.

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Fairbanc provides BNPL for micro-merchants in Indonesia

TechCrunch

“Buy now, pay later” (BNPL) startups have gained traction by targeting consumers, but BNPLs for businesses are also starting to take off. One example is Fairbanc , which is based in Singapore but focused on Indonesia. It allows small businesses to take out short-term credit to purchase fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) inventory. Fairbanc announced today it has raised $4.8 million in pre-Series A funding led by Vertex Ventures.

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SAP Q2 results a mixed bag

CIO

SAP announced its Q2 2022 results yesterday, reporting revenue of €7.5 billion, which is up 12.7% year-on-year. However, it was not all good news for the German business software group. SAP’s IFRS operating profit was down 32% to €673 million and its non-IFRS profit was down 13% to €1.68 billion. In comments published alongside the results, SAP said this was mainly driven by “reduced contribution from software licenses revenue”, as well as “significant bad debt expenses related to the war in Ukr

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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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Observability startup Better Stack lands $18.6M in new cash

TechCrunch

In the software industry, observability tools provide businesses insights on the health of their production apps. At best, observability tools can flag when apps are performing under par and help identify the root causes of issues. But rarely is it this simple. According to a recent survey conducted by Splunk, 86% of developers see difficulties related to tech as a challenge to observability adoption.

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Agility’s next Digit robot will have a face and hands

TechCrunch

Digit, the bipedal robot developed by Agility Robotics, will continue to evolve and improve, including the addition of a head and some digits of its very own, according to co-founders Damion Shelton and Jonathan Hurst. Just don’t expect Digit to talk or have digits that look like human hands. Digit, which was introduced in 2019, initially seemed destined for a life in last-mile delivery.

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Dynatrace Embeds DX Monitoring in Observability Platform

DevOps.com

Dynatrace has enhanced its analytics capabilities to enable digital experience monitoring, including session replays, based on the logs, metrics and traces it collects via its observability platform. Steve Tack, senior vice president of product management at Dynatrace, said this update makes it simpler for DevOps teams to track user journeys across the multiple components and […].

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Whatnot’s valuation doubles to $3.7B as livestream shopping gains popularity in US

TechCrunch

Livestream shopping in the United States has a ways to go to catch up with China’s booming $600 billion industry, but Whatnot’s new $260 million Series D round shows that shoppers stateside are increasingly embracing this way of buying and selling items. The new investment was co-led by DST Global and returning investor CapitalG, and more than doubles the live shopping platform’s valuation to $3.7 billion, up from the $1.5 billion valuation in September 2021, when Whatnot raised $150 million.

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Deciphering the Observability Market

DevOps.com

Observability has become one of the most overused buzzwords in IT and cybersecurity. Today, the term is used by vendors to refer to everything from application performance to network monitoring, cybersecurity and data and analytics. While the term’s ubiquity has created confusion for everyone from end users to journalists, startups in the space have also […].

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Top 5 Challenges in Designing a Data Warehouse for Multi-Tenant Analytics

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.

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Robotics and AI are going from cage to stage

TechCrunch

A lot of promising companies come out of work by researchers at universities, or even grad students who have struck on some new innovation. But the transition from tech-focused research group to product-focused startup isn’t easy to make; fortunately three experts in the matter joined us at TC Sessions: Robotics to discuss a few ways to get through it successfully.

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Article: Scaling and Growing Developer Experience at Netflix

InfoQ Culture Methods

An optimal Developer Experience will depend a lot on the company the developer is working for. This article discusses why and when changes to developer needs will occur, how to get ahead of them, and how to adapt when these changes are necessary. I talk through some of the experiences myself and peers have had at Netflix, identifying some key learnings and examples we have gained over the years.

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15Five, a pioneer in talent management HR tech, raises $52M to boost its own performance

TechCrunch

15Five — an early mover in the world of building technology to help motivate teams, and to improve performance management for execs overseeing those teams — has raised $52 million in a round of growth funding that it will be using to expand its own performance. Now in use at some 3,400 companies — customers include Credit Karma, Spotify and Pendo, with its sweet spot specifically on businesses with between 100 and 2,500 employees — the startup will double down on what Dav

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3 Ways API Analytics Can Help Application Owners

DevOps.com

Software development is fraught with risk that can run projects aground like a ship against a rocky beach. Whether it is misunderstood requirements, rapidly evolving marketplaces or old-fashioned bugs and schedule slippage, all can derail otherwise well-resourced and managed software development projects. Even when software development teams eventually ship their product and collect payment from […].

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

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.

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Daily Crunch: Amazon wades deeper into healthcare with its $3.9B purchase of One Medical

TechCrunch

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Well hello again! It’s Thursday — heat waves are heat wavin’, and all of TechCrunch is psyched about a fun and engaging Robotics event today. That’s not all that’s happening, though. We’ve had 70 new stories on the site since our last newsletter, which means that we got to learn about all sorts of wild and wonderful happenings in our world of startups and com

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Error'd: Untimely Ripp'd

The Daily WTF

This week we bring you a whole set of submissions that prove, once again, that web programmers just can't keep track of time. But. first, a sop with a regular. Is a flying NaN safer than a Camel? I wouldn't recommend making either a habit. Friend Argle B. are rare. He explanes. "I routinely expect this from websites. I did NOT expect to find it in MSFS.

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Zededa lands a cash infusion to expand its edge device management software

TechCrunch

Factors like latency, bandwidth, security and privacy are driving the adoption of edge computing, which aims to process data closer to where it’s being generated. Consider a temperature sensor in a shipyard or a fleet of cameras in a fulfillment center. Normally, the data from them might have to be relayed to a server for analysis. But with an edge computing setup, the data can be processed on-site, eliminating cloud computing costs and enabling processing at greater speeds and volumes (in

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How much do social issues affect your workplace?

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Our reader poll today asks: How much do social issues affect your workplace? Significantly: We make major business decisions based on social issues 18.50%. Somewhat: We act on major social issues that directly affect our business 39.00%. Not much: Only in extreme cases do social issues affect our business actions 31.00%. Not at all: Social issues have no place in our workplace 11.50%.

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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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Treggo, armed with new funds, takes on crowded Latin American last-mile delivery sector

TechCrunch

E-commerce across Latin America exploded in the past two years, but against an infrastructure that wasn’t prepared for all of that activity. During this time, startups have taken up the challenge to bolster the infrastructure needed for packages to get to their end destination quickly and cheaper. That goal has created somewhat of a competitive landscape , especially within the last-mile sector.

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Out-of-band application security with Intelligent Orchestration

Synopsys

Intelligent Orchestration enables security and development teams to implement coordinated DevSecOps workflows with minimal friction. The post Out-of-band application security with Intelligent Orchestration appeared first on Application Security Blog.

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Growth cheat code: Use fractional hiring to stay on plan when cutting costs

TechCrunch

Teja Yenamandra. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Teja Yenamandra is the co-founder and CEO of Gun.io. Venture funds are clear: Given the uncertainty of the coming few years as the Fed seeks to unwind its decades-long monetary policy, the mandate for CEOs is to: Cut burn. Slow growth. Carefully manage towards profitability. This is a tough pill to swallow for founders who were planning to accelerate growth this year.

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Voices From the Front: Securing Your Future with APEX

Dell EMC

How APEX Cyber Recovery Service helps you secure your business with confidence – revisiting Dell Technologies World.

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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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CI/CD Pipelines and Caching of Dependencies on Azure DevOps

Dzone - DevOps

In this blog, we'll be taking you through a brief explanation of CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps and how to implement caching of Maven dependencies in the pipelines while deploying your Mule application to CloudHub. What Is CI/CD? CI, short for continuous integration, is a software development practice in which all developers merge code changes in a central repository multiple times a day.

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Emotional Intelligence in Leadership is the Key to Success

Steve Farber

We are living in the future. Artificial intelligence (AI) and technology were already beginning to integrate their way into our everyday lives, but during and after the pandemic, that slow-wave became a tsunami washing. Read more. The post Emotional Intelligence in Leadership is the Key to Success first appeared on Steve Farber.

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Effective Ways to Protect Active Directory

SecureWorks

Effective Ways to Protect Active Directory Active Directory is the cornerstone of an organization’s access, authorization, and authentication. Investing time in active directory and its associated controls can increase resilience during cyber intrusions.

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How Leaders Can Escape Their Echo Chambers

Harvard Business Review

Six strategies to ensure your team tells you what you need to hear.

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IDC Analyst Report: The Open Source Blind Spot Putting Businesses at Risk

In a recent study, IDC found that 64% of organizations said they were already using open source in software development with a further 25% planning to in the next year. Most organizations are unaware of just how much open-source code is used and underestimate their dependency on it. As enterprises grow the use of open-source software, they face a new challenge: understanding the scope of open-source software that's being used throughout the organization and the corresponding exposure.

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The Best Solution to Burnout We’ve Ever Heard

Dzone - DevOps

With registration for our October INTERACT conference now open, we wanted you to hear one of our favorite sessions from this past April’s INTERACT. Featuring the best minds from Slack, Netlify, and Ambassador Labs, our session on Inspiring Engineering Leaders & Driving Developer Creativity turned into one of the best conversations we’ve ever heard on topics like dev toil, focus, and burnout.

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Motivating People Starts with Building Emotional Connections

Harvard Business Review

Logic makes us think, but emotion makes us act.

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Introducing the Next Phase of Software-driven Storage

Dell EMC

Three ways the newest PowerStore release helps you move forward in an unpredictable world.

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