Fri.Nov 12, 2021

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Amazon adds to its Rivian stake

TechCrunch

Nestled in Rivian’s S-1 IPO filings was a note that there the EV company’s “cornerstone investors” had “indicated an interest” in buying up to $5 billion worth of its stock at its IPO price. One of those parties was Amazon, and the American e-commerce giant appears to have pulled the trigger Friday afternoon on its buy.

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Security – Past, Present, Future

Agile Alliance

In our May 2021 event celebrating 20 years of Agile technical practices, we rediscovered some forgotten facts from the early days of agile. We were reminded that security professionals have been part of the Agile community since the earliest days of XP. In this panel, we’ll explore the history of security and Agile technical practices. … Continued.

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Foody cooks up marketplace for culinary creators

TechCrunch

Husband-and-wife co-founders Daniel and Brenna Stitzel are developing a way for foodies to monetize their culinary creations and closed on a round of $1.5 million in pre-seed funding to officially launch Foody. The investment was led by Serena Ventures, with Goodwater Capital and a group of angel investors joining, including Patreon’s Jack Conte, former Postmates exec Vivek Patel, Greenoaks Capital’s Neil Mehta and KeepTruckin’s Shoaib Makani.

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How to Lead a Team That Lacks Urgency

Let's Grow Leaders

“My team lacks urgency. I’ve got to follow up on everything or we miss deadlines. I’m tired of babysitting. How can I ensure things get done on time?” Sound familiar? In this episode, you’ll get five ways to help get things moving. Paradoxically, sometimes leaders with a high internal sense of urgency can struggle with this the most.

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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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A wave of LatAm fintechs are laying down new global commerce rails

TechCrunch

João Del Valle. Contributor. João Del Valle is the co-founder and CEO of EBANX , a Brazilian fintech unicorn that serves as the gateway to Latin America through its payments platform for global merchants, tech giants and other large companies from all over the world. If you look under the hood of nearly any large merchant’s e-commerce operations, there are likely more than a dozen different card-acceptance platforms meshed together to serve different parts of the world with banking partners doin

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Promoted.ai takes in fresh capital to grow your marketplace

TechCrunch

It’s tough to be a seller when there are so many products out there on marketplaces just waiting to be discovered. Promoted.ai is out to help people find you, securing $2 million in funding to continue developing its tool that matches buyers to sellers in marketplace search. The company was started by two former Pinterest marketplace and ad designers, Andrew Yates and Dan Hill, who wanted to help buyers find what they want more easily, which leads to repeat purchases.

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Git Bash (Or Git in Bash)?

Dzone - DevOps

Do you know when you install Git Bash on windows what exactly you are installing? Most of the time, developers think they are only installing Git. But that's not true. Let me repeat it: actually, you are installing Git Bash.

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Oxygen, a neobank for freelancers and small businesses, in talks to raise funds at over $500 million valuation

TechCrunch

Oxygen, a startup that is bringing digital banking services to freelancers and micro- and small-sized businesses , is in talks to raise a new round at a valuation of over $500 million, two sources familiar with the matter told me. The San Francisco-headquartered firm is in advanced stages of talks to raise about $70 million, the sources said. London-based Tribe Ventures is in talks to lead Oxygen’s Series B round, the sources added, requesting anonymity because the details are private.

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Building and Leading Product Teams in Uncertain Times

DevOps.com

The world seems to be changing faster than ever, and there’s no reason to believe it will slow down anytime soon. The pandemic has compounded this sense of constant flux, with customer priorities shifting overnight. Against this backdrop, product teams need to constantly evolve their development work without losing focus or feeling they need to […].

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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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TechCrunch+ roundup: Collecting zero-party data, Airbnb CEO interview, crypto volatility

TechCrunch

Back when most commerce took place on the local high street, shoppers who exchanged personally identifiable information with merchants received something in return. Shops kept track of customers’ hat, shoe and dress sizes, along with their birthdays, anniversaries and personal preferences. In return, buyers got a first look at new products and service that anticipated their wants — personalized shopping.

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Services Don’t Have to Be Eight-9s Reliable [Video]

Dzone - DevOps

Viktor: You are known in the observability community and SRE community very well. I’ve followed your work for a while during my time at Confluent, so I’m super excited to speak with you. Can you please tell us a little bit about yourself? Like what do you do? And what are you up to these days? Liz: Sure. So I’ve worked as a site reliability engineer for roughly 15 years, and I took this interesting pivot about five years ago.

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Tiger’s den of due diligence

TechCrunch

Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines! This is our Friday show, a roundup of the week’s biggest and most fascinating stories from startups, venture capital and technology. Natasha and Alex along with Grace and Chris had to cut and cut and cut to get the show to fit this week, so if we didn’t get to your favorite story, we wanted to.

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Methodology & Functionality in Differing Data Science Roles

Dataiku

In this Banana Data Podcast episode " Methodology & Functionality in Differing Data Science Roles," our hosts share the rundown on data science roles, so you will no longer be in the dark for behind the scenes data science happenings. Speaking with a Dataiku solutions engineer, listeners get special insights on how the roles of data science and engineering teams contribute at a broader organizational level.

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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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Weflow pours pre-seed funding into tool that makes updating Salesforce faster

TechCrunch

Salesforce users tend to have a similar complaint in the amount of time it takes to update records, but Weflow aims to conquer this form of “Salesforce fatigue.”. The Berlin-based company is developing a tool — still in private beta — that makes it faster to update Salesforce and reduces much of the busy work that takes up salespeople’s time. While 83% of Fortune 500 companies use the platform to improve sales productivity, many sales professionals spend the bulk of their time on tasks other tha

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How to Handle Hypergrowth in a Remote World

Dzone - DevOps

Grammarly has a simple but ambitious mission: to improve lives by improving communication. Every day, our AI-powered writing assistance helps 30,000 teams and 30 million people communicate clearly and effectively wherever they write. But behind our technology is a team of engineers. Until recently, our engineers focused exclusively on building a product for consumers.

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Hear NVP’s Priti Choksi and Birdies founder Bianca Gates explain how to land early-stage funding

TechCrunch

Priti Choksi, partner at Norwest Venture Partners, has a portfolio that includes Bright, Lumosity, Citcon, UPSIDE Foods and Birdies. But before she ever entered the world of VC, she was an operator at companies like Facebook and Google. She managed business development teams and ran M&A and has vast experience in the world of growing and scaling companies.

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Defining Simplicity for Enterprise Software as “a 10 Year Old Can Demo it”

Cloudera

Arjun (my son) sat next to me at my desk. He was a bit nervous but we had practiced 3 times before he was ‘on stage’ in front of hundreds of people and the zoom meeting turned to him. My ten year old began to demonstrate how to deploy an Operational Database in AWS, showcasing how auto-scaling worked and how to set up replication. All of the sales team and my colleagues were quite impressed with him, and I am very proud of him.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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How Cable Networks Secure Communications

CableLabs

The email you sent, the website you visited, the internet searches you performed, the internet purchases you just made—they all require strong security to protect against eavesdropping, changes to your messages, and those who would make these services unavailable to you. These service examples demonstrate the foundational triad of security: confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

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Cloud Economics — And The Cloud Cost Metrics You Should Be Tracking

CloudZero

Over the past decade, businesses have flocked to the public cloud , with the promise of faster innovation, improved scalability — and of course, cost savings.

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Take a Guided Journey Through Transformation

Dell EMC

Need support in your data center transformation? The options can be overwhelming. Learn about our interactive experience and see how we can bridge the gap.

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3 steps to building a highly successful IT self-service portal

TechBeacon

Nearly three quarters of business leaders recognize that their users want to self-serve when they interact with the service desk, but they still prefer to rely on old-school methods of communication. That was one of the findings in a survey of 500 C-suite business leaders by survey consultants Censuswide. Among the others: More than half (54%) of the respondents cited email as one of their most important customer communication methods, followed closely by telephone (53%) and face-to-face (40%).

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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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A Foundation for AI Applications Across the Enterprise

Dell EMC

A report from Enterprise Strategy Group highlights infrastructure considerations for organizations seeking to capitalize on AI/ML.

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How to Build & Govern Trusted AI Systems: People

DataRobot

This is a three part blog series in partnership with Amazon Web Services describing the essential components to build, govern, and trust AI systems: People, Process, and Technology. All are required for trusted AI , technology systems that align to our individual, corporate and societal ideals. This first post is focused on making people across organizations successful with building and implementing AI you can trust.

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Supporting Teachers’ Social and Emotional Learning Needs

PowerSchool

The K-12 landscape has changed dramatically over the last couple of years. Throughout all the challenges and disruptions brought on by COVID-19, teachers have been on the front lines of managing this unpredictability and dealing with the day-to-day anxieties of living in a pandemic — and it’s clearly taken a toll on their wellbeing. According to a national survey of school districts conducted by Reuters, more than half of school districts have reported an increase in teachers and support staff

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Demystifying Sitecore CDP

Thinking It Through with Liz Spranzani

In this post we will be summarizing what the Sitecore CDP is, its capabilities, its pros, its cons, why it is better than Sitecore XP, what differentiates it from other CDPs, and what we think the future holds. This is an aggregation of all the data points we have ingested (just like a CDP!) since Sitecore acquired Boxever in March of 2021.

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A Tale of Two Case Studies: Using LLMs in Production

Speaker: Tony Karrer, Ryan Barker, Grant Wiles, Zach Asman, & Mark Pace

Join our exclusive webinar with top industry visionaries, where we'll explore the latest innovations in Artificial Intelligence and the incredible potential of LLMs. We'll walk through two compelling case studies that showcase how AI is reimagining industries and revolutionizing the way we interact with technology. Some takeaways include: How to test and evaluate results 📊 Why confidence scoring matters 🔐 How to assess cost and quality 🤖 Cross-platform cost vs. quality tr

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Air-gapped Kubernetes – Why It’s Revolutionary

d2iq

Most new technologies are targeted to one key environment, whether that is the datacenter, the remote office, or a field location. As a result, IT teams have historically had to build multiple environments, each tailored for an environment. Putting the “fun” of doing so aside, that gets expensive in the long run. And, back in my day, involved a lot of late night and weekend hours.

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The CTO and The MBA … a history of coming together!

CTO Academy

Whilst a traditional MBA was historically of little interest to the CTO that has changed as the world becomes ever more consumed by automation and tech leaders need to broaden their skill set. The post The CTO and The MBA … a history of coming together! appeared first on CTO Academy.

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A Guide For Creating A Happier Workplace For Your Business

Strategy Driven

A happy workplace is one that will improve the satisfaction of staff, increase productivity, and ultimately help your business achieve greater success. If you are a business looking to create a happier workplace, use this guide for all of the best and effective tips. Offer more engagement. Offering more engagement in the workplace will help employees interact more, which will help create better workplace relationships.

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