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6 Pointers on Application Logging

Xebia

When you have a service running somewhere you need to find out whether it is functioning correctly. Besides the possible tests, liveness checks, metrics, you can use application logging. But what makes an application log “Good”? In this blog we discuss 6 pointers on application logging to help you on your way! 1. Purpose is everything! Before you start writing any log-output, first step back a little.

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MVP versus EVP: Is it time to introduce ethics into the agile startup model?

TechCrunch

Anand Rao. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Anand Rao is global head of AI at PwC. The rocket ship trajectory of a startup is well known: Get an idea, build a team and slap together a minimum viable product (MVP) that you can get in front of users. However, today’s startups need to reconsider the MVP model as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) become ubiquitous in tech products and the market grows increasingly conscious of the ethical implications of AI augmenting or replacing

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Paxos: using two consensus-building phases to handle unreliable nodes

Martin Fowler

Unmesh Joshi is ready to start the New Year with a few more of his Patterns of Distributed Systems. With this one he attempts the tricky task of explaining Paxos. This is a well-known protocol developed by Leslie Lamport, for nodes to reach a reliable consensus when both they, and the network, are prone to unexpected failure. Although it's well-known, it's also notoriously difficult to understand, indeed we had considerable difficulty getting our heads around it.

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AI startup Fractal becomes unicorn with $360 million investment from TPG

TechCrunch

Fractal has raised $360 million from TPG in a new financing round and entered the unicorn club as the Mumbai and New York-based AI startup, which counts Google and Wells Fargo among its customers, scales its offerings and begins preparation for an IPO. The new financing round valued the 21-year-old startup “at well north of $1 billion,” said Srikanth Velamakanni, co-founder and group chief executive at Fractal, in an interview with TechCrunch.

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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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6 Pointers on Application Logging

Xebia

When you have a service running somewhere you need to find out whether it is functioning correctly. Besides the possible tests, liveness checks, metrics, you can use application logging. But what makes an application log “Good”? In this blog we discuss 6 pointers on application logging to help you on your way! 1. Purpose is everything! Before you start writing any log-output, first step back a little.

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CI/CD is the New Lock-In

DevOps.com

Welcome to 2022! Let’s start this year’s blogging off with a bang, and point out that we are in the process of creating the biggest lock-in that we have ever had. And I do mean ever. Maybe the hardware lock-in of the old days where vendor A was incompatible with vendor B was worse, but […]. The post CI/CD is the New Lock-In appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Why it matters having Matter support for your new smart home device

TechCrunch

As companies unveil their new smart home devices at the 2022 CES tech show, underway now in Las Vegas, much of the hype involves Matter , an open-source connectivity standard built around a shared belief that smart home devices should seamlessly integrate with other systems and be secure and reliable. If you like devices, you are probably among the 66% of households that have smart home devices , according to Deloitte.

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DevSecOps Will Cross the Chasm in 2022

DevOps.com

We’ve been talking about DevSecOps and shift-left security for years. Although this approach probably didn’t “cross the chasm” in 2021, we did see some very telling milestones. Cybersecurity VC funding surged to record heights with a focus on DevOps and cloud security and the need for DevSecOps became glaringly evident with the Log4j vulnerability. On a […].

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Petal nears unicorn status with fresh $140M in capital to upend ‘broken’ traditional credit system

TechCrunch

In recent years, there has been a growing number of startups trying to make credit more accessible to consumers. . One such startup, Petal , announced today that it has raised a $140 million Series D round of funding. . The company’s new valuation is $800 million — more than triple what Petal was valued at when it announced a $55 million Series C round in September of 2020, according to a source familiar with the transaction.

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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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Free DevOps Training and Certifications You Should Know

Dzone - DevOps

Our profession evolves every year, whether through the introduction of a new tool, a new cloud service, or a new working method. This constant evolution requires the establishment of a learning culture to continuously share experiences and ideas, thus encouraging everyone to gain new knowledge each year. Obviously, this demands a portion of our working time and an online library of training resources maintained by entities with authority in the domain.

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mPharma raises $35million in round participated by Tinder co-founder’s JAM fund, Bharti executive

TechCrunch

Ghanaian health tech startup mPharma is building a network of community pharmacies across Africa as it plans to be the go-to primary healthcare service provider for millions of people residing in the region. mPharma plans to grow its community ( Mutti ) pharmacies across eight markets in Africa to be the first point of care for patients. The startup’s Mutti pharmacies are essentially mini-hospitals offering a wide-range of services including medical consultation, diagnostic and telehealth servic

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The Link To Cloud: How to Build a Seamless and Secure Hybrid Data Bridge with Cluster Linking

Confluent

Chances are your business is migrating to the cloud. But if you operate business applications in an on-premises datacenter, you know firsthand that the journey to the cloud is fraught […].

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Meez keeps recipes in one place so chefs can continue whipping up culinary delights

TechCrunch

Meez , a company creating professional recipe software and a culinary operating system, brought in its first-ever funding round of $6.5 million to continue developing its tools to help chefs manage their recipes. Josh Sharkey, CEO of Meez. Image Credits: Evan Sung. CEO Josh Sharkey, a chef himself for most of his career, incorporated the New York-based technology company back in 2015.

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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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Should CIOs Track Employee Happiness?

The Accidental Successful CIO

Image Credit: roxyfletcher_r04. As the person with the CIO job, one of your many tasks is to find ways to make sure that the people that your company has hired choose to stick around. This can be a difficult thing to do: all of the computers in the world can’t tell you what your company’s employees are thinking at any given moment in time.

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New pet tech at CES treats dogs and cats like the complex beings they are

TechCrunch

There’s always fun tech for pet owners at CES , and 2022 is no different. But a handful of gadgets this year are taking care to treat dogs and cats not just as beloved furry friends but as intelligent animals with their own processes, emotions, and even a desire to express themselves. At the most basic level — which is to say, pretty advanced compared with a few years ago — we have Catlog , a smart cat collar and weight-sensing platform that helps owners keep track of their feline’s

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What the Ideal Incident Lifecycle Should Be

xmatters

Today’s organizations are managing increasingly complex IT ecosystems and pressured to deliver on innovation—all while trying to maintain service performance and reliability to keep up with the always-on digital economy. With IT complexity growing exponentially, incidents have become a common, if not day-to-day struggle for many businesses. Incident management is the process or method that modern organizations use to prepare for and respond to service disruptions.

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Alto raises $40 million to help individuals make tax-savvy investments in assets like crypto and artwork

TechCrunch

Alternative investments are having a moment. Their popularity has surged over the last decade, with the asset class growing from just over $3 trillion in 2008 to more than $10 trillion in 2019, according to data provider Preqin. . Institutions have fueled a large part of this growth, investing at record pace into alternatives like crypto, private companies and real estate.

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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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3 Trends in Manufacturing and AI for 2022

Dataiku

Global crises usually force companies to become more resilient and make bold moves that can sometimes turn difficulties into opportunities. With the current global health crisis, companies do have tools at their disposal to help them recover from this period of uncertainty and accelerate for the future. As such, before March 2020, many companies had already launched AI and analytics use case initiatives, but the challenge was how to scale those efforts.

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Doosan announces $33.7M raise, as it introduces a robotic camera system at CES

TechCrunch

Doosan Robotics this week announced $33.7 million in funding, led Praxis Capital Partners and Korea Investment Partners. The fundraising news arrives as the Seoul-based company shows off its wares at CES in Las Vegas. The company says the funding will be used to increase research and development and attract new partners as it looks to expand its global footprint.

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What Is DataOps And Why Is It Relevant?

Daffodil Software

DataOps is a collection of methodologies that has been taking the data management domain by storm. As we know, DevOps is the natural result of applying lean principles such as broad focus and continuous improvement to application development and delivery. DataOps takes these principles and applies them to data science.

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Formant is solving the robotic Tower of Babel with a unified platform

TechCrunch

If you’re building a SaaS company or a web app, you’re not going to roll your own analytics solution — it’s specialized work with lots of edge cases, rabbit holes and, for most companies, it’s so far removed from the core platform, that it just doesn’t make sense. Formant is doing kinda-sorta the same thing for robotics, helping automation companies with a number of shortcuts that speed up their time to market.

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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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The Latest On Data Protection, Backup, and Recovery Is Now at Arcserve.com

Arcserve

With our 2021 merger behind us, the StorageCraft blog is now the Arcserve blog. So you can still get the important news, industry insights, and high-value information about data protection, backup, and recovery you’ve come to expect from StorageCraft—and more—all in one place. You’ll find the blog at Arcserve.com. We have also merged our social.

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Dear Sophie: With the H-1B lottery looming, how should we approach overseas hiring?

TechCrunch

Sophie Alcorn. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” She connects people with the businesses and opportunities that expand their lives. More posts by this contributor. Dear Sophie: Will the H-1B lottery be based on the highest wages?

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6 Email Marketing Trends Transforming Nonprofits in 2022 and Beyond

TechSoup

In 2021, the pandemic continued to upheave nonprofits worldwide. Executive directors had to rapidly accelerate their digital infrastructure and communications to survive. Email marketing leads the way as a tool to engage key stakeholders, funders, and communities.

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Software stocks get punched in the face (again)

TechCrunch

Some of the most high-flying stocks of the pandemic are struggling in the new year and it’s bad news for tech companies of all sizes. TechCrunch noted yesterday that software stocks were having a pretty poor start to the year. That was, it turned out, only the beginning of the damage. Today’s trading took yet another bite out of the key tech sector.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

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.

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14 Years of Innovation at Palo Alto Networks

Palo Alto Networks

In November 2021, for the tenth consecutive time, Palo Alto Networks was named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Network Firewalls, positioned the highest for Ability to Execute and the furthest for Completeness of Vision. We are incredibly proud of this recognition, and believe it’s a testament to our ongoing commitment to innovation. People often ask me how we have been able to sustain our pace of innovation.

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IoT: Roadrunners, pilot purgatory and quantum leaps

Beyond B2B

In 2022, there are three growing trends for the Internet of Things (IoT) that could impact the organizational aspects of your progress.

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Cloud Budgeting: A Guide To Accurately Forecasting Cloud Spend

CloudZero

Are your cloud costs out of control? Do you struggle with cost overruns or going over your cloud budget?

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