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The power pendulum is swinging back to employers, isn’t it?

TechCrunch

Tech layoffs may get worse before they get better — which means that the next few months will be full of companies trying to pivot their way to survival during this extended downturn. At least that’s what entrepreneur Nolan Church , who helped lead Carta’s 2020 layoffs as its chief people officer, thinks. He estimates that another 30,000 to 40,000 tech employees around the world will be laid off in Q1 2023 — a number that follows the more than 100,000 layoffs so far in 2022, according to layoffs

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Automate Software Packaging and Deployment through Kovair DevOps Helm Plugin

Kovair - DevOps

Introduction Helm helps us to manage Kubernetes applications. Helm Charts are used to define, install, and upgrade even the most complex Kubernetes applications. Helm Charts.

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What goes up must come down

TechCrunch

Welcome to The Interchange ! If you received this in your inbox, thank you for signing up and your vote of confidence. If you’re reading this as a post on our site, sign up here so you can receive it directly in the future. Every week, I’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. This will include everything from funding rounds to trends to an analysis of a particular space to hot takes on a particular company or phenomenon.

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The co-CEO model: Risk or reward?

CEO Insider

Success is becoming harder in a competitive and uncertain world: Today’s business environment is a cocktail of competition and uncertainty. High performance is harder to come by, as indicated by a Forbes study of 400 top global executives, where 90% stated they do not believe the current environment is friendly to business. With increasing complexity, disruption, […].

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Streamlining Database Compliance with CI/CD Integration

IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d

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GoFreight raises $28M to become the “Shopify of freight forwarding”

TechCrunch

Unicorn Flexport is revolutionizing the world of logistics , serving as a freight forwarder with software that enables customers to manage their shipments. But there are still thousands of smaller freight forwarders, many running on outdated ERP software or spreadsheets. A startup called GoFreight wants to help them compete by providing the “Shopify of freight forwarding,” with backend software that makes their operations run more smoothly, and a frontend that lets them set up a storefront and p

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PREVENT Use Cases: Getting Ahead of Brand Abuse

Darktrace

Brand abuse involves impersonating an organization's IP to launch an attack or damage its reputation. This blog lays out how this can be pre-empted and prevented with Darktrace.

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CodeSOD: The Parameters

The Daily WTF

As we frequently observe, code in scientific applications tends not to have the best code quality. And it's not hard to understand why: a researcher is frequently trying to take a wholistic understanding of a complicated problem domain and turn it into code. Software engineering, on the other hand, teaches us to break that wholistic picture up into little parts that we glue back together.

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How NaaS and SDCI Can Lower Your Cloud Spend

Megaport

We’re accustomed to acquiring more possessions than we need, as storage units proliferate, and spending beyond our budget can be common in a world with ample credit. This spendthrift mindset is not restricted to the realms of aspirational gym equipment purchases (not to mention pandemic-based panic buying of all that toilet tissue). Enterprises—including small- to medium-sized—have difficulty.

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Identity

The Programmer's Paradox

There is a collection of rules, sort of spanning the planet, to deal with identity, loosely known as “know your client” (KYC). These are fairly well-known in the financial industry. We need something similar for social networks, although the C could stand for something else. In the age of unlimited surveillance, while it is sometimes important to verify someone’s identity, we also have to make sure that privacy is also preserved.

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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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How NaaS and SDCI Can Lower Your Cloud Spend

Megaport

We’re accustomed to acquiring more possessions than we need, as storage units proliferate, and spending beyond our budget can be common in a world with ample credit. This spendthrift mindset is not restricted to the realms of aspirational gym equipment purchases (not to mention pandemic-based panic buying of all that toilet tissue). Enterprises—including small- to medium-sized—have difficulty.

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Selling Medical Devices: 5 Tips for Entrepreneurial Breakthrough Success

Strategy Driven

It’s true, selling medical devices has the potential to bring financial freedom, but entrepreneurial newcomers sometimes have a difficult time breaking into the foray. It’s a competitive field, for sure, but with the market being large and the demand for medical devices being high, there’s no reason that forward thinking and well prepared individuals can’t make it big in this industry.

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A day in the life of a threat hunter

Gitprime

In cybersecurity, threat hunters proactively search an organization’s systems, networks, and infrastructure for threats to hone an organization’s responses.

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The Right Way to Do Dropshipping

Strategy Driven

Dropshipping can be a lucrative business, if you know how to do it right. Instead of fumbling in the dark trying to make sense of it, here are some essential tips to getting your dropshipping business started, and started right. 1. Choose a Dropshipping Business Idea. You can’t just jump into the business thinking that you can do anything and everything.

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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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IT Recruiting: Strategy and Tips for Success

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Hiring skilled personnel is the top priority for any HR manager , as the organization’s success is directly linked to the quality of professionals in its ranks. For an IT organization, this process assumes even greater importance as the rapid pace at which technology is progressing; you can never have enough talented workers. More than 50% of businesses struggle to find suitable candidates for profiles requiring data skills.

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Is There A Grace Period For Car Insurance When Buying A Used Car?

Strategy Driven

Car insurance policies are necessary to have if you want to legally drive a car. Every state has its law on car insurance policies. Some states require you to only have liability insurance to drive a car. Some states require you to get a personal injury protection plan as well, while some require you to get uninsured motorist coverage as well. When it comes to new cars that you buy from dealerships, you cannot skip the mandatory auto insurance policies in this case.

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Lean coffee “cheat sheet”

Xebia

Intro. Lean coffee is an incredible format. It’s a simple yet powerful way to discuss important topics in a team without any upfront costs. Yet, this format is surprisingly often unknown to the people I work with. What is a lean coffee? Let’s have a look at the official definition: Lean Coffee is a structured, but agenda-less meeting. Participants gather, build an agenda, and begin talking.

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Simple Ways To Increase Your Brands Reach Online Today

Strategy Driven

When you build your own brand, such a large amount of time, energy and money are at stake. You have to ensure that you push your brand to the top of the market, attracting enough customers while making enough profit to warrant your constant dedication. Fortunately, figuring out how to increase your brands reach so that you can attain the attention you deserve doesn’t have to be a difficult task.

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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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Citi backs Indian SaaS startup Lentra as it plans to expand internationally

TechCrunch

India initially made its name in the tech world years ago when it staked out reputation as a key hub for business process outsourcing. Now that legacy has taken a very different turn in fintech with outsourcing of a very different kind, with the emergence of embedded finance technology. In the latest development, Lentra , an Indian embedded AI-based finance startup, has raised $60 million — a Series B that values the startup at “over $400 million,” D Venkatesh, the founder and CEO of

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The dilemma of Chinese startups going global

TechCrunch

One day in 2020, I published an article about a Chinese hardware maker which would have otherwise been a typical funding story. Instead, I got a complaint from its PR asking me to remove all mentions of “China” from the piece. The startup wanted to be called “American” on the basis of its having a small office in California. I declined, insisting on our duty to uncover relevant facts for readers.