Wed.Apr 06, 2022

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Space-Based AI Shows the Promise of Big Data

Cloudera

This blog post was written by Elizabeth Howell, Ph.D as a guest author for Cloudera. . At a distance of a million miles from Earth, the James Webb Space Telescope is pushing the edge of data transfer capabilities. The observatory launched Dec. 25 2021 on a mission to look at the early universe, at exoplanets, and at other objects of celestial interest.

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SmartHop raises $30M to boost trucking fintech products

TechCrunch

SmartHop, a startup that uses AI to help interstate truckers make their routes more efficient and lucrative by removing administrative headaches, just raised a $30 million Series B financing round, bringing the company’s total funding to $46 million following a $12 million Series A last year. The startup’s main offering is its smart dispatch service, which recommends loads to truck drivers that optimize profits and travel time based on their truck capacity, what cities they’re

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Test Automation as a Team Responsibility

Agile Alliance

Perhaps you have tried automating tests in the past, but ended up with an intimidating number of UI tests that take hours to execute. Although you’ve been maintaining the tests for months, you’ve never once seen them all pass. The post Test Automation as a Team Responsibility first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Tandem sketches out a remote-friendly hybrid work future

TechCrunch

Tandem , a startup building corporate communications tools, has released a new product called Spaces, hoping to blend remote and in-office work so that all staff feels properly connected to their co-workers. The release of Spaces comes as many companies are digesting a return to offices and the question of how to manage a team that is working from multiple locations.

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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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Temporarily Unbroken: Learning from Planning for Failure

Agile Alliance

Failure is inevitable in the work we do. The systems we build, the processes we manage, and the teams we work in will all break at some point. But the fact that everything around us is fragile is not an invitation to accept things as they are. The post Temporarily Unbroken: Learning from Planning for Failure first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Technical Agile Coaching with the Samman Method

Agile Alliance

Samman is a method for people who want to make a difference and improve the way software is built. The focus is specifically on technical practices and how people write code, and it's the best way I know to help software developers to adopt practices like TDD and Refactoring. The post Technical Agile Coaching with the Samman Method first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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London-based Fidel API lands $65M in Series B funding, proving fintech infrastructure is hotter than ever

TechCrunch

Financial infrastructure startup Fidel API has raised $65 million in a Series B funding round led by Bain Capital Ventures. The London-based company provides identity, data and payments products that it says gives developers a way to capture consent permissions and “securely” connect payment cards to a service or application. . “With this infrastructure, developers are able to create highly contextualized and event-driven user experiences at the point of purchase,” it claims.

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The 6 Pillars of DevSecOps: Pillar One-Collective Responsibility

DevOps.com

With the increased interest in DevSecOps, the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) and Software Assurance Forum for Excellence in Code (SAFECode) brought together a DevSecOps Working Group to identify and share best practices for the development and maintenance of a DevSecOps program. This working group identified and defined six focus areas critical to integrating DevSecOps into […].

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SpinLaunch scores NASA test mission to demonstrate its unique launch method

TechCrunch

SpinLaunch aims to change how we get to orbit by shooting payloads skyward from the surface at 5,000 MPH, and now it has a shiny new NASA contract to show off its capability later this year. We’ve been hearing about SpinLaunch for years, but until fairly recently its idea for accelerating mass to orbit by means of a sort of underground centrifuge was, shall we say, only lightly substantiated.

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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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Facebook Bans Innocent Users | Azure and ARM/Ampere | ‘Great Resignation’—No End in Sight

DevOps.com

In this week’s The Long View: No remedy for banned Facebook users, new ARM-based VMs on Microsoft Azure, and The Great Resignation will still be a Thing for the foreseeable. The post Facebook Bans Innocent Users | Azure and ARM/Ampere | ‘Great Resignation’—No End in Sight appeared first on DevOps.com.

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6 questions investors should ask when evaluating psychedelic biotech companies

TechCrunch

Matias Serebrinsky. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Matias Serebrinsky is a partner at PsyMed Ventures, a venture fund expanding access to psychedelic medicine and mental health tech. He co-hosts Business Trip, a podcast about psychedelic entrepreneurship. Greg Kubin. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Greg Kubin is a partner at PsyMed Ventures and co-host of Business Trip.

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Kubernetes RBAC: How to Avoid Privilege Escalation via Certificate Signing

Aqua Security

Following on from our previous post on the risks of privilege escalation in Kubernetes via the node/proxy resource, we’re going to take a look at how users who have rights to the certificate signing request (CSR) API in Kubernetes might be able to use them to escalate their privileges in a cluster. In addition to highlighting a potential security risk to be aware of, we’ll also explain how this Kubernetes feature works.

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Austin emerges as a city of unicorns and tech giants

TechCrunch

Austin made headlines in 2021 for being “the place” for startup founders and venture capitalists alike to set up shop. That’s why TechCrunch has chosen to shine a spotlight on the city with a special episode of TechCrunch Live centered on the growing startup scene in Austin, Texas. As Austin’s skyline expands, the city continues to solidify its standing as a tech hub.

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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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Security Debt: Speed vs. Common Sense

DevOps.com

A couple years ago, we had some spectacular security events that involved DevOps and Kubernetes, where the managing team simply redeployed containers whenever one crashed. It turned out that many organizations were doing the same thing, and, what’s worse, they were not talking about it because they knew it was not a long-term solution to […].

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FabuLingua wins the TechCrunch City Spotlight: Austin pitch-off!

TechCrunch

It’s my pleasure to announce FabuLingua won today’s City Spotlight: Austin pitch-off! The company competed against knowRX Health and Vertikal X on today’s TechCrunch Live episode and won free exhibition space at TechCrunch Disrupt this October. Mark Begert pitched his company to three Austin-based investors who found his messaging and pitch to be clear, concise and easy to follow.

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New Relic Adds SLO Tools to Observability Platform

DevOps.com

New Relic this week made a service level indicator (SLI) and service level objective (SLO) capability generally available within the New Relic One observability platform. The new capability makes it possible for DevOps teams to customize metrics, unified health reports and alerts. Alex Kroman, general manager and senior vice president for product engineering for New […].

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Better.com offering employees 60-days severance, losing ‘tens of millions’ per month per sources

TechCrunch

Less than one month after laying off 3,000 employees , digital mortgage lender Better.com is offering its corporate, product, design and engineering employees 60 days paid severance, or voluntary separation plans, and health insurance coverage “to anyone who wants it,” according to several sources familiar with internal happenings at the company. .

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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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What is a “Definition of Done” in software and why you need it for alignment

Allstacks

One of the early startup phase advantages is building and maintaining alignment across the organization. It’s not hard to be on the same page when just three people work in the same room. But as you grow, how do you maintain that alignment, continue to “speak the same language,” and ensure that information isn’t heavily centralized or siloed?

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Daily Crunch: Citing ‘uncertain mortgage market,’ Better.com rolls out employee buyout plan

TechCrunch

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PT, subscribe here. Welcome to the Daily Crunch for Wednesday, April 6, 2022! Today, Pinterest announced it was banning all climate change misinformation on its platform , and can we just say … about time! May all other platforms follow. Also, while we’re on our little soapbox: The earth ain’t flat, and vaccines have little impact on your 5G reception.

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Test Estimation Techniques in Software Testing

Exadel

Read more about other Exadel QA solutions. What Is Test Estimation? Accurately applying QA estimation techniques is a must-have skill for every QA engineer. But what exactly is estimation in software testing? Simply put, test estimation is a management activity that helps us find how long it will take to test our product and how much that testing will cost.

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Ascend.io lands $31M to automate data pipeline orchestration

TechCrunch

Ascend.io , a company developing data automation products for enterprise customers, has raised $31 million in a Series B round led by Tiger Global with participation from Shasta Ventures and existing investor Accel, it announced today. CEO Sean Knapp says that the new capital — which brings Ascend’s total to $50 million — will be used to expand the startup’s engineering, sales and marketing teams while extending Ascend’s platform to support greater automation.

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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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What extensibility means to business efficiency and innovation

TechBeacon

Companies of all sizes depend on a wide array of software to help them handle the challenges they face today—and hopefully to take advantage of opportunities that will come up tomorrow. To effectively meet these objectives, organizations continuously implement new technologies and ideas. But it's always best to innovate in ways that avoid system overhauls, because that saves resources and speeds time to market.

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Axie Infinity creator raises $150M round to compensate victims of ~$625M Ronin hack

TechCrunch

Vietnamese gaming studio Sky Mavis announced that it has raised $150 million in funding led by crypto exchange Binance to help reimburse users who lost funds during a ~$625 million hack of its play-to-earn game Axie Infinity , which was the largest crypto heist to date. Animoca Brands, a16z, Dialectic, Paradigm and Accel also participated in the raise, according to Sky Mavis.

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The 5 Best AWS Reporting Tools For Monitoring Usage And Cost

CloudZero

While modernizing IT infrastructure, securing data, and ensuring high availability are high priorities, optimizing AWS costs and utilization has consistently been the top priority for most companies in recent years.

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Qureos raises $3M to grow its learn to earn platform

TechCrunch

Qureos , a UAE-based edtech and remote work marketplace that is changing how people upskill and get jobs across the globe, plans to grow the uptake of its platform by 10 times this year in its race to create 100 million jobs over the next few years. The startup has today announced closing a $3 million pre-seed funding to accelerate this growth. Qureos was founded in August last year by Alexander Epure , Mehrad Yaghmai and Usama Nini in a bid to make mentorship more accessible to individuals tha

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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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CodeSOD: Valuable Comments

The Daily WTF

When we share code comments, it's usually because they demonstrate some lack of awareness or some carelessness about what's going on. A comment warning "I know I shouldn't do this" or a comment that contradicts the code in a funny way, that's usually what we share. But today's submission, from Dewey , is a bit different. Dewey wrote the comment, and it was in preparation for some serious refactoring.

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The Parentinc raises $22M led by East Ventures for its parenting community and D2C brand

TechCrunch

Roshni Mahtani Cheung, group CEO and founder of The Parentinc. The Parentinc , a Singapore-based startup that runs a parenting community and direct-to-consumer product line, announced today it has raised $22 million. The round was led by East Ventures with undisclosed investors and included participation from Central Retail Corporation, a new backer, and returning investor WHG Holdings.

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Motivating People on a Cross-Functional Team

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Leading a cross-functional team involves learning what motivates each individual on your team. Motivating a cross-functional team requires the leader to set goals that inspire people. They have to connect each team member’s work to the project’s success. They also have to understand people from different backgrounds. Goals need to be ambitious but pragmatic.