Xebia

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Self-organizing, autonomous, cross-functional, agile teams. We are used to seeing them a lot in the IT industry. And with the agility trend going up and getting more popular, these kinds of teams keep popping up in other industries. Marketing, HR, finance (you name it) are gradually shifting their work styles to agility. The reason behind it is to establish and strengthen the (product) teams and move away from project or functionally-oriented organizational silos.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2022

India’s Decentro , the Y Combinator-backed startup that helps companies enter the fintech market by deploying its APIs, has raised $4.7 million in a Series A round. The Bengaluru-based startup offers banking and payments APIs that allow development of fintech products such as banking, payment cards, neobanking and collections and payout services in a short period of time.

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Xebia

OCTOBER 31, 2022

use(): the React new experimental hook. React team and the JavaScript community are discussing a hook called `use` and I see a lot of hype about this new feature. See how to implement it and the possibilities for the near future. —-. React has a GitHub repo called RFC that stands for request for comments. It’s a great place where you can interact discussing the new features that the React team has intention to add into the React core or simply discuss ideas suggested by the community

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CIO

OCTOBER 31, 2022

As project-based business practices give way to product-focused cross-functional teams, the product manager role is taking on prominence, increasingly attracting interest from job candidates who might otherwise go into IT. A product manager coordinates technical, marketing, and business functions, taking ownership over a specific product or service over the course of its lifecycle.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Invygo, a startup operating in UAE and Saudi Arabia, has raised $10 million in its Series A funding led by MEVP as it works to scale its car rental service in the region. The Middle East-based startup, founded by Eslam Ahmed Hussein and Pulkit Ganjoo in 2019, has raised $14.3 million to date. Al Rajhi Partners, Arab Bank, Amana Capital and Palm Drive Capital and existing backers Signal Peak Ventures and Knollwood Investment Advisory also participated in the new round.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Alex Fedorov. Contributor. Alex Fedorov is CEO and founder at OBRIO , an IT company with Ukrainian roots that develops products in mobile applications, web products and SaaS. Business owners always say that each company has to live through a real crisis before it becomes a real business. All big companies we know have experienced a few big crises during their lifetimes, and they are still in the game.

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CIO

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Imagine booking a room at a small, charming, off-the-beaten-path hotel on the Hawaiian island of Kauai using a popular mobile travel app, only to discover that the room is… haunted! That’s what happened to my friend Dana. As Dana told it, she went to bed at midnight after a long travel day. But that didn’t go as planned. She struggled to sleep. Then, at 3 A.M., Dana claims she saw a pale, vaporous head of an older fellow floating above her bed, mouthing words she could not hear.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Creative Fabrica , a marketplace for digital files like print-on-demand assets, fonts and graphics, announced today it will launch its own generative AI tool. Called CF Spark , it’s already seen three million prompts generated, and more than 500,000 published by Creative Fabrica creators over the past three weeks. Like other digital assets on the platform, users can put up their generative AI files for paid use by other members, which Creative Fabrica says makes it the first generative AI that a

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Speak Up to Get Better Feedback in Your Next Performance Review. A few years ago, I wrote “Avoid These Infuriating Phrases in End-of-Year Feedback” to encourage managers to stop making stupid comments when giving a performance review. This heartfelt post came from years of listening to high-performing employees vent their frustrations about the stupid things their managers said.

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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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Inefficiencies have marred Nigeria’s rental system for years, thus affecting how landlords and renters transact. Most landlords collect rent one to two years upfront, while renters struggle to find apartments as they deal with uncharitable agents. . Several proptech startups are addressing such problems by providing better options to both stakeholders.

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Toptal

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Naive React routing increases risk and maintenance. This tutorial provides a full exploration of routing approaches, achieving an elegant solution that seamlessly fits into any React code base.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Saba Karim. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Saba Karim is director of the startup pipeline at Techstars. As the head of startup pipeline at Techstars, I’ve been getting on calls with founders, attending events, speaking on stages like TechCrunch’s Disrupt and hosting countless Twitter Spaces. Each time, I’ve been telling founders why they should join an accelerator.

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David Walsh

OCTOBER 31, 2022

One of the ideological sticking points of the first JavaScript framework was was extending prototypes vs. wrapping functions. Frameworks like MooTools and Prototype extended prototypes while jQuery and other smaller frameworks did not. Each had their benefits, but ultimately all these years later I still believe that the ability to extend native prototypes is a massive feature of JavaScript.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Tokyo-based startup ispace’s lunar ambitions will soon be put to the test, as the company gears up for its first launch at the end of this month. The startup will attempt to send its “Hakuto-R” lander to the moon’s surface, kicking off an ambitious lunar exploration program of the same name. Founded in 2010, ispace is one of many emerging companies that want to foster new markets on and around the moon; on its website, it describes its goal as becoming “a gateway for private sector companies to

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DevOps.com

OCTOBER 31, 2022

DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted as part of an effort to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers. Of course, the pool of available DevOps talent […].

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2022

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. Last week was a hell of a week in startup news, and Henry wrote a particularly good summary of everything that went down, including Elon Musk’s Twitter purchase, Meta’s troubles, and a minute of silence for self-driving cars. — Christine and Haje.

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DevOps.com

OCTOBER 31, 2022

It is a time of ghouls, mischievous spirits and David S. Pumpkins. In the spirit of Halloween, here are the top five scariest limitations of software composition analysis (SCA) tools that are enough to send shivers down your spine. Read on … if you dare! 1. SCA Scans Only Your Application Code SCA’s scope is […]. The post The Scariest Things About SCA appeared first on DevOps.com.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Politician turned venture capitalist Bradley Tusk recently spoke at a TechCrunch Live event on how startups should approach regulation. Dibbs CEO and co-founder Evan Vandenberg joined Tusk in the conversation. The event is embedded below, and it’s free to watch. Throughout the talk, the two guests expressed their firm stance on the power of utilizing regulations to build trust and utility.

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Netlify

OCTOBER 31, 2022

When spinning up a new project on Netlify, there’s a handful of integrations you’re going to want to configure up front. The new Environment Variable Inputs update takes away the headache of hunting down what variables you need to get the project working and integrate them into your build right at the start of your project!

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2022

When Pinecone announced a vector database at the beginning of last year, it was building something that was specifically designed for machine learning and aimed at data scientists. The idea was that you could query this data in a format that machines understand, making it much faster. Originally this involved semantic searches where users could search based on meaning instead of specific words.

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DevOps.com

OCTOBER 31, 2022

With the relentless pace of enterprise digital transformation efforts, even in this softening economy, developers still face an enviable job market. The number of open job positions in computer occupations is greater than 804,000, according to National Foundation for American Policy (NFAP) analysis and, at 326,000 vacancies, software developers have by far the largest number […].

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Like many “solopreneurs,” home service professionals have to balance doing the work while also managing a business. Topline Pro wants to take some of that burden off the shoulders of professionals so they can concentrate on customers. New York-based Topline Pro, formerly ProPhone, does this by leveraging generative artificial intelligence to provide a way for these businesses to get discovered, build trust among customers and generate repeat customers.

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CloudZero

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Typically, startup founders and executives must meet with their board of directors each quarter to review the progress of the company. They may talk about broad topics such as total costs and total revenue, and use these numbers as a guide to determine which moves the company should make in the near future.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Stocks are mixed around the world, notably lower in China on the back of some negative economic data, and down in the United States ahead of what is expected to be another rise in interest rates thanks to the Federal Reserve.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Leaders sometimes mistake form for function without truly understanding and appreciating the impacts on their teams. Failure to do so can lead to major issues. You need to think through what you want your team to deliver versus focusing on how they’re delivering it. Today’s post is by Robbie Hardy, author of Upsetting the Table ( CLICK HERE to get your copy).

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Ivanti

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Raise your hand if you enjoy being kicked out of the application you were working on for an unexpected security patch! No one? We can wait …. Really, no one? Okay, we figured. And we’re not surprised. Jamie Whalen, host of the Everywhere Workplace Podcast , recently sat down with Steve Brasen, Research Director for Enterprise Management Associates, to talk about the perceived conflict between Digital Employee Experience (DEX) and security.

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Flexagon

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Azure Function App is a serverless solution that allows you to execute small, event-driven, pieces of code without worrying about infrastructure. It supports various languages, and one Function App can host multiple Azure Functions. You can write less code and maintain less infrastructure, and instead focus on the code that matters to you, in the language that works best for you.

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Netlify

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Personalize your B2B company website using these three real-world examples to increase MQLs and feature adoption and decrease advertising costs.

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