Wed.Nov 03, 2021

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4 Essential Mistakes To Avoid During Pair Programming Interviews

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

We at HackerEarth love pair programming. Before you call out for being biased though, hear us out. Over the years we have spent perfecting our interview platform FaceCode , we have heard from many hiring managers that pair programming is one of the best ways to assess a candidate’s coding abilities in real time. Let’s look at what these managers have told us: With modern tools, employers must be well-informed about the coders’ unique skills set, ability to collaborate, solve problems, and strong

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BrainCheck brings in another $10M to detect, manage cognitive impairment

TechCrunch

As the world’s population ages, more is being learned about brain health as startups leverage technology to find a way to slow down cognitive impairment. BrainCheck , a Houston- and Austin-based company developing cognitive healthcare software to aid physicians in detecting and managing this type of care, raised $10 million in Series B funding to expand its R&D and go-to-market capabilities as it works on new digital therapeutics for Alzheimer’s and related dementias.

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Hybrid Work is Really About Trust

CEO Insider

More than anything else, successful hybrid working is about trust. CEOs trusting managers, managers trusting employees and employees trusting themselves and their teammates to do the right thing, regardless of where they are based, to achieve the outcomes they hope to achieve. Yet, when it comes to the decisions that CEOs need to make around […].

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Egypt’s Breadfast wants to build ‘Gopuff for Africa and Middle East’, gets $26M backing

TechCrunch

The market for grocery delivery across Africa and the Middle East is worth over $50 billion. And Egypt, buoyed by a young and growing population, is a big market across both regions. Investors are beginning to back their picks to capture a large chunk of the nascent but fast-growing sector, mirroring how things have played out in Europe and the U.S. this past year.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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The Future of SQL: Databases Meet Stream Processing

Confluent

SQL has proven to be an invaluable asset for most software engineers building software applications. Yet, the world as we know it has changed dramatically since SQL was created in […].

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DevSecOps Tech Radar Highlights Diverse Tooling Adoption

DevOps.com

The DevSecOps Technology Radar showcases the opinions cloud-native groups have about DevSecOps tools. To review, The Technology Radar is a periodic report from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), a burgeoning host for new open source projects that are becoming pivotal underpinnings to cloud-native architecture at large. Just like previous radars, the DevSecOps Technology Radar […].

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Bypa-ss raises $1M pre-seed to expand health tech product across Egypt

TechCrunch

Digital healthcare continues to thrive globally following the effects of the pandemic last year, but venture capital inflows differ regionally with Africa lagging behind the rest of the world. H owever, investors have paid attention to a few innovative health tech startups, putting over $77 million across 56 deals last year. Egypt is one of the continent’s bright spots and an integral contributor to health tech market value in MENA, which is expected to reach up to $2 billion by 2024.

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Threat Alert: Threat Actors Using release_agent Container Escape

Aqua Security

Earlier this year, Aqua’s Team Nautilus detected a cryptocurrency mining campaign targeting our honeypots. As part of the campaign, the threat actors used a container escape technique that leverages the CGroup release_agent feature. This technique allows an attacker to break out from the container and compromise the host and, potentially, the entire network of an organization.

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Paytm raises $1.1 billion from anchor investors in India’s blockbuster IPO

TechCrunch

Paytm has raised $1.104 billion in India’s largest-ever anchor round as part of its initial public offering, which is also shaping up to be the nation’s largest, as the poster child of the Indian startup ecosystem moves closer to listing in the public markets. Blackrock, GIC, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Birla MF are among the investors who financed the anchor round, Paytm said in a filing with a local exchange.

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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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Fast, Accurate Geolocation Data with IPWHOIS.io (Sponsored)

David Walsh

In the world of marketing and content targeting, having accurate geolocation data can be the difference between a thriving enterprise and a floundering business. Accurate data is everything, especially in the targeted marketing. When you need trustworthy geolocation data, IPWHOIS.io is a great source: fast, reliable, and accurate! Quick Hits. Start for free, very competitive pricing Provides information about location, currency, language, and more Helpful documentation and code samples Fast and

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Female founders are making a buzzing, venture-backed comeback

TechCrunch

The coronavirus pandemic disproportionately reduced venture capital funding for female founders last year, despite a greater boom in fundraising thanks to megafunds and the advent of Zoom investing. The result was an uneven landscape in which capital flowed more toward men than was normal historically. But the gender gap in startup fundraising is closing slightly, new PitchBook data shows.

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Guts & Glory

CEO Insider

When, as a young man, I set my sights on the future and imagined what it would feel like to have achieved my ambitions, I always pictured a serene version of myself, surveying his achievements with satisfaction, certain of his place in the world. While some of my youthful hopes remain unfulfilled (scoring in the […]. The post Guts & Glory appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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TuSimple aims to test self-driving trucks on public roads without human safety operator by EOY

TechCrunch

Self-driving trucks startup TuSimple signaled it is close to testing its system without a human safety operator on public roads before the end of the year. During the startup’s third-quarter earnings call on Wednesday, TuSimple announced plans to proceed with its driver-out pilot program, which would remove the driver for runs over the 80-mile route between the Phoenix and Tucson areas. “We expect to perform the initial driver runs before year end and to complete the pro pilot progra

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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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Elon Musk: A Case Study of The World’s Richest, Influential, And Most Controversial Man

CEO Insider

There is no better word to describe Elon Musk, than an ‘entrepreneur’. To Musk, entrepreneurship is more of a personality guided by high intellectual character and proper management skills. The success story of Elon Musk does not depict more of an employee in him, but a creator, manager, and developer of economy-based giant investments. His […].

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Kneron releases its first automotive-grade chip for ADAS and AV systems

TechCrunch

Kneron has launched its first automotive-grade chip — fueled by funds from Foxconn, Alibaba, Sequoia, Horizons Ventures, and Qualcomm — that it says could revolutionize the path to vehicle autonomy. The chip industry has been dominated by legacy and tech companies like Intel, AMD and Qualcomm. Kneron – which has raised over $100 million to date – has quickly emerged as a startup that deserves attention.

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AWS BugBust Challenges Developers to Set World Record for Bug Busting at re:Invent 2021

DevOps.com

Software bugs are irksome, time-consuming and can be one of the most expensive software development costs for any company on an ongoing basis. Software Testing News cited a study that found the cost of poor software quality in the United States alone was estimated to be $2.8 trillion dollars. Let that sink in. $2.8 trillion […]. The post AWS BugBust Challenges Developers to Set World Record for Bug Busting at re:Invent 2021 appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Nigeria’s lender Payhippo raises $3 million in seed funding to extend quick loans to SMEs

TechCrunch

Nigeria’s lending startup Payhippo has raised $3 million in a seed round, funding the company plans to use in sourcing the talent needed to optimize its technology as it ramps up effort to extend speedy credit to more small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the West African country. . The round was led by an array of angel investors, including Ham Serunjogi and Maijid Moujaled, the co-founders of the African cross-border payments company Chipper Cash ; Olugbenga Agboola of the San-Francisco

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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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Oracle Adds AI Services to Cloud Portfolio

DevOps.com

Oracle today unfurled Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) AI services, a collection of services that make it easier for developers to use application programming interfaces (APIs) to invoke a wide range of services based on algorithms trained by Oracle on their behalf. Elad Ziklik, vice president of product management for AI services and data science at […].

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QuestDB snares $12M Series A with hosted version coming soon

TechCrunch

QuestDB , makers of the speedy open source time series database, announced a $12 million Series A today from 468 Capital, Uncorrelated Ventures and a list of industry angels, including Alexis Ohanian. The company has now raised a total of $14.3 million, including the $2.3 million seed announced last July. Since that time, the startup, which was a member of the Y Combinator summer 2020 cohort, has been working hard to build a community around the open source project, while working on the enterpri

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Enable DevSecOps in Software Development Life Cycle

Dzone - DevOps

In this world, where Agile and DevOps are involved in the rapidly changing application development models, organizations need to install security into their DevOps with the best technologies and development. That brings together application development, IT operations, QA testing, under the umbrella of DevOps, with the aim to integrate security into your software development workflow.

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Bring on the low-cost NFTs

TechCrunch

I’ve been thinking about the NFT market quite a lot lately, mostly scratching my head at some of the prices folks are willing to pay for certain ownership signatures on particular blockchains. I just can’t get that excited about a pixelated ape. Notably, I am in the huge majority on that point, even amongst the crypto faithful. Data from Dappradar indicates that in the last 24 hours, just 31 traders swapped a mere 18 Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs.

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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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Demo: Deployment and Delivery Options in Dataiku

Dataiku

What do you do once you have built the perfect model? In Dataiku, the answer is simple. This blog post features a demo from the 2021 Dataiku Product Days session on deployment and project delivery in Dataiku. This session was presented by Jacqueline Kuo, Senior Data Scientist at Dataiku, and François Sergot, Senior Product Manager at Dataiku. If you need a refresher on operationalization to start things off, check out this blog post to be ready for the demo.

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Blotout raises $3M seed to build privacy-focused customer data platform

TechCrunch

As companies deal with a growing array of privacy laws like GDPR and CCPA, they are looking for solutions that help them not only understand their customers better, but also help them comply with those laws in a less labor-intensive way. Blotout , a member of the Y Combinator winter 2021 cohort, announced a $3 million seed round today to help solve that problem.

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Apollo GraphQL to Provide More Control Over APIs

DevOps.com

Apollo GraphQL today previewed an update to its Federation platform for tracking and managing application programming interfaces (APIs) based on the GraphQL query language to give organizations more control over how APIs are reviewed and ultimately approved. Matt DeBergalis, founder and CTO, Apollo, said the alpha edition of the Federation 2 platform provides a unified […].

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Sofar nets a $39M round B to grow its ocean-monitoring autonomous buoy network

TechCrunch

The ocean is vast and mysterious … but rather less so when you have thousands of little autonomous buoys reporting back interesting info to you every day. That’s just what Sofar Ocean has, and it just raised $39 million to scale up its vision of real-time understanding of the seven seas. The company operates what it calls an “ocean intelligence platform,” essentially a real-time map of various important oceanic metrics like currents, temperature, weather and so on.

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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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3 Unicorn CEOs (and a Unicorn Whisperer) Share Their Fast-Growth Secrets

CEO Insider

Founders and CEOs crave fast growth, often above all else. It means massive funding rounds and eye-popping valuations, infusions of top talent, bandwidth to focus on more strategic tasks, as well as the all-important runway to build great products, get them to a larger market and scale the company to unicorn and beyond. But before […]. The post 3 Unicorn CEOs (and a Unicorn Whisperer) Share Their Fast-Growth Secrets appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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Brazil’s Future Farm rakes in $58M to sell more plant-based meat and dairy

TechCrunch

Another big raise in the alternative protein space: Future Farm , a Brazilian-based food tech startup that touts plant-based meat substitutes with a “true” meat-like texture, has closed a $58 million Series C funding round, co-led by BTG, as it gears up for rapid growth in the U.S. and Europe. Other investors in the Series C include existing investors from its Series A and B, including Monashees, Go4It Capital, Turim MFO and Enfini Ventures, along with new investors XP Inc. and Rage

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How to Use Asserts in NUnit Using Selenium

Dzone - DevOps

When you are working on unit tests, there are scenarios where you wished that the execution should have stopped but alas, the most important part, "The Assertion," was missed. While developing tests using different test frameworks, my fellow developers frequently asked one question: "Should I use an assert or an exception in my test code?" It depends on what the test code should do after a certain condition is met.

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