Thu.May 13, 2021

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The hamburger model is a winning go-to-market strategy

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Caryn Marooney. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Caryn Marooney is general partner at Coatue Management and sits on the boards of Zendesk and Elastic. In prior roles she oversaw communications for Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Oculus and co-founded The OutCast Agency, which served clients like Salesforce.com and Amazon. More posts by this contributor.

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(Part 2) Essential Questions To Ask When Interviewing Developers In 2021

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

The first part of this blog stresses the importance of asking the right technical interview questions to assess a candidate’s coding skills. But that alone is not enough. If you want to hire the crème de la crème of the developer talent out there, you have to look for a well-rounded candidate. . Honest communication, empathy, and passion for their work are equally important as a candidate’s technical knowledge.

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Walmart acquires virtual clothing try-on startup Zeekit

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Retail giant Walmart announced this morning it’s acquiring the Tel Aviv-based startup Zeekit , which allows consumers to virtually “try on” clothing when shopping online. The company leverages a combination of real-time image processing, computer vision, deep learning and other AI technology to show shoppers how they would look in an item by way of a simulation that takes into account body dimensions, fit, size and even the fabric of the garment itself.

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The Role of APIs In Digital Transformation

DevOps.com

Digital transformation is increasingly propelled by rapidly changing user expectations. Release frequency is increasing, as is the need to connect a growing number of applications and digital experiences. As a result, 83% of IT specialists consider API integration critical to their business, found the State of API Integration Report. Application programming interfaces (APIs) hold powerful […].

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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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Chef Robotics raises $7.7M to help automate kitchens

TechCrunch

A year and a half’s worth of global pandemic has had a profound impact on virtually every sector of the workforce. When it comes to future automation, food prep isn’t quite at the top of the list (that distinction likely goes to warehouse fulfillment , for the time being), but it’s certainly up there. And it’s easy to see why the events of 2020 and beyond have left many kitchens looking for alternative sources of labor.

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Upsie’s direct-to-consumer swing at the warranty space nets $18.2M

TechCrunch

Upsie , a consumer warranty startup, has raised $18.2 million in a Series A round led by True Ventures. . The financing brings the total raised for the St. Paul, Minnesota-based startup to $25 million since its 2015 inception. A large group of investors participated in the round, including Concrete Rose VC, Avanta Ventures, Kapor Capital, Samsung Next, Massive, Backstage Capital, Awesome People Ventures, Draft Ventures, Matchstick Ventures, M25, Silicon Valley Bank and Uncommon VC, among others.

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How AI defends critical infrastructure from ransomware

Darktrace

In the wake of the Colonial Pipeline cyber-attack, this blog discusses the many threats facing critical infrastructure, and how Cyber AI disrupted a similar ‘double extortion’ ransomware attack against an electrical utilities supplier.

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Legionfarm, pairing pro gamers with amateurs, raises $6 million Series A

TechCrunch

Legionfarm , the gaming platform that lets gamers play with pro players in their favorite games, has today announced the close of a $6 million Series A round. Investors in the round include SVB, Y Combinator, Scrum VC, Kevin Lin, Altair Capital, Ankur Nagpal and more. Legionfarm launched out of Y Combinator at the beginning of last year with a mission to give pro players a way to generate income and amateur players the chance to get better by playing with a pro coach.

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AXA axes ransomware insurance. Who’s next?

TechBeacon

Huge multinational insurance firm AXA Group has announced it will no longer write cyber-insurance policies that pay out extortionate ransoms to hackers. So far, this applies only to France, but observers wonder if the strategy will spread.

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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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Alba Orbital’s mission to image the Earth every 15 minutes brings in $3.4M seed round

TechCrunch

Orbital imagery is in demand, and if you think having daily images of everywhere on Earth is going to be enough in a few years, you need a lesson in ambition. Alba Orbital is here to provide it with its intention to provide Earth observation at intervals of 15 minutes rather than hours or days — and it just raised $3.4M to get its next set of satellites into orbit.

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fgets() vs scanf() in C

The Crazy Programmer

In this article, we will take a look at two of the most basic functions used in the C language and subsequently, we will compare them on the basis of their usage. Both fgets and scanf functions are used to take basic user inputs in the program. The major difference between these two functions is that the scanf function takes the input of any data type (int, float, char, double, etc.) but falls behind while taking string inputs.

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With its newest round, Liquid Death will exclusively ‘murder your thirst’ at Live Nation events

TechCrunch

Liquid Death , a four-year-old, LA-based canned mountain water startup that has steadily garnered market share and press coverage by promising, amusingly, to “murder your thirst,” just raised $15 million in Series C funding. The round brings the company’s total backing to date to $50 million. The new financing — it follows a $23 million Series B round last fall — was seemingly about getting more strategic partners involved with the brand.

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Empowering BizDevOps Teams With SLOs

DevOps.com

When BizDevOps teams are drowning in logs and false alerts and are spending more time on manual processes than on building and deploying new applications and features, the work suffers, morale suffers and the organization as a whole suffers. Releasing better and more secure software, faster and with real business impacts starts with a robust […].

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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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Even startups on tight budgets can maximize their marketing impact

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Dominik Angerer. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Dominik Angerer is CEO and co-founder of headless CMS Storyblok , which provides best practice guidance for startups on how to build a sustainable approach to marketing their content. Search engine optimization, PR, paid marketing, emails, social — marketing and communications is crowded with techniques, channels, solutions and acronyms.

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Cybersecurity Executive Order requires new software security standards

Synopsys

President Biden’s Cybersecurity Executive Order requires new software security standards and best practices. Learn what you can do to prepare now. The post Cybersecurity Executive Order requires new software security standards appeared first on Software Integrity Blog.

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Substack acquires team from community consulting startup People & Company

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New media poster child Substack announced today that they’ve added a small community-building consultancy team to its ranks, acquiring the Brooklyn-based startup People & Company. The small firm has been working with clients to build up their community efforts, and its team will now be tasked with building up some of the newsletter company’s upstart efforts for writers in its network.

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AWS vs. Azure vs. Google Cloud: Comparing Cloud Platforms

Kaseya

Fueled by the shift to remote and hybrid work environments and the need to digitally transform business during the global pandemic, the adoption of cloud computing has reached an all-time high. Needless to say, cloud services are in high demand today. But, what exactly is a cloud service provider? As the name suggests, a cloud service provider is essentially a third-party company that offers a cloud-based platform for application, infrastructure or storage services.

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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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Advanced tax strategies for startup founders

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Peyton Carr. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Peyton Carr is a financial advisor to founders, entrepreneurs and their families, helping them with planning and investing. He is a managing director of Keystone Global Partners. More posts by this contributor. What you need to know before selling your company’s stock. Is your net worth too closely tied to your company’s success?

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Zero Trust Software: Polymorphing for Linux White Paper 2021

CTOvision

The goal of zero trust designs is to stop attacks before they occur. Here is a favored approach by a team of experienced professionals we know and trust, LP3. Behind every major hack—OPM, Equifax, BlueCross, WannaCry, Target, Home Depot, Sony, WhatsApp, you name it—is a bug the hackers exploited. It’s impossible to fix every bug: […].

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Software subscriptions are eating the world: Solving billing and cash flow woes simultaneously

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Krish Subramanian. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Krish Subramanian is co-founder and CEO of Chargebee , a global leader in subscription billing and revenue management. He began his career as a software engineer at a startup before going on to specialize in indirect purchasing implementations for Fortune 500 customers. Although recurring revenue businesses have been around for a long time, the trend toward a subscription economy has escalated rapidly in the last few years.

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5 Factors to Consider When Choosing a Stream Processing Engine

Cloudera

Are you using the right stream processing engine for the job at hand? You might think you are—and you very well might be!—but have you really examined the stream processing engines out there in a side-by-side comparison to make sure? Our Choose the Right Stream Processing Engine for Your Data Needs whitepaper makes those comparisons for you, so you can quickly and confidently determine which engine best meets your key business requirements.

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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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SpecTrust raises millions to fight cybercrime with its no-code platform

TechCrunch

Risk defense startup SpecTrust is emerging from stealth today with a $4.3 million seed raise and a public launch. Cyber Mentor Fund led the round, which also included participation from Rally Ventures, SignalFire, Dreamit Ventures and Legion Capital. SpecTrust aims to “fix the economics of fighting fraud” with a no-code platform that it says cuts 90% of a business’ risk infrastructure spend that responds to threats in “minutes instead of months.” .

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Dear Vendor: Letter to Technology Vendors

DevOps.com

While I was writing my “Dear Management …” post, something was going on behind the scenes that inspired me to write another. We all have things we wish to say to vendors; this open letter picks some of the big points that they seem to invariably struggle with. Dear Vendor, We want to use your […]. The post Dear Vendor: Letter to Technology Vendors appeared first on DevOps.com.

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BRD’s Blockset unveils its white-label cryptocurrency wallet for banks and other enterprise clients

TechCrunch

Blockset , the blockchain infrastructure platform for enterprises by BRD , announced early access to its Wallet-as-a-Service today. The white-label solution gives clients, like financial institutions, the ability to launch wallets that have the same features as BRD’s own mobile cryptocurrency wallet, which now has about 7 million users with over $20 billion assets under protection.

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Crypto Exchange Wars: How Coinbase Stacks Up Against Its Rivals

Toptal

Coinbase is among the hundreds of cryptocurrency exchanges that have sought to fill a gap left by the mainstream, for years offering investors the only platforms for investing in Bitcoin and other tokens. However the industry has matured, and the mainstream is warming up to crypto, making the exchange business hotly contested and challenging leaders like Coinbase.

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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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China’s WeRide secures more funding, pushing valuation to $3.3 billion

TechCrunch

Only four months after securing Series B fundraising of $310 million, Chinese autonomous driving company WeRide says it has achieved its Series C funding round that brings its post-money valuation to $3 billion. This is first time the company has disclosed its value. The company did not share how much it has raised this round, only noting that it’s in the “hundreds of millions,” according to a statement released by the company.

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Using kafka-merge-purge to Deal with Failure in an Event-Driven System at FLYERALARM

Confluent

Failures are inevitable in any system, and there are various options for mitigating them automatically. This is made possible by event-driven applications leveraging Apache Kafka® and built with fault tolerance […].

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Is there a creed in venture capital?

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Scott Lenet. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Scott Lenet is President of Touchdown Ventures. More posts by this contributor. Analyzing the spectrum of corporate innovation from R&D to VC. “Darth Ventures” and the efficacy of Sith management techniques. How should venture capitalists and corporate innovators assess Din Djarin, the protagonist of The Mandalorian?