Dataiku

APRIL 7, 2022

Twenty years ago, the product recommendations team at Amazon.com could hire as many data scientists as they wanted and hired Ph.D.’s in computer science, mathematics, and economics. Ten years later, a San Francisco-based startup that also did product recommendations raised $100 million in venture capital, served 600 million shoppers per month, but had difficulty hiring top data science talent since the best candidates were all going to Google and Facebook.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

Companies producing software are becoming ever more reliant on open source databases to build their programs, but it’s complex working with all these different products. Instaclustr , a California startup, wanted to change that by offering popular open source databases delivered as a service. Today, NetApp bought the company for an undisclosed amount.

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Agile Alliance

APRIL 7, 2022

Mainframes, like Mark Twain, may well say, "The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated." Mainframe systems have always been around, quietly processing 80% or more of financial transactions worldwide while people's attention was focused on colorful and innovative front-ends. Now mainframes are enjoying a resurgence. The post Test-Driven Development in Cobol first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

If you’re still wrapping your head around the idea of self-driving cars, get ready for something that might seem even wilder: self-driving construction equipment exists, and it’s already out there digging away on job sites. We first wrote about Built Robotics back in 2019 , when the company was in the early stages of firing up its autonomous excavators.

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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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Agile Alliance

APRIL 7, 2022

I bought in to the Agile fantasy that managers go away, or are at least less destructive than before a transformation occurs. But here I am, in the middle of a large scale agile transformation at the fourth largest bank in the world – and there are managers EVERYWHERE. The post Thawing the Frozen Middle to Create a Self-organizing Transformation first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Agile Alliance

APRIL 7, 2022

Microservices are becoming more prevalent. External behavior of an application depends on multiple services working together. Each service needs to be checked that it both provides the desired behavior as well as handles exceptions and error conditions, such as the inability to communicate with a dependency. The post Testing Microservices – See It, Feel It, Touch It, Heal It, Explore It first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

Jüsto , the Mexico City-based online grocer, continues to run on all cylinders with a goal of saturating the Latin American market. The company claims to be the first supermarket in Mexico with no physical store that enables customers to buy groceries directly from its website, or an app, and Jüsto will deliver the order to the customer’s location of choice.

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DevOps.com

APRIL 7, 2022

A survey of 140 enterprise architects and IT leaders published today suggested that, while moving applications to the cloud remains a priority, more attention is being paid to reducing technical debt by retiring applications. Conducted by LeanIX, a provider of a platform for managing enterprise architecture and managing value stream management (VSM), the survey found […].

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

Lilt , a provider of AI-powered business translation software, today announced that it raised $55 million in a Series C round led by Four Rivers, joined by new investors Sorenson Capital, CLEAR Ventures and Wipro Ventures. The company says that it plans to use the capital to expand its R&D efforts as well as its customer footprint and engineering teams. “Lilt [aims to] build a solution that [will] combine the best of human ingenuity with machine efficiency,” CEO Spence Green told

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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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DevOps.com

APRIL 7, 2022

Google today revealed it has been working with GitHub to create a forgery-proof method for signing source code as part of an ongoing effort to better secure software supply chains. Bob Callaway, technology lead for open source software supply chain security at Google, said a prototype of this method, written in the Go programming language, […].

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

Public travel systems provider Amadeus opened for business way back in 1987 when four airlines wanted to offer a centralized booking system. Today, the company facilitates booking and inventory management for 216 airlines, as well as hotels, trains, airports, online travel companies and even corporations. In short, it covers just about every aspect of travel IT imaginable.

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CEO Insider

APRIL 7, 2022

“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.” – Warren Buffett Remaining competitive in your industry is challenging with a tarnished reputation. In today’s news cycle, reporting on an organization’s downward reputational spiral can be difficult to watch — especially when that impairment is the result of application downtime […].

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

Fashion e-commerce startup, The Folklore Group , has today announced a shift from direct-to-consumer to B2B wholesale against the backdrop of a $1.7 million pre-seed funding, which the startup plans to use to fuel the growth of its new business. The startup’s new wholesale business dubbed The Folklore Connect , will link luxury fashion brands in emerging markets to bulk retailers in North America, and later, in Europe.

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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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DevOps.com

APRIL 7, 2022

Organizations embarking on digital transformation journeys tend to develop complex infrastructures. They update their legacy applications while adding multi-cloud, virtual and cloud-native capabilities. Eventually, IT pros find themselves managing diverse, complex and distributed networks including cloud, system, application and database infrastructures.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

If “The Great Resignation” taught us anything, it is that people want to be appreciated, respected and well paid for their work. Staff turnover in restaurants and hospitality has always been an issue, with people leaving at an average rate of 30%. That’s where Landed comes in. The company touts itself as the “first end-to-end recruitment engine for the restaurant and hospitality industries,” by automating the process of candidate sourcing, engagement and interviewing.

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DataRobot

APRIL 7, 2022

F1 is headed Down Under next week for the first time since 2019. The Australian Grand Prix – taking place in Melbourne’s Albert Park Circuit – will showcase a new track layout and will be a homecoming for Australia’s own, McLaren Racing driver Daniel Ricciardo. The track changes, which Ricciardo consulted on , are the first modifications since 1996 and are aimed at reducing lap times, increasing speeds, and bringing the cars closer together.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

Self-driving trucking company Kodiak Robotics and U.S. Xpress, an American truckload carrier with a large footprint, have completed a pilot that tested autonomous freight service between Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, and Atlanta, Georgia, using one of Kodiak’s autonomous trucks. During the pilot, which occurred in late March, the Kodiak truck and pre-loaded U.S.

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Tenable

APRIL 7, 2022

VMware cautions organizations to patch or mitigate several serious vulnerabilities across multiple products. Background. On April 6, VMware published an advisory (VMSA-2022-0011) addressing eight vulnerabilities across a number of VMware products: CVE. Description. CVSSv3. CVE-2022-22954. Server-side Template Injection Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. 9.8.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

The company behind Axie Infinity, a popular crypto play-to-earn game, raised $150 million in funding this week to help reimburse users who lost funds worth about $625 million in a hack last week. Axie Infinity’s creator, Vietnamese gaming studio Sky Mavis, had garnered wide acclaim for building the most-played NFT game of all time, with 2.2 million monthly active players, according to the company.

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InnovationM

APRIL 7, 2022

Github is a code hosting platform that lets you and others work on the same project simultaneously. Github is the largest community of Developers where anyone can contribute to the project. By making a separate branch of the code a dedicated area is assigned to the developer so that there won’t be any clash between the production-ready code and the code in review.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

Over the past two years, Asia’s retailers were forced to do virtual meetings instead of visiting in-person trade shows or conferences to source new brands and products due to the pandemic lockdowns. A startup called Peeba has built a B2B wholesale online platform that connects independent retailers across Asia with unique brands around the world. Peeba says the lack of B2B-focused online wholesale solutions and tech infrastructure hampered Asia’s antiquated B2B retail, wholesale market in busin

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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.

Cloudera

APRIL 7, 2022

As a public sector leader, you don’t need the value of data explained to you. You already understand its importance to your vital missions. . The challenge, rather, lies in locating data, streaming it, enriching it, and serving it, and then running analytics to maximize the value of the data that agencies already have — and the massive amount of new data generated every day from a wide variety of structured and unstructured sources.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

The U.S. residential real estate market has been booming because of the pandemic. Although the rise in home prices has shut many people out of the market, it’s been highly lucrative for those who own property. The attractive returns in this sector have lured more investors into the market, but the processes associated with buying an investment property are still costly and fairly antiquated.

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Beyond B2B

APRIL 7, 2022

Despite misconceptions around decreasing mainframe usage, as emphasis on the cloud increases, we’ve seen a strong momentum of growth in IBM zSystem workloads and know that core applications still matter.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

Champ Suthipongchai. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Champ Suthipongchai is a co-founder and general partner at Creative Ventures , a method-driven deep tech VC firm investing in startups that address the impact of increasing labor shortages, rising healthcare costs and the climate crisis. More posts by this contributor. Invest in Earth’s biggest problems to save the planet and turn a profit.

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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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James Shore

APRIL 7, 2022

All too often, people think of their plans as simple lists of features—a “to-do” list for their product. But a great plan can be so much more. It can be a visual representation of the possibilities available to you. A roadmap that allows you to choose some paths to follow and others to leave behind. In this session, we’re joined by two pioneers of visual planning: Jeff Patton and Gojko Adzic.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

TC Sessions: Mobility is back and raring to go big — returning live and in-person — for its fourth consecutive year. It’s a two-day deep dive featuring the best, brightest and most intriguing founders, engineers, investors, regulators and technologists dedicated to transforming the way we move people and packages around the globe. Whether you are an undergraduate student with a startup idea or an MBA candidate building your company, TC Mobility offers students the opportunity to connect and coll

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Symantec

APRIL 7, 2022

Innovation and advanced technologies to protect the enterprise against ransomware, and all known, and unknown threats

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