Dataiku

DECEMBER 3, 2020

In May, Dataiku launched Dataiku Academy , a free online learning tool to enable all users to build their skills around Dataiku DSS. Dataiku Academy is designed for every type of user — from non-technical roles to the hardcore coders — and meant to guide them through self-paced, interactive online training. Below, we share the five Dataiku Academy courses with the highest enrollment and a brief overview of what each course contains so you can decide which ones to take in the new year.

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Martin Fowler

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Last year, my colleague Zhamak Dehghani introduced the notion of the Data Mesh , shifting from the notion of a centralized data lake to a distributed vision of data. Based on more thinking, and the lessons of a year's worth working with clients, she's now written an article outlining four foundational principles of a data mesh, and how they drive a logical architecture.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Launching things to space doesn’t have to mean firing a large rocket vertically using massive amounts of rocket-fuel-powered thrust — startup Aevum breaks the mould in multiple ways, with an innovative launch vehicle design that combines uncrewed aircraft with horizontal take-off and landing capabilities, with a secondary stage that deploys at high altitude and can take small payloads the rest of the way to space.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 3, 2020

You’re working hard to manage your stress and create a sense of calm for your team. But now your team is looking at you and wondering if you get it. They think, “If she really understood what was happening here, she wouldn’t […]. The post How to Manage Your Stress Without Frustrating Your Team appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Fintech startup Stripe has announced an ambitious new product today called Stripe Treasury. The company is partnering with banks to offer a banking-as-a-service API. In other words, Stripe clients will be able to provide bank accounts to their customers — the service is invite-only for now. This is part of a bigger trend called embedded finance. Essentially, instead of separating banking services from other services that you use, embedded finance products provide financial services as close as p

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Residents of Shenzhen will see truly driverless cars on the road starting Thursday. AutoX, a four-year-old startup backed by Alibaba, MediaTek and Shanghai Motors, is deploying a fleet of 25 unmanned vehicles in downtown Shenzhen, marking the first time any autonomous driving car in China tests on public roads without safety drivers or remote operators.

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TechBeacon

DECEMBER 3, 2020

In 2016, Microsoft released a prototype chatbot on Twitter. The automated program, dubbed Tay, responded to tweets and incorporated the content of those tweets into its knowledge base, riffing off the topics to carry on conversations.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2020

San Francisco-based construction startup Versatile is announcing today that it has raised a $20 million Series A. The round was led by Insight Partners and Entree Capital, along with existing investors Robert Bosch Venture Capital GmbH, Root Ventures and Conductive Ventures. The round follows $8.5 million in funding, including a $5.5 million seed round that arrived in August of last year.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Pulumi has added.NET language support to its open-source tool for Kubernetes and cloud provisioning and management. The Pulumi infrastructure-as-code tool now allows developers to declaratively provision cloud infrastructure using […].

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Bolt is better known for its ride-hailing service. But the company also operates an electric scooter service in 45 cities across Europe. Designed by the company’s in-house hardware team, the new model focuses on safety. As you can see on the photo, it’s a big scooter that weighs 19kg — that’s more than an average bike. It has a battery with a 40km range and it is primarily made of aluminum.

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TechBeacon

DECEMBER 3, 2020

This week we learn of a “breathtaking” critical vulnerability in an iOS kernel driver. AWDL is Apple’s proprietary protocol used for stupid things such as AirDrop and other ad hoc nonsense.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Latin America’s startup scene has attracted troves of venture investment, lifting highly-valued companies such as Rappi and NuBank into behemoth businesses. Now that the spotlight has arrived, those same startups need more talent than ever before to meet demand. That’s where one seed-stage Buenos Aires startup wants to help. Henry has created an online computer science school that trains software developers from low-income backgrounds to understand technical skills and get employed.

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DevOps.com

DECEMBER 3, 2020

I like the book, “Better Value Sooner Safer Happier” (BVSSH), by Jon Smart with contributions from Zsolt Berend, Myles Ogilvie and Simon Rohrer. It is not only a punchy title that captures much of what we do in IT, but it also has the depth and nuance that is sorely needed. It focuses on outcomes […]. The post BVSSH and the Digital Zeitgeist appeared first on DevOps.com.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Ultimate.ai , a virtual customer service agent builder, has closed a $20 million Series A round of funding, led by Omers Ventures with participation from Felicis Ventures and existing investors HV Capital, and Maki.vc — bringing its total raised to date to $25M+. The European startup’s flagship claim for the data-ingesting bot-builder platform is it’s capable of automating up to 80% of customer support interactions.

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Toptal

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The Apple M1 processor represents a significant step forward for Apple, but what does it mean for developers, designers, and other professionals using Apple hardware? In this article, Toptal Engineering Blog Editor Nermin Hajdarbegovic outlines what makes the M1 different and what professionals need to keep in mind should they choose to upgrade their hardware.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2020

ANYbotics , the creators of ANYmal , a four-legged autonomous robot platform intended for a variety of industrial uses, has raised a $22.3 million Swiss Franc (~$20 million) round A to continue developing and scaling the business. With similar robots just beginning to break into the mainstream, the market seems ready to take off. The company spun out of ETH Zurich in 2016, at which point the robot was already well into development.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Sumo Logic, the pioneer in continuous intelligence, announced its Cloud SIEM solution now integrates with AWS Network Firewall, a new managed service that makes it easy to deploy essential network […].

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Last week I witnessed for myself how a new kind of robot really could — as sci-fi has been telling us for many years — create and serve us food. Today, Karakuri , a food robotics startup, unveils its first automated canteen to make meals: the “DK-One” robot. It’s also revealing an $8.4 million (£6.3 million) investment, led by firstminute capital , which includes funding from Hoxton Ventures, Taylor Brothers, Ocado Group and the U.K.’s government-backed Future Fund.

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IDC

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Explore IDC's top 10 predictions for the IT industry in 2021 and beyond, straight from the latest IDC FutureScape.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Coronavirus is causing large and small businesses to drastically cut marketing budgets. In Forrester’s self-described “most optimistic scenario,” the analysts project a 28% drop in U.S. marketing spend by the end of 2021. Even Google is cutting its marketing budget in half. As marketers move forward, Forrester predicts marketing automation platforms will grow despite an overall decline in marketing technology investment.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Read why Renee Johnson rates SiSense as one of the eight most innovative tech companies to watch out for in the next year on The Tech Report blog: Pfizer has […].

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Esports One , a startup bringing the fantasy approach to esports, is announcing that it has raised an additional $4 million in funding. When I first wrote about Esports One in April , co-founder and COO Sharon Winter described it as the first “all-in-one fantasy platform” in the esports world, allowing you to research players, create fantasy teams and watch games, with an initial focus on the North American and European divisions of League of Legends.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Spatial Systems Inc., a holographic collaboration platform for augmented and virtual reality, today announced the addition of a new auditorium environment and other features and updates. Spatial told SiliconANGLE that […].

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2020

There are now about 50 million people with dementia globally , a number the World Health Organization expects to triple by 2050. Alzheimer’s is the leading cause of dementia and caregivers are often overwhelmed, without enough support. Neuroglee , a Singapore-based health tech startup, wants to help with a digital therapeutic platform created to treat patients in the early stages of the disease.

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DevOps.com

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Universal Code Search Empowers Developers to Tackle Challenges of Big Code; Andrew Reed of Sequoia Joins Board of Directors SAN FRANCISCO — December 3, 2020 — Sourcegraph, the leader in Universal Code Search, announced today that it has secured $50 million in Series C funding led by Sequoia Capital. Sourcegraph will use the new funds to address […].

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Bizay , a marketplace for small-to-medium-sized businesses allowing them to create highly customized products (such as merchandise), has raised a $38.6 million (€32 million) funding round. The Series C financing round was co-led by investors Indico Capital and the European Investment Bank, with “strong support” from Iberis Capital and existing investors including LeadX Capital Partners , Omnes Capital and Pathena.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 3, 2020

BHP has spent the past 14 months establishing a “logical data fabric” that makes it easier to find and access data stores from across its worldwide operations for data-driven projects. The […].

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Web Summit announced today that it will revive RISE , one of Asia’s largest tech conferences, in March 2022, moving it to Kuala Lumpur after five years in Hong Kong. It also announced a new event, called Web Summit Tokyo, that will launch in 2022, too. The flagship Web Summit event is currently taking place as an online conference. In November 2019, Web Summit announced it was postponing RISE to 2021 amid the pro-democracy demonstrations in Hong Kong.

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