TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

Mercuryo , a startup that has built a cross-border payments network, has raised $7.5 million in a Series A round of funding. The London-based company describes itself as “a crypto infrastructure company” that aims to make blockchain useful for businesses via its “digital asset payment gateway.” Specifically, it aggregates various payment solutions and provides fiat and crypto payments and payouts for businesses. .

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CIO

JUNE 25, 2021

Power BI is Microsoft’s interactive data visualization and analytics tool for business intelligence (BI). With Power BI, you can pull in data from a wide range of systems in the cloud and on premises and create dashboards that track the metrics you care about the most. You can even drill down into your data and (literally) ask questions about it. Power BI’s rich reports or dashboards can be embedded in reporting portals you already use.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

As the pandemic unevenly roars on, Emily Melton , founder and managing partner of Threshold VC , is reflecting on a previous public health crisis: the Spanish flu. She says the response just over a century ago prompted the rise of interventional medicine — treating illness through surgery or medicine only after symptoms manifest. Today, interventional medicine is the dominant mindset in Western healthcare.

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The Crazy Programmer

JUNE 25, 2021

Software testing suites and end-to-end testing are critical in software building. These tests make sure that your software runs smoothly by finding problems ahead of time. To do this, testing tools mimic the way a potential user will use the software. And Python is a fantastic programming language to build such testing tools. Python is one of the most popular programming languages out there, and for a good reason.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

The U.K. is gaining in popularity as a great place to start a tech firm. The country is quickly catching up to China on the tech investment front, with VC investments reaching a record of $15 billion in 2020, according to TechNation. A global health crisis notwithstanding, London remained a favorite for investors. U.K. cities made up a fifth of the top 20 European cities, with names such as Oxford, Dublin, Edinburgh and Cambridge rising to the fore in 2020.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

Years ago, U.S. ride-hailing giant Uber and its Chinese rival Didi were locked in an expensive rivalry in the Asian nation. After a financially bruising competition, Uber sold its China-based business to Didi , focusing instead on other markets. The two companies are coming head-to-head again, however, as Didi looks to list in the United States. The company’s IPO filing was big news for the SoftBank Vision Fund, Tencent and Uber, thanks to its stake in Didi from its earlier transaction.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JUNE 25, 2021

An agile maturity assessment can help teams come to a common understanding of what agile maturity looks like and what steps they can take to get there. In this article, we are going to dive into the value of assessing things, with concrete examples you can use, and will help you learn how to build an assessment for your teams and/or organization that is fit-for-purpose.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

Mark Spera. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Mark Spera is the head of growth marketing at Minted. He's the co-founder of growth marketing blog Growth Marketing Pro and content generation tool GrowthBar. What do all companies, regardless of industry, say they want? Growth. Lighting-fast, continuous growth. The good news is you can quickly learn which growth marketing strategies work by studying other companies’ success and adapting it to your own business.

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DevOps.com

JUNE 25, 2021

Dynatrace has added a security module to its observability platform that leverages its Davis artificial intelligence (AI) engine to automatically identify the software libraries and open source packages that represent the greatest security risk. Ajay Gandhi, vice president of product marketing for Dynatrace, said the Davis Security Advisor, made available as part of the Dynatrace […].

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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

JUNE 25, 2021

Earlier this week, The Exchange wrote about the early-stage venture capital market , with the goal of understanding how some startups are raising more seed capital before they work on their Series A, while other startups are seemingly raising their first lettered round while in the nascent stages of scaling. The expedition was rooted in commentary from Rudina Seseri of Glasswing Ventures , who said abundant seed capital in the United States allows founders to get a lot done before they raise a S

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TechBeacon

JUNE 25, 2021

Low-code/no-code development platforms allow enterprise developers and citizen developers to create web or mobile apps without writing code line by line. With the ability to drag and drop application components and connect them, anyone in the organization can create an application suited to their needs.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week we did something fun and different and good: a live show! A good number of people came, and asked questions, and altogether, it was a blast. Danny, Natasha , and Alex had a lovely time with the regular work, while Grace and Chris and Kevin made the whole operation function.

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Agile Alliance

JUNE 25, 2021

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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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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

Meetings should have a clear purpose, but instead, they’ve become a way to measure status and reinforce what is colloquially referred to as CYA culture. There’s a kernel of truth in every joke, so whenever someone quips, “This meeting could have been an email!” you can bet that some small part of them meant it sincerely. Few people know how to run meetings effectively and keep conversations on track.

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CloudZero

JUNE 25, 2021

By the time AWS Glue was being introduced in 2017, big data had already been widely recognized as a critical resource to any organization that intends to outperform its competitors.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

Startups are the embodiment of frenetic action. The rush to grow, outrun, and disrupt runs in the lifeblood of today’s entrepreneurs, driving their fervor and enabling them to capture markets from giants of industries too big to maneuver in a quickly changing landscape. That has been truer for the mobility landscape than most other industries.

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Dell EMC

JUNE 25, 2021

Enterprises can use these methods to move from proof-of-concept to a production edge platform that delivers a competitive advantage.

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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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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

Cryptocurrency company Circle has announced that it plans to launch a new API for companies using Circle accounts to manage crypto assets — and in particular USDC stablecoins. The new API will let companies access decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols starting with Compound lending pools. Circle is better known as one of the founding members of the Centre consortium with Coinbase.

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Cloudera

JUNE 25, 2021

Introduction. Many Cloudera customers are making the transition from being completely on-prem to cloud by either backing up their data in the cloud, or running multi-functional analytics on CDP Public cloud in AWS or Azure. The Replication Manager service facilitates both disaster recovery and data migration across different environments. Using easy-to-define policies, Replication Manager solves one of the biggest barriers for the customers in their cloud adoption journey by allowing them to mov

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High Scalability

JUNE 25, 2021

Hey, it's HighScalability time! Only listen if you want a quantum earworm for the rest of the day. Not your style? This is completely different. No, it’s even more different than that. Today in things that nobody stopped me from doing: The AWS Elastic Load Balancer Yodel Rag. pic.twitter.com/ocyVLf8WlU. — Forrest Brazeal (@forrestbrazeal) May 28, 2021.

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IDC

JUNE 25, 2021

Organizations are recalibrating their digital transformation. IDC’s Future of Trust practice provides market research to understand how to succeed in the new digital economy.

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Confluent

JUNE 25, 2021

I’m excited to announce that Confluent was presented with the Databricks ISV Momentum Award at the Databricks Partner Executive Summit last month. This award is given to the partner whose […].

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Dzone - DevOps

JUNE 25, 2021

In companies with constant growth and large scale, incidents are inevitable. A robust incident management strategy eventually leads to better management and handling of issues. It is an essential part of reliability engineering, ensuring that a team is prepared to manage incidents. It can prevent the loss of millions of dollars in revenue in times of breaches or downtimes.

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TechSoup

JUNE 25, 2021

The Heart of Florida Legal Aid Society (HOFLA) was founded in 1968 to work to protect survivors of domestic violence and to promote economic self-sufficiency through legal advocacy for the Tenth Judicial Circuit of Florida.

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Dataiku

JUNE 25, 2021

Last week, in honor of Pride month, we held our first LGBTQ+ roundtable at Dataiku — organized by our Queer Employee Resource Group (ERG) — to not only celebrate Pride month as a company, but raise awareness among Dataikers on LGBTQ+ stakes within the workplace in order to, ultimately, eliminate discrimination against members of the LGBTQ+ community and share best practices for allies on how to support them.

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Gorilla Logic

JUNE 25, 2021

Much like a pod of whales or a pack of wolves, did you know that a group of gorillas is called a band? In this blog series, we’re going to introduce you to members of our band—engineers, technical recruiters, PMs, designers, and more who make up the most important asset in Gorilla Logic…our talent! Are you Gorilla material? Join the band today! Gabriel Lidenor — Software Consultant.

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Palo Alto Networks

JUNE 25, 2021

How Investing in Security Now Can Save Big Bucks Later. This is the first of a two-part blog series, breaking down the cost of dealing with a cybersecurity incident versus the cost of investing to prevent an incident. Learn the value of cybersecurity and how to invest your money wisely. Abstract: It seems as though each day there is a new headline in the U.S. declaring that yet another organization has fallen victim to a cybersecurity attack.

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Kaseya

JUNE 25, 2021

Legacy modernization, also commonly referred to as application modernization or platform modernization, involves the transformation of legacy systems to newer technologies for better operations and efficiency. What Are Legacy Systems? Legacy systems are outdated technologies such as applications or hardware that are still in use in companies. Although these systems may still be functional, they are sometimes incompatible with current system versions and become difficult to maintain, patch or int

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