Thu.Jan 20, 2022

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Divert the Flow

Martin Fowler

Yesterday Ian Cartwright, Rob Horn, and James Lewis. described the Critical Aggregator and how it can metastasize into an invasive form. When a legacy system has such an Invasive Critical Aggregator it's often best, if a little counter-intuitive, to Divert the Flow of data by building a new critical aggregator first. Once this is done, we have far more freedom to change or relocate the various upstream data sources.

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Morocco’s Chari valued at $100M in bridge round as it looks to pilot BNPL services

TechCrunch

Moroccan B2B e-commerce and retail startup Chari confirmed to TechCrunch that it has secured a bridge round at a $100 million valuation. The bridge round welcomed new investors Khwarizmi Ventures, Air Angels and Afri Mobility, the venture capital arm of AKWA Group. They join existing investors (Y Combinator, Rocket Internet, Global Founders Capital, Plug n Play, Orange Ventures, Harvard University Management Company, Village Capital and P1 Ventures) who invested in Chari’s $5 million seed

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Database Languages in DBMS – DDL, DML, DCL, DQL

The Crazy Programmer

Programming languages which are used to create and operate database, known as database language like Structured Query language aka SQL etc. Most of database languages are non-procedural, means the language focus on “what to do instead of how to do?”. We can further divide database languages in these 4 categories as per the type of users: Data definition language aka DDL.

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Metalenz PolarEyes upgrades digital sensing with polarized light

TechCrunch

Tech sees differently, and can fuse multiple types of data we can’t even perceive: lidar, IR, ultrasonic and so on. Metalenz , maker of highly compact “2D” cameras for advanced sensing, hopes to bring polarized light into the mix for security and safety with its PolarEyes tech. Polarization isn’t a quality of light that’s often paid much attention.

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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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How to Be a More Compassionate and Skillful Listener (Video)

Let's Grow Leaders

Karin and Jess Pettitt, author of Good Enough Now , answer the question: “How do I become a more compassionate and skillful listener?” 2:00 Jess shares what has been a source of inspiration and strength during this tricky time. She has been encouraged that people are still trying to have challenging conversations and have a higher tolerance level for the unknown.

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Survey Predicts Massive Migration to the Cloud

DevOps.com

A global survey of 1,600 enterprise IT decision-makers found more than half are working for organizations that plan to eliminate the use of data centers over the next two years. The survey was conducted by Aryaka, a provider of a secure access service edge (SASE) platform, and found a quarter of the respondents have closed […]. The post Survey Predicts Massive Migration to the Cloud appeared first on DevOps.com.

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5 areas where VCs can play an outsized role in addressing climate change

TechCrunch

Jamil Wyne. Contributor. Jamil Wyne is an advisor, investor and author focusing on entrepreneurship, technology and economic development in emerging markets. He has worked with the World Bank, IFC, UN, Clean Energy Venture Group, Schmidt Futures, Ashoka, and other organizations. More posts by this contributor. A close look at Singapore’s thriving startup ecosystem.

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Advancing 10G: CableLabs Reached Several Key Milestones in 2021

CableLabs

Last year, CableLabs and its members took major steps toward making 10G a reality. There were numerous launches, enhancements, and even a couple of “firsts.” Every one of these initiatives—from launching the 10G Challenge to enhancing specification requirements—will play an important role in building the faster, more secure and reliable networks of the future.

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Changes to corporate investing rules could diminish China’s resilient venture landscape

TechCrunch

Since the Ant Group IPO was canceled by central authorities , China’s government has been on a regulatory tear. You know the broad outlines: After a lengthy period of growth, capital investment and aggressive business practices, China’s central government spent much of 2021 reining in its technology sector. While some of the actions were reasonable from an antitrust perspective, many of the changes to the country’s tech sector appeared more punitive toward entities viewed as to

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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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Be Proud, but Never Satisfied

CEO Insider

Once you’ve made some big plays and delivered on key milestones, the journey doesn’t end; you need to prepare to come back stronger. Being proud but never satisfied is an attitude. It’s a mentality where you always strive to do better. It doesn’t mean you don’t enjoy your accomplishments or don’t celebrate. But never being […]. The post Be Proud, but Never Satisfied appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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South Korea’s agtech startup Greenlabs raises $140M Series C to accelerate global expansion

TechCrunch

Greenlabs , a South Korean agtech startup, announced this week it has closed a $140 million Series C led by BRV Capital Management , with participation from Skylake Incuvest and SK Square. The startup plans to use the Series C, which brings its total raised to $170 million to date, to expedite its global expansion, make acquisitions and increase its headcount, Charlie Sanghoon Shin, co-founder and CEO of Greenlabs, told TechCrunch.

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Infrastructure Access Management a Growing DevOps Priority

DevOps.com

Organizations plan to address access management over the next 12 months, as the need to secure and streamline infrastructure-wide access controls serves as a prerequisite to other initiatives, like zero-trust. This was one of the key findings of a survey of 600 DevOps professionals conducted by Pollfish and sponsored by strongDM. The report also found […].

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How to build a product advisory council for your startup

TechCrunch

David Annis. Contributor. Share on Twitter. David Annis is the co-founder and COO of Parallax , a provider of business insights that empower digital services companies to forecast with confidence. The pandemic has rapidly increased the pace at which companies must evolve to serve their customers, but as the world goes digital, it has also become harder to anticipate changing needs.

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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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Securing Software with Intelligent Pipelines

DevOps.com

One of the biggest cybersecurity risks involves vulnerabilities in the application layer. After all, the best firewall is useless if the web application itself is vulnerable. Many companies have worked to mitigate these risks by investing in their AppSec programs. According to a recent whitepaper written by ESG (commissioned by Synopsys), 71% of companies surveyed now use […].

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TBD turns an STI into NBD with at-home testing for sexually transmitted infections

TechCrunch

Sexual health isn’t the taboo it once was, but that doesn’t mean everything is all roses and unicorns in the land of STI testing. TBD Health is taking a fresh new approach with at-home testing made available for vagina-havers. The company has been offering a five-panel “check yourself out” kit for at-home testing , and recently opened an in-person clinic in Las Vegas.

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Ask Miss O11y: Long-Running Requests

Honeycomb

Dear Miss O11y, How do I think about instrumenting and setting service-level objectives (SLOs) on streaming RPC workloads with long-lived connections? We won’t necessarily have a “success” metric per stream to make a percentage with and a very successful stream could last for days before finishing. What about if the workload contains many individual messages that can independently succeed or fail?

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Daily Crunch: Following ‘significant reduction’ in demand, Peloton puts brakes on production

TechCrunch

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PST, subscribe here. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for January 20, 2022! Today’s theme is more. Sure, the creator economy grew last year, but this year more major platforms are working to help power individual artists. And sure, last year was one of the best for crypto startups, but now even more big companies are getting into the mix.

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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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What the Cloud? DevOps and DevSecOps Explained

Lacework

At some point a buzzword becomes meaningless; it moves so far beyond the original intention that it’s just background noise. We passed that moment a long time ago with the term “DevOps” and even quicker with “DevSecOps.” That’s unfortunate because both of these terms put a name to a long standing problem within teams building [.]. Read More. from What the Cloud?

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Customer referral platform Mention Me raises $25M Series B led by Octopus Ventures

TechCrunch

Mention Me , a platform to generate customer referrals, has raised a $25 million Series B round, led by London’s Octopus Ventures. Eight Roads Ventures, the lead investor from the prior round, a $7 million Series A in a 2018, also participated. The London-based startup helps businesses turn referrals into a channel for acquiring customers, while also gathering data for other marketing activities.

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The 10 Best AWS Migration Tools (Updated 2022)

CloudZero

Moving large amounts of data to the cloud can be arduous and time-consuming. A cloud migration would take years if engineers manually moved data from assessment through mobilization and migration phases.

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TechCrunch Early Stage 2022 is back LIVE in San Francisco

TechCrunch

It’s been a long time coming folks, but TechCrunch is finally back with our first live, in-person event since, well, the Before Times. Join us on April 14 for TechCrunch Early Stage 2022 , located in our spacious San Francisco venue , Pier 27. There’s a reason we chose TC Early Stage to be our first all-live event. Community building and connection is essential for early-stage founders to find the support they need to stay the difficult course, so you’ll have to be there in-person to parti

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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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Using team sentiment and process health metrics to identify developer burnout

Allstacks

Mental health is at the forefront of everyone’s radar, and Allstack is here for it. In the summer of 2021, we published an article on preventing developer burnout and tech culture’s historical tendency to glamorize being “so busy.” But our interest in the topic is more than a passing trend. Because we know engineering wants to take care of their people, Allstacks has a whole set of features and metrics geared toward keeping a pulse on the team and supporting healthy engineering culture.

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Zingtree turns complex customer service processes into clear action plans

TechCrunch

Customer service is making and breaking companies over the past two years as shopping moved online and consumers wanted more out of the traditional service companies were offering. Zingtree provides interactive contact center software that guides agents to the next best action so that they can cater to even the most discerning customer. To continue developing its product, the company raised $15 million in Series A funding.

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Transforming Cloud Native Security: The Allure of Becoming Aqua's CISO

Aqua Security

Cybersecurity has always been to me the most fascinating thing on the planet. I was lucky to discover my passion and get exposed to the security world early on, when the industry was just taking shape. More than two decades later, as companies are rapidly shifting to the cloud and deploying digital services, I’m thrilled to be a part of the next transformation and help shape the future of cybersecurity, now as the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Aqua.

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New Greylock venture partner Mustafa Suleyman is looking for AI’s next best thing

TechCrunch

Mustafa Suleyman has been working in artificial intelligence for 12 years, trying to figure out how to use machine learning systems and AI to do important things in the work and have impact at scale. “And over the years, I’ve been lucky enough to be at the forefront of a lot of cutting-edge applications of AI,” he told TechCrunch. “Over the years, that experience has given me a really good intuition, for when a piece of AI is ready for the real world, and when it’s not.

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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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Continuous Profiling in Kubernetes Using Pyroscope

Dzone - DevOps

Developers typically need to look at performance bottlenecks in production applications to determine the cause of the problem. To do this, you usually need information that can be collected through logs and code tools. Unfortunately, this approach is usually time-consuming and does not provide enough details about the underlying problem. A modern and more advanced approach is to apply and use profiling techniques and tools that highlight the slowest application code, that is, the area consuming

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Prophecy raises $25M for its low-code data engineering platform

TechCrunch

Prophecy , a low-code platform for data engineering, today announced that it has raised a $25 million Series A round led by Insight Partners. Existing investors SignalFire and Berkeley Skydeck, as well as new investor Dig Ventures, also participated in this round, which brings the company’s total funding to $31 million. At the core of the Prophecy user experience is its low-code environment, which allows data engineers and analysts to seamlessly switch between a visual interface and a code

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Cortex XDR Scores 100% Overall Active Prevention in AV-Comparative EPR

Palo Alto Networks

Palo Alto Networks has been recognized once again by one of the most well-known and respected independent, third-party cybersecurity evaluation organizations, AV-Comparatives. Cortex XDR was identified as a “Strategic Leader” in the 2nd annual Endpoint Prevention and Response (EPR) evaluation. With an overall active prevention score of 100%, Cortex XDR has received unbeaten scores two years in a row while maintaining one of the lowest Total Cost of Ownership scores, despite being one of the only

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