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Nixie’s drone-based water sampling could save cities time and money

TechCrunch

Regularly testing waterways and reservoirs is a never-ending responsibility for utility companies and municipal safety authorities, and generally — as you might expect — involves either a boat or at least a pair of waders. Nixie does the job with a drone instead, making the process faster, cheaper, and a lot less wet. The most common methods of testing water quality haven’t changed in a long time, partly because they’re effective and straightforward, and partly because really, what e

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The Importance of Written Communication for Engineering Teams

Toptal

While good engineering managers can code, great ones can also communicate. Written communication is integral to the management and scaling of engineering teams, says Juan Pablo Buritica, who has led several successful teams of engineers.

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Accept.inc secures $90M in debt and equity to scale its digital mortgage lending platform

TechCrunch

A lot of startups were built to help people make all-cash offers on homes with the purpose of gaining an edge against other buyers, especially in ultra-competitive markets. . Accepti.inc is a Denver-based company that is attempting to create a new category in real estate technology. To help scale its digital mortgage lending platform, the company announced today that it has secured $90 million in debt and equity – with $78 million in debt and $12 million in equity.

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Preparing for Future Supply Chain Success

CTOvision

When we look back on this time in history, we can say with some certainty that the pandemic acted as a great accelerator. It immediately intensified the pressure on a freight network that was already bursting at the seams, and that in turn accelerated our acceptance of new software and automation necessary to streamline our […].

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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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Orbion, manufacturer of in-space plasma propulsion systems, raises $20M Series B

TechCrunch

Electric propulsion developer Orbion Space Technology has raised $20 million in a Series B funding round, which it says it will use to scale production capacity of its Aurora propulsion system. The Michigan-based startup manufactures Hall effect plasma thrusters for use in small and cube satellites. Thrusters are used throughout the lifespan of a satellite (or any object in space that needs to maintain its orbit, like the space station) to adjust orbital altitude, avoid collisions, and de-orbit

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Reform your startup’s meeting culture

TechCrunch

Chuck Phillips. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Chuck Phillips is the co-founder of MeetWell , an application that enables teams to achieve a better work-life balance while saving companies money by reducing the amount of bad meetings they attend. Bad meetings are the fast food of the knowledge worker; it’s so deliciously quick and easy to throw a 60-minute default meeting on everyone’s schedule, but the long-term costs are extremely unhealthy.

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Continuous Testing Practices (Part 1)

DevOps.com

In my prior blog, Continuous Testing – The Quest for Quality at Speed, I described five tenets and some of the practices for continuous testing (CT) to help those understand what continuous testing is. In my consulting work, I find it necessary to use 15 categories of practices to assess an organizations’ continuous testing capabilities. […]. The post Continuous Testing Practices (Part 1) appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Software Engineers Need to Know DevOps Too, and That Starts with CI/CD

Dzone - DevOps

DevOps is hot right now. It seems like every software engineering job posting requires DevOps experience and expertise regardless of the actual job title. When a tech company breaks up its monolith into microservices, each of its engineering teams now owns their portion of the application from start to finish. Software engineers no longer just build the application; they also own repo maintenance, set up continuous integration, configure build pipelines, and deploy their application.

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Government-mandated SBOMs to throw light on software supply chain security

CTOvision

Read take a peek into the U.S. government mandated Software bill of materials (SBOMs) and how it will help the supply chain cybersecurity on CSO Online : President Biden’s executive order (EO) on cybersecurity, released on May 12, is a sprawling and comprehensive document that aims to redress weaknesses in the digital security ecosystem. It […].

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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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Gotta Fix ‘Em All: AWS BugBust 2021

DevOps.com

Software bugs are vexing. Code reviews and error finding aren’t a particularly fun part of a developer’s job description. Finding bugs is tedious, time-consuming and hard on your eyes. Bugs not only wreak havoc on your code, they wreak havoc on your day. But what if bashing bugs could earn you a payoff greater than […]. The post Gotta Fix ‘Em All: AWS BugBust 2021 appeared first on DevOps.com.

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CVE-2020-3580: Proof of Concept Published for Cisco ASA Flaw Patched in October

Tenable

Researchers at Positive Technologies have published a proof-of-concept exploit for CVE-2020-3580. There are reports of researchers pursuing bug bounties using this exploit. Background. On October 21, 2021, Cisco released a security advisory and patches to address multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in its Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) software web services.

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Palantir Technologies Wins FAA Contract for Aircraft Certification Safety Solutions

CTOvision

Palantir Technologies Inc. (PLTR) revealed that it has been chosen by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to provide a data analytics tool to enhance the agency’s modernization objectives for aviation safety. Shares of the software company that specializes in big data analytics, and serves public institutions, private enterprises, and the non-profit sector, have jumped 167% since […].

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Classic WTF: The Mainframe Database

The Daily WTF

As our summer break continues, we tend to get nostalgic for summers past, for the way things used to be. Like they were back in the mainframe days. Wait, what? No, not that. Anything but that. Original -- Remy. George, an independent contractor, usually spent his first day home from a business trip plowing through the emails that'd piled up in his absence.

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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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Lux Capital has raised $1.5 billion more to invest in — and create — new startups

CTOvision

The fundraising continues apace in the go-go world of venture capital. Today, it’s Lux Capital — known for its frontier investing — that has closed a $675 million early-stage venture fund and an $800 million growth-stage fund from its existing LPs, including many of the foundations, endowments and family offices that have backed the firm […].

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Elon Musk and YouTube Advertising Scams: Fake SpaceX “Coin” Promoted in Ads During Cryptocurrency Videos

Tenable

Scammers are on pace to steal nearly $1 million USD from unsuspecting users through a popular decentralized finance protocol, Uniswap, by abusing YouTube to promote a fake SpaceX coin as part of ads appearing before and during cryptocurrency videos. Background. In early May, scammers compromised Twitter and YouTube accounts to promote a series of cryptocurrency scams ahead of Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk’s appearance on Saturday Night Live, stealing over $10 million dollars in Bitcoin, Eth

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SQLite Database in Flutter

InnovationM

If you are working on an application in which some API gives the same supposed low-level response again and again then at that time there is no need to hit the API every time. So, to overcome this we store that data in some storage for eg: we use SharedPrefs(For storing low-level data) at that time. So suppose if we have some big data like user data then at that time local DB comes into role.

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Cloud Native Threat Report: How Quickly Will You Be Attacked?

Aqua Security

The cloud native threat landscape is evolving fast, with 50% of vulnerable targets getting attacked within only one hour. While adversaries are constantly advancing their techniques to craft more sophisticated and targeted attacks, organizations are leaving themselves exposed. Aqua’s 2021 Cloud Native Threat Report analyzes attacks observed in the wild and identifies major trends in the threat landscape for container supply chain and infrastructure.

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How Embedded Analytics Helps Product Managers Exceed Their KPIs

Embedded analytics can help you deliver cutting-edge analytics experiences to your end-users that align with KPIs that are critical to the growth and success of your business. Read this eBook to learn how an embedded analytics platform, like Qrvey, can help PMs exceed the following KPIs: Growing revenue while improving customer retention rate Delivering rapid time to value Earning a high net-promoter score Increasing Gross Margin / Profitability Conversion rate from trial to paid Don’t just meet

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Thank You

Confluent

Today, Confluent became a publicly traded company. This is a big milestone in the short life of our company. To the employees, customers, partners, investors, and the larger developer community […].

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Article: Danske Bank’s 360° DevSecOps Evolution at a Glance

InfoQ Culture Methods

This article provides an overview of the ongoing DevSecOps evolution at Danske Bank, positioned within the broader transformation that the firm is performing. The main enablers and motivating factors of the evolution are outlined, with challenges discovered. The high level overview of the DevSecOps operating model, together with anti-patterns discovered and main lessons learned concludes it.

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Netlify Build Plugin of the Week: Ghost Inspector

Netlify

Bugs in prod? Ghost Inspector is here to haunt help! With their brand new Netlify Build Plugin , you can run your E2E tests on every Netlify build. Ghost Inspector makes it easy to get started with end-to-end testing. Their product allows you to record and run automated browser tests for your websites and web apps from the cloud. Plus, their no-code editor makes it simple to build and maintain automated tests, and advanced features allow experienced testers to dig further into edge cases.

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Rust in Linux: Google pays ISRG to pay Miguel Ojeda

TechBeacon

Google is funding the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG) to sponsor the Rust for Linux organization. Money will be funneled from la GOOG’s bottomless coffers to pay Miguel Ojeda as a full-time developer.

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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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SREs Say AIOps Doesn’t Live Up to the Hype

DevOps.com

What can you expect when investing in artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps)? Real-time visibility across huge volumes of information. Lightning-fast event correlation and anomaly detection. Automated remediation and self-healing, without Ops personnel having to lift a finger. It all sounds amazing—at least, if you believe the marketing hype.

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Dell and Microsoft: Changing the Game with Windows 11

Dell EMC

Microsoft Windows 11 is coming to Dell and we’re?pumped for what’s ahead. The PC remains the #1 choice for people who need to stay connected or work from anywhere.

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5 Reasons DRaaS Should Be at the Top of Your Data Protections List

Arcserve

DRaaS is an acronym that just about every IT pro understands. Short for disaster recovery as a service, DRaaS is a cloud computing service model that lets you replicate your systems, data, and applications to a third-party cloud computing environment so they can be recovered and restored. DRaaS is a game-changer when it comes to.

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Feature Flag, What? Why? How?

Dzone - DevOps

Velocity in agile development measures the quantity of work a team can accomplish in a sprint. It can be measured in story points, hours or days. The higher the velocity of a team, the more features it delivers, the more value it brings to customers. Sprint velocity is a good measure in sprint project management to evaluate and estimate team productivity.

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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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Designing Honeycomb for Our Users

Honeycomb

You might have noticed some visual changes happening in Honeycomb lately. Colors, typography, icons, and some features have started to look a bit different. While these changes are just beginning to make their way into the product, we’ve been working on them for some time. Let’s look at what has been going on behind the scenes to make them happen.

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Why MSPs Must Understand the M&A Landscape

Kaseya

Why must all MSPs understand the industry’s M&A landscape, even if they are not actively seeking a deal? Because even if you’re standing pat, your competitors aren’t. Plus, if someone suddenly makes you an offer, you’ll want to know whether it really is too good to refuse. During a recent webinar with MSP veteran Gary Pica of TruMethods, now a Kaseya company, we dove into how things look today on the M&A front and where they’re heading tomorrow.

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QA Interview with Serhii Zabolennyi – QA Automation engineer at Apiumhub

Apiumhub

We are continuing with our interview series ( previously we have interviewed Diego Ojeda – Android Lead at Apiumhub ) and today we have a QA interview with Serhii Zabolennyi – QA Automation engineer at Apiumhub. In this interview Serhii shares his insights and recommendations on how to grow as a QA engineer and talks about his top lessons learned in the industry.