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5 Ways to Embed Accessibility in Your SDLC

DevOps.com

Developing an accessible software development life cycle (SDLC) requires a commitment to inclusion from everyone at the beginning of every project. By committing to developing accessible products, you will avoid costly and timely remediation prior to deployment at the end of your product roadmap. Creating An Accessible Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) An accessible SDLC […].

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Baffle lands $20M Series B to simplify data-centric encryption

TechCrunch

California-based Baffle, a startup that aims to prevent data breaches by keeping data encrypted from production through processing, has raised $20 million in Series B funding. Baffle was founded in 2015 to help thwart the increasing threats to enterprise assets in public and private clouds. Unlike many solutions that only encrypt data in-transit and at-rest, Baffle’s solution keeps data encrypted while it’s being processed by databases and applications through a “security mesh”

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Overcome the Great Resignation: How Great Leaders Put People Before Projects

Let's Grow Leaders

The Great Resignation is new–the art of cultivating loyalty is consistent. When you hear stats like 4 million Americans resigned their roles in one month or that 40% are considering a change in job , you might feel nervous about the future of work, and how the heck you build a culture of sustained performance in all that turmoil. The pandemic has certainly created upheaval and transformed work.

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Why fintechs are buying up legacy financial services companies

TechCrunch

Oh, how the tables have turned. It used to be that if you were a fintech startup or, for lack of a better term, a digitally native financial services business, you might be eyeing an acquisition from an incumbent in the industry. It used to be that if you were a fintech startup or, for lack of a better term, a digitally native financial services business, you might be eyeing an acquisition from an incumbent in the industry.

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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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Palantir: Growth Has Only Just Begun

CTOvision

Palantir Technologies (PLTR) is due to report earnings for its second fiscal quarter next Thursday and the big data analytics firm is all but set to report impressive revenue and free cash flow growth, with a guidance raise being a possibility. The firm may also give an update about customer uptake of its new “Foundry […].

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Ether trading volumes surpass bitcoin on Coinbase for the first time as DeFi and staking hype grows

CTOvision

Ether was the most-traded cryptocurrency on Coinbase in the second quarter of the year, jumping ahead of bitcoin as excitement grew around decentralized finance and staking – two use cases that have drawn investors to the world’s second-biggest cryptocurrency. Trading in ether made up 26% of total volumes in the second quarter, up from 21% […].

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BrainQ raises $40M to transform stroke patient rehabilitation with its home therapy device

TechCrunch

If you injure your elbow, surgery can help. If you lose a leg, prostheses are available. But problems within the brain are more difficult to treat, and for stroke victims rehabilitation is largely left to the body’s own repair mechanisms. BrainQ aims to change that with a device that stimulates the damaged part of the brain and promotes self-repair, showing enough improvement in studies to warrant a Breakthrough Device certification from the FDA — and the company has just raised $40M to ta

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Top 5 DevOps Success Factors

Dzone - DevOps

Several studies have found that incorporating well-planned DevOps into a project can have a positive effect. Some have found that developers in a DevOps environment spend up to 22% less time on unplanned work and reworking developed features. This article will run you through several key factors of DevOps. It will ensure you create an efficient development environment for your software teams.

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Tropic picks up $25M to streamline software procurement experiences

TechCrunch

The pandemic was a catalyst for showing companies looking to cut costs just how much they were spending on their software tools. New York-based Tropic ’s platform not only uncovers those savings, but also brings a click-and-approve approach to buying software. Today, the company announced a $25 million Series A round of funding. Canaan Partners led the round, with participation from Founder Collective and Mo Koyfman’s new fund, Shine.

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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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A developer's guide to attacker motivation in the supply chain

TechBeacon

Face it. Your software supply chain is under attack. You'd have to be hiding under a rock or in a bunker under the sea not to realize it. From SolarWinds-style attacks to language-specific repositories, supply chain compromises aren't going away—they're rising.

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Revenue-based financing startup Jenfi raises $6.3M to focus on high-growth Southeast Asian companies

TechCrunch

Many Southeast Asian digital businesses run into obstacles when seeking early-stage growth financing. They might not want to sell equity in their company, but often struggle to secure working capital loans from traditional financial institutions. That’s where Singapore-based Jenfi comes in, providing revenue-based financing of up to $500,000 with flexible repayment plans that co-founder and chief executive officer Jeffrey Liu refers to as “growth capital as a product.” .

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Will Unresolved Conflict Like Unclaimed Baggage Threaten Return To Work Success?

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Unresolved conflict is like unclaimed baggage in a storage closet. With return to the workplace, will reclaimed conflicts burst open, threatening chaos? Today’s post is by Mary Nestor, author of Say It Now! Say It Right! (CLICK HERE to get your copy). When word came down that the office was closing down because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Sue had mixed feelings.

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Shopistry bags $2M to provide ‘headless commerce without the headaches’

TechCrunch

Canada-based Shopistry wants to turn the concept of headless commerce, well, on its head. On Monday, the e-commerce startup announced $2 million in seed funding to continue developing its toolkit of products, integrations, services and managed infrastructure for brands to scale online. Jaafer Haidar and Tariq Zabian started Shopistry in 2019. Haidar’s background is as a serial technology founder with exits and ventures in e-commerce and cloud software.

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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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Palantir: The Next Big Player In Enterprise Data

CTO Vision

Read why Aayra Aamer, Rohan George, Rinnah Sanders, and Humna Sheikh say that Palantir Technologies, Inc.’s future is bright as more and more businesses transition to artificial intelligence backed big data working environments on Seeking Alpha : In a world where technology is advancing faster than ever, it is not outlandish to see life imitate […].

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Here’s what the inevitable friendly neighborhood robot invasion looks like

TechCrunch

In early 2021, a Nuro autonomous delivery vehicle pulled to a halt at a four-way stop in its hometown of Mountain View, California to let a user cross. This seemingly humdrum moment quickly looked like a decidedly science fiction storyline — the user was a small sidewalk robot from another startup on its own mission. “Obviously, we yielded to it, but it was, wow, we have entered a different world,” said Amy Jones Satrom, head of Operations at Nuro.

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Data Workbench: Why Your Organization May Need One

Dataiku

This is a guest article from our friends at Dataquest. Dataquest is a data science learning platform with a quickly growing community of learners.

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Why regulators love Nuro’s self-driving delivery vehicles

TechCrunch

Nuro’s delivery autonomous vehicles (AVs) don’t have a human driver on board. The company’s founders Dave Ferguson (president) and Jiajun Zhu’s (CEO) vision of a driverless delivery vehicle sought to do away with a lot of the stuff that is essential for a normal car to have, like doors and airbags and even a steering wheel. They built an AV that spared no room in the narrow chassis for a driver’s seat, and had no need for an accelerator, windshield or brake pedals.

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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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Accessibility Testing: Why Does It Matter?

Mentormate

This blog post was prepared by Yoana Lalova, Velislava Getsova, and Melis Meisut. If you are a public sector organization or part of the healthcare industry, you’re probably well aware of accessibility testing and why it’s important for the business. If you have never heard of accessibility testing as a term, but you want to create a company’s product or service so that it can be used by as many people as possible, then you need your product to be designed for people with disabilitie

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Cisco beefing up app monitoring portfolio with acquisition of Epsagon for $500M

TechCrunch

Cisco announced on Friday that it’s acquiring Israeli applications-monitoring startup Epsagon at a price pegged at $500 million. The purchase gives Cisco a more modern microservices-focused component for its growing applications-monitoring portfolio. The Israeli business publication Globes reported it had gotten confirmation from Cisco that the deal was for $500 million, but Cisco would not confirm that price with TechCrunch.

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Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams

Dzone - DevOps

Effective software teams are essential for any organization to deliver value continuously and sustainably. But how do you build the best team organization for your specific goals, culture, and needs? In the first episode of a two-part series, Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais, authors of the new book Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow , join the Dev Interrupted podcast to share their secrets to successful team patterns and organization design.

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Equity Monday: Hacks, IPOs, and the next generation of American tech giants

TechCrunch

Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest private market news, talks about the coming week, digs into some recent funding rounds and mulls over a larger theme or narrative from the private markets.

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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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From Construction to Coding | How Online Alumna Kristin Caras Charted A New Career Path

Coding Dojo

Pre-Dojo : Studied Mechanical Engineering and worked in the construction industry as a Project Engineer. Had minor coding experience and. … Read more >>. The post From Construction to Coding | How Online Alumna Kristin Caras Charted A New Career Path appeared first on Coding Dojo Blog.

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Data Literacy for Responsible AI: Algorithmic Bias

DataRobot

As artificial intelligence secures its position in the public sphere, consumers expect companies to use the maturing technology ethically and responsibly. Seventy percent of customers expect organizations to provide transparent and fair AI experiences, according to a recent Capgemini report. But as the technology’s popularity grows, a number of concerning examples have emerged of AI models operating with algorithmic bias.

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5 Tips for Choosing the Right Custom Software Company

Invid Group

5 Tips for Choosing the Right Custom Software Company BY: NEISHA SANTIAGO When it comes to custom software development, many things need to be taken into account. From the cost and timeline for your project all the way down to how skilled the developers are at their craft, there’s a lot you should know before making any decisions. To help you make this decision, you must partner with the right team.

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How To Manage Cloud Costs During The Product Discovery Process

CloudZero

Like any SaaS organization, CloudZero cares about our COGS , margin, and unit cost. As you can imagine, we have a fair amount of insight into how those numbers are changing every day thanks to being “customer zero” on our cloud cost intelligence platform.

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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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3 Ways You Can Save Money with App Modernization

Invid Group

3 Ways You Can Save Money with App Modernization BY: CARLOS FELICIANO-MISLA The software business can be interesting for a variety of reasons. One of them is that companies sometimes have to spend money in the short term to save money in the long run. An example of this is app modernization. In short, this term refers to updating a legacy application to run on a more modern software stack.

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Roadmap: Robust, Personalized Reporting Capabilities for All Product Stakeholders

Allstacks

We believe that strategic and collaborative software delivery is the core driver of business success. We want to put reliable, predictive intelligence in technology leaders’ hands in order to foster trust between teams, give engineering a strategic voice in the boardroom, and deliver software with confidence.

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Latest Technology Partner Program Enhancements

Palo Alto Networks

New Portal Serves an Expanding Technology Partner Program. Palo Alto Networks is proud to announce the launch of its new, interactive Technology Partner portal to provide an interactive and frictionless partner experience and provide customers with an easier way to find tech integrations. The launch of the portal initiates a series of enhancements to the entire Technology Partner Program, which will happen over the course of the coming year, ranging from program enhancements, benefits, automatio