TechCrunch

JULY 9, 2021

Netskope , focused on Secure Access Service Edge architecture, announced Friday a $300 million investment round on a post-money valuation of $7.5 billion. The oversubscribed insider investment was led by ICONIQ Growth, which was joined by other existing investors, including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Accel, Sequoia Capital Global Equities, Base Partners, Sapphire Ventures and Geodesic Capital.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 9, 2021

If you have a boss and are a boss, you’ll be very familiar with the messy middle. Leading from the middle requires a special mindset and specific leadership skills. In this episode, former P&G senior executive and author Scott Mautz, gives you practical skills and the mindset to thrive and transform your organization. Have something ready to write with – you’ll want to take notes!

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TechCrunch

JULY 9, 2021

The venture capital market is racing ahead, foot on the gas, middle finger out the window, hair on fire. That’s our read of the Q2 2021 data released thus far concerning how much money venture capitalists deployed around the world during the second three months of the year. Startups have never had it this good when it comes to accessing private-market funds.

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CEO Insider

JULY 9, 2021

The last 12 months have been a time of immense uncertainty. The pandemic affected many jobs, uprooted career plans, and left people questioning their professional futures. Most of us, globally, were left wondering how to protect ourselves better and future proof our careers. Job displacements are, of course, nothing new. Industrial revolutions of the past […].

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TechCrunch

JULY 9, 2021

Doing more with less: This is what marketers get asked for when they join an early-stage startup. British consultant Lucy Heskins knows firsthand how overwhelming that can be, which is why her services can both replace and complement early in-house marketing staff. Either way, it often involves educating the founders about the job to be done. “Too many people fail to realize that marketing is the process of understanding your customers, building appropriate channels to reach them and ultim

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TechCrunch

JULY 9, 2021

French startup Didomi has raised a $40 million Series B funding round led by Elephant and Breega. The company manages consent flows for web publishers and app developers. Didomi is already doing well in Europe with billions of consent interactions per month — it plans to expand to the U.S. with today’s funding round. “Jawad, Raphaël and I have co-founded Didomi to make privacy easier for everyone and an obvious choice for companies.

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CEO Insider

JULY 9, 2021

The “water cooler talk,” a seemingly casual, friendly conversation with co-workers and managers that was much lamented after the past year of workplace shutdowns. Beyond connecting with coworkers on a personal level, these one-on-one conversations are deeply valuable in solidifying professional relationships by building collegiality with peers and managers, and investing in oneself by developing […].

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TechCrunch

JULY 9, 2021

One might think that a short week due to a U.S. holiday calls for a short weekly recap, but we have plenty to share about growth marketing from our coverage over the week. With the help of your recommendations, this week we were able to interview Peep Laja and Lucy Heskins, and publish multiple guest columns on growth-related topics including homepage testing, marketing lies to watch out for, VR ad opportunities, company-naming and ad compliance.

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Dzone - DevOps

JULY 9, 2021

Three phases of a controlling engineering manager. Every morning, I see the unfiltered thoughts of 1200+ engineering leaders as one of the community moderators in the Dev Interrupted Discord server. We start every day with a Daily Interruption topic about how to make agile work in real life; scaling teams, building culture, hiring, continuous improvement, metrics - fun stuff like that.

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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

JULY 9, 2021

Did you see the viral videos of yesterday’s flooding in New York City subways? In one, riders waded through brown, waist-deep water; another video showed a cascade rushing down a flight of stairs to a subway platform where passengers waited for a train. Infrastructure doesn’t attract much attention until it fails. Domain name services (DNS), the system that directs readers to techcrunch.com when they say or speak it into their web browser, are much the same way.

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DevOps.com

JULY 9, 2021

In preparation for TechStrong Con next week, MediaOps media guru Rebecca Auguste sat down with featured keynote speaker, CNN technology futurist, Forbes contributor and CEO and founder of Futuracy, Ian Khan to talk about future readiness. A globally recognized technology futurist and creator of the Future Readiness Score, Ian will be hosting a live session […].

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TechCrunch

JULY 9, 2021

Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. Danny and Alex were on deck this week, with Grace on the recording and edit. Natasha will be back with us starting next week. So, it was old times on the show with just two of our team to vamp on the news. And oh boy was there a lot of news to get into.

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DevOps.com

JULY 9, 2021

As TechStrong Con approaches, Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian has shared an inspiring message for all developers and tech enthusiasts attending the virtual event. In the Cameo clip below, he reflects on his own journey in the tech realm and gives high praises to all the developers who spend every day doing the often “thankless” work […]. The post A Special Message from Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian for TechStrong Con appeared first on DevOps.com.

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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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Cloudera

JULY 9, 2021

If you’ve followed Cloudera for a while, you know we’ve long been singing the praises—or harping on the importance, depending on perspective—of a solid, standalone enterprise data strategy. While certainly not a new concept, Government missions are wholly dependent on real time access/analysis of data (wherever it may be (legacy data centers or public cloud) to render insight to support operational decisions.

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Darktrace

JULY 9, 2021

REvil have exploited IT management software provider Kaseya in one of the most far-reaching ransomware attacks of the year. This blog unpacks a real-world intrusion of REvil ransomware, and demonstrates how Autonomous Response protected customer data from encryption.

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TechBeacon

JULY 9, 2021

Data privacy regulations, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), have refocused attention on test data management (TDM). These laws have put pressure on organizations to ensure that all personal and sensitive content has been identified and removed from test data.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JULY 9, 2021

To thrive in the 21st century, companies have to continually enhance their capabilities to create what they want to create. Becoming a learning organization is key to success in the modern world. Peter Senge defined 5 disciplines of a learning organization. This article introduces workshop techniques that will help you start your journey in the 4th discipline, team learning.

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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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CloudZero

JULY 9, 2021

Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers over 200 services. But AWS Lambda continues to stand out for several reasons. This AWS Lambda tutorial will help explain Lambda in simple terms so you can decide if the service is suitable for your computing needs.

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TechSoup

JULY 9, 2021

Starting in July, you will notice that we have increased administrative (admin) fees for selected discount and donation programs, courses, and services at TechSoup. We periodically review and adjust admin fees to reflect the fair market value of products and our own costs to manage these programs.

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Ivanti

JULY 9, 2021

We’re sounding the alarm. Summer safety is usually all about life jackets, pool floaties, outfitting your boat with a carbon monoxide detector and slathering on plenty of SPF. I have one more thing to add to your list this summer: Security to protect your people, your brand and your data. In 2020, the business world struggled with the abrupt shift to remote work.

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Gorilla Logic

JULY 9, 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! Alexander Rojas Benavides — Senior Mobile Developer.

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“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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Dataiku

JULY 9, 2021

Previously , we showed that uplift modeling, a causal inference success story for businesses, can outperform more conventional churn models. As with any causal inference application, it relied on crucial assumptions about the data to correctly identify the causal effect. While we brushed those assumptions aside, contenting ourselves with the assertion that they hold whenever the treatment variable was randomized, we will present and examine the two fundamental assumptions of ignorability and pos

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Ivanti

JULY 9, 2021

Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference is a week of amazing sessions that define the coming year, announce new features, and preview technologies that will be at the core of managing Apple’s platforms inside your organization. Apple announced its latest versions of operating systems - iOS 15, iPadOS 15, watchOS 8, tvOS 15 and macOS Monterey, all of which have exciting new features shared across platforms that will make the Apple ecosystem even better.

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Trigent

JULY 9, 2021

Logistics has been around for ages and has undergone major transformations time and again. With new advancements in technology, it continues to stretch its horizons. The burgeoning eCommerce sector has further propelled its demand. The logistics market globally is expected to touch $12,975.64 billion by 2027, at a CAGR of 6.5% for the forecast period 2020 to 2027.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 9, 2021

The market for talented employees is the tightest it has been in a long time, and as a consequence, many businesses have revisited their hiring requirements and been pleasantly surprised by the results. One specific hiring requirement that is often unnecessary is the classic “3-5 years of experience.” The truth is that there are many benefits to hiring a new 2021 college graduate, and the labor shortage has simply made this fact more apparent.

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TechCrunch

JULY 9, 2021

Last year, during the pandemic, a free browser extension called Netflix Party gained traction because it enabled people trapped in their homes to connect with far-flung friends and family by watching the same Netflix TV shows and movies simultaneously. It also enabled them to dish about the action in a side bar chat. Yet that company — later renamed Teleparty — was just the beginning, argue two young companies that have raised seed funding.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 9, 2021

Life as an entrepreneur is tough, and when your business is struggling, it can make life very difficult for you. You don’t want your business to be pulling funds for your personal bank account for too long, and you should be looking for solutions to help your business pick up the pace again. There are often many solutions when it comes to fixing the problems that your business is having, and it may just need a little push in the right direction to get things as they should be.

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Cloudera

JULY 9, 2021

In this previous blog post we provided a high-level overview of Cloudera Replication Plugin, explaining how it brings cross-platform replication with little configuration. In this post, we will cover how this plugin can be applied in CDP clusters and explain how the plugin enables strong authentication between systems which do not share mutual authentication trust.

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