Fri.Oct 16, 2020

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Measuring Models' Uncertainty: Conformal Prediction

Dataiku

For designing machine learning (ML) models as well as for monitoring them in production, uncertainty estimation on predictions is a critical asset. It helps identify suspicious samples during model training in addition to detecting out-of-distribution samples at inference time.

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PearPop lets TikTok celebrities monetize by sharing shoutouts and screentime with fans

TechCrunch

PearPop a new Los Angeles-based company, is on its way to racking up nearly 25,000 users in less than a month, and has already landed seed funding from the firm Rocket One Capital. The company’s premise is simple. Allow fans to bid for shared screen time with their favorite TikTok celebrities, and it’s one that’s attracted the attention of a few of the platform’s stars with several million followers.

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The Systems Approach in Organizational Transformations

Agile Alliance

I had the pleasure of interviewing Maica Trinidad, who is an anthropologist by training and an Agilist by vocation.

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The need for true equity in equity compensation

TechCrunch

Carine Schneider. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Carine Schneider is the president of AST Private Company Solutions, Inc. , a division of AST Financial. I began my career at Oracle in the mid-1980s and have since been around the proverbial block, particularly in Silicon Valley working for and with companies ranging from the Fortune 50 to global consulting companies to leading a number of startups, including the SaaS company I presently lead.

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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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Two Decision-Making Actions that Will Save You Months of Frustration

Let's Grow Leaders

Too many decision-making meetings devolve into frustrating, passive wastes of time. In this episode, you’ll get two actions you can take to ensure you make smarter, faster decisions that energize your team. The post Two Decision-Making Actions that Will Save You Months of Frustration appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Top 5 Things Every Kafka Developer Should Know

Confluent

Apache Kafka® is an event streaming platform used by more than 30% of the Fortune 500 today. There are numerous features of Kafka that make it the de-facto standard for […].

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Future raises $24M Series B for its $150/mo workout coaching app amid at-home fitness boom

TechCrunch

With thousands of gyms across the country forced to close during the pandemic, there’s been an unprecedented opportunity for fitness companies pitching an at-home solution. This moment has propelled public companies like Peloton to stratospheric highs — its market cap is about to eclipse $40 billion — but it has also pushed venture capitalists toward plenty of deals in the fitness space.

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Why It’s Time for Site Reliability Engineering to Shift Left

DevOps.com

By adopting a multilevel approach to site reliability engineering and arming your team with the right tools, you can unleash benefits that impact the entire service-delivery continuum In today’s application-driven economy, the infrastructure supporting business-critical applications has never been more important. In response, many companies are recruiting site reliability engineering (SRE) specialists to help them […].

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FloorFound is bringing online return and resale to direct to consumer furniture businesses

TechCrunch

Over the next five years consumers will return an estimated 40 million to 50 million pieces of furniture that more than likely will end up in landfills, creating tons of unnecessary waste, according to Chris Richter, the founder of a new Austin-based furniture startup, FloorFound. To reduce that waste, and give retailers another option for their used goods, Richter has launched FloorFound.

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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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You Say You Want an Evolution?

Dell EMC

Reinvent your operating model with SONiC When it comes to the network operating system (NOS), there is a revolution underway. If you’re reading this blog there’s a good chance you’re a part of it—or ready to join. The traditional vertically integrated networking software stack has some inherent limitations, and it’s driving a fundamental shift in the approach to enterprise networking.

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Atlanta-based Speedscale now has $2.2 million more to grow its API test automation business

TechCrunch

It only took a few weeks after its Y Combinator demo day debut for the Atlanta-based API test automation company Speedscale to raise its first $2.2 million. Founded by longtime developers and Georgia Institute of Technology alumni Ken Ahrens, Matthew LeRay and Nate Lee, the trio had known each other for roughly 20 years before making the jump to working together.

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Runtime Security and Incident Response with Loris Degioanni

DevOps.com

By adopting DevOps, Kubernetes and containers you can accelerate innovation and deliver a better experience for customers and employees. While Kubernetes adoption simplifies application deployment, security needs to adapt and be cloud-first, open and frictionless as a new set of complexities may surface. Check out this interview with Sysdig Founder and CTO Loris Degioanni to […].

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Datto sets initial IPO price range, indicating a valuation of around $4B

TechCrunch

It was just a few weeks ago that Datto, what TechCrunch called a “backup and disaster recovery firm,” filed to go public. This week the firm set an initial range for its debut. The Vista Equity Partners -backed company was picked up by the private equity firm back in 2017. Vista is back in the news lately for several reasons, some stemming from executive shenanigans — read: tax evasion and huge penalties — but at least what’s coming from Datto’s camp is good t

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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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ServiceNow Partners with IBM on AIOps

DevOps.com

ServiceNow and IBM this week announced that the Watson artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) platform from IBM will be integrated with the IT service management (ITSM) platform from ServiceNow. Pablo Stern, senior vice president for IT workflow products for ServiceNow, said once that capability becomes available later this year on the Now platform, IT […].

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How COVID-19 and the resulting recession are impacting female founders

TechCrunch

Last week The Exchange dug into recent data concerning the amount of venture capital raised by female founders. As a refresher, the numbers were not good. In Q3 2020, PitchBook data reported that US-based female founders raised $434 million across 136 rounds. That dollar amount was off from $841 million in Q2 2020, for context. The numbers were a dramatic turnaround from where 2019 left the industry.

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Outreach Engages Their Production Code with Honeycomb

Honeycomb

Outreach is the number one sales engagement platform with the largest customer base and industry-leading usage. Outreach helps companies dramatically increase productivity and drive smarter, more insightful engagement with their customers. Outreach is a privately held company based in Seattle, Washington. Tech Environment & Tools : Ruby and Go. Some NodeJS .

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4 Ways Custom Software Development Can Help Startups

Sunflower Lab

Ben Chestnut was just a guy running a design consulting business in the year 2000. When he added a custom software to his arsenal, he became MailChimp. Custom software development has the power to take startup businesses to the next level. It can be scary to make those first big investments, but after reading this article, we think you may be convinced to take the leap.

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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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Why value stream management success hinges on flow, governance

TechBeacon

The value of having predictable flow in software development has been recognized since lean manufacturing principles were first applied to its processes. More recently, software pros have witnessed the rise of value stream management (VSM) to map and track software flow.

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Growing Social Impact by Reaching over a Million NGOs Worldwide

TechSoup

Over years of building our impact and refining our expertise, TechSoup has established one of the largest databases of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the world. Call them what you will — nonprofits, charities, civil society organizations — these are groups that pursue public benefit activities on a nonprofit basis. We are the sector's advocate, enabler, and bridge to the resources it needs most, facilitating over $13.5 billion in support (cash and products) to more than 1.2 million org

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Best of Gene Kim Collection

Dzone - DevOps

This week is the DevOps Enterprise Summit, Gene Kim's popular conference. Despite being in an unpredictable and uncommon year, they've planned a packed and exciting virtual conference. We felt inspired by all the work Gene Kim + team have done on the conference, so we wanted to put together our favorite articles from Gene Kim. Let's take a look. Understanding the Work In Our Value Stream and Improving Flow.

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Synopsys’ Seeker IAST wins Best Cloud and Web Application Security category at CybersecAsia Awards

Synopsys

Seeker was recognized for its leadership and innovation in cloud and web-based application security. Learn how to improve your security posture with IAST. The post Synopsys’ Seeker IAST wins Best Cloud and Web Application Security category at CybersecAsia Awards appeared first on Software Integrity Blog.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Consumers Need Real Control Over Their Data. Here’s How to Give it to Them.

Battery Ventures

After the many headline-grabbing data breaches we’ve seen in the past decade, it’s clear: It’s no longer a matter of if a company will put your data at risk, but when. Simply put, the internet as we know it has not been designed to safeguard consumer data. Quite the opposite, in fact—personal data is the lifeblood of online advertising. Consumers have readily handed over their information (sharing it, on average, with 350 services, according to one study ) and depend largely on the goodwill and

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Observability 101: Terminology and Concepts

Dzone - DevOps

When I first started following Charity on Twitter back in early 2019, I was quickly overwhelmed by the new words and concepts she was discussing. I liked the results she described: faster debugging, less alert fatigue, happier users. Those are all things I wanted for my team! But I was hung up on these big polysyllabic words, which stopped me from taking those first steps toward improving our own observability.

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Cultural Awareness and Coherence (ORGANIC agility Principle #1)

Agile42

An overview of the leadership framework, principles, tools and practices that help create an organization that can organically grow and adapt to challenges. Continue reading Cultural Awareness and Coherence (ORGANIC agility Principle #1) at agile42.

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Member of the Band – Luis Borge Rodríguez Sr. Full Stack Developer

Gorilla Logic

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! Luis Borge Rodríguez — Sr.

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A Tale of Two Case Studies: Using LLMs in Production

Speaker: Tony Karrer, Ryan Barker, Grant Wiles, Zach Asman, & Mark Pace

Join our exclusive webinar with top industry visionaries, where we'll explore the latest innovations in Artificial Intelligence and the incredible potential of LLMs. We'll walk through two compelling case studies that showcase how AI is reimagining industries and revolutionizing the way we interact with technology. Some takeaways include: How to test and evaluate results 📊 Why confidence scoring matters 🔐 How to assess cost and quality 🤖 Cross-platform cost vs. quality tr

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How Top Software Developers Support Web Developers With Web Development Software

KitelyTech

Open-source web development software created by software developers has changed the way that web developers create websites and mobile apps. Web development was notoriously difficult because of the wide range of factors that had to be accounted for when developing a website. Different screen sizes, device capabilities, production problems, and a host of other issues made web development harder.

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VIDEO: Is it Time to Modernize Your Outdated Financial Services Software?

Praxent

Is it Time to Modernize Your Outdated Financial Services Software? Sure, your firm may have functioning software. But does it compete with today’s financial services innovations? We explore the benefits and pitfalls of modernization, and give you the tools to ensure success. WATCH: An introduction to software modernization for Financial Services. ?.

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Article: Q&A on the Book Leading with Uncommon Sense

InfoQ Culture Methods

The book Leading with Uncommon Sense by Wiley Davi and Duncan Spelman questions typical- and for many leaders familiar- approaches to leadership. It challenges "common sense” mainstream thinking about leadership and provides alternatives that require slowing down, engaging with our emotions, paying close attention to social identities, and embracing complexity.