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Are You Feeling the Hiring Crunch?

DevOps.com

After years of experience, we can now definitively say one thing about information technology: There is always a hiring crunch, and it will always be better soon. I first noticed this trend in InfoSec years ago. Everyone was short-staffed and looking for available candidates. Everyone wrote their recruitment text like there was no shortage and […].

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Here’s where MLOps is accelerating enterprise AI adoption

TechCrunch

Ashish Kakran. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Ashish Kakran , principal at Thomvest Ventures , is a product manager/engineer turned investor who enjoys supporting founders with a balance of technical know-how, customer insights, empathy with challenges and market knowledge. In the early 2000s, most business-critical software was hosted on privately run data centers.

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History of CSS

The Crazy Programmer

CSS is another thing you may learn just after understanding HTML. CSS stands for the cascading style sheets, which Hakon Wium Lie created in 1994. Hakon Wium Lie is considered the father of CSS as he created this amazing thing. And he used to work with the father of HTML, Mr. Tim Berners-Lee, when he was working in CERN. CSS was offered as the web styling language to make it appealing.

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Nigeria’s Kippa gets $3.2M pre-seed for its small business finance management app

TechCrunch

Millions of small businesses globally, especially in emerging markets, have stayed offline for the better part of the past decade. Due to that, most of them still rely on scribbles using pen and paper or ledgers for bookkeeping and storing important information. In Nigeria, some go to the extent of keeping information offhand. All these inefficiencies, asides from being time-consuming, lead to errors and affects cash flow and finance, which is why almost nine out of 10 small businesses in the co

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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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From Example Mapping to Tested, Delivered Code

Agile Alliance

Bridging the gap from people who want the thing to people who build the thing. MEMBER? PLEASE LOG IN. To view the content on this page, you must be a Member of the Agile Alliance. Learn more about becoming a Member of the Agile Alliance, or visit our Membership Options and join today! Username Password Remember … Continued. The post From Example Mapping to Tested, Delivered Code first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Full-tilt cloud migration isn't easy: A 4-step approach to success

TechBeacon

For most organizations, moving to the cloud is no longer a matter of debate. Most are already using it in some form—maybe cloud-based productivity applications such as Office 365 and SharePoint or an app on users' smartphones that lets them interact with in-house business applications.

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Cross-selling startup Carro secures $20M to connect brands with each other, influencers

TechCrunch

Brands are always looking for new ways to get in front of potential customers, but though influencer marketing has grown, it’s still not so easy for brands to find the right person. That’s where Carro comes in. David Perry and Jason Goldberg co-founded the company in 2015 and built a cross-store selling and influencer commerce platform that is used by more than 7 million influencers and 30,000 brands, like Blendjet, Arizona Iced Tea and Chubbies Shorts.

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Cloud native security threat: Kubernetes UI Tools Turn into a Weapon

Aqua Security

For many years, threat actors have been using legitimate remote access tools (RATs) in their campaigns, tricking users into installing them to get full control over the victims’ systems. Similarly, in the cloud native world, attackers are increasingly targeting user interface (UI) tools to gain access to Docker and Kubernetes instances. In this blog, we’ll explain how misconfigured UI tools can allow access and control over cloud native environments and describe the techniques that threat actors

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Kandji pulls in $100M Series C on $800M valuation, up 10x since last year

TechCrunch

Kandji , the startup building an Apple device management business, has been doing pretty well for itself with rapdily growing revenue, a fat valuation and lots of investment capital rolling in. Today, the company announced a $100 million Series C on an $800 million valuation, up 10x in the last year when the company did its $21 million Series A. It quickly followed with a $60 million Series B last April.

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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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Netlify Acquires OneGraph to Integrate GraphQL APIs

DevOps.com

Netlify this week announced it has acquired OneGraph, a provider of a platform that simplifies the integration and management of application programming interfaces (APIs) based on the GraphQL query language. At the same time, the company is committing $1 million to sponsor open source projects and setting aside $10 million for a Netlify Jamstack Innovation […].

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PORTL raises a neat stack of cash to teleport your likeness all over the world

TechCrunch

Zoom is great and all, but talking to a lot of two-dimensional humans on computer screens is hardly the future we were all dreaming of. PORTL agrees, and under the catchy slogan “if you can’t be there, beam there,” has carved out a new slice of the market, where you can holographically teleport your image to anywhere in the world. The company just announced that it teleported a 220-foot stack of $20 bills from a number of investors’ bank accounts to its own.

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Nvidia/ARM Wavering | Google Outage Outrage | Backblaze IPO on Fire

DevOps.com

In this week’s The Long View: Nvidia’s faltering attempt to buy Arm, Google’s load balancers go offline, and Backblaze’s newly-IPO’ed stock jumps 60%. The post Nvidia/ARM Wavering | Google Outage Outrage | Backblaze IPO on Fire appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Cortex raises $15M Series A to help development teams wrangle their microservices

TechCrunch

Cortex , a startup that helps engineering teams get improved visibility into the Rube Goldberg machine that is their microservices architecture and improve their overall development practices around it, today announced that it has raised a $15 million Series A funding round led by Tiger Global and Sequoia Capital, which led the company’s $2.5 million seed round.

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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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How to Build Healthy Engineering Teams

DevOps.com

A common challenge today for engineering teams is the increasing complexity of their jobs and figuring out how to make it both productive and enjoyable without burning out. Over the last ten years, the role of a software engineer has evolved drastically. Software continues to reach unprecedented scale, it is becoming more complex and customer […].

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Cron is a new calendar app following in Sunrise’s footsteps

TechCrunch

Meet Cron , a new calendar app for the Mac that wants to bring some innovation to this space. The startup directly mentions Sunrise as an inspiration for those of you who still remember it. Sunrise used to be a popular calendar product that was acquired by Microsoft. Cron has attended Y Combinator’s winter back of 2020 and has raised a $3.5 million seed round in March 2020.

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Kyndryl Aligns with Microsoft in the Cloud

DevOps.com

Following its spinout from IBM, Kyndryl has allied with Microsoft to increase the scope of IT services it provides on the Azure public cloud. Stephen Leonard, leader of global alliances and partnerships for Kyndryl, said that as part of this initiative, Kyndryl will be expanding the scope of the services it provides to both organizations […]. The post Kyndryl Aligns with Microsoft in the Cloud appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Making the case for IVP: Initial viable product

TechCrunch

Aron Solomon. Contributor. Aron Solomon, J.D., is the head of Strategy for Esquire Digital and the editor of Today’s Esquire. He has taught entrepreneurship at McGill University and the University of Pennsylvania, and was the founder of LegalX, a legal technology accelerator. More posts by this contributor. Introducing the Open Cap Table Coalition. If you don’t want robotic dogs patrolling the streets, consider CCOPS legislation.

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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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Powered Services Podcast: Is Your Sales Process Helping or Hurting Your MSP

Kaseya

When it comes to running your MSP, no one can understand the technical aspects better than you. But, like most MSPs, you might need a little help with the sales side of the business. . Most MSPs struggle hard to achieve their desired recurring revenue. The problem lies in not selling enough and not attracting the right customers. In addition to this, most MSPs are not very well-versed in the various pricing strategies they can implement to maximize their profits. .

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MLOps startup Comet nabs $50M Series B just six months after raising its A

TechCrunch

As machine learning becomes a more integral part of running businesses, the model-building process still requires iteration and experimentation. Comet has created an entire platform to get models from idea to product, and today the company announced a $50 million Series B. The investment comes on the heels of the company’s $13 million A round in April.

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3 Trends in Financial Services and AI for 2022

Dataiku

Many of you reading this will either have first-hand experience with the challenges of achieving data-driven success within financial firms or will have a reasonable concern that such success will not come easily to your organization. It is certainly true that finding actionable insights within your organizations — and then actually taking meaningful action based on those insights — is not a trivial matter.

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OTA Insight books $80M for its hospitality business intelligence tools, used by 55K hotel properties globally

TechCrunch

Travel and tourism, two of the hardest-hit industries in the Covid-19 pandemic, are slowly starting to show some signs of recovery. Now, OTA Insight — a company that builds business intelligence tools for one of the key sectors in that space, hotels — is announcing a round of funding as it too picks up more business on the upswing. The company has raised $80 million, a Series B led by Spectrum Equity, with previous backers Eight Roads, F-Prime Capital and Highgate Technology Ventures

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IDC Analyst Report: The Open Source Blind Spot Putting Businesses at Risk

In a recent study, IDC found that 64% of organizations said they were already using open source in software development with a further 25% planning to in the next year. Most organizations are unaware of just how much open-source code is used and underestimate their dependency on it. As enterprises grow the use of open-source software, they face a new challenge: understanding the scope of open-source software that's being used throughout the organization and the corresponding exposure.

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Deploy Quarkus Graalvm Native Application to IBM Cloud With GitOps Using GitActions

Dzone - DevOps

It's been quite some time since I blogged. I was busy writing the book on GraalVM. It was an awesome experience writing my first book. Never thought it will be so intense though :-D but enjoyed every bit of it. Before I get into the actual topic, let me introduce GraalVM. Here are some blogs on GraalVM, I had published before.

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For those who want to turn travel into dollars, Fora can help start your next career

TechCrunch

Travel is back, at least according to experts who say travel bookings for over the Thanksgiving holiday are showing to be even higher than pre-pandemic levels. Anyone who loves travel or is that friend who always plans the best vacations, Fora has a tool for you. The company was co-founded by onefinestay’s Evan Frank, Virtuoso agency owner Henley Vazquez and entrepreneur Jake Peters, to redefine what we think of the travel agency and enable people who want to sell travel as a career, or in their

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Cortex Expands Microservices Catalog to Improve Collaboration

DevOps.com

Cortex, a provider of a catalog for tracking the ownership of microservices, today announced it has added a service creation capability that enables developers to use templates to scaffold new services in five minutes. In addition, the company has added a Cortex Teams offering that improves collaboration across teams of developers working on interdependent microservices. […].

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Investors bet that Sweetgreen will make sweet amounts of green

TechCrunch

U.S. fast-casual salad chain Sweetgreen priced its IPO at $28 per share yesterday. Selling 13 million shares in its IPO, the company’s early gross proceeds from the transaction total $364 million, before taking shares reserved for its underwriting banks into account. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Read it every morning on TechCrunch+ or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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SAP Extends Developer Tool Portfolio

DevOps.com

At an online SAP TechEd conference this week, SAP announced it has added additional low-code/no-code tools to the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) to enable both professional and citizen developers to build applications that invoke application services provided via the company’s cloud platform. The effort to increase the number of custom applications invoking those services […].

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Fourthwall raises $17M for its all-in-one creator commerce platform

TechCrunch

Let’s say you’re a YouTube star — honestly, it’s not impossible, given that now, some estimate that over 20,000 YouTubers have at least 1 million subscribers. You’re going to monetize through YouTube ads, probably, but you might also sell merch, run a Patreon membership or write a subscription-only newsletter. More and more startups like Fourthwall are emerging to help creators consolidate their various income streams within one all-in-one creator platform, aiming t

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2022 Office Life: Here’s How to Prepare

CEO Insider

Many workers remain teleworking due to the pandemic, and many companies don’t plan to return to the office until 2022. Because the shift to remote work was so successful for many organizations, some workers will be reluctant to head back to in-person work. When approaching the return to the office, leaders need to keep these […]. The post 2022 Office Life: Here’s How to Prepare appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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