KitelyTech
MARCH 29, 2022
Recently, the Software as a Service (SaaS) industry has experienced exponential growth. At a projected annual growth rate of 18%, it is expected that the SaaS sector will top $623 billion by as early as 2023. For businesses and individual users alike, cloud computing has certainly proven beneficial in terms of scalability, security, upgrades, and lower cost.
TechCrunch
MARCH 29, 2022
Cloaked, a Boston-based startup that allows users to generate unique email addresses and phone numbers when creating online accounts, has secured $25 million in Series A funding. Founded in 2020 by brothers Arjun and Abhijay Bhatnagar, Cloaked allows privacy -conscious individuals to create unique identifiers. The service, available as an app and a browser extension, creates “cloaked” identities — such as emails, phone numbers, passwords and credit card numbers — that can be unique t
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The Crazy Programmer
MARCH 29, 2022
The email validation system, known as DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance), is meant to safeguard your company’s email domain from being exploited for phishing, email spoofing , and other cybercrimes. For email authentication, DMARC records use SPF and DKIM. With DMARC, you can do reporting, which is a critical feature.
TechCrunch
MARCH 29, 2022
Singapore-headquartered esports startup Ampverse has raised $12 million in Series A funding led by Falcon Capital. The company says this is the largest Series A raised by an esports organization in Southeast Asia, based on data from PitchBook and other third-party platforms. The round will be used to expand in Indonesia and the Philippines, acquire more esports teams and scale Ampverse’s play-to-earn unit. .
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While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.
Aqua Security
MARCH 29, 2022
Team Nautilus has uncovered a Python-based ransomware attack that, for the first time, was targeting Jupyter Notebook, a popular tool used by data practitioners. The attackers gained initial access via misconfigured environments, then ran a ransomware script that encrypts every file on a given path on the server and deletes itself after execution to conceal the attack.
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The Citus Data
MARCH 29, 2022
One of the good things with a virtual event like Citus Con is that you have a lot of flexibility about where and when to watch the talks. From your home office, or a café, or the beach—or even the car, while you wait to pick up your kids. As long as you have an internet connection, you’re in. But you still need to figure out which talks and livestreams you want to watch when the event goes live on Tuesday, April 12.
TechCrunch
MARCH 29, 2022
The job market for coders remains very tight on both sides of the table: There remains a major skills and talent shortage when it comes to finding people for specialized, technical jobs; but on the other side, developers still have to jump through many hoops in hopes of connecting with the most selective jobs (and even then there is no guarantee of success).
Toptal
MARCH 29, 2022
Deciding on a language can be intimidating when you don’t have deep experience with the available options. This comparison explores the fundamental differences between C++ and Java, and what to consider when choosing between them.
TechCrunch
MARCH 29, 2022
Wherever we are in the journey of navigating a pandemic, remote work is still hot. Electric , one of the many companies making it easier for organizations to work remotely, has capitalized on this trend so much in the past couple years that it’s now a unicorn. Founder and CEO Ryan Denehy told TechCrunch that the startup has raised $20 million in what it’s calling a Series D-1 from Harmonic Growth Partners, Vintage Investment Partners, Greenspring and Slack Fund.
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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.
The Daily WTF
MARCH 29, 2022
Ilsa 's organization uses Terraform to handle provisioning their infrastructure. This mostly works fine for the organization, but one day it started deleting their load balancer off of AWS for no good reason. Ilsa investigated, but wasn't exactly sure about why that was happening. What she did find, however, was this particular ternary expression. resource "aws_lb_listener" "this" { count = var.internal == true || var.provision == true ?
TechCrunch
MARCH 29, 2022
Y Combinator’s latest batch — W22 — features 414 startups from 42 countries, representing more than 80 sectors. Just like last year’s batches, about half of the companies in the W22 batch (where YC’s Standard Deal comes to full effect for the first time) are based outside of the United States. As usual, the U.S. has the most representation.
DevOps.com
MARCH 29, 2022
Rezilion has integrated its workload analysis tool with the continuous integration (CI) framework provided by GitLab. The move is part of an effort to make it simpler for developers to discover issues such as vulnerabilities before they upload code into a repository. Sam White, a senior product manager for GitLab, said this integration will provide […].
TechCrunch
MARCH 29, 2022
There’s no textbook-approved technique for building a startup engineering team: in the early days, everyone wears several hats. But when a company enters its growth phase, the recruiting process is systematized, new hires are sorted into discrete units, and a thin layer of management is applied to keep everything on track. When Jean-Denis Greze accepted the CTO role at Plaid in 2017, the fintech company was still financing its Series A had “about 20 engineers who were still trying to
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In the rapidly-evolving world of embedded analytics and business intelligence, one important question has emerged at the forefront: How can you leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance your application’s analytics capabilities? Imagine having an AI tool that answers your user’s questions with a deep understanding of the context in their business and applications, nuances of their industry, and unique challenges they face.
Teradata
MARCH 29, 2022
Consumers expect personalized experiences when they interact with a brand. But organizations are losing the ability to listen to their customers via digital channels. Fixing this is critical.
TechCrunch
MARCH 29, 2022
Furniture is one of the largest waste categories in the U.S., generating more than 12 million tons of waste in landfills every year, according to 2018 data by the Environmental Protection Agency. Kaiyo , an online marketplace for secondhand furniture, says it has helped the impact by keeping nearly three million pounds out of landfills since its launch in 2015. .
DevOps.com
MARCH 29, 2022
In this week’s The Long View: Okta and Sitel under fire over Lapsus$ hack, Greenpeace and others call for bitcoin change, and Europe still hates encryption. The post Lapsus$ Shames Okta/Sitel | Bitcoin Nukes Climate | EU DMA E2EE FAIL appeared first on DevOps.com.
TechCrunch
MARCH 29, 2022
Michael Redd. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Michael Redd spent 12 seasons playing in the NBA and on the U.S. Olympic team. He is now co-founder and chairman of 22 Ventures. More posts by this contributor. 3 warning signs that your investor will leave you on the sidelines. Startup accelerators are increasingly putting the brakes on demo days. The often flashy events reserved for founders to connect with investors have long been part of the likes of Y Combinator’s program, seen as the ̶
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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
DevOps.com
MARCH 29, 2022
Today, most DevOps teams do not think too much about their approach to risk. Usually, the typical attitude focuses on what to add to reduce risk further. In other words, “Can we add more tests? Can we deploy more carefully?” More tests, more processes and less risk are all obviously good things. Or are they? […]. The post What Donuts Teach Us About DevOps and Delivery Risk appeared first on DevOps.com.
TechCrunch
MARCH 29, 2022
Day one of Y Combinator’s Demo Day confab for the Winter 2022 batch is over. We shook up our coverage this year, divvying things up by sector and geography. Our goal was to avoid a huge list, the sort that we compiled in years past. TechCrunch has notes on the ever-growing contingent of companies from Africa , Indian startups , international fintech and even a discussion on intra-startup competition at the accelerator.
DevOps.com
MARCH 29, 2022
It’s time to rethink how we deliver distributed access to software development environments. We know how to write code. And there are plenty of well-established tools, techniques and processes for doing so. We know what kind of code to write: Functional, scalable and efficient code that’s inherently secure and that we can readily modify whenever and however […].
TechCrunch
MARCH 29, 2022
Web developers have to run hundreds of tasks and they are able to do so on their own machines. But when a developer firm — at a scale — has to perform similar activities, they don’t often have — and in many cases, want to have — the required computing power at their disposal to run such tasks locally. “Can we build a platform that helps these developers and their firms save a ton of time — bringing down what would otherwise take four to five hours to 10 minutes?
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Organizations look to embedded analytics to provide greater self-service for users, introduce AI capabilities, offer better insight into data, and provide customizable dashboards that present data in a visually pleasing, easy-to-access format. To better understand the factors behind the decision to build or buy analytics, insightsoftware partnered with Hanover Research to survey IT, software development, and analytics professionals on why they make the embedded analytics choices they do.
DevOps.com
MARCH 29, 2022
Rocket Software has added support for the IBM I platform as part of its relaunch of a DevOps platform that also runs on IBM mainframes. Chris Wey, president of the data modernization business unit at Rocket Software, said the Rocket DevOps continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform will make it possible for organizations that employ both […].
TechCrunch
MARCH 29, 2022
It’s the first of Y Combinator’s two-day Demo Day event, which means that TechCrunch will spend most of our working hours watching startup demos and tracking how many companies from the batch are in particular sectors and geographies. The early-stage startup market is active and — as formerly late-stage-focused funds look to invest earlier — still awarding attractive valuations to nascent technology upstarts.
Dzone - DevOps
MARCH 29, 2022
This is an article from DZone's 2022 DevOps Trend Report. For more: Read the Report. Continuous integration and continuous deployment are the two major components of DevOps principles. Every organization that wants to move away from the traditional way of working has to learn, design, and implement a mature CI/CD pipeline. Having a mature CI/CD pipeline is a good start for site reliability engineering, but alone, it’s not enough.
TechCrunch
MARCH 29, 2022
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PT, subscribe here. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Tuesday, March 29, 2022! Haje and I are now flying solo with the newsletter. It will be all hands on deck today and tomorrow as we listen to startups pitch at the YC Demo Day, so look out for a deluge of stories over the next two days.
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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.
Cloudera
MARCH 29, 2022
State and local governments generate and store enormous amounts of data essential to their ability to deliver citizen services. But how can they capitalize on all of their data to become engines of growth and innovation, empowering and enhancing their ability to provide services and better serve their communities? Data doesn’t arrive on the doorsteps of government offices as a neatly packaged asset.
TechCrunch
MARCH 29, 2022
Churpy , a fintech startup based in Kenya, is looking to expand across Africa by setting up hubs in Egypt, Nigeria and South Africa for a planned continent-wide growth, driven by the $1 million in seed funding it has just raised. The account receivables automation startup is out to change how businesses manage the debt owed to them by their customers through its SaaS product, which automates the processes of reconciling incoming payments and invoices, a labor-intensive process that is still pred
Planbox
MARCH 29, 2022
The partnership will help solve environmental, social, and governance challenges through open innovation. Wilmington, Delaware — Planbox’s strategic partnership with Tech For Good will strengthen the ability to operate non-profit, public-facing open innovation capabilities for all companies and organizations interested in advancing their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) agenda in relation to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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