DevOps.com
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
It’s easy to talk at a high level about what site reliability engineers do: They ensure that IT systems achieve availability and performance requirements. But which skills, exactly, do SREs need to do to perform their jobs? That’s a more complicated question. To answer, let’s look at the top nine site reliability engineer skills that […].
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
While there are positives to being a renter – think no maintenance headaches – many renters still feel like they are essentially throwing money away every month when they make their rent payments. One startup, New Jersey-based Piñata , is out to make renters feel rewarded and help build their credit and it’s just raised $13 million in Series A funding toward that effort.
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Hacker Earth Developers Blog
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
You are reading this, nodding your head because you have been there before. You’ve tried hiring tech talent when you yourself do not have a technical background and it has been a total nightmare. You do not know where to start, how to assess their skills, or even if they are qualified for the position! Don’t worry—we got you. In this blog post, we will outline some technical recruiting tips on how to successfully hire tech talent even if you do not have a technical background.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
Cloudflare has announced that it plans to acquire Area 1 Security , a security startup that has developed a product that stops phishing attacks before they land in an employee’s inbox. Cloudflare plans to spend around $162 million on the acquisition. The company will use both cash and stock to fund the acquisition. Cloudflare has developed its own suite of security products with a zero trust security model.
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Allen Holub
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
You do not need a bug tracking system. In fact, a bug tracking system is a symptom of a deeper problem—insufficient focus on quality. In general, I fix bugs the moment they appear (not in a drop-everything sense, but as soon as I can get to it—usually within a few hours, but sometimes in a… The post Don’t track bugs, fix them appeared first on Allen Holub.
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Tenable
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
Government agencies publish warnings and guidance for organizations to defend themselves against advanced persistent threat groups. As governments around the world call for heightened cyber vigilance, the reality of our digital world comes into stark relief: there are no boundaries when it comes to the potential damage that can be inflicted as a result of nation-state conflicts.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
Okteto , a startup that makes it easier for developers to quickly spin up Kubernetes-based development environments in order to speed up their development process, today announced that it has raised a $15 million Series A funding round. The round was led by Two Sigma Ventures, with existing investors Haystack, Root Ventures and Uncorrelated Ventures also participating, as well as a number of individual investors, including LaunchDarkly founder and CTO John Kodumal, Replicated founders Grant Mill
Dzone - DevOps
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
In this article, I'm going to show you how to deploy Concourse CI in the Alibaba Cloud-managed Kubernetes service with a Helm chart. After that, we will set up a simple pipeline in Concourse CI with Fly CLI. Concourse CI is a nice automation tool that brings YAML native CI/CD pipelines to your Kubernetes cluster.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
TechCrunch Live has an exciting slate of episodes scheduled for March. The speakers come from a variety of disciplines, backgrounds and locations. Like always, each episode features an entrepreneur presenting their early pitch deck along with the investor who funded the company. We want to know how the founder hooked the VC, what makes their partnership work and how other founders can improve their storytelling and pitching.
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.
DevOps.com
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
Do you have massive MDF files on your database? Have you noticed that your SQL Server disk stall metrics for these data files are higher than the storage latency metrics exhibited on the underlying operating system? It could be that your SQL Server data files are being hammered too hard and you don’t have enough […]. The post SQL Server MDF to NDF Distribution appeared first on DevOps.com.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
Maxime Agostini. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Maxime Agostini is the co-founder and CEO of Sarus , a privacy company supported by Y Combinator that lets organizations leverage confidential data for analytics and machine learning. Michael Li. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Tianhui Michael Li is the founder of The Data Incubator , an eight-week fellowship to help Ph.D.s and postdocs transition from academia into industry.
Confluent
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
A few years ago I helped build an event-driven system for gym bookings. The pitch was that we were building a better experience for both the gym members booking different […].
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
Writing about Europe is hard today. Russia is invading Ukraine as we write, and global markets are in freefall. This is the continent’s political and military backdrop. Last week, this column took a look at the European technology market’s deep tech expertise. Europe’s economic future, in other words. We could have held off a day or two to compile this follow-up piece.
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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.
DevOps.com
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
As new vulnerabilities are discovered on a daily basis, DevOps teams must integrate security into the early stages of the development lifecycle and be vigilant about what elements are incorporated into their applications. The Log4J vulnerability has dominated the headlines since it was discovered in December and it continues to send shock waves through the […].
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
Paying bills is never easy, but the last couple years of hardship have made it even tougher. Promise works with utilities and government agencies to provide flexibility in payments for people who can’t cover their whole water or electricity bill at once. The company has seen enormous growth over 2021, and just raised a $25M B round to keep accelerating.
Dzone - DevOps
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
Why Gitops Matters for Business Success. At a recent event, Weaveworks’ Chief Operating Officer Steve George explained exactly why GitOps is so important to businesses. It’s an important point to make because, as a fast-growing technological approach, GitOps is usually discussed from the perspective of the technologist. As a result, most practitioners are now familiar with the concept of GitOps, if not the practical details.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
French startup Finary has raised a $9 million Series A round (€8 million). The company has built a comprehensive aggregator so that wealthy individuals can get the full picture when it comes to tracking wealth. And that means that Finary isn’t restricted to bank accounts. You can track a lot of assets, from real estate to cryptocurrencies and stocks.
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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.
DevOps.com
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
In this week’s The Long View: Linode bought by Akamai, Firefox market share “measly,” and Google brings staff back to the office. The post Akamai: Buying Linode | Firefox: Not OK | Gone: Google Vaccine Mandate appeared first on DevOps.com.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
A week after healthcare unicorn Ro landed capital from existing investors at a higher valuation , two top executives have parted ways with the company, per an internal email obtained by TechCrunch from multiple employees. In the e-mail, CEO and co-founder Zachariah Reitano said that COO George Koveos and GM of Ro Pharmacy Steve Buck are “moving on from Ro” in the coming weeks.
InfoQ Culture Methods
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
IBM achieved an enterprise-wide digital transformation program despite the challenges posed by 100% remote work and the pandemic. The article explores various transformation levers such as team set-up, process, architecture, engineering practices & tooling, metrics & governance, and culture, and shows how they were applied to achieve sustainable outcomes.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
Every founder wants to crack the code that will let them attract, engage and retain lots of customers quickly, consistently and at scale. Marketing tactics from the “ aughts ” — like email blasts and recycling the same keywords into a Google Adwords campaign — won’t cut it in today’s competitive startup market. Although you might wish for a fast-forward button to achieve long-term sustainable growth, you’re out of luck.
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Infinidat
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
Is a Deep Cover “Cyber Spy” Lurking in Your Data Infrastructure? Evan Doherty. Thu, 02/24/2022 - 11:57. What enterprise wants to have its data held for ransom because of a ransomware attack? The answer is none, but most of the time enterprise organizations don’t even know that a cybercriminal has infiltrated their data center, network, storage, and servers, compromising their data infrastructure.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
Hello friends, and welcome back to Equity, your podcast about the business of startups where we try our best to unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines with you. Today we gathered to do our live show, something that was scheduled a long time ago. Obviously, the world’s condition has changed since. So, we sat down and tore up our notes doc and put most of the show on hold.
Dzone - DevOps
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
Due to Google’s unwavering support and developer’s confidence in the language, cross-platform app development is increasingly becoming a primary approach by all top mobile app development companies today. Yet the concept of app development using Flutter is new to the market. Especially the app development cost and why one should opt for the same.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
Applying for a frontline job can be a game of hurry-up-and-wait, and communication is not always the best when a company is trying to fill dozens of positions at the same time. Enter Emi , the latest company targeting technology to this portion of the workforce with a conversational artificial intelligence recruiting tool. The technology automates communication between global enterprises and candidates using a conversational interface.
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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.
TechSoup
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
How did a concept, little known to the general public just a year ago, become a major disruptor in the world of fundraising as we know it? A new form of art is gaining traction in the cryptocurrency space. Whether you believe it to be a fad or the future, millions of dollars in donations for nonprofit organizations and charities have been generated through this technology in the last few years.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
On February 24, Russia launched an invasion of neighboring Ukraine after months of a military build-up on its borders. The attack began with cyberattacks that targeted Ukrainian government departments with floods of internet traffic and data-wiping malware, followed by a ground, sea and air incursion. News outlets in Ukraine are also reporting outages caused by cyberattacks, which the Ukrainian government says it has “unambiguously linked” to Moscow.
Cloudera
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
In the latest installment of the EMEA Influential Women in Data webinar series, we welcomed Shirley Collie, Chief Health Analytics Actuary at Discovery Health to discuss everything from how the pandemic has impacted working, to the opportunities within data, and the importance of intentionality. A data-driven organization. Shirley knows better than most about the impact that COVID 19 has had on the world.
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