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Data pipeline components are just normal applications

Xebia

A data pipeline component is nothing more than a normal application. Fig1. Example data pipeline: ELT. It goes through the same lifecycle as any other application: the component is developed and tested, an artifact is built and finally it gets deployed. The artifact is then run as part of your data pipeline. During this the application uses normal application development processes like: CI/CD.

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Fintech-focused Ribbit Capital raises $1.15B in seventh fund, according to SEC filing

TechCrunch

Ribbit Capital, a venture firm best known for its fintech investments, has raised $1.15 billion in new capital in what appears to be a close of its seventh fund, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). . The new fund, dubbed Ribbit Capital VII LP, is believed to be the final close of the fund. The amount is significantly higher than the $750 million the firm was said to be raising in March of 2021.

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3 Leadership Values to Encourage in Every Member of Your Team

Let's Grow Leaders

Help your team be more compassionate, courageous, and curious. During difficult times, what leadership values matter most? We’ve been asking this question of the leaders we work with around the world. Consistently, compassion, courage, and curiosity continue to top the list, closely followed by flexibility and authenticity. In fact, in our recent LinkedIn poll, 61% said “compassion” was most the most critical leadership value this year.

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Brazil’s Abstra lands Accenture as a customer and $2.3M to help teams make apps with its no-code tool

TechCrunch

Abstra, which has developed a no-code tool for designers and programmers to build professional apps, has raised $2.3 million in a funding round led by SoftBank Latin America Fund. Bruno Vieira Costa founded Rio de Janeiro-based Abstra in March of 2020. Costa graduated from college in 2018 and already has one startup sale under his belt. The serial entrepreneur, who says he’s been programming since he was seven years old, previously co-founded and served as CTO to an edtech startup, PaperX.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

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.

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Data pipeline components are just normal applications

Xebia

A data pipeline component is nothing more than a normal application. Fig1. Example data pipeline: ELT. It goes through the same lifecycle as any other application: the component is developed and tested, an artifact is built and finally it gets deployed. The artifact is then run as part of your data pipeline. During this the application uses normal application development processes like: CI/CD.

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The Future of OpenTelemetry for Observability

DevOps.com

The observability landscape is changing. Today’s digital transformation journey has highlighted the need for observability as organizations look to capture, analyze and correlate all data across every level of the application stack including logs, metrics, traces and events. With the rampant rise of data, collecting these signals is imperative to both business insights and system […].

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Smarter Health gets $5.15M SGD to reduce healthcare costs in Southeast Asia

TechCrunch

Organizing information from providers, insurers and patients not only takes a lot of time, but increases private healthcare costs. Smarter Health , a Singaporean-based startup, develops technology that allows smoother exchange of data between different parties in the healthcare system, improving patient care and reducing administrative costs. The company announced today it has raised a $5.15 million SGD (about $3.8 million USD) Series A led by East Ventures for product development and to expand

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Designing WhatsApp

High Scalability

This is a guest post by Ankit Sirmorya. Ankit is working as a Machine Learning Lead/Sr. Machine Learning Engineer at Amazon and has led several machine-learning initiatives across the Amazon ecosystem. Ankit has been working on applying machine learning to solve ambiguous business problems and improve customer experience. For instance, he created a platform for experimenting with different hypotheses on Amazon product pages using reinforcement learning techniques.

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Equity Monday: Big Tesla numbers juice EV companies

TechCrunch

Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. It’s the new year! Yes, welcome to 2022 from the Equity team. We hope that our holiday episodes kept you entertained, and warm. But it’s now back to work, so let’s get into the news: Global stocks are generally higher today, while cryptos are mostly flat.

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Streamlining Database Compliance with CI/CD Integration

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

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4 Social Media Trends for Nonprofits in 2022

TechSoup

As we enter the next phase of the pandemic, many of us are still getting used to remote life as the norm. With new variant strains and vaccine mandates, many offices will remain hybrid or remote, and in-person professional community events and engagement are not in our near future. Therefore, it's more important than ever to reach out and grow our networks and online communities through social media.

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Why Delivery Hero is acquiring a majority stake in Spanish delivery company Glovo

TechCrunch

Germany’s Delivery Hero is set to become Glovo’s majority shareholder following a deal to acquire an additional 39.4% stake of the Spanish delivery startup, of which it already held 44%. We learned of the deal over the holidays, but you’ll be excused if you missed the news when it broke — the deal was announced on December 31 after 11 p.m.

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The Agile Coaching DNA

Agile Alliance

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The Station: TuSimple loses the driver, Nikola settles and transpo predictions for 2022

TechCrunch

The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every weekend in your inbox. Hello readers: Welcome to The Station, your central hub for all past, present and future means of moving people and packages from Point A to Point B. Your usual host, Kirsten Korosec, is taking a much-deserved holiday out in nature, so I’ll be taking over this week to give you the news and wish you both a Happy New Year and a swift h

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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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Why PSP22 Is Important to The Polkadot Ecosystem

Dzone - DevOps

Standards are critical to the successful development of emerging technologies, and Polkadot is no exception. It's important because the proper standard set at the right time can help improve interoperability and build trust within the technology ecosystem (opening the doors to mass adoption). Benchmarks like these are crucial to enable token-based smart contracts that interact with each other.

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5 Ways to Improve Your Leadership Through Listening

Women on Business

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Control Tower in Logistics – Optimizing operational cost with end-to-end supply chain visibility

Trigent

The competitive business landscape and ever-changing needs of customers are reshaping traditional supply chains today. With globalization and organizations looking to extend their geographical scope for lower-cost sourcing options and emerging markets, the complexity of supply chains has increased. The increase in outsourcing makes effective collaboration with partners imperative for efficient supply chain operations.

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What If We Ran Bakeries Like We Run SaaS Companies?

CloudZero

When you work in tech, there are certain truths about the holiday season you can always count on.

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Top 5 Challenges in Designing a Data Warehouse for Multi-Tenant Analytics

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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Is Your Team Built to Last?

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Our teams are under tremendous pressure. That pressure creates stress which diminishes performance. You can build a more resilient team through some simple leadership behaviors. Today’s post is by Jon Wortmann, thoughtLEADERS instructor and author of Hijacked by Your Brain. He’s our primary instructor for our Building Leadership Resilience course.

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Chef Inspec Configuration Steps

Dzone - DevOps

Chef InSpec is an open-source testing framework and used to test or validate the configurations, security components as per the client's requirements or organization's requirements. It is mainly used to test infrastructure configurations. Using Chef Inspec, we can even test cloud services such as AWS, Google (GCP), Azure. In this article, we are going to see how to configure Chef Inspec in our local system to execute Chef Inspec tests.

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Manage risks with software due diligence and open source audits

Synopsys

Similar to a home inspection, M&A software due diligence helps organizations assess the risk of an investment. The post Manage risks with software due diligence and open source audits appeared first on Software Integrity Blog.

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Career growth requires career development

Gitprime

Career development can help you reach your career growth goals. In this interview, Jeff Moore shares insights on how to maximize your professional success.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

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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What Do We Do When Humanization Fails? Let’s Talk About It

Dataiku

This episode of the Banana Data Podcast is a special collaboration. We have joined forces with our friends from the Towards Data Science podcast for an exciting, future-focused conversation. Our hosts, joined by Jeremie Harris, host of the Towards Data Science Podcast, explore some of the many what-if’s and potential paths developing alongside AI progress.

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Multi-cloud connection: Transfer files between Amazon S3, Azure Blob and Google Cloud Storage using SFTP Gateway

Thorn Tech

What is multi-cloud connection and why is it important? Sometimes you and your users need to connect to more than one cloud storage location. For example, your development team decides to code in AWS Lambda, … Multi-cloud connection: Transfer files between Amazon S3, Azure Blob and Google Cloud Storage using SFTP Gateway Read More ».

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Megaport’s Top Five Blogs of 2021

Megaport

If your year was anything like ours here at Megaport, you could probably sum up 2021 as a whirlwind. Learning to embrace a new normal in the wake of 2020 has had tremendous impacts across every industry in the world, and cloud networking has been no exception. And with enterprise networking needs growing more rapidly than ever before, it can feel difficult to keep up.

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CodeSOD: Cloudy Optimizations

The Daily WTF

Search engine optimization is both a dark art and a corrupt industry. Search providers work hard to keep their algorithms opaque. SEO is a mix of guessing and snake oil and sometimes outright lying. For example, Mark M recently inherited a rather… bad PHP website. One of its notable SEO tweaks was that it had a tag cloud that slapped a bunch of keywords together to give a sense of what kinds of articles had been posted recently.

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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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5 Technology Leaders You Need to Follow in 2022

Allstacks

Tis the season to reflect on the past year while also planning for the new year. In that spirit, we’ve pulled together our own list of tech leaders that have inspired over the last year and feel are a must follow for fellow engineering leaders.

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Megaport’s Top Five Blogs of 2021

Megaport

If your year was anything like ours here at Megaport, you could probably sum up 2021 as a whirlwind. Learning to embrace a new normal in the wake of 2020 has had tremendous impacts across every industry in the world, and cloud networking has been no exception. And with enterprise networking needs growing more rapidly than ever before, it can feel difficult to keep up.

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6 Factors to Consider While Choosing Your Low Code Platform

Newgen Software

The Low Code Rush Low code has replaced the traditional application development method by eliminating various conventional complexities. It enables agile development of robust and intelligent enterprise applications, boosting innovation and productivity. According to Gartner, “low-code application platforms (LCAP) are expected to remain the largest component of the low-code development technology market through 2022, […].

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