Martin Fowler
APRIL 27, 2021
Recently there's been a lot of interest, indeed hype, around building developer productivity platforms. Done well, they make it easier for developers to build systems aligned with the technology strategy and allow them to build useful features more quickly. However many organizations struggle because in order to do a good job of platforms, you need to have a number of baseline capabilities in place first.
TechCrunch
APRIL 27, 2021
ZenGo , a mobile app to manage your cryptocurrencies, has raised a $20 million Series A funding round led by Insight Partners. ZenGo is a non-custodial wallet, which means that the company doesn’t manage your crypto assets for you — you remain in control. Other investors include Distributed Global and Austin Rief Ventures. Existing investors Benson Oak, Samsung Next, Elron, Collider Ventures, FJ Labs and others also participated in today’s funding round.
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TechBeacon
APRIL 27, 2021
Migrating to the cloud? What will you do with your mainframe-based applications? Luckily, a new approach is coming into vogue, where you can partition, refactor, and then move mainframe apps. Parts of the application run on the mainframe, and parts run as cloud-native applications.
TechCrunch
APRIL 27, 2021
Guesty , which has created property management software for hosts on short-term rental platforms like Airbnb and Vrbo, is announcing that it has raised $50 million in Series D funding. “In the public markets, there are many players in hospitality property management,” said co-founder and CEO Amiad Soto. “The same thing goes with residential property management.
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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.
Dzone - DevOps
APRIL 27, 2021
Introduction. Observability is a vital component of our architectures, as it allows us to manage a system properly, determine if it is working correctly, and decide what needs to be fixed, changed, or improved. Observability has been an area of interest in the cloud-native community for a long time, supported by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).
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Confluent
APRIL 27, 2021
There is a class of applications that cannot afford to be unavailable—for example, external-facing entry points into your organization. Typically, anything your customers interact with directly cannot go down. As […].
TechCrunch
APRIL 27, 2021
Interactive voice advertising startup Instreamatic , which can insert interactive voice ads into an audio stream, has raised $6.1 million in a Series A funding led by Progress Ventures , joined by Accomplice and Google Assistant Investments. SF-HQ’d Instreamatic lets brands that advertise through streaming music apps and podcasts (for instance) have interactive voice-based dialogues with consumers.
DevOps.com
APRIL 27, 2021
Offering the most accurate, actionable and comprehensive metrics for digital experience management; improving user experience and search ranking (New York, USA) – April 27, 2021 – Catchpoint™, the leader in Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM), today announced full support of Google’s Core Web Vitals, giving companies actionable metrics for delivering the best possible user experience on […].
TechCrunch
APRIL 27, 2021
Toucan , a startup that helps users learn a new language while they browse the web, is announcing that it has raised an additional $4.5 million in seed funding. As I wrote last fall , the Santa Monica, Calif.-based startup has built a Chrome extension that scans the text of whatever website you’re reading and translates select words into whichever language you’re trying to learn.
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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.
Tenable
APRIL 27, 2021
This acquisition allows us to combine Tenable's ability to assess the state of the digital infrastructure with Alsid's ability to assess the state of Active Directory, helping security professionals answer the question: how secure are we? Today, with great pride, I'm pleased to announce Tenable's acquisition of Alsid has been approved. Founded in 2016 by Emmanuel Gras and Luc Delsalle, former incident responders from the French National Cybersecurity Agency (ANSSI), Alsid represents the finest o
TechCrunch
APRIL 27, 2021
It’s been a very tough year for Placer.ai ’s core customer segments of retail and commercial real estate, to put it mildly. But the foot traffic and location analytics startup saw growth in new categories, including consumer packaged goods (CPG) and hedge funds that use its tech to perform due diligence. The Los Altos, California-based company announced today that has raised a $50 million Series B led by Josh Buckley, the chief executive officer of Product Hunt.
Infinidat
APRIL 27, 2021
Deep Learning Myths, Lies, and Videotape - Part 1: Verities! Adriana Andronescu. Tue, 04/27/2021 - 12:11. Over the history of IT there always seem to be certain high-profile popular terms and concepts that dominate discussion in different eras and capture the imagination, often filling the vocabulary of IT people in those eras. I believe that in recent years one such subject is Artificial Intelligence (AI).
TechCrunch
APRIL 27, 2021
San Antonio-based Plus One Robotics today announced a $33 million Series B. The round follows an $8.3 million Series A announced in 2018 and brings the company’s total funding to north of $40 million. The round, led by McRock Capital and TransLink Ventures, features BMWi Ventures, Kensington Capital Partners and Ironspring Ventures, along with existing investors.
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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.
Tenable
APRIL 27, 2021
Any Active Directory user can have their password requirements negated with a simple command. Here’s how to identify these gaps before an attacker does. With Active Directory being around for so long, organizations and administrators get complacent with what they “think” is in place, which can lead to major security issues being exposed. Let’s take the fact that any Active Directory user can have their password requirements completely negated with a simple command.
TechCrunch
APRIL 27, 2021
Georges Archibald. Contributor. Georges Archibald is head of Americas at the Apex Group. Almost two centuries ago, gold prospectors in California set off one of the greatest rushes for wealth in history. Proponents of socially conscious investing claim fund managers will start a similar stampede when they discover that environmental, social and governance (ESG) insights can yield treasure in the form of alternative data that promise big payoffs — if only they knew how to mine it.
Tenable
APRIL 27, 2021
Securing Active Directory and the identity infrastructure is critical for preventing privilege escalation, lateral movement and attacker persistence. As we look deeper into recent high-profile breaches, one thing becomes crystal clear: an attacker's ability to impact the identity infrastructure (read: Active Directory) is central to cybersecurity. Once an attacker gains a foothold in an organization, they can't move any farther without access to a privileged user account.
TechCrunch
APRIL 27, 2021
Getting actionable business information into the hands of users who need it has always been a challenge. If you have to wait for experts to help you find the answers, chances are you’re going to be too late. Enter Tellius , an early stage startup building a solution to help business users find the information they need when they need it. Today the company announced an $8 million Series A led by Sands Capital Ventures with participation from Grotech.
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CloudZero
APRIL 27, 2021
AWS Redshift is a popular data warehousing solution that can handle data on an exabytes scale. You may be considering the service for a number of use cases such as processing real-time analytics, combining multiple data sources, log analysis, or more.
TechCrunch
APRIL 27, 2021
Maryam Haque. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Maryam Haque is the executive director of Venture Forward. Bobby Franklin. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Bobby Franklin is the president and CEO of the National Venture Capital Association and previously served as an executive vice president for the CTIA – The Wireless Association. More posts by this contributor.
DataRobot
APRIL 27, 2021
As organizations start getting back to normal after the COVID-19 pandemic, AI and machine learning is top of mind for many of these leaders. How to adopt AI and machine learning into business processes is a critical goal to improve process efficiency and scale to handle the increased demand for AI and machine learning for years to come. One topic that is of interest in this space is the term intelligent automation.
TechCrunch
APRIL 27, 2021
TechCrunch’s Early Stage 2021 is back for part two of our bootcamp-for-entrepreneurs event, with a focus on marketing and fundraising. Building on the first half of the event in April, this two-day virtual sprint will take place July 8 & 9, and we’re thrilled to welcome Rebecca Reeve Henderson as one of our all-star slate of experts.
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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.
Daffodil Software
APRIL 27, 2021
When the COVID pandemic hit the world, nobody could gauge the magnitude of devastation it would cause businesses. Amongst the various sectors that were grossly affected by COVID-19 was Food & Beverage. The global lockdown resulted in the shutdown of restaurants and other eateries, which consequently gave rise to new foodpreneurs and viable concepts that could let the people enjoy their favorite delicacies at home.
TechCrunch
APRIL 27, 2021
Popular family tracking app Life360 is investing in hardware. The company this morning announced the $37 million acquisition of Chicago-based Jiobit , the maker of a wearable location device designed for use by families with younger children, pets, or seniors. The $37 million is primarily in stock and debt, Life360 notes, but if certain performance metrics are met within two calendar years following the deal’s close, the deal price could increase to $54.5 million.
DevOps.com
APRIL 27, 2021
During its online Red Hat Summit event, Red Hat today announced it has extended the Red Hat Insights predictive analytics cloud platform for managing IT to now include support for editions of Red Hat OpenShift based on Kubernetes and the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. In addition, Red Hat has extended Red Hat Insights for […]. The post Red Hat Extends Reach and Scope of Insights Analytics Service appeared first on DevOps.com.
TechCrunch
APRIL 27, 2021
Greenlight , the fintech company that pitches parents on kid-friendly bank accounts, has raised $260 million in a Series D funding round that nearly doubles its valuation to $2.3 billion. The funding comes just months after the Atlanta-based startup landed $215 million in funding at a $1.2 billion valuation. With the latest round, Greenlight has now raised over $550 million.
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DevOps.com
APRIL 27, 2021
The new executive summary from Acorio’s third annual ServiceNow Insights Survey examines the state of Digital Transformation and the lasting impact of COVID-19 on strategic technology strategy April 27, 2021 08:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–As ServiceNow establishes enterprise dominance in a bid to become the “platform of platforms”, digital transformation has overtaken service […].
TechCrunch
APRIL 27, 2021
Materials Zone , a Tel Aviv-based startup that uses AI to speed up materials research, today announced that it has raised a $6 million seed funding round led by Insight Partners , with participation from crowdfunding platform OurCrowd. The company’s platform consists of a number of different tools, but at the core is a database that takes in data from scientific instruments, manufacturing facilities, lab equipment, external databases, published articles, Excel sheets and more, and then par
Planbox
APRIL 27, 2021
Wilmington, Delaware — Last quarter didn’t bring on the kind of changes many organizations had hoped for, as covid measures continue to disrupt communities, supply chains, and the nature of work globally. Uncertainty about what the future holds is hindering growth on a global scale, which is why Planbox has been working closely with its customers to drive future-fit practices at a time when they’re needed most.
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