Dataiku

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

When it comes to calculating the return on investment (ROI) of data science, machine learning, and AI projects, there’s a lot to unpack. Before even jumping into the measurements and calculations, it’s important to understand the scope. Are you measuring ROI gained from a data platform or a series of data initiatives themselves? Are you modifying a previously existing strategy for tackling ROI or creating one from scratch?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Provizio , a combination hardware and software startup with technology to improve car safety, has closed a seed investment round of $6.2million. Investors include Bobby Hambrick (the founder of Autonomous Stuff); the founders of Movidius; the European Innovation Council (EIC); ACT Venture Capital. The startup has a “five-dimensional” sensory platform that — it says — perceives, predicts and prevents car accidents in real time and beyond the line-of-sight.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

With Covid-19 still keeping shoppers out of stores, data-driven technology is going to be more critical than ever this year to make sure customers enjoy a seamless path to purchase. But, are retail IT organizations ready for a stay-at-home holiday season?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Pony.ai, the Chinese autonomous vehicle startup and relative newcomer to the industry, is now valued at $5.3 billion following a fresh injection of $267 million in funding. The round was led by TIP, an innovation fund within the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board that focuses on late-stage venture and growth equity investments in companies that deliver disruptive technology.

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Agile Alliance

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

The post Understanding Domain Driven Design first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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TechBeacon

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Metrics run the world. Businesses need effective benchmarks to measure success, to see where changes need to be made, and to determine which projects have had the greatest impact. Within individual teams, too, metrics play a vital role in tracking success.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

In recent times startups have appeared offering credit at an e-commerce basket checkout so that a customer can buy a product without needing to pay right away. Klarna or Clearpay are the two most notable in this field. But what if you flipped the model around so that consumers could buy the item at a lower price later on, and the retailer could reduce waste?

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DevOps.com

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

A survey of 99 application development and IT security professionals suggests organizations that appoint a security champion within their application development teams are making more progress toward implementing best DevSecOps practices. According to the survey conducted by ZeroNorth, a provider of an application security automation and orchestration platform, 84% of respondents said they believe the […].

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Last year , the French government and the government-backed initiative La French Tech unveiled an index of French startups so that it would be easier to identify them. The 40 top-performing startups get the label Next40, and the top 120 startups are grouped into the French Tech 120 — it’s a play on words with the CAC40 and SBF 120 stock indexes. Here’s a list of the 40 private companies in this year’s Next40: Image Credits: La French Tech.

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DevOps.com

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

LogDNA has extended the reach of its log management platform to add support for a Node.js platform from Vercel and a feature flagging tool from LaunchDarkly. In addition, LogDNA has expanded an existing alliance to IBM to add support for instance of Red Hat OpenShift running on VMware platforms hosted on the IBM Cloud, which […]. The post LogDNA Extends Log Management Reach appeared first on DevOps.com.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

I’ve worked at TechCrunch for a little over a year, but this was one of the hardest weeks on the job so far. Like many people, I’ve been distracted in recent days. As I write this, I have one eye on my keyboard and another on a TV that sporadically broadcasts election results from battleground states. Despite the background noise, I’m completely impressed with the TechCrunch staff; it takes a great deal of focus and energy to set aside the world’s top news story and conce

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Your leadership goes far beyond the work you and your team do. You and your team likely spend more time with one another than with anyone else. That time, those discussions, and those relationships add up. Moment by moment, with each decision […]. The post You’re Building Our Future appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

As the pandemic rages on, companies are looking for an edge when it comes to sales. Having the right data about the customers most likely to convert can be a huge boost right now. Slintel , an early-stage startup building a sales intelligence tool, announced a $4.2 million seed round today. The investment was led by Accel with help from Sequoia Capital India and existing investor Stellaris Venture Partners.

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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.

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DevOps.com

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Building a successful product team is difficult under the best of circumstances. Building one during a pandemic raises the level of difficulty by an order of magnitude. But it’s not impossible. In early 2020, everything changed. For months now we’ve been scrambling, adapting to a new normal that none of us had the foresight to […]. The post Building (and Nurturing) a Product Team During a Pandemic appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Modus Create

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

The Coronavirus pandemic has brought a number of massive changes to our world, and the uncertainty it brought has had a huge effect on virtually every company in every corner of the world. Some companies responded well, and others struggled. In the COVID Pivots & Lessons Learned webinar panel hosted by PMA.LA , I interviewed three product leaders on how they responded to these changes, and how they are weathering the storm.

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Gitprime

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

APiO co-founder and VP of engineering Scott Lewis breaks down how he and his team have shifted their strategy, streamlined their processes and hunted for new opportunities to continue growing in an uncertain time.

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IDC

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Consumers reported spending 8% less on tech in October. What does this mean for holiday technology spending? Explore the latest data with IDC's David Myhrer.

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Confluent

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Today, the ability to capture and harness the value of data in real time is critical for businesses to remain competitive in a data-driven world. Apache Kafka®, a scalable, open-source, […].

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Dzone - DevOps

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Everyone loves hooking up 42 different types of observability tooling to all of their infrastructure and apps, right? No? Me neither, and this is why I’m so excited about OpenTelemetry. Not only is OpenTelemetry a specification that all of the observability/monitoring/APM vendors appear to be rallying around, but it’s also a framework of standardized tools, APIs, and SDKs.

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High Scalability

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Hey, no power outages this week, so it's finally HighScalability time! Stunning: Tycho Crater Region with Colours by Alain Paillou. Do you like this sort of Stuff? Without your support on Patreon this Stuff won't happen. Know someone who could benefit from becoming one with the cloud? I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 just for them. On Amazon it has 189 mostly 5 star reviews.

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Dell EMC

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Leveraging new technology such as spatial computing not only makes complex stories easier to tell, but further drives creativity and inspires innovation within audiences of all ages.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Dealing with Security Holes in Chips — system security starts at the hardware layer. Ubooquity — free home server for your comics and ebooks library. “Like plex for books.” Noisepage — a relational database management system developed by the Carnegie Mellon Database Group. The research goal of the NoisePage project is to develop high-performance system components that support autonomous operation and optimization as a first-class design principle.

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Dell EMC

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Learn about the results from the MLPerf Training and MLPerf Inference races.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Established methodologies tend to be followed when it comes to meeting different objectives that are in place for projects at businesses. However, one thing that these methodologies do not account for is change. We are sure that we do not need to tell you that change happens all of the time in business. This is something you have probably seen yourself.

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TIBCO - Connected Intelligence

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Reading Time: 3 minutes. It would be an understatement to say everyone has had to learn to change and adapt more than ever in 2020. Your business has been no different. As you begin to plan for 2021 and beyond, you’ll need to apply everything you’ve learned while staying nimble. While we don’t have a magic wand we are confident that these 5 areas are the ones to invest in to keep your organization ready to pivot quickly as the world continues to evolve.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

In any industry, businesses pursue profits as a measure of success. However, profits can disguise many variations in effectiveness behind the scenes. In competitive sectors with a confluence of variables, businesses need strategies that reveal their performance over the long term. Without this, businesses will be adrift, lacking in focus or direction whilst their competitors get ahead.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

What a difference a week makes. This time last week, in the wake of earnings from tech’s five largest American companies and early results from other software companies , it appeared that tech shares were in danger of losing their mojo. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Read it every morning on Extra Crunch , or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Managing a business is hard to do, but this year has been especially hard. With the normal tasks of creating a social media strategy , managing employees, and tracking data and finances, there have been a lot of upheavals and needed adaptations. A business may have needed to be done remotely or adapted to fit safety protocols. A lot of the needed adaptations needed require technology updates and fixes.

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