CTOvision
FEBRUARY 18, 2021
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TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 18, 2021
Kyle Poyar. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Kyle Poyar is VP of Growth at OpenView. More posts by this contributor. Subscription-based pricing is dead: Smart SaaS companies are shifting to usage-based models. Today we know of HubSpot — the maker of marketing, sales and service software products — as a preeminent public company with a market cap above $17 billion.
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Let's Grow Leaders
FEBRUARY 18, 2021
Insecurity and fear can drive you to bad leadership practices that ruin relationships and limit results. You can overcome these leadership fears and increase your influence with these five straightforward steps. You’re at your desk, head pounding, anxiety gnawing deep in your […]. The post Eliminate Bad Leadership: How to Overcome Your Leadership Fears appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 18, 2021
There are over 1.7 billion underbanked people globally , the majority of which are from emerging markets. For them, accessing loans can be difficult, which is a problem fintechs try to solve. One way they do this is by promoting financial inclusion by underwriting credit via a proprietary algorithm. One such company is FairMoney , which describes itself as “the mobile banking revolution for emerging markets.” FairMoney, founded by Laurin Hainy , Matthieu Gendreau and Nicolas Berthoza
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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.
The Crazy Programmer
FEBRUARY 18, 2021
In this article we look into the difference between Primary Key and Unique Key Constraints. We will see the description of both along with how to define a schema and create attributes in a table with these constraints. Primary Key. A Primary Key is a key attribute or a column which is used to uniquely identify a row (tuple) in a table (relation). It maintains the integrity constraints of a table.
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CTOvision
FEBRUARY 18, 2021
Read Byron Rashed explain how Centripetal CleanINTERNET recently applied cyber threat intelligence to defend a SonicWall VPN host from over 400,000 attack attempts on their blog: Centripetal Networks observed 472,584 […].
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 18, 2021
Today, that software is offered as a cloud service should be pretty much considered a given. Certainly any modern tooling is going to be SaaS, and as companies and employees add services, it becomes a management nightmare. Enter Torii , an early stage startup that wants to make it easier to manage SaaS bloat. Today, the company announced a $10 million Series A investment led by Wing Venture Capital with participation from prior investors Entree Capital, Global Founders Capital, Scopus Ventures a
CTOvision
FEBRUARY 18, 2021
Read Jude Lopez explain why he is bullish on Ethereum and Chainlink compared to Bitcoin on AMB Crypto: The past week saw Bitcoin’s price surge by over 18 percent, with […].
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 18, 2021
Marqeta is expanding into the consumer credit card space to help other brands launch credit card programs. . The move comes just days after the payment card issuing company reportedly filed confidentially for an initial public offering, making it the latest fintech to make a move to the public markets. The value of the IPO is expected to be around $10 billion, according to Reuters.
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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.
CTOvision
FEBRUARY 18, 2021
The attack on the water treatment facility located in Oldsmar, Florida, disclosed last week highlights security shortages in the water utility sector and the rest of the U.S. critical infrastructure […].
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 18, 2021
Doing home renovations yourself can be more cost-effective than hiring a contractor, but many people don’t know where to begin. Ian Janicki, the founder and CEO of DIY home renovation startup Outfit , has always wanted to make architecture and design more accessible to people. “I realized I could leverage my knowledge of being handy to create a product that scaled,” he told TechCrunch.
Confluent
FEBRUARY 18, 2021
Soon, Apache Kafka® will no longer need ZooKeeper! With KIP-500, Kafka will include its own built-in consensus layer, removing the ZooKeeper dependency altogether. The next big milestone in this effort […].
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 18, 2021
With offline events now firmly moved to online for the foreseeable future, startups in the networking space had to pivot fast in the face of the pandemic. One of those was Grip , previously better known as a networking app for physical conferences (including TechCrunch Disrupt, at one point). Since last year, Grip moved into an “omnichannel” experience, combining various event types across virtual, hybrid and live.
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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 18, 2021
For DevSecOps leaders, 2021 will be the year of the open source supply chain attack. It’s already starting, in fact. On January 7, security researchers at Sonatype identified three malicious Java components in the Maven Central repository. The components had identical names to reputable components. Then on January 20, the same research team found three […].
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 18, 2021
Application performance monitoring startup Sentry announced today that it has reached unicorn status, raising a $60 million Series D with a post-funding valuation of $1 billion. The round was led by Accel and New Enterprise Associates, both returning investors, and Bond. Accel led Sentry’s seed funding in 2015, and has invested in each of its rounds since then.
TechBeacon
FEBRUARY 18, 2021
Just as microservices represented a big improvement over monolithic architectures, nanoservices are a step up from microservices—for some things. Nanoservices don't completely replace microservices; in fact, you may have heard people say that nanoservices aren't ready for prime time and should be avoided.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 18, 2021
Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. Natasha and Danny and Alex and Grace were all here to chat through the week’s biggest tech happenings. In very good Show News , Chris is back! He’s working on the next iteration of the show, something that you will be able to see starting Very Soon.
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“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.
Netlify
FEBRUARY 18, 2021
The development workflow provided by Netlify is becoming second nature to many web developers: Write and test code locally. Push to version control. Review automated preview builds. Merge to production. This, along with the principles of a Jamstack architecture , where the user interface is compiled in advance, also enables improvements like atomic and immutable deploys.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 18, 2021
Each year, millions of students in India rush to get an admission in universities abroad. Often they don’t know which program they should focus on, or the college that is right for their skillset and ambition. Scores of legacy and newfound firms are attempting to offer counselling to these students. But despite India contributing more international students than any other country, most firms aiming to address this challenge are not focused on India, and struggle to understand some unique problem
Dzone - DevOps
FEBRUARY 18, 2021
Security is the most critical aspect for any IT solutions and with the ever-increasing adoption of cloud-native technologies, the need for Zero Trust Architecture is irrefutable as: The traditional networking approach is not effective enough to provide full security to cloud-native applications. With cloud offerings being heavily getting used going forward, security policies around the application need to be scalable as well.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 18, 2021
Calendars. They are at the core of how we organize our workdays and meetings, but despite regular attempts to modernize the overall calendar experience, the calendar experience you see today in Outlook or G Suite Google Workspace hasn’t really changed at its core. And for the most part, the area that startups like Calendly or ReclaimAI have focused on in recent years is scheduling.
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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.
CTOvision
FEBRUARY 18, 2021
Read Shivdeep Dhaliwal explain the logic behind The Graph and how it can be used: The Graph is a project whose protocol allows for querying of networks like Ethereum (ETH) […].
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 18, 2021
Abound , an online marketplace that helps independent retailers stock their shelves with new products from up-and-coming brands, is announcing that it has raised $22.9 million in its first institutional round of funding. CEO Bill Shope founded the company with Niklas de la Motte and Drew Sfugaras. He told me that small retailers are constantly on the hunt for new products, which means attending trade shows several times a year.
DevOps.com
FEBRUARY 18, 2021
CircleCI announced today it is enabling IT reams to configure their own private integrations around its namesake continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform. The company enables integrations with third-party services via reusable config packages, based on YAML files, known as orbs. Now, internal IT teams can create private orbs that they can securely reuse to invoke, […].
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 18, 2021
Varo Bank , which last year became the first U.S. neobank to be granted a national bank charter, announced this morning it’s raised another $63 million in new funding. The round was led by NBA star Russell Westbrook, who will also join the startup as an advisor focused on the direction of Varo Bank’s programs aimed at underserved communities, including communities of color.
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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.
scruminc
FEBRUARY 18, 2021
. Objectives & Key Results (OKRs): Ambitious Goal Setting and Extreme Focus. by Denise Jarvie | February 17, 2021 | Blog. There are many approaches to goal setting and prioritization, but few have the power of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). They h elp break up big, bold visions into actionable goals against which progress can be measured. For an organization to be truly effective, all teams must be aligned and focused on achieving the priority work.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 18, 2021
CoinDesk reported yesterday that crypto trading startup Coinbase is being valued at $77 billion on private exchanges. And Forbes reported that Stripe is being valued at $115 billion on secondary markets, where private shares can be bought and sold, albeit in a limited fashion. I instantly wanted to write a piece headlined “Beware those super hot secondary market valuations, “ but after a little digging, I cannot.
DevOps.com
FEBRUARY 18, 2021
Online transaction innovator pioneers new market category, processes 500M clickwraps, increases YOY ARR 120% February 18, 2021 08:00 AM Eastern Standard Time INDIANAPOLIS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–PactSafe, a leading clickwrap transaction platform that helps enterprises securely grow online transaction volume, has started 2021 with significant growth and momentum.
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