DevOps.com
JANUARY 7, 2021
BMC this week updated its portfolio of mainframe tools as part of an effort to make mainframe platforms more accessible to IT operations teams and developers. At the core of these offerings is BMC Automated Mainframe Intelligence (AMI), which embeds machine learning algorithms in mainframe platforms to automate a wide range of processes. BMC AMI […].
TechCrunch
JANUARY 7, 2021
Too Good To Go , the startup that lets you buy food right before it goes to waste, is raising a $31.1 million round. blisce/ is leading the round and investing $15.4 million as part of today’s round. Existing investors and employees are also participating. While the company has been around for a while, this is the first time Too Good To Go is raising money from a VC firm.
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Let's Grow Leaders
JANUARY 7, 2021
Lead like it’s the first time to give your team energy. Early in my career, I learned a vital leadership lesson about how to give your team energy. I was working with an education nonprofit that supported children who lived in poverty. […]. The post How to Give Your Team Energy They Need appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 7, 2021
Challenger banks, incumbent banks and all of the many businesses that are making inroads into any kind of banking service all have something in common: when it comes to launching a new product like a credit line or a deposit or current account, these days many of them are opting not to build from the ground up, but are instead using third-party technology to power these services.
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Darktrace
JANUARY 7, 2021
This blog explains how activity related to the SolarWinds hack can be detected without the use of signatures, and why a self-learning approach is the best possible mechanism to catch this Advanced Persistent Threat.
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DevOps.com
JANUARY 7, 2021
Mainframe workloads were on the rise even before the coronavirus pandemic, and transaction-processing mainframes became vital as lockdowns went into effect and every aspect of business and personal life occurred online. Mainframes are reliable, secure, highly available and affordable, and it is essential for organizations to ensure their mainframe can achieve peak agility to enhance […].
TechCrunch
JANUARY 7, 2021
Roblox is now one of the world’s most valuable private companies in the world after a monster Series H raise brings the social gaming platform a stratospheric $29.5 billion valuation. The company won’t be private for long, though. The $520 million raise led by Altimeter Capital and Dragoneer Investment Group is a significant cash influx for Roblox, which had previously raised just over $335 million from investors according to Crunchbase.
DevOps.com
JANUARY 7, 2021
APIs have an accessibility problem. Could a low-code API approach make them more inclusive and accessible for citizen developers? Most software today integrates with third-party SaaS. TomTom for geolocation. Stripe for payment. Twilio for SMS. Kairos for facial recognition. AWS for NLP … the list goes on. Whatever function you’re looking for, there’s probably an […].
TechCrunch
JANUARY 7, 2021
This morning Hopin , a quickly-growing startup that sells a technology platform for hosting digital events, announced that it has acquired StreamYard. The acquired company, which bootstrapped itself to material revenue scale, will retain its brand and in-market product. The deal is worth $250 million, paid in a mix of cash and stock. Hopin raised a $40 million Series A in late June of 2020 , and a $125 million Series B last November at a valuation of $2.125 billion. 1.
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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.
Confluent
JANUARY 7, 2021
At Zendesk, Apache Kafka® is one of our foundational services for distributing events among different internal systems. We have pods, which can be thought of as isolated cloud environments where […].
TechCrunch
JANUARY 7, 2021
This morning Gtmhub , a multinational startup that builds software to help other companies manage their corporate planning, announced that it has raised a $30 million Series B. The round was led by Insight , and included both participation from new investor Singular , and prior investors LauncHub and CRV. Gtmhub raised capital around 13 months ago, a $9 million Series A.
TechSoup
JANUARY 7, 2021
When it comes to marketing, content is king, as they say. And it's no surprise that content has become critical to the marketing and growth of nonprofit organizations. As new technology and digital transformation grows, the way nonprofits relate to their constituents has changed, too.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 7, 2021
Like many startups, Atlanta-based Voxie was created to solve a problem that founder and CEO Bogdan Constantin faced himself. In Constantin’s case, this was at his previous tuxedo rental startup Menguin (ultimately acquired by Generation Tux), where he said he had to market a product with a six-to-nine month sales cycle, as customers were usually weighing different options for their weddings.
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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.
InfoQ Culture Methods
JANUARY 7, 2021
The book The Rise of the Agile Leader by Chuck Mollor is a blueprint for leaders navigating change in the pursuit of success. Mollor shares his story of self-awareness, self-acceptance, and self-development, while demonstrating a leadership paradigm, a roadmap of what makes a great leader, and what organizations can do to develop great leaders. By Ben Linders, Chuck Mollor.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 7, 2021
The popular news app News Break is announcing that it has raised $115 million in new funding. The press release claims this round makes News Break “one of the first new unicorns of 2021,” but the startup declined to disclose its actual valuation. Founder and CEO Jeff Zheng said that when he started the company in 2015, the goal was to differentiate itself from other news aggregation apps by focusing on local news, and to “help or empower these local content creators.” To
DevOps.com
JANUARY 7, 2021
Bolstering speed of delivery and opportunities to scale for new and existing clients DENVER — January 7, 2021 — STACK INFRASTRUCTURE, the digital infrastructure partner to the world’s most innovative companies, today announced that it has joined CommScope’s Multi-Tenant Data Center (MTDC) Alliance Program. The MTDC Alliance Program addresses the needs and concerns of multi-tenant […].
TechCrunch
JANUARY 7, 2021
The ongoing push for social distancing to slow the spread of COVID-19 has meant that more people than ever are using internet-based services to get things done. And that is having a direct impact on digital customer service, which is seeing unprecedented traffic and demands when things are not running smoothly. Today, one of the startups that’s built an interesting, very “hands-on” approach to addressing that problem is announcing a round of funding to expand its business.
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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.
Cloudera
JANUARY 7, 2021
Text classification is a ubiquitous capability with a wealth of use cases. For example, recommendation systems rely on properly classifying text content such as news articles or product descriptions in order to provide users with the most relevant information. Classifying user-generated content allows for more nuanced sentiment analysis. And in the world of e-commerce, assigning product descriptions to the most fitting product category ensures quality control. .
TechCrunch
JANUARY 7, 2021
IPRally , a burgeoning startup out of Finland aiming to solve the patent search problem, has raised €2 million in seed funding. Leading the round is by JOIN Capital, and Spintop Ventures, with participation from existing pre-seed backer Icebreaker VC. It brings the total raised by the 2018-founded company to €2.35 million. Co-founded by CEO Sakari Arvela, who has 15 years experience as a patent attorney, IPRally has built a knowledge graph to help machines better understand the technical details
Dzone - DevOps
JANUARY 7, 2021
DevOps has come a long way, and there is no doubt it will continue to shine this year. Since many companies are looking for best practices around their digital transformation, it's important to see where leaders think the industry is going. In that sense, the following article is a collection of responses from the DevOps leaders on DevOps trends to watch for in 2021.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 7, 2021
Mandy Price was already a highly successful lawyer in private practice before she took the jump into entrepreneurship alongside two co-founders to launch Kanarys a little over one year ago. The Harvard Law School graduate didn’t have to start her company, which helps businesses measure the efficacy of their diversity and inclusion efforts using hard data, but she needed to start the company.
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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.
The Daily WTF
JANUARY 7, 2021
"They say you shouldn't test in prod. They aren't wrong." Dave P. writes. . Dave W. wrote, "I guess even the USPS's 'missing mail' site is missing in action." . "$69.99 instead of $69.99.Thank you, Microsoft?" writes Carlos. . Pascal wrote, "Looks like the test was more successful than they had planned." . "Looks like eBay is keeping it as simple as possible," Peter K. writes. .
TechCrunch
JANUARY 7, 2021
Digital product design — the process of building services like websites and apps that work without bugs and as you intend them to — has come into focus as an especially important thing to get right in the last year. With more customers using sites and apps to interact with a business, if something is broken or just isn’t working that well, you can lose them much more easily than in the past in physical spaces, when store assistants might help, or the customer might simply get d
Toptal
JANUARY 7, 2021
Software development is a complex process and evaluating the performance of software engineers can be too. It is important that you find the right balance between that complexity and practicality in software engineer performance reviews. In this article, Toptal Engineering Blog Editor Nermin Hajdarbegovic outlines the difference between commonly used performance review models and discusses how they should be employed.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 7, 2021
Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture-capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. Happy 2021, or as our own Danny Crichton aptly names it, December 38, 2020. Equity crew is back to start the new year in full force, with Alex , Natasha and Danny on the mics and Chris behind the scenes. The reunion led to extreme Dad joke energy from all of us, which helped get through the mountain of tech news that we had in front of us.
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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.
TechBeacon
JANUARY 7, 2021
In 2020, companies were taught a lesson in the consequences of failing to shore up their defenses and improve their resiliency to cyber attack.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 7, 2021
As the pandemic took hold in 2020, companies accelerated their move to cloud services. Lacework, the cloud security startup, was in the right place at the right time as customers looked for ways to secure their cloud native workloads. The company reported that revenue grew 300% year over year for the second straight year. It was rewarded for that kind of performance with a $525 million Series D today.
TechBeacon
JANUARY 7, 2021
Who’s the true culprit behind 2020’s huge SolarWinds Orion debacle? The chickens are still coming home to roost, but there are a few options.
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