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11 Best Telegram Programming Groups and Channels

The Crazy Programmer

Do you want to know about the best programming Telegram groups? If we need to choose from WhatsApp and Telegram, we mostly choose Telegram for learning new skills. As WhatsApp is only suitable for chatting and connecting. However, Telegram has become the best platform for learning new skills without any spam. There are many channels where you can learn a wide range of programming skills.

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SoftBank commits $3B more to investing in Latin American tech companies

TechCrunch

SoftBank Group Corp. is doubling down on its commitment to Latin America. Today, the Japanese investment conglomerate is announcing the launch of the SoftBank Latin America Fund II, its second dedicated private investment fund focused on tech companies located in LatAm. SoftBank is launching the new fund with an initial $3 billion commitment. “Fund II will explore options to raise additional capital,” SoftBank said in a statement.

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Agile Testing Days Conference – Discount Registration

Agile Alliance

Agile Alliance members get a special 150.00 EURO discount off registration to this year’s Agile Testing Days, one of the world’s leading Agile and software testing conferences. The post Agile Testing Days Conference – Discount Registration first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Intuit’s $12B Mailchimp acquisition is about expanding its small business focus

TechCrunch

At first blush, the $12 billion Intuit-Mailchimp deal might not make a heck of a lot of sense. But people tend to pigeonhole companies, and in this case they might see Intuit as purely a financial software company and Mailchimp as an email marketing firm and nothing more. If that’s as far as your perspective goes, the deal is confusing. From a wider lens, however, there’s more to both companies than you might think.

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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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Domain Storytelling—Understanding Your Users by Drawing Pictures

Agile Alliance

Domain Storytelling is a collaborative modeling method. It brings together domain experts and development teams and helps them to understand the domain of a software system, find boundaries, and to talk about requirements. Domain Storytelling means that we let domain experts tell us stories about their tasks. While listening, we record the stories using a … Continued.

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How to Build a SaaS Application: Step-by-Step Guide

The Crazy Programmer

When it comes to making a SaaS application, there are endless things that need to be considered. Unfortunately, many businessmen believe that they need to start from scratch or hire a team. How is a SaaS product constructed? First, let us get to discuss some of the best points with the help of which you can enjoy a proper SaaS application. SaaS is the best software as a service.

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Chaldal, Bangladesh’s largest grocery delivery platform, raises $10M Series C

TechCrunch

Founded in 2013, Bangladesh’s Chaldal was one of the first grocery delivery startups in the world to use the “dark” store model, picking up orders from its own warehouses instead of retail stores. Now the company says it is the country’s second-largest grocery player and the largest grocery e-commerce platform, with 27 warehouses located in four cities.

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Thoughts on organizing architecture

Xebia

When being part of an enterprise, you will meet different architects on any given day. The first one introduces itself as a solution architect, the other calls itself the enterprise architect, and they both mention a domain architect. It might feel like different names for the same thing, and perhaps even a bigger question, do we even need all of these different architects?

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Indonesian fintech Xendit is now a unicorn, with $150M in fresh funding led by Tiger Global

TechCrunch

There’s a new entrant in Southeast Asia’s growing list of unicorns. Jakarta-based Xendit , best known for its digital payment infrastructure but also focused on other financial products, announced today it has raised $150 million in Series C funding, bumping its valuation to $1 billion. The round was led by Tiger Global Management, with participation from returning investors Accel, Amasia and Goat Capital, the venture firm co-founded by former Y Combinator partner Justin Kan (in 2015, Xendit bec

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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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Epic Games shuts down Houseparty app to focus on metaverse

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Houseparty, the social video app that launched in 2016 and soared in popularity during the pandemic, will be shutting down in October, the company announced Thursday. In a release, Houseparty said it will be absorbed into Epic Games to work on “creating new ways to have meaningful and authentic social interactions at metaverse scale across […].

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Immi takes in $3.8M to cook up plant-based instant ramen

TechCrunch

Immi is putting a healthy spin on instant ramen by going plant-based and offering more bold tastes. The company announced Tuesday that it raised $3.8 million in seed funding. Co-founders Kevin Lee and Kevin Chanthasiriphan both grew up in food families from Taiwan and Thailand, respectively, and met a decade ago while working at the same tech company.

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U.S. Navy’s Solar Drone Will Fly 90-Day Missions Seeing All With Palantir Technology

CTOvision

Read David Hambling explain how Palantir Technologies, Inc. is collaborating with the U.S. Navy to fly its Skydweller reconnaissance drone on Forbes : The U.S. Navy is developing an uncrewed, solar-powered aircraft known as Skydweller that is designed to remain airborne for 90 days at a stretch. It was revealed Thursday that the drone will […].

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Tonal adds live classes to its strength training workouts

TechCrunch

Wall-mounted fitness startup Tonal this morning announced that it’s bringing live courses to it portfolio of strength training workouts. The company did a soft launch of the live offering back in December of last year, though at the time, it wasn’t live, so much as prerecorded — “live, on tape,” to steal a line from The Larry Sanders Show. “[Y]our coach works out with you — just like in a live class,” the company wrote.

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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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this Pointer in C++

The Crazy Programmer

‘this’ is a reserved keyword in c++. It is used to get the variables or member functions present in the current class. ‘this’ pointer is not available for the friend functions because they are not members of class. It is given as an implicit argument to the member functions. Let’s see the code below to understand more about this pointer. #include <iostream> using namespace std; class personal_details { private: string name,address; int age,salary; public: void input_details(string name,s

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1047 Games raises $100M on the runaway success of its debut title, Splitgate

TechCrunch

When you’re hot, you’re hot. And 1047 Games is making the most of the heat generated by Splitgate , its first game and a now a breakout success. After working on a shoestring for years, the team has since May raised three rounds, the latest for a massive $100M. Co-founder and CEO Ian Proulx credited a dedicated community and, as he described it, “taking a Silicon Valley approach to running a game business.” At the time 1047 Games was founded, about 5 years ago, free to pl

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Nesting of Member Function in C++

The Crazy Programmer

Whenever we call a member function inside another member function of one class it is known as Nesting of the member function. Generally, the member function which is called by another member function is kept private so that it cannot be called directly using the dot operator. Let’s look at the example code below for better understanding: #include <iostream> using namespace std; class phone_number { private: string num; void check_num(); public: void input_num(); void output_num(); }; voi

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AgBiome lands $166M for safer crop protection technology

TechCrunch

AgBiome , developing products from microbial communities, brought in a $116 million Series D round as the company prepares to pad its pipeline with new products. The company, based in Research Triangle Park, N.C., was co-founded in 2012 by a group including co-CEOs Scott Uknes and Eric Ward, who have known each other for over 30 years. They created the Genesis discovery platform to capture diverse microbes for agricultural applications, like crop protection, and screen the strains for the best a

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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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Creating React Apps With Redux Toolkit and RTK Query

Toptal

Have you ever wanted to use Redux and React Query combined? Now you can, by using the Redux Toolkit and its latest addition: RTK Query. This article demonstrates how RTK Query is used in real-life scenarios, complete with detailed code examples.

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Sendoso nabs $100M as its corporate gifting platform passes 20,000 customers

TechCrunch

Corporate gift services have come into their own during the COVID-19 pandemic by standing in as a proxy for other kinds of relationship-building activities — office meetings, lunches and hosting at events — that have traditionally been part and parcel of how people do business, but were no longer feasible during lockdowns, social distancing and offices closing their doors.

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Anduril Gets $5.2M U.K. Defense Contract

CTOvision

Defense and border protection company Anduril Industries Inc. said today it has been awarded a $5.2 million contract from the U.K. Ministry of Defence to demonstrate the Irvine firm’s force protection technology. The systems include Anduril’s Ghost 4 drones and its core Lattice AI operating system. The award is part of TALOS, an MOD program focused […].

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Logistics robotics startup Ambi raises $26M

TechCrunch

Five months ago, Ambi Robotics emerged from stealth with a $6 million raise. Today the Bay Area-based firm is back with several times that, announcing a $26 million Series A, led by Tiger Global. The new round also features participation from existing investors, including Bow Capital, Vertex Ventures US and The House Fund. The startup first hit our radar through the involvement of UC Berkeley (and frequent TC Sessions: Robotics guest Ken Goldberg).

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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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Rethinking Cybersecurity in the Age of Infinite Attack Surface

CTOvision

We are living in the age of infinite attack surfaces where there are practically unlimited ways in which the enterprise can be breached. In this scenario, how should CIOs and CISOs rethink their cybersecurity programs to stay ahead of the adversary? See the video/read the transcript of the panel discussion of former CEO of Cisco, […].

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Creative adtech is on the cusp of a revolution, and VCs should take note

TechCrunch

Casey Saran. Contributor. Share on Twitter. An ad tech veteran who has logged time at Google and The Rubicon Project (now Magnite), Casey Saran is co-founder and CEO of Spaceback. 2021 has been a good year to be an adtech investor. Valuations are surging , Wall Street is happy and exits are frequent and satisfying. It’s the perfect time to double down and invest in an area that has been largely ignored but is poised for major upside in the next few years: Digital creative ad technology.

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Proof-of-stake: Ethereum 2.0 ranks worst energy consumption

CTOvision

Groundbreaking research by University College London has systematically assessed the energy consumptions of leading proof-of-stake networks and concluded not all PoS blockchains are created equal. Proof-of-stake has been heralded as the environmental savior of the crypto industry, emerging as the rousing response to widespread attempts at decrying blockchain technology on the basis of its environmental impact. […].

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Atlanta’s sundry startups join in global VC funding boom

TechCrunch

Mailchimp is selling itself to Intuit in a transaction valued at $12 billion. The deal is a coup not only for companies that eschew venture capital backing — Mailchimp is famous for its bootstrapping history — but also for the city of its founding, Atlanta. Mailchimp’s mega-exit comes in the same year that fellow Atlanta-based startup Calendly raised a massive $350 million round that valued the technology company north of $3 billion, per Crunchbase data.

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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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Frost & Sullivan Recognizes Recorded Future as Innovation Leader in Global Cyber Threat Intelligence Market

CTOvision

Frost & Sullivan has named Recorded Future a top industry innovator in the Frost Radar™: Global Cyber Threat Intelligence Market. Recorded Future is recognized for the breadth of its intelligence capabilities and product strategy, which enables the company to support clients with different intelligence requirements and cybersecurity maturity levels.

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Locus Robotics just raised another $50M

TechCrunch

Seems Locus Robotics is striking while the iron is hot. Seven months after raising a sizable $150 million Series E , Tiger Global is investing another $50 million in the Massachusetts firm. The last round made Locus a unicorn, and this one brings the company’s total funding to around $300 million. Locus specializes in warehouse and fulfillment robotics, making a more modular solution that doesn’t require the sort of “ground-up build” of a Berkshire Grey.

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Facebook’s vision of the metaverse has a critical flaw

CTOvision

Read Jerod Venema explain why Facebook’s The Metaverse has a critical flaw on Venture Beat : The “metaverse” is back in the headlines. Mark Zuckerberg recently announced that Facebook “will effectively transition from … being a social media company to being a metaverse company.” Facebook plans to create “an embodied internet” — powered by its […].

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