Wed.Feb 23, 2022

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Where ML Research Meets Data Science Practice: Learning With Small Data

Dataiku

In January, Dataiku’s Léo Dreyfus-Schmidt and Reda Affane presented our annual webinar on up-and-coming machine learning (ML) trends — this year, with a spin on grounding those research trends in reality with actual use cases from our data science team. In this blog series, we’re going to break up their main topics (data drift and anomaly detection, learning with small data, retail markdown optimization, and uplift modeling and causal inference) so they’re digestible and accessible as you aim to

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Stop guessing your KPIs; Varos shows e-commerce, SaaS companies how you compare to peers

TechCrunch

When one public company in a certain sector communicates a difficult quarter, the other companies in the sector tend to see a dip in share price. However, for private companies, it is hard to know exactly why there was an increase in costs last week — was it due to the company’s performance or happening to everyone else, too. Varos , based in San Francisco and Tel Aviv, is shedding some light on how companies compare to their peers in terms of key performance indicators, like customer acquisitio

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Return to the Office? Nah.

DevOps.com

I was watching Charlene O’Hanlon’s interview with the CRO of Rollbar, discussing the slow growth of “return to office” policies. High-tech, because we are more mobile, had more options than many people—the janitor, for example, must be physically at their job to do it. High-tech employees did not have that issue—or if they did before […]. The post Return to the Office?

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Signadot promises developers faster feedback loops

TechCrunch

Signadot , a startup that aims to simplify the development process for microservice-based applications by making it easier for developers to test their code, today announced that it has raised a $4 million seed funding round. The round was led by Redpoint Ventures, with participation from Y Combinator (the company was part of the Winter 2020 batch ) as well as a group of angel investors that includes former Heroku CEO Adam Gross, former GitHub CTO Jason Warner, GitLab’s Sébastien Pahl and

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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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AWS DevOps Engineer Salary: The Ultimate Guide for 2022

Dzone - DevOps

If you are looking to venture into the DevOps market, it’s essential to be well informed about the state of the market. Most importantly, you need to know the difference in DevOps Engineers’ salaries in the US for entry-level salaries and how wages grow with years of experience. Apart from that, you also need to choose which of the three certifications (AWS, GCP, and Azure) may set you on the road to a well-paying career.

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Can Regulatory Mandates Secure Software Development?

DevOps.com

Software companies have a long history of delivering incomplete and insecure products. This happens for a couple of reasons. Fast time-to-market has always been a business priority, taking precedence over security, especially as DevOps has become the norm in software development methodologies. And software, by nature, is easy to update and change, so some defects […].

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14 climate tech investors share their H1 2022 strategies

TechCrunch

Almost the same size as Florida, global warming has made Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier increasingly unstable. This month, researchers are attempting to reach the “Doomsday Glacier” for study, but icebergs are slowing their progress. The climate emergency is becoming more apparent, and investors are taking notice. Last year, round sizes for climate tech startups quadrupled, with more than 600 investments totaling over $40 billion.

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How to leverage uncertainty to your team’s advantage

CEO Insider

In a survey I conducted of 190 leaders last December, a whopping 83% of respondents said that what they were most looking forward to over the holidays was a break from work and the opportunity to spend time with family. And it’s no surprise. According to recent Harvard Business Review research, the majority of employees […]. The post How to leverage uncertainty to your team’s advantage appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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DishDivvy serves up marketplace for on-demand, home-cooked food

TechCrunch

Sitting down to a homemade meal is not always easy, but DishDivvy has come online to make it more of a reality, and at the same time provide home cooks with a way to make money from their creations. Ani Torosyan, co-founder and CEO, started the Los Angeles-based company three years ago with CTO Davit Avetisyan. Her family immigrated to the U.S., and though both of her parents were busy engineers, Torosyan recalls growing up with a home-cooked meal on the table everyday.

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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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Top 10 Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Tools for 2022

Dzone - DevOps

Introduction. Infrastructure as Code (IaC) revolutionized how companies design and build IT infrastructure by providing a reliable and robust way from the ground up. IaC allows DevOps teams to set up infrastructure resources, e.g., load balancers, virtual machines, and networks, using descriptive models and languages. Previously, setting up a large number of physical servers could take several hours.

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Aporia raises $25M Series A for its ML observability platform

TechCrunch

Aporia , a Tel Aviv-based startup that helps businesses monitor and explain their AI-based services, today announced that it has raised a $25 million Series A funding round led by Tiger Global. New investor Samsung Next, as well as previous investors TLV Partners and Vertex Ventures also participated in this round, which brings the company’s total amount raised to $30 million.

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Double Bagged

The Daily WTF

Many years ago, Yazeran needed to work with some floor-plan data. Now, fortunately for Yazeran, a vendor had already collected this information and packed it up behind a SOAP-based web service, so it would in theory be easy to get. This was long enough ago that SOAP was all the rage, and computers with multiple gigabytes of RAM were still on the higher end of things.

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Tap your community and the K factor to drive viral growth

TechCrunch

Going viral is the dream, but most projects need a little push. Mariusz G?siewski, Google’s CEE Mobile Gaming Lead, compares going viral to sightings of the mythical Yeti, the legendary snow creature that allegedly roams the Himalayas. “Many more people are talking about it than really saw it,” he told TechCrunch, noting that viral growth comes in two types: “real” and “supported.”.

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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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Data Security in Telemedicine What You Need to Know

Cabot Solutions

In this blog post we have discussed the various ways that data can be stolen from telemedicine systems and what you can do if you suspect that your system has been hacked

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Inside the pitch deck that won Heartbeat Health’s first investment check

TechCrunch

Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the U.S., but the healthcare industry spends more money helping patients after they get sick, instead of keeping them healthy. To fill this gap, Heartbeat Health , founded by Dr. Jeff Wessler, has raised more than $30 million , developing a digital data layer that uses telemedicine, remote diagnostics and digital heart health programs to give patients and clinicians a more proactive way to stay healthy.

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Automated CI/CD of Multiple Projects Using TeamCity’s Kotlin DSL

Dzone - DevOps

In a previous article , I described a way to organize low-latency products as multiple code bases which are bound together with a Maven Bill of Materials (BOM). Understandably, this requires setting up continuous integration and deployment for a large number of similar projects. Maintaining such a setup manually in the face of change while ensuring its consistency will take a lot of effort.

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Revel to expand EV fast-charging network with backing from BlackRock

TechCrunch

Revel, the Brooklyn-based startup that first made a name for itself with its iconic shared blue electric mopeds in New York City , has raised a $126 million Series B in a funding round led by BlackRock Renewable Power. Toyota Ventures, an existing investor, also participated in the round, along with Goodyear Ventures, Shell Ventures, Broadscale Group, the St Baker Energy Innovation Fund and an account managed by Knighthead Capital Management.

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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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Cloudera: Enabling the Cloud-Native, Data-Driven Techco

Cloudera

The telecommunications industry has been doing well since the pandemic started (not that many would notice). Revenues have remained relatively stable, while consumption has gone up, as virtual engagement has become the primary mode of operations for many businesses (and families!) In the mean-time, digital transformation has been accelerating both as a means to respond to the pandemic, and as a mechanism to drive costs down further, allowing for margin growth.

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Daily Crunch: Sources say creator platform Fireside will cozy up to a $125M Series A

TechCrunch

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PST, subscribe here. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Wednesday, February 23, 2022! There is so much to get to today I won’t slow us down apart from saying that our mobility-focused event is shaping up to be a bangerÎ. To work! – Alex.

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7 Deadly Sins in Corporate Innovation

Planbox

Corporate innovation is a discipline that could easily take a turn for the worse with improper, overdue, or undersized investments. Unfortunately, many organizations fall prey to the theatrics of innovation, which often amount to nothing more than an exercise in futility with little or no value generated for the business or society. Here are the seven deadly sins in corporate innovation, and what practices you should adopt to repent for each one your organization has committed.

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Dear Sophie: Startup visa news, H-1B and STEM OPT queries

TechCrunch

Sophie Alcorn. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” She connects people with the businesses and opportunities that expand their lives. More posts by this contributor. Dear Sophie: How can early-stage startups compete for talent?

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

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.

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Introducing the New Gold Standard for Entry Storage

Dell EMC

Dell PowerVault ME5 is a simple, powerful and scalable storage solution for high value SMB workloads.

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Aviron looks to game home fitness with its connected rowing machine

TechCrunch

Gamification is nothing new on the exercise front, of course. It’s been a foundational element of fitness bands — and later smartwatches — essentially since the beginning. And for good reason — it’s great for motivation and engagement, whether it’s a Fitbit or a game of Beat Saber. With Peloton pushing more aggressively into the gaming side of things with its Lanebreak offering , it seems like a safe bet that such programming is set to be a key part of home fitness content, mov

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The Migration from Network Security to Secure Networks

Arista

Over the last few years, we have seen an age of edgeless, multi-cloud, multi-device collaboration for hybrid work giving rise to a new network that transcends traditional perimeters. As hybrid work models gain precedence through the new network, organizations must address the cascading attack surface. Reactionary, bolt-on security measures are simply too tactical and expensive.

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Founders: Connect with influential movers and shippers at TC Sessions: Mobility 2022

TechCrunch

If you’re itching to get your game-changing product out of the garage, onto the streets or into customers’ driveways, we not-so-humbly suggest that you do whatever it takes to attend TC Sessions: Mobility 2022 in San Mateo, California on May 18-19. It’s your chance to meet, mingle and network with mobility’s movers, shakers, shippers and unicorn makers under one roof at the spacious San Mateo County Event Center.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

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.

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Why IT Asset Management is Like Building a Jigsaw Puzzle

Ivanti

Think about the process of building a jigsaw puzzle. After placing every piece on the table in front of you, different colors and types, you don’t really know how they’ll form a complete picture—and you certainly don’t know if any are missing. You have little choice but to sort through everything to understand what you have and how each piece relates to another.

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Ramp expands into travel as the corporate spend category goes horizontal

TechCrunch

Corporate spending has marked a huge opportunity in the world of fintech. Multiple players have emerged with various solutions — from software to corporate cards — to help businesses of all types and sizes better manage their expenses and save money and time while doing it. Now one of those players, Ramp, is announcing that it is expanding into the travel space, the company has told TechCrunch exclusively.

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The Modern Cloud

DevOps.com

The post The Modern Cloud appeared first on DevOps.com.

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