Agile Alliance
APRIL 6, 2021
Q1 2021 has been a busy quarter for the Agile in Color initiative with Agile Alliance. After spending the last six months of 2020 coming together following Agile Alliance’s Growing Racial Equity in the Agile Community for Black Lives, our group of dedicated Agilists and Co-Conspirators launched Agile in Color in 2021. Our group presented … Continued.
TechCrunch
APRIL 6, 2021
Today, in a twist, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy has announced a proposal for a $10 million allocation in the state budget to create a seed fund for Black and Latinx startups, TechCrunch has learned exclusively. The Black and Latinx Seed Fund will be administered by the New Economic Development Authority (NJEDA). NJEDA CEO Tim Sullivan said based on research conducted by the state, that New Jersey is the first state in the nation to develop this type of fund.
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CIO
APRIL 6, 2021
As enterprises move ahead in their digital transformation journey, the massive trail of data from digital transactions is growing steadily, but for many organizations extracting intelligence from data remains a pipe dream.
TechCrunch
APRIL 6, 2021
The competition for note-taking is as fierce as it has ever been with plenty of highly-valued productivity startups fighting for an audience it can potentially serve endless productivity offshoots. In the past year, Notion raised at a $2 billion valuation, Coda raised at $636 million, and Roam raised at $200 million. A new competitor in the space is emerging out of stealth with fresh funding from Andreessen Horowitz.
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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.
The Crazy Programmer
APRIL 6, 2021
pdflayer is an API used by developers for seamless automated conversion of high-quality HTML to PDF on any platform (websites, applications). The lightweight RESTful API enables developers to generate highly customizable PDFs from URLs and HTML. Additionally, the platform offers a robust and sturdy infrastructure with simple and straightforward integration.
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TechBeacon
APRIL 6, 2021
One of the side benefits of leading the Jenkins automation server project over the years is that I’ve had the opportunity to interview numerous companies on their workflows and practices. In some cases, I’ve found regular people who achieved extraordinary results through ordinary means.
TechCrunch
APRIL 6, 2021
In the first quarter of 2021, American consumer cryptocurrency trading giant Coinbase grew sharply, generating strong profits at the same time. For Coinbase, the disclosure of its preliminary Q1 2021 results comes a week ahead of its direct listing, an event that will see the company begin to trade publicly. As it is both cash rich and well known, Coinbase is foregoing a traditional IPO in favor of the more exotic method of going public.
DevOps.com
APRIL 6, 2021
The second wave of enterprise artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) adoption is building, and is expected to crest in 2021, as many organizations increased and accelerated their investments in tools and people. That was one of the unmistakable conclusions of our 2021 enterprise trends in machine learning report: 83% of the companies we surveyed […].
TechCrunch
APRIL 6, 2021
Messaging is the medium these days, and today a startup that has built an API to help others build text and video interactivity into their services is announcing a big round to continue scaling its business. Sendbird , a popular provider of chat, video and other interactive services to the likes of Reddit, Hinge, Paytm, Delivery Hero and hundreds of others by way of a few lines of code, has closed a round of $100 million, money that it plans to use to continue expanding the functionalities of it
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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
CTOvision
APRIL 6, 2021
Palantir Technologies Inc. today announced it had been selected by the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to provide its Office of Safety, Infrastructure, and Operations with a platform for effective knowledge management and data-driven decision-making in an agreement worth up to $89.9 million for a duration of up to 5 years. Read how Palantir Technologies […].
TechCrunch
APRIL 6, 2021
The last year has put a spotlight on mental health, and startup Real is looking to shake up the space with a product that makes group therapy available on-demand. Founded by CEO Ariela Safira, Real is inspired by a longstanding methodology in the world of mental health: Group therapy. AA, for instance, has been around for decades and proven to be incredibly effective for some.
Aqua Security
APRIL 6, 2021
In recent years, I have been I using a project called BCC to compile, load, and interact with my bpf programs. I have recently learned about a better way to build ebpf projects called libbpf. There are a few good resources to use when developing libbpf based programs but getting started can still be quite overwhelming. The goal of this post is to provide a simple and effective explanation of what libbpf is and how to start using it.
TechCrunch
APRIL 6, 2021
Encrypted chat app Signal is adding payments to the services it provides, a long-expected move and one the company is taking its time on. A U.K.-only beta program will allow users to trade the cryptocurrency MobileCoin quickly, easily, and most importantly, privately. If you’re in the U.K., or have some way to appear to be, you’ll notice a new Signal Payments feature in the app when you update.
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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.
CTOvision
APRIL 6, 2021
Polkadot and Chainlink have announced the release of Chainlink’s Price Feeds as a module, or “pallet” in Polkadot terminology, for the Substrate blockchain framework. The release means that any project building on the Substrate framework — which includes Polkadot and Kusama parachains, as well as independent blockchains — can integrate Chainlink oracles through a simplified library. […].
TechCrunch
APRIL 6, 2021
The energy giant Shell has joined a slew of strategic investors — including All Nippon Airways, Suncor Energy, Mitsui and British Airways — in funding LanzaJet, the company commercializing a process to convert alcohol into jet fuel. . A spin-off from LanzaTech , one of the last surviving climate tech startups from the first cleantech boom that’s still privately held, LanzaJet is taking a phased investment approach with its corporate backers, enabling them to invest additional c
CTOvision
APRIL 6, 2021
Bitcoin, after roaring to around $60,000 per bitcoin in March, has plateaued in recent weeks. The bitcoin price has added almost 500% since its latest bull run began in October 2020, pushed on by bullish Wall Street banks and the likes of Tesla billionaire Elon Musk. Now, Wall Street giant BNY Mellon has called the controversial bitcoin […].
TechCrunch
APRIL 6, 2021
Historically, podcasts have been aimed at consumers. The value to be gained in the B2B world is something that has been largely untapped. For Lindsay Tjepkema — who has been entrenched in the world of B2B marketing for more than 15 years — the opportunity was massive. So in 2019, she founded Casted , an audio and video podcast product aimed at B2B marketers.
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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.
DevOps.com
APRIL 6, 2021
In the race to accelerate digital transformation initiatives, organizations are encountering more incidents, more downtime, and longer resolution times. In fact, 90.4% of organizations saw an increase in incidents since the pandemic began, according to a recent Transposit report. In a completely digital economy, service downtime takes a higher toll.
TechCrunch
APRIL 6, 2021
Used-goods marketplaces, an online staple since the beginning of the internet as we know it, have really come into their own during the COVID-19 pandemic: They’ve been a place for people clearing out their domestic spaces to list items that they have that are still in good shape, making some money in the process; and for buyers, they are a resource for finding items at a time when shopping in person and spending money in uncertain economic times have both fallen out of favor.
CTOvision
APRIL 6, 2021
Read Daniel Robinson review the Elastic version 7.12 with its new schema flexibility on Dev Class : Elastic has released 7.12, making a bunch of new capabilities available in its Elastic Enterprise Search, Observability, and Security solutions that form part of the Elastic Stack providing distributed search and analytics capabilities. Perhaps the most significant of these […].
TechCrunch
APRIL 6, 2021
While it’s true the VC world has gone SPAC-happy, the reverse merger method hasn’t been a huge driver in robotics thus far, with some notable exceptions like Berkshire-Grey. This morning, however, Utah-based Sarcos Robotics announced plans to board the SPAC train, courtesy of Rotor Acquisition Corp. The deal could potentially value the robotic exoskeleton maker and blank check co. at a combined $1.3 billion, along with a potential $281 million earn-out.
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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.
CTOvision
APRIL 6, 2021
Anduril, the rare West Coast tech company that sees the U.S. military as its go-to customer, has acquired Area-I, an Atlanta-based tech start-up specializing in small tube-launched drones that can be used to scout ahead of helicopters or military transport planes. The acquisition is part of Anduril’s plan to become a leading supplier of defense technology, […].
TechCrunch
APRIL 6, 2021
Charles , a Berlin-based startup that offers a “conversational-commerce” SaaS for businesses that want to sell on WhatsApp and other chat apps, has raised €6.4 million in funding. Led by Accel and HV Capital, the seed funding will be used by the company to scale and meet existing demand for its conversational commerce platform. Launched in 2020 by Artjem Weissbeck and Andreas Tussing after the pair had run a year-long experiment running a store in WhatsApp, Charles enables businesses
DevOps.com
APRIL 6, 2021
A survey of 521 attendees at a recent online Future of Salesforce DevOps Summit event hosted by Gearset, a provider of a continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform for Salesforce developers, found just under half (47%) of respondents now release software at least multiple times a week, with another 29% releasing software weekly or biweekly.
Altexsoft
APRIL 6, 2021
This is a guest article by Anastasia Belyh from FounderJar. Validating a product idea is one of the first real headaches any serious startup must face. The risk of failure for new businesses is very real, with more than 50 percent of new small businesses failing within their first year. A huge contributor to this trend is that several new businesses launch products that don’t have an actual market demand.
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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.
DevOps.com
APRIL 6, 2021
In advance of its online GraphQL Summit this week, Apollo GraphQL announced today it has updated its Apollo Federation offering that enables a GraphQL Server to span multiple platforms, making it more accessible to a wider range of developers using different tools. Apollo Federation is now integrated with both Apollo Studio, a web-based tool for navigating […].
DevOps.com
APRIL 6, 2021
It is fun to discuss the changes in network operations over the last couple decades. We’ve come full circle, and, honestly, ended up in a better place. Network specialists were super command-line wizards who kept us going, with few GUIs in sight. Everyone thought the next iteration would be GUIs, so network operations could be […]. The post Languages and DevOps: Network appeared first on DevOps.com.
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