Thu.Sep 15, 2022

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Embrace Change in Production to Improve MTTR

DevOps.com

DevOps creates value through constant deployment changes. When done right, more frequent deployments allow teams to continuously improve their products or services while making it easier to manage the effects of the change. One way to do this is with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD). CI/CD helps to reduce the risks to each build […].

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CIO Ralph Loura on empathetic leadership that delivers results

CIO

Ralph Loura’s journey to his current role as Lumentum’s senior vice president IT and CIO encompasses some of the most well-known technology and consumer products companies around, including Rodan + Fields, Hewlett-Packard (HP) Enterprise Group, Clorox, Cisco, and Lucent Technologies. Along the way, Loura has been recognized time and again as an inspiring, transformational CIO whose innovative approaches create real business value.

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Ratio bags $411M in equity, credit for flexible subscription payment models

TechCrunch

Fintech startup Ratio secured $411 million in equity and debt funding to continue developing what it calls “a new flavor” of buy now, pay later that combines payments, predictive pricing, financing and a quote-to-cash process. Co-founder and CEO Ashish Srimal founded Ratio in 2021 with CTO Mason Blake, and they have been heads down ever since working on the company’s concept, which is to help SaaS and technology companies tap into the $1.5 trillion subscription market for recurring revenue.

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CIO Leadership Live with Tim Martin, CTO at Audible

CIO

Tim Martin, CTO at Audible, joins host Maryfran Johnson for this CIO Leadership Live interview, jointly produced by CIO.com and the CIO Executive Council. They discuss business resiliency, digital media competition, customer behavior pivots and more.

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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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How about that $20B Figma-Adobe deal?

TechCrunch

Bloomberg reported this morning that Adobe was getting close to buying Figma , a former startup and private-market unicorn in the design space, for around $20 billion. The Photoshop-maker then confirmed the deal with a release and a short investor presentation. TechCrunch’s coverage of the announcement is here. Shares of Adobe were off more than 15% following the news.

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Getting serious about Series B: 3 documents that will help founders control the narrative

TechCrunch

Gaetano Crupi. Contributor. Gaetano Crupi is a partner at venture capital firm Prime Movers Lab. He serves on the boards of OCEANIX, Atom Computing, Conscious Cultures and MycoWorks. More posts by this contributor. Use chronological scenario planning to help your startup get through a potential recession. I have now been an investor for two years after 15 years of entrepreneurship.

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Questions to Ask in Your Next Job Interview

Agile Alliance

You are passionate about software development, or product management, or leadership, or user experience, or documentation, or organization, or something else. The post Questions to Ask in Your Next Job Interview first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Virtual Internships matches students with top companies around the world

TechCrunch

Remote work struck down barriers for many employees, and now Virtual Internships is doing the same for university students around the world by partnering with over 12,000 companies from 100 countries. The edtech startup announced today it has raised a $14.3 million Series A led by Hambro Perks, with participation from Sequoia India & Southeast Asia’s Surge, Arsenal Growth, Kaplan, Ascend Vietnam Ventures and STIC Investments.

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Organizational Learning: Experiment with Better Ways to Experiment

Agile Alliance

You’ve learned a lot at the conference, but how can you make that learning operational in your organization? How can you spread your newly gained knowledge - adapted to your organization so that it sticks and grows? The post Organizational Learning: Experiment with Better Ways to Experiment first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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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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MVP Match, a tech-talent marketplace, raises $5M from Stage 2 Capital

TechCrunch

Tech-talent marketplace MVP Match has raised €5 million ($5 million) seed funding from Stage 2 Capital to double down its strategy for pairing companies with talent from across the globe. The Germany-based startup plans to use the funding to build new hubs in Africa and Europe, grow its team, and re-launch its proprietary platform to make “finding and working with tech talent easier than ever before.”.

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John Backus Biography

The Crazy Programmer

John Backus was a mathematician known for his invention of FORTRAN & for BNF notation for describing syntax for the programming language. John developed Formula Translator or Fortran, which was the first high-level programming language. It was a widely used programming language that made computers accessible and practical machines for developers and scientists without any need to have in-depth knowledge of this machinery.

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Indonesian crypto platform Reku is built for both new and experienced traders

TechCrunch

Cryptocurrency transactions in Indonesia hit $60 billion last year , according to the country’s commodities futures trading agency. Crypto exchange and marketplace Reku has been riding the wave with what it says are the lowest fees on the market, and a platform that is aimed at both newcomers and experienced traders. Today, the startup, founded in 2017, announced it has raised $11 million in Series A funding, led by AC Ventures (ACV) with participation from Coinbase Ventures and Skystar Capital.

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How to create a great take-home coding test

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Like with any other job role, in order to be a successful developer, you have to possess the required coding skills. It can also be referred to as the building blocks of a great developer. The challenge arises when assessing them and there are numerous reasons for the same. For starters, it could be the pressure of the interview that could hinder developers from showcasing their skillset.

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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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Sigmoid raises $12 million to scale its data engineering and analytics platform

TechCrunch

Sigmoid , a startup helping firms in the U.S., U.K. and Europe comb through their data and derive better insights from it, has raised $12 million in a new financing round following a strong year of growth, it said Thursday. Sequoia Capital India led the San Francisco-headquartered startup’s Series B funding, which included some secondary shares purchase, the two said.

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Managing Dependencies to Unlock Product Development Flow at Scale

Agile Alliance

As we build products with more teams (scale) it can become difficult to coordinate the smooth flow of work between those teams (dependencies). The post Managing Dependencies to Unlock Product Development Flow at Scale first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Selling APIs with Orum and Amex Ventures on TechCrunch Live

TechCrunch

Stephany Kirkpatrick launched Orum.io in 2019 and quickly gained investments from some of the top fintech venture capital firms. Why? Kirkpatrick’s company is reinventing how money is transferred between banks, making the transaction nearly instantaneous. Along with Matt Sueoka, Global Head and SVP of Amex Ventures Stephany Kirkpatrick will speak on what it takes to get financing in the fintech space.

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“That Was Easy!” and Other Things Teams Say About Compliance

Agile Alliance

I have to admit I was shocked when I heard "Do you talk about this stuff in your marketing materials? If not, you should." from the Government auditor sitting across my desk. The post “That Was Easy!” and Other Things Teams Say About Compliance first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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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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Kenya’s insurtech Turaco maintains 1 billion user target as it raises $10M funding

TechCrunch

Insurance penetration in Africa is currently below 3% largely attributable to the slow adoption of innovation in the sector. Many underwriters rely on traditional systems involving agents and lots of paperwork to sign-up new customers, which limits customer reach, and hampers the uptake of their products. However, a change-point is in the offing as insurtechs like the Kenya-based insurtech Turaco introduce new technologies and products that are disrupting the market.

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Working Backwards from Objectives and Key Results (OKRs)

Agile Alliance

Have you heard "Agile does not work for us" and then observed all sorts of anti-patterns in Agile implementation that damage trust and impede outcomes? The post Working Backwards from Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Reusable packaging startup Olive creates new model to keep clothes out of landfills

TechCrunch

When Olive launched in 2021 , it aimed to eliminate waste from online shopping by enabling consumers to order from multiple sites and get products in one reusable package. Today, the company relaunches itself in the business-to-business space to work initially with apparel retailers on establishing a circular economy that delivers clothing and accessory orders in waste-free, reusable packaging, while also making consignment easier.

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Agile Cheer: Bring It On!

Agile Alliance

The purpose of cheerleading is to support and encourage their team to achieve peak performance - they give the team the extra oomph to carry them over the goal line! The post Agile Cheer: Bring It On! first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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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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Why growth activation matters

TechCrunch

Jonathan Martinez. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Jonathan Martinez is a former YouTuber, UC Berkeley alum and growth marketing nerd who's helped scale Uber, Postmates, Chime and various startups. More posts by this contributor. To optimize for growth, study your down-funnel metrics. How to run growth marketing during a recession. You’ve probably downloaded an app or visited a website and just closed it before getting much use out of it.

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Comment les DSI peuvent s’inspirer des 5C de Mastercard pour bâtir leurs équipes informatiques

CIO

Tout indique que cette vision construite autour des « 5C » (pour C ommunity, Common vision, Cross-functional, Culture et Cutting edge ) fonctionne. Seulement deux ans après son ouverture à Vancouver, les 230 employés du Centre d’excellence international de Mastercard en matière de renseignements et de cybercriminalité ont déjà soumis 30 brevets, et certains de leurs produits sont en service partout dans le monde, permettant de protéger commerçants et consommateurs contre les cybercriminels.

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Winn.AI launches out of stealth with an AI assistant for sales calls

TechCrunch

Conventionally, salespeople are responsible for juggling tasks like following a playbook, capturing responses, building rapport and updating a customer relationship management (CRM) system during sales calls. As these tend to be repetitive and time-consuming, tedium can quickly set in. The average salesperson spends more than five hours a week updating CRM records, according to a Dooly survey.

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5 Best Technical Screening Platforms

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Recruitment, in general, has undergone several transformations in recent years and it comes as no surprise that most of these were influenced by technological advancements. This applies to non-technical and technical industries alike. But today, we’re talking about the technical screening platforms. A technical screening platform needs to be developed the right way.

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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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Morpheus Space’s satellite thrusters are propelled forward with a $28M Series A

TechCrunch

The booming satellite industry has been a boon for Morpheus Space , which produces a modular, electric propulsion system for small satellites. Morpheus has raised a $28 million Series A , with which it intends to build a factory in Dresden, Germany, where it’s based, and to increase headcount. That will allow the company to ramp up production of its propulsion systems to meet exponentially growing demand in the smallsat market; since 2019, the number of small satellite launches has increas

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5 Best Technical Screening Platforms

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Recruitment, in general, has undergone several transformations in recent years and it comes as no surprise that most of these were influenced by technological advancements. This applies to non-technical and technical industries alike. But today, we’re talking about the technical screening platforms. A technical screening platform needs to be developed the right way.

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Rephrase.ai lands fresh investment to grow its synthetic media platform

TechCrunch

Rephrase.ai, a self-described synthetic media production platform, today announced that it raised $10.6 million in a Series A round co-led by Silver Lake and Red Ventures with participation from 8VC. CEO Ashray Malhotra says that the plan is to put the new cash toward expanding headcount with a particular focus on Rephrase’s engineering, data science, product and business teams.

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