TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

Grocery store technology hasn’t changed much in decades, so when the pandemic hit, it served as a wake-up call to the industry, highlighting its shortcomings, especially concerning e-commerce. Grocery stores that don’t adapt will most likely lose out on market share. The good news for the grocery industry is that technology advancements in recent years, particularly in the area of computer vision, are giving startups a shot at providing grocery stores with e-commerce-like features in a brick-and

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 12, 2022

Do you remember the last time you felt infectious energy? Some have tapped into how to maintain a higher energy output but the majority of us are still on this journey. That’s where this week’s guest, Keith Smith, can help. Keith Smith, CEO of Vonco Products, is on a social mission to help those seeking to live a more empowered life, cultivate innovation, overcome fear, or become a more effective leader.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

Sanjay Manchanda. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Sanjay Manchanda is CMO of Chargebee. He has helped build a multibillion dollar SaaS business, scale new product businesses and delivered go-to-market and demand-gen strategies at Box and Microsoft. Challenging times for the tech and consumer industries have created a lot of buzz around “subscription fatigue.” The very model that business and consumer platforms have relied on for growth and predictable revenue seems under threat in a c

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IDC

AUGUST 12, 2022

IDC's Phillip Silitschanu explores the new and exciting business opportunities that Web3 and NFTs create for the future with data storage, and exchange value.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

The pace of crypto hacks hasn’t slowed in the dog days of summer, with tens of millions of dollars stolen in August alone. As the crypto community carries on in the wake of the expensive exploits, many web3 users are biting their tongue waiting for the next big one to strike. On August 1, Nomad, a crypto bridging protocol, was hacked for about $190 million.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

As individuals try to manage medical information and understand their conditions, many typically turn to Google or WebMD — neither of which does much to verify or provide the latest information. But Roon plans to change this with a medical education platform for vetted information, sourced strictly from doctors, patients, and caregivers. By curating the data it makes available around individual conditions, Roon is meant to reassure patients and caregivers that it’s accurate and well source

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DevOps.com

AUGUST 12, 2022

Mark, Torsten and Alan discuss the findings of the “Disrupting the Economics of Software Testing Through AI” report. The report identifies critical factors that hinder software engineering and DevOps teams including the escalating costs of quality control, and growing complexity associated with the increasing release velocity, number of smart devices, operating systems, and programming languages. […].

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Last night was a full moon, somehow it’s already halfway through August, and did you know there’s a Beach Plum LaCroix flavor ? The world’s gone topsy-turvy, but at least it’s time for the weekend. What did you do this week that made you feel alive?

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CEO Insider

AUGUST 12, 2022

A google search with the term ‘Executive coaching’ returns 282 million hits, so the coaching industry is as strong as it has ever been. Executive Coaching is as commonplace in organisations now as corporate yoga sessions, workplace massage therapists, employee engagement surveys, chillout rooms, and gift vouchers for ‘living’ the values. While all of these […].

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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.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

Positive Food Co., providing freshly packaged salads, heat-and-eat prepared meals and vegan overnight oats, raised $7 million in funding as it goes after the $34 billion fresh prepared foods market. In 2018, co-founders Schuyler Deerman and James Chan started selling healthy meals at WeWork offices around Los Angeles out of giant Yeti coolers, standing around the kitchens during lunch time.

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AUGUST 12, 2022

What are generics in java? Generics is a term that denotes a set of language features related to the definition and use of generics types and methods. Java generics programming is introduced in J2SE 5 to deal with type-safe objects. It makes the code stable by detecting the bugs at compile time. Java generic methods differ from regular data types and methods so before generics we used collections.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Alex , Natasha and Mary Ann worked with Grace to record yet another weekly roundup on all the tech news that may have flown past your radar. Or bumped into it so hard that you’re still dizzy and looking for more information.

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DevOps.com

AUGUST 12, 2022

The way applications are created has changed dramatically in just a few short years. It’s now all about rapid assembly and integration; applications built using microservices and containerized. Containers and the cloud have certainly been the catalyst for this progress and will continue to be the infrastructure on which developers create new and innovative applications. […].

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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.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

No one likes compliance training, but Ethena aims to improve the experience for everyone involved. Join Ethena’s CEO Roxanne Petraeus and Homebrew’s Hunter Walk on this TechCrunch Live event to hear the strategies used to tackle and grow in underserved market segments. This TechCrunch Live event opens on August 17 at 11:30 a.m. PDT/2:30 p.m. EDT with networking.

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CloudZero

AUGUST 12, 2022

Snowflake is a leading cloud-based data solution for several reasons. First, using Snowflake does not require you to purchase, install, or maintain any software or hardware.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

Arnav Sahu. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Arnav Sahu is an investor at Y Combinator Continuity, YC’s growth-stage investing platform. He was previously an investor at Spark Capital, led M&A at AppDynamics and Cisco, and was an investor at The Blackstone Group. It is crazy how giving away your code for free has become a competitive business advantage.

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Dzone - DevOps

AUGUST 12, 2022

Ephemeral environments are a growing trend because they can replace or reduce the time spent in staging environments, thus significantly cutting down on development costs. In this article, we’ll cover ephemeral environments, their benefits in the development cycle, and how Environment as a Service enables fast and reliable deployment.

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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.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

Living as we are in an IPO drought, new data points about the financial health of unicorns are annoyingly scarce. Unicorns — private tech companies worth $1 billion or more — have become an asset class of their own. Crunchbase counts 1,386 global unicorns, pegging their value at $4.8 trillion. CB Insights counts 1,180 worth $3.8 billion.

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Cloudera

AUGUST 12, 2022

Preety Vatvani, working out of Cloudera’s Singapore office, is Cloudera’s first lead development team lead. Her role is to recruit and work with a team of interns interested in a career in technology sales, and train them so they can field inside sales opportunities and gain valuable early career experience. In this #ClouderaLife Spotlight we talked to Preety about how she got this program off the ground.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

In the video game Katamari Damacy, players control an avatar who rolls a sticky ball that captures anything it touches. The goal is to create a sphere large enough to become a star or moon. E-commerce aggregators work in much the same way by purchasing smaller brands, then optimizing their manufacturing and sales channels to boost market share. This was effective in a pre-vaccine era when consumers stopped visiting stores, but is the brand-rollup model still viable today?

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Dataiku

AUGUST 12, 2022

Managing AI-related risk is commonly cited as a top AI adoption challenge by organizations across a wide variety of industries that are trying to achieve Responsible AI. Responsible AI is no longer just a “nice to have” but a key driver of AI adoption.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

More funding for European end-to-end encrypted messaging app, Wire : The enterprise-focused messaging platform told TechCrunch it closed a €24 million Series C round of funding led by growth equity firm Cipio Partners and Iconical, the investment vehicle of Skype co-founder Janus Friis. Existing investor UVC Partners also participating, among other returning backers.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2022

Four strategies to balance short- and long-term success.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

The world of crypto venture has had a whirlwind few years, with powerful new players inspiring furious catch-up among traditional VC firms aiming to make a name for themselves in the sector. All the while, the corporate venture fund has been reshaped by plenty of the top crypto startups, now capitalizing on historic revenues to bankroll their versions of a web3 future.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2022

How companies can avoid three common pitfalls.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

Atlanta’s venture ecosystem is looking pretty peachy. In H1 2022, Atlanta companies raised $1.6 billion in funding, according to a recent PitchBook report. If the second half of the year is the same, it places the city on track to nearly hit the $3.7 billion in capital it raised last year. Another promising sign is that seed-stage deal volume appears to have remained consistent year over year, which signals healthy economic conditions for startups.

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Habitable Code

AUGUST 12, 2022

Back in 2014 I wrote a blog post listing three mistakes often made by folks who are new to test-driven development (TDD). It was a very long post, so I’ve taken the three parts and expanded each into its own article, also incorporating the comments I received in 2014. This is part 1. Each time I visit a team that is relatively new to TDD I find the same basic mistakes cropping up every time.

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Gorilla Logic

AUGUST 12, 2022

Gorilla Logic is well-known in Latin America for having one of the toughest engineering recruitment processes. Now, take that vetting process and triple its rigor: Welcome to Gorilla Logic’s Principal Engineer program. . “We wanted to differentiate this level – usually when an engineer is promoted earlier in their career, the process consists of technical and soft skills assessments,” says Bryan Cruz, Senior Delivery Manager at Gorilla Logic.

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