Fri.Sep 24, 2021

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Operations observability platform Avenue launches with $4M

TechCrunch

Avenue launched Friday to give operations their own tools to monitor teams, and is building a “command center” for this area of business that is often forgotten, co-founder and CEO Justin Bleuel told TechCrunch. In addition to the launch the company is announcing $4 million in seed funding, led by Accel, with participation from Flexport and a group of individual investors from companies like Coinbase, Uber, Stripe and Thumbtack.

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Inspired to Inspire with Lance Tanaka

Let's Grow Leaders

Leaders who want to inspire others need inspiration themselves. That inspiration is your purpose. Join us for a conversation with former Pepsi Cola and Cole Haan executive Lance Tanaka to learn how you can identify your gifting, find your passion, and build the discipline to take the steps that will help you achieve your dream. Get inspired to inspire in this heartfelt episode.

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Hungryroot co-founder’s new venture, Noops, a plant-based pudding startup, raises another $2M

TechCrunch

Just two months after securing $2 million in pre-seed funding , plant-based pudding startup Noops is announcing an additional $2 million round led by Lerer Hippeau. The Long Island-based company was founded in 2019 by Hungryroot co-founder Gregory Harry Struck after he adopted a plant-based diet while battling cancer. “It was born out of a need when a lot of things were eliminated for me,” Struck told TechCrunch.

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Announcing ksqlDB 0.21.0

Confluent

We’re pleased to announce ksqlDB 0.21.0! This release includes a major upgrade to ksqlDB’s foreign-key joins, the new data type BYTES, and a new ARRAY_CONCAT function. All of these features […].

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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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Bootstrapping in 2021 goes a long way

TechCrunch

The boom in venture capital fundraising that the technology startup market has enjoyed since the back half of 2020 has been eye-popping. Record sums have been disbursed around the world as more firms entered the fray to invest in startups, and the late-stage capital flowed like water. But while the venture capital game seemed to turbocharge in recent quarters, there’s noise coming from the other side of the spectrum: bootstrapping.

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Aiming to create a gender-equitable startup landscape?

TechCrunch

Priyanka Srinivas. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Priyanka Srinivas is the co-founder and CEO of Live Green Co , a Chilean food tech startup that uses artificial intelligence to suggest plant-based alternatives for meat and artificial additives in food. When it comes to gender equality in the business world, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg hit the nail on the head : “Knowing that things could be worse should not stop us from trying to make them better.”.

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LogDNA Previews Streaming Module for Observability Platform

DevOps.com

LogDNA is making available on a limited basis the ability to process streaming data to its observability platform as part of an effort to give DevOps teams more control over log data. Tucker Callaway, LogDNA CEO, said the data ingestion pipeline that LogDNA already provides can ingest, parse and normalize massive amounts of structured and […].

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Extra Crunch roundup: Here’s everything you missed at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021

TechCrunch

If that headline sounded judgmental, I apologize. We just wrapped up a three-day virtual event that included discussions and interviews with some of the most notable people in technology, media, government and venture capital. Even in person, there’s no way to absorb Disrupt in its entirety. Full Extra Crunch articles are only available to members. Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription.

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Five Leadership Lessons I Learned From Microsoft, Netflix, Stack Overflow, GitLab, and Equinix

Dzone - DevOps

Three years into my software engineering career I was loving life. I could fix anything in the codebase with no doubts in my ability. I was confident, too. Most 24 year olds are. When I was offered the opportunity to become a dev team lead I jumped at the chance. With so much confidence, what could go wrong? The first few months hit me like a freight train.

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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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And the winner of Startup Battlefield is…

TechCrunch

Natasha and Mary Ann and Alex were all aboard this week under the guidance of Chris and Grace , along with TechCrunch’s Neesha Tambe. Neesha is one of our best and is the leading light of the Startup Battlefield event at our yearly Disrupt conference. That made her the perfect guest — that’s precisely what we discussed on the show today.

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Introducing TechSoup's Digital Assessment Tool

TechSoup

We are excited to announce the launch of TechSoup's Digital Assessment Tool (DAT). It’s designed to help nonprofits identify where their technological capability can be improved and to provide specific, customized solutions to help in those areas and maximize the organization's impact.

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Telecom Network Analytics: Transformation, Innovation, Automation

Cloudera

One of the most substantial big data workloads over the past fifteen years has been in the domain of telecom network analytics. Where does it stand today? What are its current challenges and opportunities? In a sense, there have been three phases of network analytics: the first was an appliance based monitoring phase; the second was an open-source expansion phase; and the third – that we are in right now – is a hybrid-data-cloud and governance phase.

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The Most Important Takeaway from Dreamforce 2021

Robots and Pencils

Whether you attended Dreamforce in person, virtually or completely missed it, there is one key takeaway that stands out. With Salesforce’s acquisition of Slack, companies can run a digital headquarters better than ever before. Sure there were hundreds of valuable sessions, but, the Slack acquisition theme was definitely the biggest thing to come out of the 3-day event.

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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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YAKD: Yet Another Kubernetes Dashboard

Dzone - DevOps

No, YAKD is not a new Kubernetes Dashboard project, but that could be a good name for a new Kubernetes Dashboard application. The purpose of this post is to list some existing dashboard projects. The number of dashboards seems to be increasing each day, although some projects listed below already meet all the requirements of a dashboard application.

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Who Should Deploy My Data Science Models?

Dataiku

Deploying a new data science model in production is like installing a new light bulb in your house.

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Breaking The Tag Barrier: A Better Way To Organize Cloud Spend

CloudZero

Tagging, as a means of organizing our cloud environments, has utterly, totally, failed us.

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NgRx Best Practices Series: Introduction

Dzone - DevOps

This is the first in a series of articles about building reactive applications in Angular using NgRx state management. I want to begin by laying out my personal relationship with NgRx and introduce an example application that we will use throughout the series. You should already be familiar with common NgRx concepts to get the most out of these articles.

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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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Think Long Term to Supercharge Your MSP

Kaseya

With no shortage of demand and a broad array of services to offer, it’s a great time to be an MSP. Small- to medium-size businesses rely on IT services more than ever to deliver core business functions while struggling to manage their complexity and scope themselves. In such a hot market, there’s no excuse for MSPs to not only survive, but also to thrive and grow.

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How Thoughtworks Manage Cloud Security and Container Vulnerabilities

Aqua Security

Many companies, in an effort to modernize their software and cloud tech stacks, are beginning to confront the challenges of managing security across multiple cross-functional, yet independent, teams - each with diverse tech stacks. One such example is Thoughtworks, a leading global technology consultancy that works with enterprises to enable them to keep pace with the accelerating rate of technological change.

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The Fundamentals of Calculating TCO

Infinidat

The Fundamentals of Calculating TCO. Adriana Andronescu. Fri, 09/24/2021 - 10:27. Calculating total cost of ownership (TCO) can be challenging, but lowering TCO may actually be easier than you think when you know the true TCO. This may sound like a paradox, but it is the framework for how to calculate TCO that is the measuring stick for how efficiently and expeditiously you can reduce costs of your data infrastructure for storage.

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Pricing software: How your pricing strategy framework can make or break your digital product’s success

UruIT

There are things in life that we’re told are priceless. While I appreciate this and want nothing more than to put things like love and happiness in this category, I think that when you really break it down, most things in life have a price. Life costs money, love costs money and digital products cost money. I think most people are more than okay with this. .

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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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How To Develop a Virtual Classroom App And How Much It Would Cost?

Xicom

Do you agree with the fact that technology has revolutionized the education system? Yes of course! And after the 2020 pandemic, emerging technologies like AR, VR, AI are boldly paving their way to the education domain and bringing jaw-dropping transitions in the education sector by benefiting both the students and institutions. With each passing year, the academic world is becoming more convenient and changing the way people learn.

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The Similarities Between Releasing a Successful Product and Being a Successful Lacrosse Coach

Coveros

Coveros Technical Manager Bob Foster’s Lightning Keynote from Agile + DevOps Virtual Conference 2021. See and hear more about what our team has to say about DevOps on our YouTube channel. The post The Similarities Between Releasing a Successful Product and Being a Successful Lacrosse Coach appeared first on Coveros.

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Capgemini’s CARE – the key to customer experience excellence

Capgemini

Every night the last three words out of my mouth are: “Hey Google, goodnight!” Lights all go off. Security system is set to “armed.” The thermostat drops 2 degrees. And my device responds with: “What time should I set the alarm, Scott? You have a meeting at 7 AM.” I respond with “6,” and Google confirms my alarm time. What used to take a walk through of the entire house and touching a minimum of four devices – if I only had one lamp on – has been boiled down to three spoken words and a number.

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Facial Recognition Technology and Its Business Use Cases

Exadel

Facial recognition technology opens for businesses new digital opportunities and changes the dynamics of the work. This technology helps to improve customer relations services, provides safety solutions, and even helps to broaden product offerings. Facial recognition can be applied in security, entertainment and hospitality, human resource management, and many other cases.

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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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Saviynt Employee Spotlight: Di Xiao

Saviynt

In today’s workplace, there’s a growing emphasis on the importance of human connections that has coincided with a dramatic increase in remote work. As many of us have shifted our workplaces to home offices and even kitchen tables, we’ve learned that staying connected, even if it now requires a little more effort, is essential. We’re […]. The post Saviynt Employee Spotlight: </br>Di Xiao appeared first on Intelligent Identity and Smarter Security - Saviynt.

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Immigrant Detention and How bond funding works for immigrants

Strategy Driven

Detention services for illegal immigration began back in 1890. Ellis Island in New York City was the first to conduct the practice. It has since become a staple feature of ICE and other organizations. Illegal Immigrants will have to be removed back to their country of origin. The immigration process can be strict, but there are resources available to help the people.

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8 Best NoSQL Databases in 2021

The Crazy Programmer

What is NoSQL, and what are the best NoSQL databases? These are the common questions that most companies and developers usually ask. Nowadays, the requirements for NoSQL databases are increasing as the traditional relational databases are not enough to handle the current requirements of the management. It is because now the companies have millions of customers and their details.