DevOps.com

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Cloud data platforms make businesses more scalable and flexible and more cost-efficient The need for actionable data is nothing new. Enterprises spend time, money and resources working to get their data into a format that is usable for analytics. But most are still struggling to do just that. More than 90% of enterprises say that […]. The post How Cloud Data Platforms Help Enterprises Drive Business Value appeared first on DevOps.com.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Richard Socher, former chief scientist at Salesforce, who helped build the Einstein artificial intelligence platform, is taking on a new challenge — and it’s a doozy. Socher wants to fix consumer search and today he announced you.com , a new search engine to take on the mighty Google. “We are building you.com. You can already go to it today.

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Agile Alliance

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Calling all Agile Alliance members! The end of 2020 is fast approaching and we have some fun in store for you … I invite you to attend a fun special edition of deliver:Agile Live! — our 2020 Geeky Wrap-up on Thursday, December 17th. Hosted by Cat Swetel, the event will feature Tiani Jones, April Jefferson, … Continued. The post Don't Miss our 2020 Geeky Wrap-Up!

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Cybersecurity firm Dragos has raised $110 million in its Series C, almost triple the amount that it raised two years ago in its last round. Dragos was founded in 2016 to detect and respond to threats facing industrial control systems (ICS), the devices critical to the continued operations of power plants, water and energy supplies, and other critical infrastructure.

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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.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2020

How does one define a word that has been around for ages, and yet has no distinct meaning? Having just come out of an interview, where someone said “ I want to be a part of HackerEarth because of your culture ”, I found myself thinking, how oft-used (to the point of becoming banal) yet indecipherable the word culture really is. Contradictory, don’t you think?

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Immuta, a provider of automated data governance solution is partnering with Starburst, creator of Starburst enterprise for Presto, commercial offering of the Presto open-source, distributed SQL query engine. In specific, the […].

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Uber has offloaded its air taxi enterprise Elevate to Joby Aviation, the last of several moonshots to be sold by the ride-hailing company in a pursuit to stick to its core business and reach profitability. The transaction announced Tuesday is part of a complex deal that includes Uber investing $75 million into Joby and an expanded partnership between the two companies.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Read Martin Heller take a look at how DataRobot’s end-to-end AutoML suite fares amongst automated machine learning platforms on Information Weekly: Data science is nothing if not tedious, in ordinary […].

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Calm , a well-known meditation app, has raised new capital at a valuation of $2 billion. The round was anticipated after the company was reported to be hunting for up to $150 million at a valuation of $2.2 billion; perhaps Calm will follow in the steps of Robinhood and add a second tranche to the round in time. Prior investor Lightspeed Venture Partners led the investment, which also saw participation from Insight, TPG and Salesforce CEO and new Slack owner Marc Benioff, among others.

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Datavail

DECEMBER 8, 2020

This year offers corporate leaders all kinds of ‘teachable moments,’ but perhaps the lesson with the highest value is: ‘ always alert to evolving data and database management considerations.’ Datavail has extensive experience assisting its customers in managing database challenges over the years and now posed by 2020. An emergency project reflects how its expertise helped one customer avoid a digital catastrophe by facing downing a potentially fatal peril triggered by an

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Outfund , the revenue-based finance startup that wants to help online businesses fund growth without giving away equity, has raised £37 million in a “late seed” investment. A mixture of debt and equity, the round is led by Fuel Ventures, alongside TMT Investment. Outfund says it will use the funds to offer larger financing to more businesses, and to invest in new finance products and grow the team.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

DECEMBER 8, 2020

It has long seemed to me that functional programming is, essentially, programming viewed as mathematics. Many ideas in functional programming came from Alonzo Church’s Lambda Calculus, which significantly predates anything that looks remotely like a modern computer. Though the actual history of computing runs differently: in the early days of computing, Von Neumann’s ideas were more important than Church’s, and had a tremendous influence on the design of early computers—an influence that c

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

DealShare, a startup in India that has built an e-commerce platform for middle and lower-income groups of consumers, said on Tuesday it has raised $21 million in a new financing round as it looks to expand its footprint in the world’s second-largest internet market. WestBridge Capital led the Series C round of the three-year-old startup, which is based in Bangalore.

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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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Aqua Security

DECEMBER 8, 2020

This blog was co-authored with Maor Goldberg, Founder & CEO at Apolicy. Overly permissive defaults associated with roles and K8s subjects, such as service accounts, add risks to the attack surface of Kubernetes. And attempting to manually understand these risks and enforce least privilege rights in a Kubernetes environment is time-consuming and prone to human error.

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DECEMBER 8, 2020

According to media reports , food-delivery giant DoorDash priced its IPO at $102 per share, ahead of its final IPO pricing range of $90 to $95 per share. The company’s debut has been warmly anticipated by public investors, as evinced by the company raising its range from an initial target of $75 to $85. While we’re still waiting for official pricing, the price point makes DoorDash worth $32 billion at the time of its IPO price on a non-diluted basis (we’re using the companyR

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DevOps.com

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Using DataOps and open source together, organizations can reimagine the way they deliver data and software-driven projects Real-time data is the fuel that powers today’s most critical systems and applications, as well as the digital transformation initiatives organizations need to compete effectively. For the people on the front lines building them, having the right technology […].

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

As TC readers know, the tricky trade-off of the modern web is privacy for convenience. Online tracking is how this ‘great intimacy robbery’ is pulled off. Mass surveillance of what Internet users are looking at underpins Google’s dominant search engine and Facebook’s social empire, to name two of the highest profile ad-funded business models.

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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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TechBeacon

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Many of the core principles and best practices of IT service management (ITSM) have proved to have applicability beyond IT, and other departments within enterprises are now giving them a try. Some 87% of organizations say they're using enterprise service management (ESM) tools in some capacity. according to a recent Enterprise Management Associates research paper.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Amy Yin doesn’t foresee startups resuming a five-day-a-week in-office work schedule, even after COVID-19 has been battled back. It’s probably a safe bet. Many companies have learned this year that employees can be just as productive, working from home. More, employees — much as they might miss their own desks — no longer want to sit in a traditional office all the time.

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DevOps.com

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The Continuous Delivery (CD) Foundation has added the open source Ortelius platform for managing the deployment of microservices as an incubation level project. Originally developed by DeployHub, Ortelius was created to provide a means to automate configuration at the application level. It also provides a central catalog of services that makes it easier to consume […].

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The two founders of Parrot Software , Roberto Cebrián and David Villarreal, first met in high school in Monterrey, Mexico. In the 11 years since, both have pursued successful careers in the tech industry and became family (they’re brothers-in-law). Now, they’re starting a new business together leveraging Cebrián’s experience running a point-of-sale company and Villarreal’s time working first at Uber and then at the high-growth scooter and bike rental startup, Grin.

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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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CTOvision

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Okta, Inc. the leading independent provider of identity for the enterprise, today at AWS re:Invent 2020, announced the availability of the Okta Identity Cloud and its products in AWS Marketplace. […].

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Thumbtack , a marketplace where you can hire local professionals for home improvement and other services, is announcing that it has acquired Setter. Founded in 2016, Setter provides its customers with video home checkups conducted by experts, then offers personalized plans for how to address any issues. In a blog post , Thumbtack CEO Marco Zappacosta said that by acquiring the startup, his company will be able to offer those same consultations, which in turn could lead to recommendations for dif

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DevOps.com

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Apollo GraphQL has announced the general availability of a free Development Graphs cloud service to simplify management of GraphQL application programming interfaces (APIs) at scale. GraphQL APIs have been gaining traction as an alternative to REST APIs because they provide developers with more control over who can access data via an API and are easier […].

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Inspiration to launch a lawn-care company struck Coulter Lewis when he was shopping for lawn-care products one day. The entrepreneur, who previously worked as a designer and co-founder of a snack company, says the stench of pesticides and herbicides piled high was too strong to ignore. Lewis began researching safer alternatives to fertilize his backyard.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 8, 2020

2020 was an unprecedented year in many ways, but the spike in cyberattacks that we saw during the pandemic has changed the security landscape forever, says Gaurav Banga of Balbix. […].

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DECEMBER 8, 2020

With nearly half a million customers across Mexico and a network of 30,000 retail locations where representatives can take deposits, the challenger bank albo is already on its way to becoming a dominant player in Mexico’s emerging fintech industry. And the company has recently raised another $45 million to consolidate its position. “When your mission is to build the biggest bank in Mexico, you will need a ton of money,” said albo founder Angel Sahagún.

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DevOps.com

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Dynatrace announced today it is adding a module to provide continuous runtime application self-protection (RASP) capabilities to its observability platform. The Dynatrace Application Security Module leverages existing Dynatrace tracing and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to detect threats in real-time and then apply appropriate policies to automatically secure applications.

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