Fri.Aug 06, 2021

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Establishing Trust in Multi-Cloud Environments

DevOps.com

Modern applications are transforming enterprises into digital innovation factories. However, the distributed nature and complexity of modern apps have made it extremely difficult for organizations to maintain trust and compliance across multi-platform, multi-cloud environments. Although Kubernetes is the standard for application platforms today, each cloud service provider (CSP) has a different offering for infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) […].

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Extra Crunch roundup: Build a founding team, choose a VC and recruit your board

TechCrunch

Assembling a startup team is harder than assembling 10 IKEA dressers, and the stakes are much, much higher. Starting with the assumption that 90% of startups will fail and the most successful ones take an average of six years to IPO, founders must make careful decisions about whom they invite to join the core team. Will that stellar engineer become a great CTO?

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Mastery Under Pressure with Tina Greenbaum

Let's Grow Leaders

As a leader do you ever feel overwhelmed and stressed? Keep running into the same limiting mindset or patterns, but don’t know how to fix them? In this episode, you’ll discover a system used by world-class athletes, performers, and CEOs to build their confidence, achieve transformational results, and overcome their limiting mindsets. Performance mastery specialist Tina Greenbaum will give you practical tools to achieve mastery under pressure.

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Nigeria’s Decagon raises millions to finance and train software engineers

TechCrunch

This past decade, Nigeria has seen several companies cater to the development and growth of software engineers and tech talent in general. It’s a space many in the Nigerian ecosystem like to think is budding yet overcrowded. So when Chika Nwobi started Decagon in 2018, the perception was generally “here comes another tech talent accelerator.” Two years on, the entrepreneur who is a household name has significantly scaled the company to new heights.

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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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Palantir: Revolutionizing big data analytics

CTOvision

Read Jeremiah Lam’s commentary about Palantir Technologies, Inc. and its products like Gotham, Foundry, and Apollo on his blog : A brief background on Palantir – it is typically described as a company that focuses on big data analytics by writing software that enables effective analysis against complicated, data-driven problems. This is done by unifying […].

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How to deploy an Elasticsearch cluster on Ubuntu Server 20.04

CTOvision

Read Jack Wallen explain how you can deploy Elastic NV’s Elasticsearch cluster on Ubuntu Server 20.04 on the Tech Republic: Elasticsearch is a very powerful search and analysis engine that can scale extremely well. With this tool, you have the foundation for visualizing massive amounts of data. But when you start to scale Elasticsearch to […].

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The first Zambian startup to get into YC is developing Africa’s first card-issuing API

TechCrunch

More than 40 African startups from a handful of countries have gone through YC over the past decade. Zambia joins that list today, and its entrant, Union54 , is a worthy first entry. Union54 (54 is a nod to the number of African countries) is a fintech company founded by Perseus Mlambo and Alessandra Martini. The startup claims to be Africa’s first card-issuing API and only just launched this year.

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Elevate Security unveils cybersecurity surface management platform

CTOvision

US cybersecurity startup Elevate Security (Elevate) has launched an attack surface management platform that uses a customized and automated response to employee risk throughout an organization to overcome the unaddressed problems caused due to human errors. The Elevate Security platform provides CISOs (Chief Information Security Officer) with access and control over how people, departments, regions, […].

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Bulk payments startup Comma raises $6M seed round led by Octopus and Connect

TechCrunch

U.K.-based open banking bulk payment startup Comma has raised £4.34 million ($6 million) in a seed round of funding led by Octopus Ventures and Connect Ventures. They were joined by investors Village Global, and the founders of Wagestream, Peter Briffett and Portman Wills. The company says it enables small and micro businesses to bulk-pay bills, salaries and taxes using existing high street small business bank accounts, saving them a lot of time and money in administration.

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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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JPMorgan Pitching Bitcoin Fund to Wealthy Clients, CoinDesk Says

CTOvision

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is pitching a Bitcoin fund to wealthy clients, according to CoinDesk. The firm is offering customers of JPMorgan Private Bank a passively managed fund in partnership with NYDIG, CoinDesk said, citing two people familiar with the matter. It doesn’t yet have any investments from clients, but the bank held a call with […].

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SenpAI.GG wants to be your AI-powered video game coach

TechCrunch

With most popular online video games, there’s a huge gap between being a good player and a great one. A casual player might be able to hold their own against other casual players, only for a random pro to wander by and chew through everyone like they’re somehow playing with a different set of rules. Could an AI-driven voice in your ear help close that gap, if only a bit?

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Move over, space. Tech billionaires have a new utopian boondoggle: the ‘metaverse’

CTOvision

Read Jessa Crispin’s critical analysis of The Metaverse and how big tech could influence it on The Guardian : Look at all of our tech billionaires trying to leave the world to evade responsibility for their malevolent influence on it. Anything to avoid being confronted by the workers they exploit or the victims of the […].

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Raise, a startup building Africa’s Carta, gets backing from 500 Startups

TechCrunch

As startups in Africa continue to grow and raise money at a ridiculous pace, so too will their cap tables expand. Most African startups’ bulk of VC money is from foreign investors, making it imperative for African startups to incorporate abroad, especially in the U.S. The processes for incorporation are quite complicated, and even though most founders still get the hang of it, they risk the chance of messing up their cap tables.

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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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DCVC Founder Matt Ocko on Investing for a ‘Star Trek’ Future

CTOvision

DCVC, a venture firm that specializes in what it calls deep-tech investments, this week jointly led a $430 million fundraising for Pivot Bio, an agricultural technology startup that has developed an alternative to conventional fertilizer. DCVC’s co-founder, Matt Ocko, talked with WSJ Pro Sustainable Business about how he sees the agtech industry developing, the role tech […].

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A lot of cash and little love: An insurtech story

TechCrunch

Hippo began to trade earlier this week after completing its SPAC combination. The home-focused U.S. neoinsurance provider initially stuck close to its $10 per-share pre-combination price before plummeting yesterday during regular trading. But Hippo’s declines don’t appear to be of its own doing. Lemonade, another U.S. neoinsurance player — albeit one more focused on rental coverage — posted slightly better-than-expected Q2 results earlier in the week.

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Leveraging the Open-Source Ecosystem When Developing Modern z/OS Applications

DevOps.com

Developers today are under great pressure to create apps faster than ever before, and they must continuously update them, adding new features and incorporating new technologies. Many companies have adopted DevOps, cloud-native architectures, and low-code development solutions to accelerate the development and updating cycle. But another critical aspect to modern application development has been to […].

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How to hire and structure a growth team

TechCrunch

Sam Richard. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Sam Richard is senior director of growth at OpenView. More posts by this contributor. SaaS companies can grow to $20M+ ARR by selling exclusively to developers. Everyone at an organization should own growth , right? Turns out when everyone owns something, no one does. As a result, growth teams can cause an enormous amount of friction in an organization when introduced.

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How Embedded Analytics Helps Product Managers Exceed Their KPIs

Embedded analytics can help you deliver cutting-edge analytics experiences to your end-users that align with KPIs that are critical to the growth and success of your business. Read this eBook to learn how an embedded analytics platform, like Qrvey, can help PMs exceed the following KPIs: Growing revenue while improving customer retention rate Delivering rapid time to value Earning a high net-promoter score Increasing Gross Margin / Profitability Conversion rate from trial to paid Don’t just meet

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How Does DevOps Demand a Shift from the Traditional Cybersecurity Approach?

Kovair - DevOps

“Robust security is the shared responsibility of the entire IT industry.“ Forward-thinking firms understand the demands of DevOps and are working towards evolving their culture.

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Australia’s v2Food aims to expand its plant-based meats to Europe and Asia with €45M raise

TechCrunch

V2Food is one of many new contenders in the alternative protein space, founded in Australia but now setting its sights on Europe, Asia and beyond. It has a few key advantages over the competition, and with €45 million in new funding it may be finding its way to plates in the Eurozone soon. The company has seen strong uptake in its home market, and the first goal is to be No. 1 in Australia, said CEO and founder Nick Hazell, formerly of MasterFoods and PepsiCo R&D.

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Truly Human Leadership In Business And Beyond With Bob Chapman

Steve Farber

If you’re a leader of a company in the United States and you see your employees as tools. Tools that you use to earn success for yourself. Then there’s a high possibility that your. Read more. The post Truly Human Leadership In Business And Beyond With Bob Chapman first appeared on Steve Farber.

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Craft your pitch deck around ‘that one thing that can really hook an investor’

TechCrunch

Michelle Davey’s pitch to Jordan Nof of Tusk Ventures about Wheel, a startup focused on providing a full suite of virtual care solutions to clinicians, was front-loaded with early metrics. It may not be standard practice to start with the numbers, especially early on, but she explained to us why she chose that strategy — and Nof told us why it worked.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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8 things to consider about performance testing tools 

TechBeacon

During the final episode of Mare of Easttown , the HBO streaming service crashed—just as happened during HBO's Game of Thrones season 7 premiere. In both cases, the site was unable to withstand the load, service was interrupted, and viewers quickly expressed their frustration on social media.

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Verifiable secures $17M for its API that manages healthcare provider information

TechCrunch

Less than a year after its $3 million seed round , Verifiable snapped up another $17 million for its healthcare provider credentialing API toolkit. The Austin-based company’s technology creates an infrastructure for healthcare provider data management that puts providers at the center. Verifiable founder Nick Macario told TechCrunch that data fuels critical operations across health systems and insurance carriers, like contracting, credentialing, enrollment, claims and directories.

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The Foundations of a Modern Data-Driven Organisation: Gaining a Clear View of the Customer

Cloudera

Today’s organizations face rising customer expectations in a fragmented marketplace amidst stiff competition. This landscape is one that presents opportunities for a modern data-driven organization to thrive. At the nucleus of such an organization is the practice of accelerating time to insights, using data to make better business decisions at all levels and roles.

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zeroheight raises $10M round led by Tribe Capital to scale DesignOps for UX teams

TechCrunch

High-quality UX for websites and apps is no longer a nice-to-have, it’s a must-have if a company is to succeed. But scaling the impact of UX teams is not simple, and in recent years teams have turned to what’s know as DesignOps platforms to help them. Now, a new startup hopes to become a key DesignOps platform for UX teams, and has raised money to help it, in turn, scale-up.

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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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Article: How to Recognise and Reduce HumanDebt™

InfoQ Culture Methods

We know TechDebt is bad; chances are HumanDebt is worse, and once you’ve seen it, you can’t “unsee” or ignore it. What is now needed is a focus on the humans who do the work. Psychological safety in teams is key. The “people work”, -both at an individual, but especially at a team level- is the key to sustainability and growth of high-performing tech teams.

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Mobile Commerce Testing: How Global Leaders Optimize User Experience

Dzone - DevOps

Mobile accounts for over 67% of all e-commerce sales worldwide and it’s expected to keep growing as more people are getting used to shopping on their phones. Nearly four out of five smartphone users have made at least one purchase in the last six months. Since mobile performance directly affects user experience, retention rates, conversions, and ultimately revenue, improving it has become a top priority for mobile commerce companies globally.

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Harnessing Metadata to Leverage Context in Content

Newgen Software

Your enterprise content—structured and unstructured—is the most important resource in the organization. And content without context has limited business value. With the explosion of data volume in recent times, it has become a necessity to have a holistic content management strategy to better leverage, manage, and harness the information residing in multiple systems.