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A Giant Leap Forward for Digital Manufacturing

Dell EMC

New AMD EPYC technology speeds CAE workloads up to 56%.

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Open source project Tea is brew2 for web3

TechCrunch

Open source code is integral to tech stacks at many large companies, but its authors rarely get recognized — let alone compensated — for their work. . Max Howell claims the package manager software he created, Homebrew, is the most contributed-to open source software program in the world. Still, companies including Square and Google that have leveraged Homebrew haven’t acknowledged Howell’s contributions to their product in any meaningful way, he told TechCrunch — though he not

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Harness Acquires ChaosNative to Meld Chaos Engineering, DevOps

DevOps.com

Harness this week announced it acquired ChaosNative as part of a plan to more deeply integrate chaos engineering with DevOps workflows. At the same time, the company added a Harness Service Reliability Management (SRM) and Harness Security Testing Orchestration capability to its continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform. Chaos engineering, as a discipline, refers to experiments […].

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3 factors to consider when building an early-stage cloud sales team

TechCrunch

Andy Stinnes. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Andy Stinnes , general partner at Cloud Apps Capital Partners , leads early-stage investments in cloud businesses and serves as active board member and adviser, offering operational support for portfolio companies based on his 20+ years in executive roles in business software. More posts by this contributor.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Securing APIs at the Speed of DevOps

DevOps.com

In the 2021 State of DevOps Report, 83% of IT decision-makers told Puppet that their organizations were in the process of implementing DevOps practices to improve the quality of their software, the speed of their delivery and the security of their systems. Those DevOps organizations varied in their stages of evolution, however. For example, respondents […].

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How to avoid data governance nightmares

TechBeacon

Data governance is a growing challenge, complicated by a plethora of new laws requiring compliance. And the stress only goes up with increasing data volumes coming from multiple structured and unstructured digital data sources.

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Aurora unveils test fleet of autonomous Toyota Sienna robotaxis

TechCrunch

Autonomous vehicle technology company Aurora Innovation is launching a small test fleet of custom-designed self-driving Toyota Siennas for future ride-hail operations. The company will test its vehicles on highways and suburban streets in the Dallas-Forth Worth, Texas area, with a focus on high speed routes, according to an Aurora spokesperson. The hybrid electric Toyotas will be equipped with the same software and hardware as Aurora’s Class 8 trucks that the company is testing for hauling goods

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Building a Culture of Full-Service Ownership

DevOps.com

In recent years, our reliance on software has exploded. It has been more than a decade since Marc Andreessen made his prophetic observation that “Software is eating the world.” Today, nearly every interaction is mediated through a screen and backed by software. With the massive shift to remote and digital interactions due to the pandemic, […].

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RapidAPI nabs $150M at a $1B valuation, with its API marketplace now used by 4M+ developers

TechCrunch

RapidAPI , the startup that has built a platform that helps businesses find and integrate third-party APIs, as well as manage their own usage of their own internal APIs, has picked up another big round of funding of $150 million — underscoring both its growth and that of the so-called API economy, where digital services that are often complicated to build and run from the ground up are being built once and turned into extensible units by way of APIs that in turn help power functionality wh

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“Build vs Buy Analytics?” The Question ALL SaaS Leaders Need to Answer in 2024

As a SaaS leader, you know that the more metrics, insights, and analytics you add to your products, the more engagement you’ll have – and the stickier your product will become with customers. At what point do you decide to keep building your analytics in-house or invest in an embedded analytics solution? Read our Build vs. Buy Analytics guide to learn: Top 4 benefits of embedded analytics A quick cost comparison of in-house analytics development vs embedded analytics 10 considerations to help yo

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Turnover, Documentation and Missing Links

DevOps.com

When employee turnover spikes, IT in general and DevOps teams in particular need to be prepared. At the time of this writing, the stock market is roiling, and DevOps compensation is bouncing up. This has an impact on turnover because many in DevOps (and nearly all senior positions) have compensation that includes stock—stock that may […]. The post Turnover, Documentation and Missing Links appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Weeks after launch, Island hits $1.3B valuation with $115M round

TechCrunch

Island, a Dallas-based startup that built a secure browser for the enterprise , has raised $115 million in a Series B round, valuing the company at $1.3 billion just weeks after emerging from stealth with $100 million in initial funding. The astonishingly fast raise was led by previous lead investor Insight Partners, and comes just weeks after the New York-based venture capital firm raised over $20 billion for its twelfth flagship fund.

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The New Octocat Coin: How Attackers Bypass CI/CD Compute Limits

Aqua Security

Over the past few years, attackers have embraced cryptomining as a fast revenue source, easily converting compute power into digital coins. Unlike other types of cybercrime, cryptomining is perceived by the attacker as relatively harmless and reversible, with a low footprint and an immediate payoff. Last year, bad actors switched from attacking unpatched servers to abusing the free-tier offerings of popular cloud CI/CD platforms.

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Rugged’s construction layout robots land $9.4M

TechCrunch

It’s been a little less than a year since we first noted Rugged Robotics. The Houston-based startup developed a robot that prints building layouts on the floor of construction sites, so workers know where — and where not — to build. The “layout Roomba,” as the company puts it. At the time, the company had raised $2.5 million, by way of a 2019 round.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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Article: Installing a Robust Dev Culture for the Micro-app Environment

InfoQ Culture Methods

While consumer-facing apps have increased, a bigger increase is taking place within enterprises, with so-called “micro-apps” that are used to create customized solutions. Continuous release environments place developers in a state of regimented activity, leaving insufficient time for micro-app projects. Here's how companies can create a cultural shift that incorporates micro-app development.

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Boom & Bucket scoops up investment to put second-hand machinery sales back on track

TechCrunch

If you’re selling a second-hand HD-DVD player or you want to sell your car, there are plenty of Web 2.0-empowered solutions that can help you out. Life is slightly different if you are trying to shift an earth-mover or two. That’s the market Boom & Bucket has entered; hauling the industry of second-hand heavy machinery sales into the current millennium.

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Honeycomb OpenTelemetry Distro for Java reaches 1.0 release

Honeycomb

Today, the Honeycomb OpenTelemetry Distribution for Java reaches a major milestone with a 1.0 release. This is the first Honeycomb OTel Distro to come out of beta and go into the general release category, and you can expect more to come! Placing winning bets on OpenTelemetry. In August 2021, we shifted our support to making OTel the de facto standard for application instrumentation when we proclaimed that Honeycomb is All-in on OpenTelemetry.

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Meet and grow your founder network in small group discussions at TechCrunch Early Stage

TechCrunch

Who’s ready for startup bootcamp, TechCrunch style? On April 14 — that’s less than a month away — TechCrunch Early Stage kicks off a day-long summit focused exclusively on new founders and emerging entrepreneurs. Learn about the essential skills every startup founder needs to know — from successful founders, experienced VCs and subject-matter experts.

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Addressing Top Enterprise Challenges in Generative AI with DataRobot

The buzz around generative AI shows no sign of abating in the foreseeable future. Enterprise interest in the technology is high, and the market is expected to gain momentum as organizations move from prototypes to actual project deployments. Ultimately, the market will demand an extensive ecosystem, and tools will need to streamline data and model utilization and management across multiple environments.

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AWS Cost Allocation Tags Explained: When Should You Use Them?

CloudZero

Knowing only how much you spent on your AWS bill each month isn’t enough to provide the cost visibility you need to make cost-aware engineering and business decisions. It's why AWS introduced tags. Tags enable AWS users to label their resources to track cost and usage in the vast AWS infrastructure.

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What Yuga Labs wants to build after raising $450M

TechCrunch

The Yuga Labs investor deck from February is a fascinating document , bringing together gaming, a new currency, and an ever-growing pool of digital assets that can be bought and sold by fans of Yuga’s well-known NFT project Bored Ape Yacht Club. I ran through the deck last night and again this morning to get a better grip on the company’s financials, expectations, and business promise.

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GOLD ULRICK Leaks Reveal Organizational Structure and Relationships

SecureWorks

GOLD ULRICK Leaks Reveal Organizational Structure and Relationships Messages reveal collaboration and support among threat groups. Messages reveal collaboration and support among threat groups.

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Skyline scores $6.5M to wash windows with robot arms

TechCrunch

I would put window washing fairly high (so to speak) on the list of jobs it makes sense to automate. Certainly the gig qualifies as both dirty and dangerous — and surprisingly, doesn’t come with all that much in the way of hazard pay. That’s something you would think might come standard with a job that requires you to dangle hundreds of feet in the air.

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How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, app owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework from Software Pricing Partners explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. You’ll learn: How to take a disciplined approach to pricing The three elements of the Packaging Decision Framework Ways to structure your new embedded analytics offering Download the White Paper to learn about How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics.

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The 3 Challenges of Leading a Cross-Functional Team

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Leading a cross-functional team involves learning how to deal with competing demands and conflicts. Cross-functional teams can be really challenging to lead. There are three major challenges you’ll face when leading these teams. But if you plan for them, you can overcome all of them. First, team demands compete with the day-to-day demands of the team member’s day job.

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Astronomer ready for its next mission after Datakin acquisition, $213M Series C

TechCrunch

Astronomer has grown quite a lot since we briefly profiled the company back in 2017. At that time, the scrappy data analytics company had scooped up $3.5 million in funding to develop its tool for what happens after you’ve collected a bunch of data, namely assembling and organizing it so the data can be analyzed. The company began developing its modern data orchestration tools, powered by Apache Airflow, an open source platform for data engineering pipelines, that enables users to build, run and

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Dissecting Critical Infrastructure Risks

Dots and Bridges

Dissecting Critical Infrastructure Risks: The Double-Edged Sword of Interoperability. In “Dissecting Critical Infrastructure Risks: The Double-Edged Sword of Interoperability”, an expert panel of cyber security and critical infrastructure professionals discuss how the growing need for interoperability between the legacy and modern OT and IT systems that power our most critical infrastructure has resulted in unprecedented levels of architectural complexity which hinders the ability of traditional

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The product-led growth playbook

TechCrunch

Vidya Raman. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Vidya Raman is a partner at Sorenson Ventures. As an investor and a recent product manager, I have encountered many companies that failed and some that succeeded at their product-led growth (PLG) efforts. The PLG journey is never easy, but it can be a powerful path to enduring success. I have distilled my experience into a short but essential list of prerequisites that I believe will significantly increase the chances of success at your startup.

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Innovation Systems: Advancing Practices to Create New Value

As technology transforms the global business landscape, companies need to examine and update their internal processes for innovation to keep pace. Ultimately, organizations will have to improve the velocity of innovation by creating repeatable processes that support ideation, exploration, and incubation, essential to capturing an idea’s full value.

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Honeycomb Announces Support for AWS for Games

Honeycomb

By integrating on AWS, Honeycomb provides modern developers with modern technology to ship new features faster and more reliably . San Francisco, Calif., March 23, 2022 – Honeycomb , a leading observability platform used by high-performance engineering teams to quickly visualize, analyze, and improve cloud application quality and performance, today announced support for the AWS for Games initiative from Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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The $2B dollar baby

TechCrunch

Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. We had an illness on the team, so instead of recording our usual Wednesday deep-dive, we reached into our recent archives and pulled the audio from a Twitter space we did the other week. In short, it’s a Friday-style episode covering a host of topics, but just a little bit late, and on a different day.

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What You Need to Know About the Okta Breach

Modus Create

On March 21, early social media reports began circulating that the identity and access management provider Okta had suffered a data breach by the threat actor known as Lapsus$, resulting in exposure to customer data and environments. . These early reports were compiled screenshots of supposed customers, which might not appear credible under normal circumstances.