Mon.Mar 07, 2022

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Why Migrating to the Cloud Isn’t an Architecture Strategy

Dataiku

Bad news: migrating to the cloud isn’t a data architecture strategy, and it most likely (in and of itself) won’t solve the biggest points of friction, challenges, or problems your team is currently facing. Here’s why.

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Ghanaian fintech Dash raises $32.8M seed to build connected wallets for Africans

TechCrunch

Global financial transactions are facilitated mainly by payment processors such as Visa or Mastercard. They are responsible for communication between banks and fintechs to settle transactions for consumers and businesses swiftly. Africa has it different. It’s not a predominantly card continent. Telecoms and banks lead the majority of online financial transactions carried out in the region via mobile money wallets and bank accounts.

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Mediastack Review – Be Always Up-To-Date With a Real-Time News API

The Crazy Programmer

There has been a tremendous shift in how we watch television and read newspapers for the last years. These days many people prefer getting instant news updates online. The best part is many people are now turning to the internet as an essential source of current information. It is pretty clear, online content and news are the big business today. The question is: where does this content come from?

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Better.com plans to lay off about 4,000 people this week, sources say

TechCrunch

Online mortgage lender Better.com is poised to lay off roughly 50% of its staff of about 8,000 this week, according to sources familiar with internal happenings at the company. TechCrunch first reported on February 18 that the new round of layoffs were coming. . The move comes just over three months after the New York-based startup laid off 9% of its staff — or 900 people — during a Zoom call that went viral and led to a number of top executives resigning and a flurry of bad publicit

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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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The Simplest Way to Get Better Results From Your team (with Video)

Let's Grow Leaders

How I Learned the Secret to Better Results the Hard Way. Before I share this secret to getting better results, I’d like you to think back to your senior year in high school. Do you remember being really sensitive to all the “lasts?” The last big game. The last show you were in. Or, the last summer night before you and your friends all went their separate ways?

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How Your Tech Stack Can Help You Hire Top Talent

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

The great resignation has been on the minds of many IT organizations and their business leaders ever since nearly 4 million people quit their jobs back in November 2021. Consequently, hiring talented tech talent has become a lot harder than before. . Will 2022 break away from this trend wonder recruiters across the globe. Instead of waiting for the tide to turn, why not step up your game—invest in a recruitment tech stack that turns heads and helps you attract the very best talent out there?

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Una Brands teams up with KlickBrands to enter South Korea’s e-commerce market 

TechCrunch

Una Brands , a Singapore-based e-commerce aggregator, has partnered with South Korean peer KlickBrands to expand its footprint in South Korea. . The strategic partnership will help South Korean e-commerce brands grow domestically and make inroads into more countries in Asia. Una, one of the largest e-commerce aggregators in Asia, has already established its presence across Asia, including Singapore, Australia, India, China, Indonesia, Malaysia and Taiwan, since its launch in 2021. .

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The Russia-Ukraine Cyber Attacks: A CISO’s Advice

Aqua Security

The devastating events in Ukraine have already impacted millions of lives and organizations, with profound consequences extending far beyond the region. As the conflict continues to unfold, companies in the US and around the world are facing the growing risk of aggressive Russian cyberattacks. In the face of these threats, CISOs and CIOs need to ramp up their cybersecurity strategies and defenses to prepare for whatever may come next.

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Crypto startup Argent wants to put an end to gas fees with Layer 2 wallet

TechCrunch

Argent is officially launching its Layer 2 solution. The company is choosing zkSync as its Layer 2 scaling implementation. It is supposed to offer cheaper and faster transactions without any compromise on security. If you’re not familiar with Argent, it is an Ethereum smart wallet for both iOS and Android that has been around for a few years. It is a non-custodial wallet, meaning that you’re in charge of your funds and everything you do is recorded on the blockchain.

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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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Streamline Your Django Settings With Type Hints: A Pydantic Tutorial

Toptal

Python 3.5 offers type hint support at runtime, allowing runtime-type-checking packages, like pydantic, to validate data and settings. The results? A smaller, more maintainable codebase and a scalable approach to adding new environments.

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Robotics founders: Build your pitch deck around problem-solving, not technology

TechCrunch

In robotics, the remarkable often feels at odds with the practical. The Cassie robot captured the internet’s imagination ( ours included ) when it debuted in 2017 through a series of Oregon State University YouTube videos. It was one of the most exciting examples of robotics engineering since Boston Dynamics first made the scene. Commercial applications, however, are a different conversation entirely.

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Seven Strategies to Manage a Micro-Manager

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Everyone has horror stories about a micro-managing boss. Here are a few strategies to manage your micro-manager. Today’s post is by Victor Prince, a principal here at thoughtLEADERS. If you work long enough, you will have a micro-managing boss. They think they know your job better than you do. Maybe they had your job before they got promoted to management.

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Opaper takes the friction out of social commerce

TechCrunch

While working her way through grad school, Opaper founder Joan McIntosh ran an online bakery. “I would wake up at 3AM, 4AM, go to a commercial kitchen and go door to door, delivering food or putting it in grocery stores.” After graduating, McIntosh’s professional life became decidedly more high tech—she was senior product manager for data and machine learning platforms at Streetlight Data and then Lacuna Technologies.

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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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Engineering's Role In Setting A Winning SaaS Pricing Strategy

CloudZero

Companies that effectively implement SaaS pricing and packaging have the distinct advantage of being able to provide their customers with a high level of value at a reasonable price. And, they’re able to do it in a way that is profitable and worthwhile for the business.

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Hear how Blumberg Capital and DoubleVerify have worked together since 2008 on TechCrunch Live

TechCrunch

Oren Netzer and his co-founder Alex Liverant started DoubleVerify in the heady Web 2.0 days of 2008. Blumberg Capital was the company’s first institutional investor. TechCrunch Live is thrilled to have CEO Netzer and Blumberg Capital partner Yodfat Harel Buchris speak to DoubleVerify’s early pitch deck on March 16 at 11:30am PT / 2:30pm ET. The two firms have a long partnership, and we want to explore what made the relationship work over so many years and investors.

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Build Your Social Media Followers by Tracking KPIs

TechSoup

If you're feeling stuck with your social media strategy, identifying the key performance indicators (KPIs) for your organization is a great starting point. In this post, we'll give you an overview of which social media KPIs tend to be most useful for nonprofits and how to track them. We'll also highlight some great tools that provide extra insight, automation, and other great features.

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Circular.io is putting a referral spin on tech recruitment

TechCrunch

Demand for talent continues to make tech recruitment a hotbed of startup activity. To wit: Madrid-based startup Circular.io , which is now expanding its “talent sharing platform” — initially focused on tech skills — into the U.K. (opening to in-house tech recruiters in London from today). It is also revealing $10 million in combined seed and pre-Series A funding as it emerges from stealth.

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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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How To Develop Personal Financial Planning Software?

Daffodil Software

The personal financial planning software market is witnessing the entry of a new generation of planning software. While many existing clients of the leading financial advisory firms are reasonably satisfied, there is a need for software that helps serve more specific client needs. Incorporating uncertainties and building a robust financial plan are not the only requirements for reliable financial planning software.

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The Station: Tier buys Spin, Waymo gets to charge for robotaxi, and Tesla needs a Tim Cook

TechCrunch

The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every weekend in your inbox. Hello readers: Welcome to The Station, your central hub for all past, present and future means of moving people and packages from Point A to Point B. Your usual host, Kirsten Korosec, is out, so I’ll be taking over this week.

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#ClouderaLife Spotlight: Vicki Zingiris

Cloudera

March 8 marks International Women’s Day and as we celebrate the accomplishments of dynamic women across the world, I sat across from one such Clouderan, Vicki Zingiris, Director of Value-Based Services. We discussed important initiatives at Cloudera, the influence that Martial Arts has had on how she leads, collaborates, and mentors, and concluded with some valuable advice for women in the workforce. .

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Slava Rubin and Sahil Lavingia break down crowdfunding options at TechCrunch Early Stage

TechCrunch

Sure, you can find plenty of big-name companies that bootstrapped their way to success without any outside investment — Calendly, GoPro, MailChimp and SPANX come to mind. Historically though, the majority of early-stage startups eventually have to move out of their bootstrapping stage to tap into outside sources of capital from institutional investors.

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A Tale of Two Case Studies: Using LLMs in Production

Speaker: Tony Karrer, Ryan Barker, Grant Wiles, Zach Asman, & Mark Pace

Join our exclusive webinar with top industry visionaries, where we'll explore the latest innovations in Artificial Intelligence and the incredible potential of LLMs. We'll walk through two compelling case studies that showcase how AI is reimagining industries and revolutionizing the way we interact with technology. Some takeaways include: How to test and evaluate results 📊 Why confidence scoring matters 🔐 How to assess cost and quality 🤖 Cross-platform cost vs. quality tr

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Extending Security Beyond the Endpoint with Symantec XDR

Symantec

XDR technology expands visibility and correlates data from thousands of cloud services and endpoints for SOC analysts

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UK’s ThirdFort nabs $20M for tools to help with ID verification, and detect money laundering and payment fraud

TechCrunch

Money laundering has been a hot topic of late in the UK, which is facing pressure to not just make tighter rules to track down the origins of money that’s spent on large assets in the country like prime real estate — the capital city has been dubbed by some as the “ London laundromat ” — but also, in light of sanctions on Russia in recent weeks, actually to enforce those rules.

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Social Engineering Types and the Risk to Remote Workforces

SecureWorks

Social Engineering Types and the Risk to Remote Workforces Educating employees about common social engineering techniques is a key component to protecting the organization.

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Flow efficiency: Big-picture metrics for developers

TechBeacon

Checking off the last item on a long to-do list always feels good. But when developers chase that feeling and become consumed with completing their own work, they often hold off on releasing tasks to the next person until they have checked off that last item. They are missing the big picture when it comes to resource efficiency versus system efficiency.

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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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Clutch Names Gorilla Logic Among the Leading Google App Engine Consultants for 2022

Gorilla Logic

Headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado, Gorilla Logic delivers world-class software development and consulting services for enterprise-scale mobile, Web, and cloud applications. With more than 500 employees and nearshore development hubs in Costa Rica, Colombia, and Mexico, companies can rely on our high-performing, distributed Agile teams to enhance their existing resources and accelerate their time to success.

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Do You Have What It Takes to Be an Ivanti MVP?

Ivanti

We want to introduce you to someone very important to Ivanti. David Brisco is an expert in Ivanti Service Manager and Asset Manager. His history with Ivanti dates back to 2005 has provided thousands of insights on these products and other Ivanti topics that people are curious about. Oh, and one small detail: he is not an Ivanti team member. David Brisco works with US Courts and has been an Ivanti Community MVP for almost four years.

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Digital Vaccine Passport App Risks: What You Need to Know

Symantec

Two-thirds of the apps analyzed by Symantec exhibited risky behavior.

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