Thu.Jun 09, 2022

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You Can Fake Agile. But You Can’t Fake Automation.

Modus Create

It’s been 30 years since the creation of the agile manifesto. And yet, agile remains misunderstood by the vast majority. . When any idea becomes corporatized , it can turn into a prescribed orthodoxy. That’s what happened with lean and what’s happening with agile. . Agile Has Gone Mainstream. But There Is a Problem. Our recent report 2022 State of Digital Transformation unveiled that 57% of enterprises had adopted an agile framework for implementing digital initiatives.

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HYCU locks down additional funding to grow its cloud data protection business

TechCrunch

Hybrid Cloud Up Time (HYCU) , a self-described “backup-as-a-service” company for customers managing hybrid and multi-cloud environments, today announced that it raised $53 million in a “majority equity” Series B round led by Acrew Capital with participation from Bain Capital Ventures, Atlassian Ventures, and Cisco Investments.

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FusionGrid – Javascript Data Grid Component to Speed Up App Development

The Crazy Programmer

Since its inception in 2002, the developers at FusionCharts have worked hard to secure the computational resources in multi-institutional surroundings for their geographically dispersed users. The current improvements to their grid security have streamlined the administration and usage of various resources. More than just increasing the security, the advances have made security simpler for the resource administrators and fusion scientists that use FusionGrid and make them get their work done wit

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Startups are high risk: As an employee, plan accordingly

TechCrunch

If you’ve done a quick scroll down the list of TechCrunch’s most recent stories over the past few weeks, you’ve seen a wall of articles about layoffs. Even just our roundups ( one , two , three , four ) bring some sobering reading to the mix. Alex and Natasha remind us that tech layoffs don’t happen to companies; they happen to people — and as someone who just got off the phone with a close friend who had just received a layoff notice, I’m feeling that more acutely

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Embrace AI: Make Your VoIP Service Stand Out

Dialogview is revolutionizing VoIP services with its AI-powered platform, which is now available for white labeling. Our solution autonomously resolves over 68% of customer queries in more than 40 languages, dramatically reducing your team’s workload. With advanced conversational AI, Dialogview understands customer sentiments and queries in real time, without any button presses needed by users.

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What’s what with WebAssembly?

Xebia

You have probably heard of Blazor and that it uses WebAssembly to run.NET code inside a browser. But did you know you can use WebAssembly for much more? In this post, we will show you a few cool things to do with WebAssembly. What is WebAssembly? WebAssembly was invented as a language to run binary code inside a web browser. Applications running in WebAssembly run isolated, just like Docker containers.

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Technical Debt: When It Works and When It Doesn’t

DevOps.com

Every software team has probably faced technical debt—the accumulation of little development deficiencies that will require rework down the line. Just like financial debt, they accrue interest as they build up, in the form of difficult software modifications or challenges in adding new features. Time is the usual culprit; your development team has one timeframe […].

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Tatsumeeko wants to bring the metaverse to Discord

TechCrunch

Tatsumeeko , an “MMORPG-lite” game on Ethereum and Solana developed by the team behind cross-gaming platform ecosystem Tatsu.GG , announced today that it has raised $7.5 million in seed funding. The round was co-led by DeFiance Capital, Delphi Ventures and BITKRAFT Ventures, with participation from investors including Binance Labs, Animoca Brands, Dialectic and GuilldFi.

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Empathetic Leadership Begins with Love

Steve Farber

Over the past couple of years, our world has lost and gained a lot. We’ve been through an incredibly stressful yet profound experience, and we’ve come out on the other side, scarred but intact and. Read more. The post Empathetic Leadership Begins with Love first appeared on Steve Farber.

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8 factors to consider when fundraising during a downturn

TechCrunch

Karl Alomar. Contributor. Share on Twitter. After managing and exiting two startups over a 20-year career, Karl is now M13’s managing partner. Previously as DigitalOcean's COO, Karl built the business from first product to over 500 employees and $250M ARR over six years and prepared it for its IPO. These are challenging times, but this is not the first time I have heard that.

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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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Saving on AWS Costs with Data Classification

DevOps.com

The cloud is becoming a large cost center for many organizations. Though often touted as a cost-saver—and while many cloud migrations are driven by the desire to conserve IT costs—the cloud does create operating expenses at the same time it cuts down on capital expenses. Moreover, unlike traditional IT investments, cloud costs can be unpredictable […].

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Klar, believed to be Mexico’s largest digital bank, lands $70M in General Atlantic-led round

TechCrunch

Mexico City-based digital bank Klar has raised $70 million in equity funding at a valuation of $500 million, the startup announced today. The raise follows a period of hyper-growth for the company. Klar experienced a “7x” year-over-year increase in revenue and 4x bump in transaction volume over the same time period, according to Klar co-founder and CEO Stefan Möller.

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How IT Experience Data Drives Improvement

CEO Insider

In the Digital Age, businesses run on technology, especially information technology (IT), we’re always looking to find areas for improvement and increased efficiency. How do we find them? One way – the way IT has done it historically – is to wait for a complaint or request from someone connected with the line of business […]. The post How IT Experience Data Drives Improvement appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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Growth marketing experts survey: How would you spend a $75,000 budget in summer 2022?

TechCrunch

In November, we reached out to marketers to learn how they would spend a $25,000 budget in Q1 2022. The advice ranged from going full force on one channel to investing in a copywriter and making video content. But there’s been a lot of belt tightening since then. We followed up with a few marketers from our previous survey and reached out some more to see how they would spend a $75,000 budget in summer 2022.

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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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The 2 Things You Ask Your Team When You Pass $1B w/ Hippo’s VP of Engineering

Dzone - DevOps

When you think of a billion-dollar tech company, you probably imagine rooms full of monitors with dashboards and non-stop data streams. Well, after talking to Hippo - a certified unicorn and newly minted giant in the insurance industry - we realized this couldn’t be further from the truth.

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Papercup raises $20M for AI that automatically dubs videos

TechCrunch

Dubbing is a lucrative market, with Verified Market Research predicting that film dubbing services alone could generate $3.6 billion annually by 2027. But it’s also a laborious and costly process. On average , it can take an hour of recording studio time for five minutes of narration; one calculator pegs the price at $75 per minute for even a simple video.

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Why AI Customer Journeys Need More Friction

Harvard Business Review

Introduced at the right points, “good friction” can create a more transparent, ethical experience.

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Good Capital, Chris Sacca’s Lowercarbon back India’s SolarSquare

TechCrunch

Even as India is increasingly adding generation capacity from solar power, setting examples for many other developing nations, there’s a large population of the South Asian nation that is yet to join the clean energy bandwagon: Indian households. Less than 1% of Indian homes have rooftop solar systems. Such slow adoption could dampen Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ambitious renewables goal.

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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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Error'd: Meat!

The Daily WTF

I remember when gasoline was under a dollar a gallon in the US! And penny candy was only a penny! And a pound sterling could buy you a decent dinner, not just a few ounces of meat product! And the euro! Let me tell you about the euro!! I mean, um. Yeah. Things have changed, and it seems lately all our consumer goods and services have become suddenly more expensive, or smaller, or inferior in some other way.

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The NFT slump is real (really)

TechCrunch

Less than 24 hours ago, TechCrunch took a look at a collection of data on the market for non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Our goal was to better understand the level of demand for NFTs in light of the number of recent funding rounds at startups that deal with the creation, trading or monetization of the digital signatures. Given a general decline in trading volume for a host of assets — blockchain-based and otherwise — it wasn’t a massive surprise to discover that NFT sales volumes are also fal

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Ivanti Named a Leader in the Omdia Universe 2022-2023 Enterprise Service Management Report

Ivanti

We’re delighted to share that Ivanti has been named a leader in the Omdia Universe Enterprise Service Management (ESM) Report for 2022-2023. Omdia’s annual report aims to evaluate high-quality ESM solutions available in the market to support both IT and business leaders in selecting the right ESM platform that best meets their needs and long-term goals.

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Pitch Deck Teardown: Lunchbox’s $50 million Series B deck

TechCrunch

With more and more people ordering food from home — a trend that gathered momentum at a time when it was safer to eat at home than in restaurants — the proliferation of so-called “ghost kitchens” is continuing apace. These kitchens focus on takeaway orders and need a layer of technology to keep things running smoothly. “When COVID began, all restaurants were required to have some relationship with technology in order to survive, but the importance of this relationship has been

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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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Scriptless Test Automation — A Pass to the Future

Dzone - DevOps

In today’s corporate environment, software testing is no longer regarded as an unnecessary business investment; rather, it has risen to the level of a need rather than a luxury. With the ongoing changes in the market and increased rivalry, it is critical for businesses to do something that sets them apart from their competitors. To differentiate themselves, firms must increase efficiency, accelerate development, and offer quality in a cost-effective manner.

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Daily Crunch: Upskilling edtech platform GOMYCODE closes $8M Series A

TechCrunch

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. When did it become Thursday? About 15 hours ago, that’s when! Welcome to the 9th of March 2022, and another, extra crunchy Daily Crunch.

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How much value do you place on your own time?

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Our reader poll today asks: How much value do you place on your own time? An extreme amount: It’s the only commodity I can never get back 20.33%. A significant amount: I get pretty upset when people waste my time 40.42%. A moderate amount: Time is important, but I don’t obsess over it 29.79%. A minor amount: I have more important things to worry about 3.23%.

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Brown Foods ushers in new age of dairy, raises a ‘latte’ money for cowless cow’s milk

TechCrunch

Cow’s milk continues to be a staple of human nutrition. Pediatricians recommend it for infant growth, and for the most part, it has more protein than alternative “milks.” However, this dairy delight isn’t tolerated by all people, and the process from cow to dinner table is a known strain on environmental resources. Enter Brown Foods , a 1-year-old company developing its first product, UnReal Milk, which is “real” whole milk created using mammalian cell culture technology.

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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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A Model Implementation

Teradata

How do you take the first steps to free the power of analytics from on-premise systems whilst protecting valuable data and de-risking transformation? Find out more.

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EV SPAC Faraday Future now has the attention of the DOJ

TechCrunch

Amid an investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission into inaccurate statements to investors, Faraday Future has received a preliminary request for information from the U.S. Department of Justice. The DOJ’s request for information is related to the SEC probe, according to a securities filing submitted by the electric vehicle startup Thursday.

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Today’s CEOs Don’t Just Lead Companies. They Lead Ecosystems.

Harvard Business Review

It’s no longer enough to keep your board happy and appease shareholders.

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