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7 Top Full-Stack Developer Interview Questions

Coding Dojo

Already immersed yourself in full-stack development and landed that all-important interview? Let’s taker a look at some full-stack developer interview … Read more >>. The post 7 Top Full-Stack Developer Interview Questions appeared first on Coding Dojo Blog.

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Craving ‘wild’ foods? Foraged’s marketplace uncovers all that and more

TechCrunch

Jack Hamrick has been trying to reduce the amount of red meat he eats, but the typical portobello mushroom alternative got boring real quick. When he began looking around for a wild mushroom called chicken of the woods, he found it hard to buy. That was when he met Andy Conner, a certified mushroom hunter, who was having the opposite problem — difficulty selling 10 pounds of seaweed he found.

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?-driven project management: when is the optimal time to give up?

Erik Bernhardsson

Hi! It's your friendly project management theorician. You might remember me from blog posts such as Why software projects take longer than you think , which is a blog post I wrote a long time ago positing that software projects completion time follow a log-normal distribution. Just a bit of a refresher if you don't want to re-read that whole post. What does it mean that project completion time has a log-normal distribution?

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Using asynchronous video interviews to improve startup recruiting

TechCrunch

Sunny Saurabh. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Sunny Saurabh is co-founder and CEO of Interviewer.AI , which produces optimized AI-powered video hiring software. Making the recruitment process more efficient so you can filter the best candidates from the top of the funnel is one of the biggest challenges facing hiring managers. Traditional interviews aren’t cutting it any longer, but asynchronous video interviews (AVI) are one alternative some companies are using to shortlist candidates whi

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

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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Stop Assessing People!

Agile Alliance

Stop using data as a weapon against your own people!! We’ve all heard at conferences, at meetups, and in books how important it is to collect data and make data-driven decisions. The post Stop Assessing People! first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Ship Fast and Pay Attention: Lessons in Applying Observability

Agile Alliance

Does your team have to deal with performance issues very late in their development cycle? Does this lead to a lot of unplanned work in your sprints? The post Ship Fast and Pay Attention: Lessons in Applying Observability first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Just like IRL, the metaverse requires infrastructure. We don’t have it yet

TechCrunch

Avi Hadad. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Avi Hadad is co-founder and VP of R&D at Metrolink , an Israeli data-management omniplatform. A veteran cybersecurity expert, Avi led R&D teams for the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office and was head of R&D at GK8, a blockchain cybersecurity firm. Imagine making your way through a crowd, thousands of people donning anything from casual wear to the most over-the-top dresses.

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Shift Left your Performance Testing

Agile Alliance

Does your team have to deal with performance issues very late in their development cycle? Does this lead to a lot of unplanned work in your sprints? The post Shift Left your Performance Testing first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Future Family takes in new capital as need for fertility treatments increases

TechCrunch

Less than a year after taking a small Series A extension , Future Family , a startup aiming to make fertility services, like IVF and egg freezing, more accessible, is back with $25 million in Series B funding. Munich Re Ventures led the round and was joined by TriVentures, MS&AD Ventures and ORIX and existing investors Aspect Ventures, Mindset Ventures, at.inc/ and OurCrowd.

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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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How to Get Started With Low-Code/No-Code

DevOps.com

Software development is complex. It can take years of practice to become an experienced developer. But the good news is that you can build many applications without ever learning to code. Low-code/no-code development is the practice of using a visual interface and drag-and-drop elements to build applications for business processes without coding. These types of […].

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Raising the right amount of capital after a correction

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

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How to Develop a Storytelling Culture and Why

CEO Insider

Storytelling, arguably, is one of the top skills leaders need to employ. It’s far beyond creative thinking and writing. It is a strategy and a tool to recruit and retain top talent, build empathetic leaders, build internal thought leaders and ambassadors and engage all constituencies. When storytelling is woven throughout the entire organization, it becomes […].

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Grab one of the last 20 early-bird tickets to TC Early Stage and save $200

TechCrunch

Budget-minded entrepreneurs and early-stage startup founders take heed — this is no time to procrastinate. We have only 20 early-bird tickets left for TechCrunch Early Stage 2022 in San Francisco on April 14. Move it or lose it: Buy a $249 founder pass and save $200. Once they’re gone, the price goes up to $449. TC Early Stage is all about helping new startup founders (pre-seed through Series A) learn the essential skills required to build a successful business.

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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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What Is Workplace Bullying? 3 Things Today’s Leaders Can Do To Prevent and Address It

CEO Insider

Workplace bullying has been more talked about recently than in prior years, and leadership teams have been doing a better, more effective job of preventing and eliminating it in the workplace. Workplace bullying can take place virtually anywhere, but if a zero-tolerance approach is embedded into a company’s culture starting at the top, it tends […].

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Two new ways to attend TC Sessions: Mobility 2022 — in person or online

TechCrunch

Well, the early-bird has left the building and taken substantial savings right along with it. Did you miss out? Don’t despair — we’re still committed to making TC Sessions: Mobility 2022 available and accessible to as many mobility fanatics as possible. How? Listen up. We’ve added two new pass types: Expo Only and Online Only. Here’s how they work and what they offer.

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Building a Dependable Real-Time Betting App with Confluent Cloud and Ably

Confluent

Our everyday digital experiences are in the midst of a revolution. Customers increasingly expect their online experiences to be interactive, immersive, and real time by default. The need to satisfy […].

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These Y Combinator-backed startups want to build the next Brex

TechCrunch

Unsurprisingly, fintech startups were well-represented in Y Combinator’s W22 batch, with 35 international companies participating and 25 more tagged as crypto-focused. One trend that caught our eye was that at least four startups – from three different regions – referred to themselves as the “Brex for” their particular geography. For the unacquainted, Brex is a corporate spend company that recently became a decacorn when it raised $300 million at a $12.3 billion valuation.

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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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The Missing Link in Continuous DevOps Cycles

DevOps.com

Delivering software quickly, reliably and safely is at the heart of technology transformation and organizational performance regardless of industry. As part of overall technology transformation, many companies are recognizing the benefits of applying DevOps methodologies to areas outside of software development, such as general product development, IT expansion and scaling and new business processes.

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Sweep helps corporations live up to their lofty carbon promises

TechCrunch

There’s coming hard out of the gates with a new company, and then there’s Sweep. The company was founded in 2020, then raised a $22 million Series A round a few months ago, following by a $73 million Series B round announced today. The company swept in with a platform for carbon emissions management. It found a sweet spot in the world of large corporates, which were foaming at the mouth to announce that they were ready to save the planet, but then were left scratching their heads, un

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WhiteSource Offers Free Spring4Shell Vulnerability Tool

DevOps.com

WhiteSource has launched a free command-line interface (CLI) tool that detects vulnerable open source Spring4Shell vulnerabilities (CVE-2022-22965) that are impacting Java applications built using the Spring development framework. Susan St. Clair, director of product management for WhiteSource, said the WhiteSource Spring4Shell Detect tool is similar to the tool the company made available earlier this year […].

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Crowdcube brings its equity crowdfunding platform to France

TechCrunch

If you live in the U.K. or the U.S., you may already be quite familiar with equity crowdfunding. And yet, few French startups turn to their community of users to raise some new funding. Thanks to recent regulatory changes, British investment platform Crowdcube plans to shake things up as it is officially launching on the French market. And you may have noticed a recent crowdfunding campaign in the French tech ecosystem already.

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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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Playing a Role

The Daily WTF

Initech's latest offering, IniPrints, was a secure automation system for document management. The target audience was the banking industry, which meant that the system was sold as having robust and fine-grained role-based access control systems. As far as any one could tell, that was exactly what Initech was shipping, which meant IniPrints gained a reputation within IniTech as being a "good product", with "low maintenance" When Alan was assigned support on IniPrints, he expec

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Equity Monday: Elon’s Twitter stake and the fate of rival social networks

TechCrunch

Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Every Monday, Grace and Alex scour the news and record notes on what’s going on to kick off the week. After last week’s super startup-heavy show, we were back to our regular Monday grab-bag of news! Here’s what we got into: A strong start to the week from global stocks, and a general updraft to crypto prices in recent days.

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The best Digital Product conferences to attend in 2022

UruIT

The keys to any successful business venture are constant learning and effective networking. Any tools or events that help you do both are well worth your time and effort. This is where conferences come in. Conferences are designed specifically to help you sharpen your skills, learn from your industry peers, and network with successful thought leaders.

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Everly Health founder discusses leading a startup through two acquisitions

TechCrunch

Hello and welcome to this week’s episode of Found. The podcast in which we get into the stories behind the startups. This week, Everly Health founder and CEO Julia Cheek is talking about taking steps to revolutionize healthcare by helping patients gain access to all kinds of medical testing and in doing so allowing providers to have the data they need to give the best care possible.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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Advanced Code Display with Code Detection API (Sponsored)

David Walsh

Web apps are accepting numerous types of inputs, from basic text to code to imagery, files, and more. It’s important that we validate the contents we receive but if you do allow arbitrary text, it’s good to know what exactly has been submitted so you can present it properly. Enter the Code Detection API — an API that allows you to detect code in text!

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The Role Stress Plays in Stupidity

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Prolonged, chronic stress often causes relative stupidity. Learn more about the connection between stress and cognitive performance. Today’s post is by Nicole Lipkin, author of What Keeps Leaders Up at Night (CLICK HERE to get your copy). I wrote my most recent book, What Keeps Leaders Up At Night, on a barstool at my kitchen counter. The day I started chapter 3, a chapter about stress, my neighbor started construction on her house.

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Why Can’t we Advance Healthcare and Life Sciences this Fast all the time?

Cloudera

Vaccine development became the top priority for the life sciences industry – delivering new vaccines at unprecedented speed and maneuvering large-scale production processes. Numerous factors helped accelerate the vaccine roll-out including prior research, genome sequencing, jumping the FDA approval queue and a plethora of testing volunteers. So now that we’ve experienced these advancements, how can the industry keep momentum to speed-up innovative solutions across healthcare?