TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

If there were any doubt about a cryptocurrency boom, we need look no further than at the explosion of growth of certain companies in the space. One such company is BlockFi , which today announced it has closed on a massive $350 million Series D funding that values it at $3 billion. While this news in and of itself is certainly attention-getting, it’s even more impressive when you consider the startup just raised a $50 million Series C last August at a $450 million valuation.

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CTOvision

MARCH 11, 2021

Read Alexander Reelsen explain how Elasticsearch search helps in boosting query speed on Elastic Blog: Cache is king for speedy data retrieval. So if you’re interested in how Elasticsearch leverages […].

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

Scott Galloway, the New York University professor, author, and tech entrepreneur, is taking the wraps off a $30 million Series A round for his newest company, Section4 , a platform for business “upskilling” that has now raised $37 million altogether. The company is premised on the belief that millions of workers need help to stay competitive and employable, yet not all have access to, or interest in, costly graduate school programs.

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CTOvision

MARCH 11, 2021

Palantir Technologies Inc. shares were advancing Thursday after the data analytics software company announced a strategic partnership. What Happened: Palantir said it has entered into a six-year strategic partnership with French […].

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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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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

David Teten. Contributor. Share on Twitter. David Teten is founder of Versatile VC and writes periodically at teten.com and @dteten. More posts by this contributor. Broaden your view of ‘best’ to make smarter, more inclusive investments. 15 steps to fundraising a new VC or private equity fund. Stéphane Nasser. Contributor. Stéphane Nasser is co-founder of OpenVC , an open-source initiative to collect and analyze all VC theses.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

Hugging Face has raised a $40 million Series B funding round — Addition is leading the round. The company has been building an open source library for natural language processing (NLP) technologies. You can find the Transformers library on GitHub — it has 42,000 stars and 10,000 forks. Existing investors Lux Capital, A.Capital and Betaworks also participated in today’s funding round.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 11, 2021

Use This One-on-One Meeting Template to Create a Better Cadence Are your one-on-one meetings getting stale? Are you looking for more ways to support and challenge your team? In our leadership training programs, we encourage managers to consider their one-on-one meetings as […]. The post One-on-one Meeting Template: FREE Tool for Better Conversations appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

Another day brings another pubic debut of a multibillion dollar company that performed well out of the gate. This time it’s Coupang, whose shares are currently up just over 46% to more than $51 after pricing at $35 , $1 above the South Korean e-commerce giant’s IPO price range. Raising one’s range and then pricing above it only to see the public markets take the new equity higher is somewhat par for the course when it comes to the most successful recent debuts , to which we can

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Toptal

MARCH 11, 2021

As microservices architecture continues to evolve, interservice communication has become a significant challenge to manage. Service meshes are becoming the standard solution, but how do popular and up-and-coming service meshes compare?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

Some well-known VC firms have spent the last few months crunching data while working to chart, graph, and map the world of venture investing. Happily for you and I, they’ve been pretty free with their time and data, helping us better understand today’s market for high-growth, software startups. Last week The Exchange dug into data from Battery Ventures , which worked to explain some of the gains software companies have made in recent years in terms of their valuation multiples.

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TechBeacon

MARCH 11, 2021

What if a public cloud could process encrypted data without knowing the encryption key? That’s the “data-in-use encryption” problem. And it’s a hard one.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

If you’ve ever had to file a claim with your insurance company, you know that it’s not exactly fun. Often, you’re on hold indefinitely waiting to speak to a live person. And if you’ve ever had to file an auto or home insurance claim, you know that all the back and forth with your carrier and the various vendors can take up so much time. Hi Marley is a Boston startup that has set out to modernize communications in the insurance space by giving carriers a way to “seamlessly” communicate with

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DevOps.com

MARCH 11, 2021

In today’s complex, dynamic IT environments, the proliferation of disparate IT Ops, NOC, DevOps and SRE teams and tools is a given – and usually considered a necessity. This leads to the inevitable truth that when an incident happens, often the biggest challenge is collaborating between these teams to understand what happened and resolve the […].

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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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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

We’re just a few weeks out from the first TC Early Stage 2021 event on April 1-2. This two-day bootcamp helps early-inning founders develop core entrepreneurial skills for startup success. We’re talking essential topics led by experts in their field. Case in point. Intellectual property is your bread and butter — you need to safeguard it and understand its value from a VC’s perspective.

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TechBeacon

MARCH 11, 2021

The last two or three decades have been a rather ho-hum time for computer languages, at least on the level of basic syntax. The C-style structure rose to dominate the world, as first Java and then JavaScript came along, sporting the same basic punctuation.

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CTOvision

MARCH 11, 2021

Read Micah Carrick’s Medium post explaining how Aerospike authentication and authorization work in the real world: On the left, we have developers building applications and back-office jobs that will use an […].

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InfoQ Culture Methods

MARCH 11, 2021

This article highlights how increased distractions in agile teams can affect our mental health and cause burnout. It outlines how various productivity hacks can help to reduce this problem and make you highly efficient using real-life experiences. Finally, it discusses various steps the software industry can take to help preserve our mental health and reduce distractions.

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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.

MagmaLabs

MARCH 11, 2021

Reading Time: 4 minutes Have you ever wondered how today’s modern JS applications can process so many style modules or images? Well, in this blog post we will explain how to create a basic configuration to pack files through Webpack. Keep reading! About Webpack. Webpack is a useful tool for developing front-end applications where we divide our code into modules.

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Altexsoft

MARCH 11, 2021

This is a guest article by tech writer Mia Liang. One of the challenges of using object-oriented programming (OOP) languages and databases is the complexity of aligning the programming code with database structures. Object-relational mapping (ORM) is a technique that creates a layer between the language and the database, helping programmers work with data without the OOP paradigm.

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Teradata

MARCH 11, 2021

Getting your Cloud data architecture right starts with understanding which data products you need, the roles they perform, & the functional & non-functional characteristics that those roles demand.

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Tenable

MARCH 11, 2021

The Nessus team continues to develop advanced assessment capabilities, including visibility into new operating systems, exploitable vulnerabilities and container instances. When Renaud Deraison first announced Nessus on Bugtraq on Apr. 4, 1998, it was an “alpha” release. Today, as Nessus nears its 23rd birthday, the alpha release has become the alpha vulnerability scanner, the most widely adopted vulnerability assessment tool in the world.

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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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IDC

MARCH 11, 2021

The latest data on self-reported consumer tech spending revealed some surprises. Get a better picture of spending & digital transformation with IDC's David Myhrer.

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Tenable

MARCH 11, 2021

F5 releases patches for multiple vulnerabilities in BIG-IP and BIG-IQ, including a critical remote command execution flaw that does not require authentication and is likely to attract exploits in the near future. Background. On March 10, F5 published a security advisory for several critical vulnerabilities in BIG-IP and BIG-IQ , a family of hardware and software solutions for application delivery and centralized device management.

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Synopsys

MARCH 11, 2021

Supply chain security risks are not new, but recent headlines are a reminder for consumers to re-examine their security practices. The post Don’t let supply chain security risks poison your organization appeared first on Software Integrity Blog.

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Capgemini

MARCH 11, 2021

In our 6 th episode, Youmna Sirgi (Manager at Capgemini Government Solutions) talks about the positives of working from anywhere (WFA) and how she managed any challenges it brought. Watch below! For additional information on Remote Work, Click here. To read Capgemini’s ‘The Future of Work’ report, Click here. For all Capgemini Government Solutions blogs, Click here.

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Steve Farber

MARCH 11, 2021

Co-creation, teamwork, creative collaboration – these are words that we use a lot, both in art and in business, but the actual dynamics of it can be challenging. A lot of times, it’s because. Read more. The post The Art Of Creative Collaboration With The Brothers Koren first appeared on Steve Farber.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

MARCH 11, 2021

Our reader poll today asks: How do you deal with procrastinators on your team? I give them artificial deadlines to create a buffer so things aren’t last minute. 26% I break tasks down for them and set smaller interim milestones. 34% I allocate time-sensitive work to other team members to avoid issues with this person.6% I give them the deadline and step back.

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David Walsh

MARCH 11, 2021

As much as I enjoy writing lengthy pieces of JavaScript APIs, techniques, and other tech brilliance, I very much enjoy providing people quick tips to make their daily dev lives better. This is one such post. Oftentimes I’m working with long command line directives, and as you can imagine, I usually screw up the spelling of a command. Despite being in the industry forever, I didn’t know you could click your way to the character position of the problem; I simply held the left or right

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