thoughtLEADERS, LLC

JANUARY 10, 2022

Today’s guest post is from Joel Garfinkle, thoughtLEADERS instructor, executive coach and author of Getting Ahead: Three Steps to Take Your Career to the Next Level (CLICK HERE to get your copy). Are you protecting your most important asset? No, it’s not your buildings, your equipment, or your investment accounts. It’s your people. Especially those rising stars whose contributions affect your bottom line and your future success.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

Peer-to-peer car-sharing startup Turo has released its filing to become a publicly traded company in the United States, a process the company began confidentially in August. The S-1 document filed Monday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission does not include terms for its offering. Turo, which was founded in 2010 and has been compared to Airbnb for cars, allows private car owners to rent out their vehicles through the startup’s website or app.

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DevOps.com

JANUARY 10, 2022

Many developers and startups view cloud services as simply “compute”, “storage” and “networking.” The cloud has matured to the point where customers often don’t think about the underlying infrastructure, service levels or debate the merits of on-premises versus cloud&;mdash;instead, they are increasingly cloud-first. In fact, December of 2021 marked Amazon Web Services (AWS) marked its […].

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

Startup accelerator Y Combinator announced this morning that it has updated its terms, providing participating companies with more total cash. The group will now invest $500,000 in batch startups. The money comes in two different forms. The first is the well-known Y Combinator equity deal, worth $125,000 for 7% of accelerated startups. The group will now also offer $375,000 in the form of an uncapped SAFE note — a simple agreement for future equity — with a “most favored nation

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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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DevOps.com

JANUARY 10, 2022

A composable enterprise, defined by Gartner as “an organization that delivers business outcomes and adapts to the pace of business change”, relies on the assembly of interchangeable application building blocks. This architectural overhaul has largely been driven by a demand for more configurable application experiences, and the need to evolve existing application portfolios that are […].

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DevOps.com

JANUARY 10, 2022

Microservices architecture is on the rise, already forming a key part of several current transformation projects, breaking down traditionally monolithic applications into self-contained, independently deployed services that are identified using domain-driven design. Stats from a recent study found that more than 60% of respondents have been using microservices for a year or more.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

The backbone of Indonesia’s economy are its estimated more than 60 million SMEs. But many lack access to working capital and, especially before the pandemic, managed their finances using manual processes like spreadsheets. With COVID-19 prompting many to digitize, startups that focus on SMEs have been raising large rounds of funding to scale up quickly.

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DevOps.com

JANUARY 10, 2022

GitLab plans to make observability a more integrated element of its continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform after acquiring Opstrace. Opstrace’s open source project exposes a horizontally scalable application programming interface (API) created by Cortex for Prometheus, an open source monitoring platform being advanced under the auspices of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

The value of bitcoin fell under the $40,000 mark in early morning trading today. The popular cryptocurrency sold off sharply this morning, while rival tokens like ether also lost value. Currently worth $39,831 per coin, bitcoin is off 4.3% and ether 5.1%, according to Coinbase data. While it is always risky to cover price changes in the crypto world, the fall in the value of bitcoin has crossed the threshold from notable to material.

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DevOps.com

JANUARY 10, 2022

As we enter a new era of technology, we’re experiencing a “third wave” of cloud innovation that brings new complexities into the IT landscape, mainly centered around multi-cloud networking. With every wave of cloud technology advancement, networking components are becoming more complex and distributed across multiple groups. Further, multi-cloud networking brings new challenges around connecting […].

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

The global pandemic threw a wrench in the plans of restaurants all over the world two years ago when diners stayed home, causing many eateries to shift their business to pickup or delivery. Roberto Cebrián and David Villarreal both had experience working with restaurants in Mexico and recognized that many restaurants were not prepared to change their operations quickly, so they jumped on the opportunity to help them.

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TechBeacon

JANUARY 10, 2022

Attending software testing conferences offers you an opportunity to improve your software testing skills and techniques and allows you to hear about real-life use cases and solutions that you can apply in your organization. You'll also get to learn about the latest tools and technologies in the industry, as well as meet and exchange ideas with industry leaders.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

Indonesia-based eFishery announced today that it has raised what it claims is the largest round of funding by an aquaculture tech startup in the world. The company, which provides feeding devices, software and financing for fish and shrimp farmers, got a $90 million Series C co-led by Temasek, SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and Sequoia Capital India, with participation from returning investors the Northstar Group, Go-Ventures, Aqua-Spark and Wavemaker Partners.

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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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The Daily WTF

JANUARY 10, 2022

Sometimes, it's not the code that's bad, but what the code costs. For Elizabeth 's company, that cost was significant in terms of dollars and cents. They needed to staff up to accomplish some major Java Enterprise work, so they went with the highest of the highly paid consultants they could find. These consultants came from a big name firm, and were billed at an eye-watering hourly rate.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

Call it the public service announcement to start off your year: If you’re working at a startup where IT is a little fuzzy, policies are evolving as the company is being built and the organization is evolving quickly, you’re at higher risk than usual that your employers are willing to move fast, do things and ask for permission later. It makes sense almost intuitively: Early-stage startups generally don’t have their crap together, and are moving at a breack-neck speed.

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Synopsys

JANUARY 10, 2022

Code Dx was recognized for its leadership in application security development. Learn how Code Dx helps to build trust in your software. The post Code Dx wins CybersecAsia award for Best in Application Development Security appeared first on Software Integrity Blog.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

Meat has been part of the human diet since before we found fire, but it’s becoming increasingly apparent that the production of meat at scale is more of a detriment to the environment and the world than a benefit. Across cultures and geographies, animals have been such a vital part of the food chain that it’s hard to imagine a world where animals are not put to the knife to produce protein.

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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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CloudZero

JANUARY 10, 2022

Traditionally, applications are developed and deployed on local servers managed by developers. This keeps the whole process under the control of one development team that is responsible for keeping the system running smoothly.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

Loyalty, deals and rewards services are a rarity in most African markets. The unit economics and other factors such as currency instability make such businesses hard to pull off in the region. Yet, ThankUCash , a platform launched in 2018 by Connected Analytics , has managed to thrive, proving that not all is gloom in the deals, coupon and rewards business.

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Teradata

JANUARY 10, 2022

There is a lot of hype today around data sharing and the value it brings to your business. But what exactly is data sharing, and why should you and your company care? Find out more.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

French startup Ankorstore has raised a $283 million Series C funding round (€250 million). Founded in November 2019, it took Ankorstore around two years to reach a post-money valuation of $2 billion (€1.75 billion). The company operates a wholesale marketplace for independent retailers across Europe. Ankorstore lets independent brands sell their products to independent retailers.

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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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Dell EMC

JANUARY 10, 2022

High performance computing provides a foundation for discovery and innovation — and Dell Technologies APEX for HPC offers an easy way to get there.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

Karen Peacock. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Karen Peacock is the CEO of Intercom. Understanding the health of your business starts with customer focus: Are you providing breakthrough value to your customers? Is it value that’s so far above and beyond other solutions that it’s worth a prospective customer’s time and effort to switch to you? Is it value that’s so clearly and increasingly a step ahead that they won’t consider other solutions?

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Dataiku

JANUARY 10, 2022

As we’ve shared in our annual trends report , 2021 was the year that a significant number of organizations had the realization that they will not scale AI without enlisting diverse teams to build and benefit from the technology — and MLOps is a critical part of any robust AI strategy. The diversification of involvement is fueled by new players who are joining the teams developing, deploying, and managing AI and the success from initial AI projects has sparked interest from business stakeholders

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

Career Karma raised its first millions off of a pitch that resonates with anyone who has ever googled coding bootcamps: a navigation tool for aspiring students and working professionals. Instead of creating its own curriculum, Career Karma helps students find the best programs for their price point and career goals. The startup, founded in 2018 by Ruben Harris, Artur Meyster and Timur Meyster, is now growing its ambition to serve more than the bogged-down bootcamp student: over the past few mont

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Dell EMC

JANUARY 10, 2022

User experience is everything when you are innovating to drive progress, and the path to a delightful UX starts with customers.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

AskNicely is the latest company attracting capital for its app targeting shift or frontline worker success as more businesses rightly begin to see how valuable these employees are to their bottom line and how technology can ensure these key employees are empowered to help the company grow. Aaron Ward, CEO, AskNicely. Image Credits: AskNicely. The Portland, Oregon-based company, which has its tech team in New Zealand, began developing its SaaS customer experience management tools in 2014 for busi

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Allstacks

JANUARY 10, 2022

Late deliveries happen. But what if you could identify bottlenecks and take action to unblock them from the start?

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