TechCrunch
JULY 26, 2021
NotCo , a food technology company making plant-based milk and meat replacements, wrapped up another funding round this year, a $235 million Series D round that gives it a $1.5 billion valuation. Tiger Global led the round and was joined by new investors, including DFJ Growth Fund, the social impact foundation, ZOMA Lab; athletes Lewis Hamilton and Roger Federer; and musician and DJ Questlove.
Let's Grow Leaders
JULY 26, 2021
Expect common breakdowns to help your team work better together. Does your team get derailed by miscommunication, hurt feelings, customer service challenges, or another department’s dropped balls? These common relationship breakdowns don’t surprise effective leaders. On the contrary–smart leaders know it’s not a matter of if they’ll happen, but when.
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TechCrunch
JULY 26, 2021
Meet Sproutl , a marketplace for gardeners living in the U.K. The startup founded by former Farfetch executives has raised a $9 million seed round. It wants to make gardening more accessible by providing a curated list of items, relevant advice as well as inspiration. Index Ventures is leading the round in the startup with Ada Ventures and several business angels also participating.
TechBeacon
JULY 26, 2021
As more companies move operations to the cloud and look to streamline infrastructure management, adoption of GitOps is on the rise. GitOps is an effective way to streamline infrastructure management and directly impact business value.
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.
TechCrunch
JULY 26, 2021
Olumide Soyombo is one of the well-known active angel investors in Nigeria tech startups and Africa at large. Since he began angel investing in 2014, Soyombo has invested in 33 startups, including Stripe-owned Paystack , PiggyVest, and TeamApt. Today, the investor is announcing the launch of Voltron Capital , a Pan-African venture capital firm he co-founded with Abe Choi , a U.S.
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TechCrunch
JULY 26, 2021
The loss of a loved one is perhaps one of the most traumatic things a person can experience. When it comes to memorializing someone after their death, most people think of planning funerals and/or picking out caskets or tombstones. And those things are typically done with the help of a funeral home. Enter Austin-based Eterneva , which is building a rare direct to consumer brand in the end-of life-space.
Dzone - DevOps
JULY 26, 2021
Software test estimation is a process that determines testing effort, schedule, staff, and other related metrics for software projects. It is a crucial practice that managers should master to fulfill their job’s responsibilities as they need to produce accurate and reasonable estimates for the success of their projects. Business executives need reliable cost estimates to make investment decisions.
TechCrunch
JULY 26, 2021
Now that you have that COVID dog, Embark Veterinary wants to help him or her be in your life for a long time by offering DNA testing with the goal of curbing preventable diseases and increasing the lifespan of dogs by three years within the next decade. The Boston-based dog genetics company raised $75 million in Series B funding in what the company is calling “the biggest Series B for a pet startup to date.
DevOps.com
JULY 26, 2021
If you say a person or organization “goes to great lengths” to achieve something, it means they try very hard and perhaps do extreme things to accomplish their goal. One example I’ve seen is that of more traditional companies “going to great lengths” to “hide” the cloud from their pool of potential technical consumers doing […]. The post Stop Hiding the Cloud From Your Developers appeared first on DevOps.com.
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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.
TechCrunch
JULY 26, 2021
Ben Boissevain. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Ben Boissevain has 30 years of corporate finance experience at firms including White & Case and Barclays Bank, and 20 years of experience in the tech sector. Despite the plentiful headlines about mega billion-dollar M&A transactions, record IPOs and the rapid growth of SPACs, small deals will continue to be the most likely exit for the vast majority of tech startups.
DevOps.com
JULY 26, 2021
I’m not the first person to point out the issues with Andreessen Horowitz’s blog post outlining why Dropbox is repatriating from the public cloud to data centers and saving an enormous amount of money. But while others have brought up valid points about how Dropbox is not representative of most companies and that the value […]. The post Are You Wasting Money in the Cloud?
TechCrunch
JULY 26, 2021
Reusable rocket startup iRocket has entered into a new partnership with NASA in its quest to reach commercialization in just two years. The partnership will give iRocket access to testing facilities and engineering support, chiefly at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The company is hoping that it will conduct its first rocket engine test — an on-the-ground engine firing test — at the Huntsville site in September. iRocket is earmarking $50 million over the next five y
CEO Insider
JULY 26, 2021
The executive team of Etres Technologies spent the last year discussing a strategy to offer a new product into its current market. This new “story of the future” had the potential to significantly benefit both customers and the business. After much planning, the CEO and executive team gave the green light to the initiative, and […]. The post Two stories are competing for the future of your business: The Heaviest Story Wins appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.
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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.
TechCrunch
JULY 26, 2021
U.S. edtech company Duolingo released a revised IPO price range this morning, boosting its potential per-share value to $100 after initially targeting a range that topped out at $95 per share. Per the unicorn’s SEC filings , Duolingo is now targeting a $95 to $100 per share IPO price range, up from $85 to $95 per share , or a gain of around 12% at the bottom and 5% at the top.
CircleCI
JULY 26, 2021
This series was co-written by Musa Barighzaai and Tyler Sullberg. In the previous post , we explored high-level differences between thinking in Clojure compared to thinking in JavaScript. We are now ready to start building our first Clojure microservice. The microservice we are going to build will be very simple. It will be an HTTP server that uses a Redis data store to count how many times a given IP address has pinged the /counter endpoint.
TechCrunch
JULY 26, 2021
The Exchange spent a little time on Friday ruminating on the impact of then-rumored regulation in China targeting its edtech sector. News that the Chinese government intended to crack down further on the education technology market hit shares of public, China-based edtech companies. It was a mess. Then over the weekend, the rumors became reality, and the impact is still being felt today in the global markets.
Dataiku
JULY 26, 2021
The race to ESG continues to accelerate in the financial services space. All major players have now taken firm commitments to embed Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) criteria in all their critical processes, with a strong focus on global warming management. The creation of the Net-Zero Alliance by 43 major banks including Société Générale, Citi, and Morgan Stanley and main insurance players including Aviva and Zurich insurance is yet another sign that the financial industry is getting
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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.
TechCrunch
JULY 26, 2021
Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest private market news, talks about the coming week, digs into some recent funding rounds and mulls over a larger theme or narrative from the private markets.
Confluent
JULY 26, 2021
Twenty years ago, the data warehouses of choice were Oracle and Teradata. Since then, growth and innovation has shifted to the cloud, and a new generation of data systems have […].
Dataiku
JULY 26, 2021
When it comes to building a modern AI platform , we've said before that organizations shouldn’t spend time, energy and resources cobbling together tools across the AI lifecycle, which ultimately results in losing the larger picture of the full data pipeline (not to mention adds technical debt). Instead, investing in an end-to-end platform for AI provides advantages like cost savings from reuse, smoother governance and monitoring, the ability to focus on implementing high-impact technologies, and
Dzone - DevOps
JULY 26, 2021
‘dmesg’ (display message) is not a popular Unix/Linux command. However, it provides vital information that can be used for troubleshooting production performance problems. Kernel is the core part of the operating system responsible for the effective functioning of the device. ‘dmesg’ command prints all the kernel-related log messages in the console.
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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.
InfoQ Culture Methods
JULY 26, 2021
We have a diversity problem in technology. Many of our visions and standards of success are centered around one group of people, even though there are many groups contributing to global advancement and growth. The main reason for this is legacy, similar to legacy code. We can overcome this inherited debt by educating ourselves and planning time to do work to rebuild and replace our “legacy code”.
Palo Alto Networks
JULY 26, 2021
Just five years ago, cybersecurity experts were warning that the threat from cyber extortion was poised to grow as criminals increasingly looked to profit from the use of ransomware. Hackers have since perfected their ability to infiltrate computer systems and encrypt everything until the owner pays a ransom to regain control. In 2016, the majority of ransoms paid were $500 or less.
The Daily WTF
JULY 26, 2021
Years ago, Aleshia W started a job in an VB.Net shop. There's a lot I could say about those kinds of environments, but I'd really just be padding out the article, so let's just get right to the code- which pads out a Year string. Protected Function YearPadText( ByVal val As String ) As String. Dim valLen As Integer. valLen = val.Len Select Case valLen Case 1. val = val + " " Case 2. val = val + " " Case 3. val = val + " " Case 4. val = val + " " Case 5
Agile42
JULY 26, 2021
Our long-time partner, Sonja Blignaut from More Beyond, shares her insights on human factors within the realm of "complexity". She addresses the notion that, if we force too much change on people, we compromise their sense of coherence. Ultimately we need to think about limiting the change in progress, the same way we limit work in progress within agile transformations.
Speaker: Liran Meir Frenkel, Performance Management and RPA Sr Product Marketing Manager at NICE; Harpreet Makan, Practice Director at Everest Group; & Santhosh Kumar, Practice Director at Everest Group
As contact centers navigate the challenges of delivering excellence within budget constraints and adapting to evolving employee expectations, optimizing agent tasks becomes crucial. Discover a holistic approach across three pillars - people, process, and technology - that is essential to excel in this dynamic landscape, and explore how next-gen technologies such as generative AI, performance analytics, and process intelligence play a pivotal role in transforming contact centers into advanced CX
Darktrace
JULY 26, 2021
This blog explores how one compromised server led to the creation of a botnet, which in turn was deployed for illegal crypto-mining. Darktrace’s Cyber AI Analyst pinpointed the malicious activity and analyzed every stage of the attack.
thoughtLEADERS, LLC
JULY 26, 2021
A recent survey conducted by Mopria Alliance shows employees experience 77 distractions per week. Phil shares how employees are affected by work environments. Today’s post is by Phil Mazzilli, Marketing Working Group Chair for Mopria Alliance. After COVID-19 pushed employees out of their offices and into their homes, we’ve gained a new wealth of knowledge on the benefits and pitfalls of working from home versus in an office.
Arcserve
JULY 26, 2021
Hurricane season is here again. While the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicted back in May that we may not see the historic level of storm activity that was present in 2020, things aren’t playing out as expected—so far. Weather.com recently noted that the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season is already at a faster pace.
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