Fri.Jan 28, 2022

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Top 5 continuous delivery tools in DevOps!

Openxcell

Comprehending the lifespan of an app and how to release it efficiently and successfully is a crucial subject for developers. The development initiatives are frequently mismanaged and fail. Yet, development teams have access to a number of tools that can assist them in automating their procedures through continuous deployment. There are numerous tools available in the market that can help with the various phases of continuous delivery.

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CausaLens gets $45M for no-code technology that introduces cause and effect into AI decision making

TechCrunch

One of the most popular applications of artificial intelligence to date has been to use it to predict things, using algorithms trained with historical data to determine a future outcome. But popularity doesn’t always mean success: Predictive AI leaves out a lot of the nuance, context and cause-and-effect reasoning that goes into an outcome; and as some have pointed out (and as we have seen ), this means that sometimes the “logical” answers produced by predictive AI can prove di

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Does Your Team Ignore Your Feedback?

Let's Grow Leaders

Have you heard this from your managers (or said it yourself)? “My people aren’t coachable. They’re defensive, it’s like they have a wall up. They ignore feedback and just won’t listen.” Sometimes people can’t grow because they’re not in the right position or they are actually incapable. Leaders take responsibility for the legitimate reasons people might ignore feedback.

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Why Robinhood is getting hammered today

TechCrunch

Update: When we wrote this, Robinhood’s stock was off double-digit percentage points in pre-market trading, and opened under $10 per share. So, it was current as of then. Since that moment, however, Robinhood shares have flipped around and rallied. Read on for the bearish setup the market was flashing at the start of the day, but keep in mind that Robinhood reversed its declines at least by midday trading!

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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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Complete Coding Assessment Guide – Definition, Advantages, and Best Practices

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Finding the right talent to fill a vacancy always poses a unique set of challenges. Most hiring processes and coding assessments, while having their advantages, are inherently flawed. There are many talented individuals who may never receive the right opportunity. Conversely, there are also many job posts that are filled with people that are unsuitable for the role.

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Why Choose a Hybrid Data Cloud in Financial Services?

Cloudera

As I meet with our customers, there are always a range of discussions regarding the use of the cloud for financial services data and analytics. Customers vary widely on the topic of public cloud – what data sources, what use cases are right for public cloud deployments – beyond sandbox, experimentation efforts. Private cloud continues to gain traction with firms realizing the benefits of greater flexibility and dynamic scalability.

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Joby Aviation wants to conduct dramatic eVTOL flights over San Francisco Bay

TechCrunch

Joby Aviation is seeking permission for a series of high-profile air taxi flights over San Francisco Bay, according to documents filed with the FCC and obtained by TechCrunch. The tests of the startup’s second-generation pre-production prototype, called the S4, would be the first in full view of the public and the first in an urban environment.

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Building a Reliable App Installation Experience with MSIX

DevOps.com

Simple, safe, reliable software installs and uninstalls are always best, but getting there isn’t easy. Applications break each other—or even the operating system itself. MSIX, Microsoft’s packaging format, is the newest replacement for the decades-old Microsoft Software Installer (MSI) and setup exe installer technologies. MSIX is gaining acceptance and wider adoption because of the benefits […].

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3 experiments for early-stage founders seeking product-market fit

TechCrunch

Elise King. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Elise King is program director of Human Ventures ’ entrepreneur-in-residence program and is a member of the firm’s investment team. At Human Ventures , we have a fund for pre-seed and seed-stage investments, a venture studio and an Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) program. Through this work, we’ve discovered a lot about how different founders fulfill their journey of customer discovery and product-market fit.

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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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How To Calculate TCO On AWS: A Step-By-Step Guide

CloudZero

Organizations often assume that switching to Amazon Web Services (AWS) will automatically reduce their on-premises spending. Certainly, cloud-based services like AWS' Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) can offer significant cost savings. Yet overspending on AWS is quite common.

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Rise is a new calendar app with a scheduling engine for teams

TechCrunch

Meet Rise , a new startup working on a calendar app that is specifically designed for team work. Rise helps you see what you have planned, check what your team is doing right now and, more importantly, schedule meetings that are as convenient as possible for the whole team. Currently in private beta, Rise raised $3 million from Lachy Groom, Stewart Buttlefield, Adriaan Mol and a long, long list of business angels.

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DevOps Software Development: An Essential Building Block in Your Project

Radixweb

Have you watched any Tom Cruise movies like Top Gun or Days of Thunder? More often than not, the actor has felt the burning need for speed where his top priority was to get a really fast vehicle, ideally faster than the existing ones.

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Dashworks is a search engine for your company’s sprawling internal knowledge

TechCrunch

As a company grows, the amount of important information employees need to keep track of inevitably grows right along with it. And, as your tech stack gets more complicated, that information ends up split up across more places — buried in Slack threads, tucked into Jira tickets, pushed as files on Dropbox, etc. Dashworks is a startup aiming to be the go-to place for all of that internal knowledge.

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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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Infinidat Delivers the Ultimate Flexibility to Meet Your Business Requirements

Infinidat

Infinidat Delivers the Ultimate Flexibility to Meet Your Business Requirements. Evan Doherty. Fri, 01/28/2022 - 09:47. As we enter 2022, our customers are telling us of huge changes in Enterprise Storage – not only how technology is changing dramatically across their storage estates, but also how they must adapt to significant changes in business requirements.

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To cool down China’s overheated robotics industry, go back to the basics

TechCrunch

He Huang. Contributor. He Huang is a partner at Northern Light Venture Capital supporting early-stage enterprise companies. It’s been a tumultuous few years, but China’s manufacturing industry is now on the rebound. Once an industry characterized by low-end manufacturing and intensive labor, it has transformed into a high-end manufacturing hub aided by technology.

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South African Research at the Speed of a Cheetah

Dell EMC

The Centre for High Performance Computing delivers leading-edge information technology and expertise to the African research community — accelerated by NVIDIA InfiniBand networking.

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Asset financiers to the rescue as Bolt plans to sign-up 200,000 new drivers in Africa to meet growing demand for ride-hailing services

TechCrunch

Bolt , the Estonian mobility tech company that recently closed a huge round , is planning to onboard an additional 200,000 drivers in Africa this year, as it kicks-off expansion to more cities within its existing markets while keeping up with the growing demand for e-hailing services across the continent. Bolt’s Africa regional director, Paddy Partridge, told TechCrunch that the ride-hailing firm has experienced a spike in on-demand transportation services, and that the current drivers 

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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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WONDER WHAT YOUR FUTURE HOLDS? CONSIDER THIS “REVELATION”

CEO Insider

The events of the last two years were unexpected, painful experiences shared uniquely by so many around the world – at the same time. They have forced us to ask a lot of really big questions, pivot on a dime and reassess life on the regular. This time of widespread questioning (and subsequent reassessment) might […]. The post WONDER WHAT YOUR FUTURE HOLDS?

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South Korean proptech startup Zigbang acquires Samsung SDS’ smart home IoT business

TechCrunch

Zigbang , a South Korean proptech startup that provides real estate transactions service, announced on Thursday that it will acquire Samsung SDS’ home internet of things (IoT) unit to make a foray into the smart home industry. . Samsung SDS sells the smart home IoT division, which is the only B2C business Samsung SDS has, in order to focus on its B2B.

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Everything Begins at The Edge

Dell EMC

The rise of the internet of things, smart devices and their synergy with 5G mobile networks are transforming businesses at the edge. The future is today, not tomorrow – with edge computing.

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Event marketing is a ‘team sport,’ and Vendelux is coaching companies to find the best ROI

TechCrunch

When you go to events, conferences and trade shows and it works out well in terms of driving tons of leads and opportunities, it is a good experience. However, when the events don’t work out so well, that can be risky in terms of wasting time and money. Two former Shutterstock execs, Alex Reynolds and Stefan Deeran, were working together monetizing APIs and computer vision, and having attended some of those bad events, thought there could be a better way to make decisions on what events should b

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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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The UK’s National Cyber Strategy 2022 – An Evolution

Palo Alto Networks

The UK Government has once again shifted the cyber discourse with the recent publication of the National Cyber Strategy 2022 , marking a significant change in how the government views cybersecurity and solidifying its position as a global cyber power. In fact, the use of the term “cyber power” is used throughout the strategy and ultimately illustrates the change in how the government views cyberspace, centering on the “ability of a state to protect and promote its interests in and through cybers

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TechCrunch+ roundup: 2021 edtech report, UBS-Wealthfront deal, falling startup revenue

TechCrunch

I could spend hours discussing early-stage startup operations and community-based marketing, but deal flow is my blind spot. But when investment banking firm UBS picked up financial robot-advisor Wealthfront for $1.4 billion in an all-cash deal this week, I noticed. “At those prices, the company’s exit price is a win in that it represents a 2x or greater multiple on its final private valuations,” wrote Alex Wilhelm in The Exchange. “But its exit value is also parsable from a nu

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TechBeacon's top 10 enterprise IT articles of 2021

TechBeacon

Many enterprises accelerated digital transformation and cloud adoption plans in 2021, in response to the changes in the workplace and business environment triggered by the global pandemic. The trend has required IT organizations to look for new ways to optimize IT operations and service delivery processes.

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Bullish or bearish? What to expect for Europe VC activity in 2022

TechCrunch

With another year of venture capital records in the books, it’s time to look forward. Global data was clear: The 2021 venture capital startup investment cycle was record-breaking ; around the world, startups raised more money than ever before, with individual geographies posting all-time hauls. Africa had a killer year. North America was hot. Latin America was busy.

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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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6 Benefits of Taking Kindergarten Roundup Remote with Online Enrollment

PowerSchool

Schools today are focusing increasingly on moving administrative operations online as a best practice—both for easier accessibility and to build future-ready systems. One way they’re getting there quickly is through online enrollment. It starts with the annual kindergarten roundup process, which is your first chance to welcome new students and their parents to your district.

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Thinking about starting a business? Make TechCrunch Early Stage your first step

TechCrunch

The idea of starting your own business can be overwhelming — often to the point of paralysis. Here’s the thing: You’re not alone. Here’s the other thing: It doesn’t have to be that way. If that drive to be your own boss won’t let you sleep at night, then TechCrunch Early Stage is an absolute must-attend event. Whether you’re looking for sage advice, expert resources, a better understanding of the business-building process or a supportive community of like-minded “want-repreneurs,” you’ll find t

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Do you really know what a digital twin is?

Capgemini

While the statement “You cannot improve that which you cannot measure or define” is often attributed to Lord Kelvin (William Thompson) or Peter Drucker, it was Cournot, a French mathematician, physicist and economist, who first expressed this thought. The term “digital twin” suffers from a similar lack of definition and possible overuse. People most commonly think of digital asset twins that are representations of an asset’s logical (as-designed) and physical (as-operated/as-maintained) construc