Mon.Mar 28, 2022

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Transitional Architecture

Martin Fowler

The core to a successful legacy displacement is the gradual replacement of legacy with new software, as this allows benefits to delivered early and circumvents the risks of a Big Bang. During displacement the legacy and new system will have to operate simultaneously allowing behavior to be split between old and new. Ian Cartwright, Rob Horn, and James Lewis explain how to build and evolve a Transitional Architecture that supports this collaboration as it changes over time.

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Kyle Lui, long-time DCM partner, leaving to join Bling Capital as second GP

TechCrunch

Another venture capitalist is leaving their long-time home for something new. This time it is DCM partner Kyle Lui, who left after nearly eight years to become the second general partner at Bling Capital. DCM has a storied history. It is notably one of the first Sand Hill Road venture funds to establish a major presence in Asia, particularly in China.

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Hire The Best Coders For Your Team With HackerEarth’s Coding Assessment

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Before the pandemic, companies that wanted to hire coders would call them in for a technical round that was conducted at the office premises. Sometimes, there would be an onsite attached to this, which allowed developers to spend a few days working with the team and understand the job requirements before they accepted the offer. Now, however, these processes are being replaced by virtual technical recruiting platforms making it harder for companies to understand a candidate’s skill set while hir

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Eksab gets $3M to scale its fantasy football platform across MENA and Africa

TechCrunch

Football or soccer, the latter commonly used in the US, is the most popular and watched sport globally with over five billion football fans according to its apex governing body , FIFA. While the World Cup, its pinnacle event of football and arguably the world’s most popular sporting event, shows the popularity of the sport in full colors, it’s the yearly leagues in different countries across Europe, South America, Asia and Africa that puts diehard nature of football fans on display.

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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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The CEO Tech Agenda in a Digital-First World

IDC

IDC is seeing deliberate action being taken by CEOs to create a vision and strategy for the digital business era and to create new value. Insights from IDC's 2022 Worldwide CEO Survey, a flagship study of 389 top executives from around the globe, will help tech vendors understand the priorities, investments and key success factors of CEOs in 2022.

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CSS :has

David Walsh

For as long as developers have written CSS code, we’ve been desperate to have a method to allow styling a parent element based child characteristics. That’s not been possible until now. CSS has introduced the :has pseudo-class which allows styling a parent based on a relative CSS selector! Let’s have a look at a few use cases for :has in CSS: /* If an `a` element contains an image, set the `a`'s display */ a:has(img) { display: block; } /* If a `figure` has a `caption` with a `

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Papaya Global to buy Azimo for $150M-$200M to expand its payroll payments to more markets

TechCrunch

Six months after raising $250 million , Papaya Global is making a key acquisition to expand its cloud-based HR and payroll platform globally on the heels of major surge in remote working. The Israeli startup is acquiring Azimo — the London-based money transfer business that Facebook once tried to buy to spearhead its own remittance efforts — a deal that will see Papaya Global moving into more markets, and launching more services such as instant payroll payments.

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Continuous Test Automation Using CI/CD: How CI/CD Has Revolutionized Automated Testing

Dzone - DevOps

This is an article from DZone's 2022 DevOps Trend Report. For more: Read the Report. There have been a few breakthroughs throughout the short history of software development that have completely revolutionized the way we write and release code. From Object-Oriented Programming to web-based languages like JavaScript and TypeScript, these innovations have moved software engineering by leaps and bounds.

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Your chance to save $300 on passes to TC Sessions: Mobility 2022 ends Friday

TechCrunch

Mobility mavens, do you have your sights set on attending TC Sessions: Mobility 2022 but buying your pass keeps slipping down your to-do list? Well, listen up. This is the last week that you can save a very tidy $300 on the price of admission. Early-bird pricing disappears promptly at 11:59 p.m. (PT) on Friday, April 1. . B uy your early-bird pass today and keep three big Benjamins in your wallet.

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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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Brownouts for feature deprecation: why companies go offline on purpose

CircleCI

A brownout is an intentional but temporary disruption of service. Why would a company purposely cause a brownout and when does it make sense? In this post I will explain the what and why of brownouts, and provide some recent examples. What is a brownout? The term brownout comes from the utility industry. For electric companies and their customers, a blackout (or total loss of power) can be devastating.

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Paris-based accelerator The Family sues co-founder Oussama Ammar

TechCrunch

The Family co-founder and CEO Alice Zagury announced in a blog post that the French startup accelerator is suing Oussama Ammar for multiple claims — breach of trust, forgery and use of forgery. More specifically, Capital first reported that The Family suspects Ammar of diverting €3 million that was supposed to be invested in several startups through syndicates.

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What The Next 20 Million Devs Want w/ Tiff in Tech & Stereotype Breakers' Masha Zvereva

Dzone - DevOps

The world is shortly going to need another 20 million developers, and with over 1,000 engineering leaders joining us for INTERACT on April 7th, there’s no better time to talk to two people who have captured the minds of millions of developers - and will be featured at INTERACT - Tiffany Janzen and Masha Zvereva. In addition to their own tech careers, both women have become prominent voices in the dev community, Tiffany is most well-known for her Tiff in Tech YouTube channel and Masha for her com

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Use RevOps to develop a customer-led approach to B2B sales

TechCrunch

Erol Toker. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Erol Toker is the CEO/founder of Truly.co , a Salesforce native bot platform bringing together AI, no-code rulesets and automation workers in highly customizable ways. The media is abuzz with articles telling us how to improve B2B sales, but at the same time, we also see headlines like “The end of B2B sales.

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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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Everything You Need to Know About Cookiecutter

DevOps.com

Cookiecutter is a templating library for creating project boilerplates in any programming language. When individuals, teams and organizations create projects, they must follow consistent standards so that those projects are easily readable and searchable. Templates accelerate the code writing process, too, since developers are able to spend less time on setup and can get straight […].

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Contingent targets broken procurement processes

TechCrunch

Evaluating and keeping an eye on the suppliers to your business is crucial, and fantastically complicated. Contingent leaps to the rescue, armed with a freshly printed $8.2 million check from investors. The SaaS platform helps companies procure more strategically and better manage supply chain risk and compliance. “The typical questionnaire process to onboard suppliers is widely accepted to be fundamentally broken.

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CVE-2022-23648 in Containerd's CRI Plugin Could Allow for Container Breakout

Aqua Security

A recently discovered CVE in containerd allows attackers who can run a custom image in a cluster to break out to the underlying node and, in some cases, escalate privileges to cluster-admin level. This CVE is interesting for several reasons. First, the vulnerability shows up in the container image, not in the Kubernetes manifests, so it’s harder to spot with infrastructure-as-code (IaC) or admission control solutions.

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Austin founders: Pitch on the TechCrunch virtual stage

TechCrunch

We know that running a company is hectic, so we are giving Austin founders a couple extra days to apply to pitch at TechCrunch Live on April 6 at 11:30 am PT / 2:30 pm ET. The Austin tech scene is thriving and we are here for it. In addition to great panels, we also plan to feature three top founders from the region. Shoot your shot here. Which companies qualify?

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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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7 Factors to Consider When Choosing a Network Performance Solution

Dzone - DevOps

A high-performing network is integral for the maintenance of a functioning IT infrastructure in any modern company. It helps facilitate effective business communications and promotes synergy between systems. Therefore, it’s no exaggeration to say that a poorly functioning network can severely disrupt business operations or even drive a company to a standstill.

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Sourceful grabs $20M to make more packaging less polluting

TechCrunch

Sourceful , an Index Ventures-backed supply chain transparency startup, has fast-fuelled with a $20 million Series A around half a year after it announced a $12.2 million seed round. The latest raise is once again led by Index, with Coatue and Eka Ventures also participating. The 2020-founded startup works with brands to shrink the environmental damage associated with their product sourcing choices in areas like packing, via offering a marketplace of vetted suppliers.

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How One Successful Senior Executive Juggles All the Balls

Next Level Blog

One of the impacts of the shift to working virtually is an increase in the number of topics we find ourselves dealing with on a daily basis. The ability to log in and out of one meeting after another without the friction (or the respite) of having to move our physical bodies from one place to another has made it easier to pack more meetings and conversations into a day.

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Smart electric panel company Span gets a $90M jolt of cash

TechCrunch

The lowly breaker panel has been around for a century without getting much love, and along comes Span. The company is making a compelling bid for better, smarter electrical panels, and just got a $90 million top-up to continue its evolution. The company is solving the challenges of electrification and micro-grid balancing, ensuring that the smart homes of the future have better visibility in the how, what and why of power consumption.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

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.

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5 Ways to Get Buyers to Tell Stories to Help You Close the Deal

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Getting your buyers to tell stories can give you insight into how to sell to them more effectively. Here are five ways to get your buyers to tell you their stories. Today’s post is by Paul Smith, thoughtLEADERS principal and bestselling author of Lead With a Story and Sell With a Story. Read the rest of this post at thoughtLEADERS, LLC: Leadership Training for the Real World.

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Philippines-based MSME platform GrowSari adds $77.5 million to its Series C

TechCrunch

GrowSari , a Manila-based platform for digitizing small businesses in the Philippines, announced today it has added $77.5 million to its Series C round. Along with prior funding, including $45 million announced in January , this brings the round’s total to about $110 million. Investors included the International Finance Corporation, KKR, Wavemaker Partners and the Temasek Group’s Pavilion Capital.

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A Three-Step Approach to Protecting Your Nonprofit from Cyberattacks

TechSoup

Nonprofit organizations rely on data for almost every decision they make, from engagement to strategies and program evaluations. Data is a valuable asset. And protecting it from internal or external corruption and illegal access can prevent financial and operational loss.

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a16z, NFX back Latitud’s effort to become ‘the operating system for every venture-backed company in LatAm’

TechCrunch

Serial entrepreneur Brian Requarth learned his lesson the hard way. When he sold Brazilian online real estate marketplace VivaReal for $550 million several years ago, he had to pay more than $100 million in capital gains taxes due to incorporation errors made early on. It was an expensive mistake, and one he wants to help Latin American entrepreneurs avoid with his new venture, Latitud.

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A Tale of Two Case Studies: Using LLMs in Production

Speaker: Tony Karrer, Ryan Barker, Grant Wiles, Zach Asman, & Mark Pace

Join our exclusive webinar with top industry visionaries, where we'll explore the latest innovations in Artificial Intelligence and the incredible potential of LLMs. We'll walk through two compelling case studies that showcase how AI is reimagining industries and revolutionizing the way we interact with technology. Some takeaways include: How to test and evaluate results 📊 Why confidence scoring matters 🔐 How to assess cost and quality 🤖 Cross-platform cost vs. quality tr

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5 Cloud Predictions For 2022: Say Goodbye Legacy Cost Management

CloudZero

The past two years have seen erratic cloud spend thanks to the upheaval caused by the global pandemic.

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Daily Crunch: Citing ‘global market uncertainties,’ Sea flatlines Shopee India

TechCrunch

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PT, subscribe here. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Monday, March 28, 2022! Alas, I knew this day was coming, and here it is. Christine and Haje are taking over my bits of Daily Crunch from here on out, though I will be back occasionally to fill in when they are on break.

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All edges are not created equal

Beyond B2B

Your company is under continuous pressure to gain an edge over the competition by delivering differentiating experiences and processes to customers.

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