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FTX policy exec says its ‘priorities have not changed’ amid market madness

TechCrunch

As the crypto markets continue to trend downward, the world’s second-largest crypto exchange, FTX, remains undeterred. “Our priorities have not changed,” Mark Wetjen, head of policy and regulatory strategy at FTX, told TechCrunch. “Markets will do what they do, but the reality is that the digital asset marketplace and digital asset ecosystem, we believe, is here to stay.” If anything, the exchange, last valued at $32 billion, has the potential to become something of

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Getting Your IoT Projects Off The Ground By Building On Azure

Xebia

With the popularity of the Internet of Things, new proof of concepts and prototypes are starting everywhere. If you’re contemplating getting started with IoT or need a nudge in the right direction, this article will highlight some great options to get you started. Now, some projects go nowhere, with others end up being very successful. But even in the latter case, a new IoT platform will still fail if the wrong choices were made in the technology selection, right at the project’s inception

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Remove that ‘exit strategy’ slide from your pitch deck

TechCrunch

A lot of pitch decks I review have a slide that really shouldn’t be there: the exit strategy slide. Your slide deck should only have an exit strategy slide if you’re running a very late-stage company that’s about to IPO, and even then, you probably wouldn’t have it as a slide on a funding deck but as a whole, separate IPO plan.

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Article: It’s Time to Start Growing No-Code Developers

InfoQ Culture Methods

It’s time to start training and promoting people to be “business application no-code developers.” Why? Because everyone who manages a system is now a “developer,” whether they were trained that way or not. And if you don’t do this, your company will run into insurmountable problems when scaling its systems. Read this advice from a CTO on how your org can catch up.

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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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MarketWolf is a trading-first platform for new investors

TechCrunch

Live in India, Singapore-based MarketWolf has plans to introduce stock trading to first-time investors in more markets. The platform announced today it has raised $10 million in Series A funding led by Singaporean venture capital firm Jungle Ventures and Mumbai-based Dream Capital. Returning investors 9Unicorns, iSeed, Crescent and Riverwalk also participated.

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Ultrahuman busts out a smart ring to decode metabolic health

TechCrunch

Indian fitness platform Ultrahuman is expanding its wearable portfolio by launching a smart ring to boost its ability to provide tech loving ‘biohackers’ — and, it hopes, health-concerned Boomers — with more insightful metabolic insights. Sensors embedded in the forthcoming Ultrahuman Ring include temperature, heart rate and movement monitors, which enable the device to track the wearer’s sleep quality, stress levels and activity density, per CEO and co-founder, Moh

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Top 10 Essential Software Testing Metrics For Enterprises

Daffodil Software

Organizations whose bottom line depends on quality software development need a robust methodology in place to assure bug-free product delivery for their clients. They must integrate a means to monitor the productivity and quality of software testing with a standard set of appropriate software testing metrics.

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Just how wrong were those 2021 valuations?

TechCrunch

Happy Monday. It’s Independence Day here in the United States, which means that much of TechCrunch is on holiday. But as last week came to a close, several important pieces of data dropped that are worth our consideration. Let’s not let that opportunity pass, day off or not. (Also, this is the last day of our Fourth of July sale , so, you know, feel free to contribute to, ahem, TechCrunch’s financial independence as well!).

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How Salesforce Customization Services Boost Business Efficiency and Performance

Daffodil Software

With a diverse portfolio of 15,00,000 companies, Salesforce has been holding strong in the cloud CRM market. The platform's uniqueness in reporting, visual data presentation, enhanced efficiency with automation, proactive service, etc. is some of the reasons why the CRM holds 20% of the overall market share in the domain.

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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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UK’s Oxford Quantum Circuits snaps up $47M for quantum-computing-as-a-service

TechCrunch

Quantum computing has been making quantum leaps of progress in the last several years — going from theoretical concept to multiple testing environments, to help organizations prep for a time when quantum computers, and their unparalleled processing power, become a scaled reality. Now, UK-based Oxford Quantum Circuits is announcing £38 million ($47 million) in funding to fuel the growth of its own contribution to the space — a patented 3D processor architecture it calls Coaxmon , plus

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Infrastructure Engineer: Key Duties, Skills, and Background

Altexsoft

Infrastructure is quite a broad and abstract concept. And the same is a role of a person responsible for it. Companies often take infrastructure engineers for sysadmins, network designers, or database administrators. And they are not absolutely wrong since the specialist in question combines the skills of all the above-mentioned experts. How is it possible?

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It’s Time to Reimagine Employee Retention

Harvard Business Review

Three ways to increase the chance that top talent sticks around.

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First Thoughts on Dataiku: A Data Scientist’s Perspective

Dataiku

This article was written by a guest author, Peter White. Peter White is a veteran full stack software developer with 15 years of experience under his belt. Though the bulk of his time was spent working with all aspects of the.NET environment, he has recently focused more on Python and Javascript, mainly with Angular. Outside of coding, Peter is also a stand up comedian who has performed in over 30 countries and appeared on numerous television programs including Just For Laughs.

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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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What Makes a Great Executive Retreat

Harvard Business Review

Three strategies to ensure yours isn’t an expensive waste of time.

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Myth Busting – Can’t Build Social Capital with Remote / Distributed Work

elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog

Remember when Social Capital was cool back in the mid-90s at the same time Knowledge Management (KM) was in fashion? Remember when we decided to kill both just a few years later, as we purposely defaulted to focus, almost exclusively, on business processes and technology, leaving behind the people component from the good old KM pyramid : People, Process and Technology ?

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Scrum Master vs Project Manager: How are they different?

Openxcell

Scrum Master and Project Manager profiles are quite distinct though most of the people get confused. There could be many tasks that overlap with one another, however, both the roles are quite different. Let’s get into the details of these profiles to understand what they really do. What is Scrum? Scrum is a framework that helps teams to encourage self organization and generate effective solutions against complex issues.

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What Is React and Why Use It? (Complete Guide)

Coding Dojo

If you’ve been considering becoming a web developer or if you’re getting deeper into learning about coding, you may have … Read more >>. The post What Is React and Why Use It? (Complete Guide) appeared first on Coding Dojo Blog.

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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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Migrating React JS project to Next JS

Apiumhub

In this article, we assume that you know the basics of Next.js. To understand what Next JS is, the benefits of SSR (Server Side Rendering), and a comparison with Gatsby and Express, you can read this article Next.js. Why migrate to Next JS? It is becoming increasingly common for businesses to have a website, although at the moment only 48% have one.

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CodeSOD: All the Single Objects

The Daily WTF

I have a bit of a vendetta against the Singleton pattern. It's not to say that I won't use it, it's just that it's a pattern that gets overused and misapplied. The result is, instead of guaranteeing that instance of an object exists (because there can be only one), and just create broad globals. Today, George sends us some code that is in a Java factory class that constructs thread pools.