Tue.Dec 14, 2021

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Treat integration as strategic to your business

Martin Fowler

Brandon finishes his article on how we should look at integration by arguing that it is a strategic element of an enterprise's infrastructure. You can buy the best products in the world but "none of it will make you competitive in a digital world if you continue to treat integration as a tactical nuisance to overcome so you take advantage of those new systems.". moreā€¦.

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Kenyan startup Wowzi secures $3.2 million from 4DX Ventures, Andela co-founder to expand across Africa

TechCrunch

Kenyan startup Wowzi has secured new funding to expand the reach of its platform, which turns social media users into brand influencers, to West and Southern Africa — as it taps the increasing usage of social sites across the continent driven by the proliferation of smartphones and a deepening internet penetration. Wowzi, which connects social media users with advertisers and provides consumer insights, has secured a total of $3.2 million from investors over the last few months, part of wh

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How to Bring Your Hybrid Meetings to the Next Level

CEO Insider

The COVID-19 pandemic has forever changed how companies around the globe operate their businesses. As a result, many large and small organizations are working to find a balance somewhere between in-office and at-home models, known as hybrid models. Meetings are a key component of the workday, yet hybrid meetings have not proven to be the […]. The post How to Bring Your Hybrid Meetings to the Next Level appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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Pair Eyewear focuses on adult glasses as it takes in $60M

TechCrunch

Purchasing new glasses used to be about finding the right pair that would go with everything until you needed the next set. Pair Eyewear turned that on its head with magnetic frames, called Top Frames, that enable glasses-wearers to change their style with any outfit or any occasion for as little as $25. Between 2020 and 2021, Pair grew its revenue 10 times year over year and attracted the attention of investors who pumped $60 million of new Series B funding into the company to give Pair $73.5 m

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

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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AWS Outage and App Resiliency: Did a Roomba Replace the Canary?

DevOps.com

Canaries were once sent into coal mines as an early warning sign against dangerā€”for me, it was my Roomba failing to automatically search out dog hair and clean the floor under my sonsā€™ dining room chairs. Cloud-enabled apps also were acting ā€œweirdā€. Some were down, while others were just slowā€”although, in my view, slow may […]. The post AWS Outage and App Resiliency: Did a Roomba Replace the Canary?

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The Definitive Guide to Building a Data Mesh with Event Streams

Confluent

Data mesh. This oft-talked-about architecture has no shortage of blog posts, conference talks, podcasts, and discussions. One thing that you may have found lacking is a concrete guide on precisely […].

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California suspends Pony.ai driverless test permit after crash

TechCrunch

Pony.ai, a Chinese autonomous driving startup with an office in the U.S., has paused its driverless pilot fleet in California six months after it was approved by local regulators to test autonomous vehicles without a human safety driver. On November 19, the California Department of Motor Vehicles notified Pony.ai that it was suspending its driverless testing permit following a reported collision in Fremont on October 28, the DMV told TechCrunch in a statement.

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A Ride on the Rocket Ship: How We Scaled in 2021 While Strengthening Company Culture

Dataiku

Besides preparing our anticipated AI trends for the upcoming year, annually in Q4 we also take time to reflect on the year we had internally at Dataiku ā€” what we accomplished and what we aim to tackle in the new year. At just about this time last year ā€” December 17 to be exact ā€” we were celebrating our 500 employee milestone and looking back on how the company adjusted to going fully remote amidst the onset of the global health crisis.

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Google-backed neobank Open acquires Finin for $10 million

TechCrunch

Open has acquired consumer neobanking startup Finin for $10 million as the Bangalore-based, Google-backed business-focused neobanking platform looks to broaden its offerings and deepen relationships with banks. The deal involves both cash and stock, the two said. Launched in 2019, Finin is among the first consumer-focused neobanking startups in India.

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Streamlining Database Compliance with CI/CD Integration

IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d

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AI and ML: No Longer the Stuff of Science Fiction

Cloudera

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has revolutionized how various industries operate in recent years. But with growing demands, thereā€™s a more nuanced need for enterprise-scale machine learning solutions and better data management systems. The 2021 Data Impact Awards aim to honor organizations who have shown exemplary work in this area. . The category ā€œData for Enterprise AIā€ awards companies from around the world that have built and deployed use cases for enterprise-scale machine learning and have in

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Superside nabs $30M to connect and manage freelance creatives working with in-house marketing and design teams

TechCrunch

As advertising and marketing become increasingly automated and thus commoditized, design has emerged as a savior to help brands stand out. And today, a startup that’s helping companies connect with a wider range of designers and other creatives to meet that demand is announcing a round of funding to fuel its business growth. Superside , which operates a network of freelance creatives that are tapped by companies to work on logos, display ads, packaging, bigger marketing campaigns and other

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Log4Shell: 5 Steps The OT Community Should Take Right Now

Tenable

Log4Shell: 5 Steps The OT Community Should Take Right Now. Marty Edwards. Tue, 12/14/2021 - 15:16. Operational technology (OT) environments are equally at risk from the Apache Log4j flaw. Hereā€™s what you can do today. The internet is on fire ; but you knew that already. CVE-2021-44228: Log4j Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (Log4Shell) is being categorized as one of the most pervasive and potentially far reaching vulnerabilities in history.

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Metaverse startup with $1M in 2021 revenues going public via SPAC

TechCrunch

Christmas has come early this year in the form of a new SPAC deal. InfiniteWorld announced yesterday it will merge with Aries I Acquisition Corporation in a deal that will value the startup at around $700 million, per company calculations. Another day, another SPAC deal. We know. But this time we’re talking metaverse, so we have no choice but to take a look.

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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. Itā€™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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Protecting Cloud Native Workloads on GKE Autopilot

Aqua Security

GKE Autopilot is a new mode of operation in Google Kubernetes Engine ( GKE ) launched earlier this year to help DevOps teams focus their time and resources on building applications on Kubernetes, rather than on managing the infrastructure that the applications run on. As Aqua Security is a GKE selected security partner, customers can now run the Aqua platform seamlessly on a GKE Autopilot cluster.

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Weather-focused IBISA raises seed round to back its microinsurance solutions for low-income small farmers

TechCrunch

Agricultural microinsurance startup IBISA announced that it has raised a seed round of ā‚¬1.5 million ā€“ approximately $1.70 million. The round was led by London-based specialized investor Insurtech Gateway, with participation from Rockstartā€™s AgriFood fund and others. Microinsurance typically refers to offering coverage to low-income people against a specific class of risks.

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Jenkins Multibranch Pipeline and Git LFS

Dzone - DevOps

In this blog, it is explained how to configure Jenkins Multibranch Pipelines when using Git LFS. This seems to be a non-issue at first sight, but the documentation is quite dispersed and no clear steps can be found how to configure this. Also, a troubleshooting section can be found at the end of the blog. 1. Introduction. When trying to configure Jenkins Multibranch Pipelines in combination with Git LFS, numerous problems were encountered.

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Using data-driven techniques to beat the Great Resignation

TechCrunch

Meisha-ann Martin. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Dr. Meisha-ann Martin is the director of people analytics at Workhuman, a social recognition and performance development platform. Dr. Martin has a Ph.D. in industrial/organization psychology with 15 years of experience working in people analytics and employee engagement. Much has been written about the long-term impact COVID-19 will have on how people do their jobs.

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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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Best Practices for Load Testing (From the Tester's Desk)

Daffodil Software

Every industry & organization is transforming itself digitally. In this process, they are taking their existing, offline userbase to an online platform. The best part is, these online platforms can capacitate as many users as a business want. But, there is a catch.

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Garner Health raises $45M Series B for ā€˜totally objectiveā€™ doctor review service

TechCrunch

When you shop for a holiday gift, you probably read at least one review. Garner Healthā€™s bet is when you look for a doctor, youā€™ll want to do the same thing — but youā€™ll find that existing reviews arenā€™t enough to go on. . Garner Health, founded in 2019, is a service designed to help people sort through doctors. The company contracts with employers who offer health plans to workers.

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December Patch Tuesday 2021

Ivanti

December 2021ā€™s Patch Tuesday comes on the heels of the Apache Log4j zero-day vulnerability ( CVE-2021-44228 ), so expect a lot of attention to be focused on vendors scrambling to resolve Log4j-related issues. That said, donā€™t lose sight of additional Patch updates from Microsoft. There are a total of 67 unique vulnerabilities resolved by Microsoft so far in December, plus four re-releases.

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Staircase steps up effort to build the ā€˜AWS Marketplace for the mortgage industryā€™ with fresh $18M

TechCrunch

If youā€™ve ever had to apply for a mortgage, you know that it can be a time-consuming, expensive and often painful process — both in terms of just filling out the application and then waiting for the transaction to close. In recent years, a number of digital lenders have emerged to bring more technology to the process with the goal of making it all less tedious and slow.

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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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Dellā€™s Latest Concepts for Seamless Work Experiences

Dell EMC

Technology plays an even more critical role in hybrid work. That is why our teams have been working on several concept solutions that could help facilitate better communication, collaboration and location equality for all.

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In-person event sound service Mixhalo raises $24M

TechCrunch

Itā€™s been an exceedingly difficult couple of years for live performers. And with live events drawing to a close comes a good deal of collateral damage for all of the many facets of the industry such performances directly and indirectly support. Back in June, as things were tentatively reopening, Mixhalo CEO John Vars told TechCrunch that the low-latency, in-person audio streaming service used the pandemic as an opportunity to ā€œstep back and laser-focus on improving our core product.

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VMware SD-WAN Now Available on Megaport Virtual Edge

Megaport

One of the pioneers of network virtualisation and a long-time Megaport customer, VMware is the fifth major SD-WAN integration partner for Megaport Virtual Edge (MVE). Today we’re thrilled to announce the integration of VMware SD-WAN on MVE, our fifth global market-leading SD-WAN technology partner in our quest to transform the network edge. Our customers will be able to host virtual instances of.

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Hong Kong accelerator Brinc raises $30M Series B

TechCrunch

Iā€™ve visited Brincā€™s headquarters the last few times Iā€™ve been to Hong Kong, and been impressed with the range of different startups the accelerator works with. I knew the organization primary through its consumer hardware companies — a primary focus when it was founded, back in 2014. Brinc has expanded its scope a fair bit in the intervening years, with big focuses on things like food, health and deep tech.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

ā€œReimagined: Building Products with Generative AIā€ 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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Log a User Out from Command Line

David Walsh

Automation is a system administrator, support agent, and tech savvy person’s dream. Automating tasks via scripts remotely helps to get clients out of trouble or even the organization itself. Oftentimes big updates can require users log out. Logging a user out from command line is super easy on Macs! To log a user out of macOS with a confirmation warning, execute the following from command line: osascript -e 'tell app "System Events" to log out'.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Web3 investor survey, conversational UX, ā€˜insane IPO popsā€™

TechCrunch

Most people have experienced the internet only through Web 2.0. Online applications, the social web and software as a service form the fabric of our lives. Lately, many have championed web3 as the internetā€™s next phase, but the term encompasses so much territory, conversations can be diffuse and there are valid concerns that its complexity will daunt consumers and regulators.

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How to cyber security: Software supply chain risk management

Synopsys

Effective software supply chain risk management requires security measures throughout the entire supply chain. The post How to cyber security: Software supply chain risk management appeared first on Software Integrity Blog.