Agile Alliance
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
Scrum masters are continuously looking for anti-patterns to help guide their team back onto the path of agility. But what if the anti-pattern originates from themselves? The post Scrum master anti-patterns first appeared on Agile Alliance.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
Eviation’s Alice electric aircraft took off for the first time yesterday , teasing a future in which regional flights of hundreds of miles will be done with zero emissions and a lot less noise. It’s still a ways off, but today’s demonstration shows it’s at least just a matter of time and money. The Alice is a prototype of what will eventually be a passenger plane capable of carrying around 2,500 pounds total, which equates to 9 people and their luggage (just don’t p
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CIO
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
New York-based insurance provider Travelers, with 30,000 employees and 2021 revenues of about $35 billion, is in the business of risk. Managing all of its facets, of course, requires many different approaches and tools to achieve beneficial outcomes, and Mano Mannoochahr, the companyâ??s SVP and chief data & analytics officer, has a crowâ??s nest perspective of immediate and long-term tasks to equally strengthen the company culture and customer needs. â??
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
Autonomous ride-hail and shuttle service May Mobility and transit tech provider Via are launching a small fleet of wheelchair-accessible autonomous vehicles in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. Via, which started as an on-demand shuttle service before acquiring Remix , and May have been partnering for years to bridge the gaps in public transit systems with AVs.
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.
CIO
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
With the global pandemic upending the traditional way we work, employees across every market sector in New Zealand are now spending their workdays alternating between offices, their homes and other locations. It’s a hybrid work model that Kiwis have embraced and it is here to stay. At a recent CIO New Zealand roundtable event in Auckland, supported by Palo Alto Networks and Vodafone New Zealand, senior technology executives from organisations across Aotearoa discussed the challenge of keeping se
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CIO
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
University leaders have long understood that the future is digital, but thereâ??s now added urgency to modernise. The pandemic is in part the cause â?? highlighting that true business resilience and digital transformation are inseparable. But there are longer-term factors at play too, including the expectations of digitally native students and the requirement to provide them with work-ready skills.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
Daniel Hoffer. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Daniel Hoffer is the managing director of Autotech Ventures. He leads investments in B2C and B2B startups with a focus on marketplaces, SaaS, and logistics. Commerce is as old as humanity, and yet innovation in how to build better and more efficient companies not only continues, but is accelerating. Although many forms of business innovation exist, marketplaces seem simplest at first glance, but they have evolved significantly from exchanging goods i
DevOps.com
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
For nearly the entire history of application development—certainly since application development became available to a larger market with the adoption of the personal computer for expansive business use—testing has taken a back seat across most of the industry. This is not because we don’t care about code quality but because it takes resources away from […].
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
Venture is back, baby! But not really at the later stages and, oh, also definitely not at the same valuations or cadence as 2021. After more than six months of declining deal counts and venture activity, venture deal pace is starting to pick up again. Multiple investors and lawyers told TechCrunch this week that they’ve started to see deal activity start to ramp up since summer unofficially ended on Labor Day.
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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.
Aqua Security
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
We’re delighted to announce our recent achievement of Premier tier status in HashiCorp’s partner ecosystem – a significant milestone in helping our mutual customers automate security and compliance as part of the cloud journey, and more effectively manage risk by shifting security left, securing the software supply chain and adopting zero trust architectures:
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
As we close out the third quarter and look ahead to Q3 venture capital results (early work here , here , and here ), I am curious about present-day targets for startups at different stages. What does a startup need to have done — and what does it need to forecast — to raise a Series A today? Or a Series B? Traditional rules of thumb for such transactions have been obsolete for some time.
DevOps.com
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
CloudBees announced today it has acquired ReleaseIQ, a provider of an orchestration platform for automating software delivery via a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform. Sacha Labourey, chief strategy officer for CloudBees, said the addition of ReleaseIQ to the CloudBees platform will provide more visibility into and control over software delivery on an end-to-end basis.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
Higher education, at its best, aims to be less elitist and more accessible to people from all walks of life. Today, a startup called Ocelot is announcing a big round of funding to build more tools to help in that effort. The company, which provides an AI-based platform to facilitate easier communications between universities and their students around applications for financial aid and other services, has raised $117 million, money that it will be investing in expanding its products, which today
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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.
CEO Insider
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
In every organizational relationship, there’s an accountability equation at play. Accountability matters because it functions as the invisible thread that enables effective interactions with others. But in its traditional sense, accountability is thought of as having to answer to or justify your actions to someone who has power over you. This person assumes the role […].
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
Digital mortgage lender Better.com continues to lay off staff, and seemingly in as callous a way as possible. Indeed, whereas most companies try to avoid repeated layoffs, the outfit — which gained notoriety by laying off about 900 employees over Zoom on December 1, 2021 — has since been laying off smaller groups very systematically, say sources.
TechBeacon
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
Many factors contribute to an organization’s status as a high performer, but, increasingly, how it manages its technology stack is one of the most important. Over the past two decades, IT service management (ITSM) has become a dependable and codified framework that high-performing organizations use to excel at this essential task, according to Forrester's report, the State of IT Service Management, 2022.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
For many non-technical sales teams at product-led growth companies, it’s difficult to sift through reams of data to find out the best way to engage with potential paying customers. That’s a problem that HeadsUp , a conversion engine for product-led sales, wants to solve. The San Francisco-based startup announced today it has raised $8.5 million in seed funding, led by 645 Ventures (also an investor in SaaS companies like Iterable, FiscalNote and Panther), with participation from Wing Venture Cap
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“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.
InfoQ Culture Methods
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
The understanding gap between business and IT is one of the largest challenges to effective digital transformation. Drawing on research and their own experience, the author presents 10 practical tips to break stereotypes, build relationships, and bridge the gaps By Marcin Gosiewski.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
Large AI systems like OpenAI’s GPT-3 might grab headlines, but the practical limitations of power consumption and cost — not capabilities — often determine where AI is deployed. For the most part, highly capable systems are relegated to the cloud because they’re too complex to run on edge devices with weaker hardware and limited connectivity.
Dzone - DevOps
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
Developers have been working on solutions to perfect the infrastructure of the Ethereum network. A few days ago, these developments led to the completion of the Ethereum Merge. Ethereum was developed with the Solidity programming language. However, the Merge led to the development of a new programming language, which will make it easier for developers to be part of the network.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
E-commerce roll-up startup Flora emerged from stealth mode with $9 million in seed funding from an investor group that included Lux Capital, Correlation Ventures, Climate Capital and Gokul Rajaram. Also known as an aggregator, the company acquires and grows brands — in Flora’s case, focused on offering sustainable products and reducing carbon emissions.
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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.
thoughtLEADERS, LLC
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
Understanding what inspires you to do your best work is one of the first steps in developing your leadership philosophy. As you begin articulating your leadership philosophy, the first place to start is leading yourself. You need to know why you’re excited to go to work every day. Why do you get out of bed every day? Because as leaders, we’re there to inspire and motivate the members of our team. .
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
Coalesce is a startup that offers data transformation tools geared mainly toward enterprise customers. Today the company closed a $26 million Series A funding round led by Emergence Capital with participation from 11.2 Capital and GreatPoint Ventures, bringing the company’s total raised to $31.92 million. Co-founder and CEO Armon Petrossian tells TechCrunch that the cash will be put toward building out Coalesce’s product and ecosystem.
Dzone - DevOps
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
Developers (Dev), Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), and Operations (Ops) are job types, while DevOps is a system. If we take a soccer analogy, Dev, SRE, and Ops correspond to positions like forward, midfield, and back, while DevOps is a formation like 4-3-3. Dev. Also called Development Engineer, Software Engineer (SWE), Software Developer, or simply Developer (Dev).
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
Una Brands , an e-commerce aggregator focused on brands in the Asia-Pacific region, announced the first close of its Series B round at $30 million today. The funding was led by White Star Capital and Alpha JWC Ventures. Headquartered in Singapore, Una Brands has a presence in Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand, China and the United States, and over 200 employees.
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Netflix Tech
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
Timestone: Netflix’s High-Throughput, Low-Latency Priority Queueing System with Built-in Support for Non-Parallelizable Workloads by Kostas Christidis Introduction Timestone is a high-throughput, low-latency priority queueing system we built in-house to support the needs of Cosmos , our media encoding platform. Over the past 2.5 years, its usage has increased, and Timestone is now also the priority queueing engine backing Conductor , our general-purpose workflow orchestration engine, and BDP Sch
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
In March 2020, Sami Bouremoum and Michael Ginzo, two tech entrepreneurs with a background in consulting (Bouremoum worked for Bain & Company) and software development (Ginzo led product at hiring startup Deel), came together to co-launch Hofy , a company that delivers office equipment to remote hires. It wasn’t long after that Hofy began earning “low-six-figure” revenue, Bouremoum claims, as the pandemic forced employees around the world to transition to work-from-home setu
DevOps.com
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
The annual Accelerate State of DevOps 2022 report published today by the DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) team at Google found the percentage of high performers is at a four-year low, with the percentage of low performers rising dramatically from 7% in 2021 to 19% in 2022. Based on a survey of 1,350 DevOps professionals, […]. The post Latest DORA Report From Google Surfaces Raft of DevOps Challenges appeared first on DevOps.com.
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