TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

Duolingo , a language learning app with over 500 million users, is working on a music app, TechCrunch has learned. The Pittsburgh-based tech company currently has a small team working on a music product and is hiring a learning scientist who is an “expert in music education who combines both theoretical knowledge of relevant learning science research and hands-on teaching experience,” according to a job posting listed on Duolingo’s career page.

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CIO

MARCH 20, 2023

By Serge Lucio, Vice President and General Manager, Agile Operations Division This is a continuation of Broadcom’s blog series: 2023 Tech Trends That Transform IT. Stay tuned for future blogs that dive into the technology behind these trends from more of Broadcom’s industry-leading experts. Enterprise networks are undergoing a profound transformation.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

Jonathan Martinez Contributor Share on Twitter Jonathan Martinez is a former YouTuber, UC Berkeley alum and growth marketing nerd who's helped scale Uber, Postmates, Chime and various startups. More posts by this contributor Building a growth marketing team the right way 4 video content tips for your startup’s growth marketing When you look at early Uber or Lyft, they were notorious for copying each other on offers, features and more.

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CIO

MARCH 20, 2023

Amazon will fire about 9,000 more workers from several business units, including AWS, in the coming weeks, according to a statement released today by company CEO Andy Jassy. The announcement comes two months after Amazon unveiled plans to lay off 18,000 employees. In his official statement, Jassy said that most of the layoffs in this second round will affect employees at AWS, PXT (People Experience and Technology, the company’s HR arm), Advertising, and Twitch, the popular livestreaming service

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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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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

An AI platform for the film industry, Filmustage , is today announcing new funding. First launched in 2020, the platform is designed to streamline pre-production in the film industry using a variety of features, such as the ability to break down scripts in a few minutes and categorize them into scenes and elements like props, costumes and characters.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

Last year’s tech-wide reckoning continues. In 2023, layoffs have yet again cost tens of thousands of tech workers their jobs; this time, the workforce reductions have been driven by the biggest names in tech like Google , Amazon , Microsoft , Yahoo and Zoom. Startups, too, have announced cuts across all sectors, from crypto to enterprise SaaS. The reasoning behind these workforce reductions follows a common script , citing the macroeconomic environment and a need to find discipline on a tumultu

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DevOps.com

MARCH 20, 2023

Code quality refers to how well-written and maintainable software code is. It encompasses factors such as readability, efficiency, scalability, reliability, maintainability and security. High code quality ensures that software is easy to understand, modify and extend, has fewer bugs and is less likely to break down. It also reduces development time and costs and improves […] The post 5 Unusual Ways to Improve Code Quality appeared first on DevOps.com.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

With turbulent economies, companies are looking for more revenue streams to survive, and one obvious way to increase revenues is to streamline costs. Given companies can often use both manual processing and sometimes even more than one external tool to manage B2B payments, this is an obvious area in which to improve efficiency. A good example of this trend is Toast , which historically started as a POS for restaurants, but later realized it could incorporate other kinds of B2B payments.

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DevOps.com

MARCH 20, 2023

DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers. Of course, the pool of available DevOps talent is still relatively constrained, so […] The post Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities appeared first on DevOps.com.

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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.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Trucking is a vital industry and yet the majority of operations are operating on outdated platforms. AtoB thinks it has the solution and its co-founder says the company is essentially Stripe for transportation. If you wanna learn more, dial in to our TechCrunch Live episode on Wednesday at 12 p.m.

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DevOps.com

MARCH 20, 2023

Digital quality and excellent user experiences are more important today than ever. When a digital experience doesn’t work as expected or is rife with friction points or glitches, customers are quick to give up and move on to a better, easier solution. Bugs and defects often come with high stakes and can result in loss […] The post Bug Bounty Vs.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

Can an algorithm predict whether a startup will successfully exit? PitchBook believes so. The venture capital and private equity database today launched VC Exit Predictor, a tool trained on PitchBook data to attempt to suss out a startup’s growth prospects. When given the name of a VC-backed company, VC Exit Predictor generates a score on the probability that it’ll be acquired, go public or not exit due to becoming self-sustaining or experiencing any event (e.g., bankruptcy) that pre

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Dzone - DevOps

MARCH 20, 2023

Kubernetes has revolutionized container orchestration, allowing developers to deploy and manage applications at scale. However, as the complexity of a Kubernetes cluster grows, managing resources such as CPU and memory becomes more challenging. Efficient pod scheduling is critical to ensure optimal resource utilization and enable a stable and responsive environment for applications to run in.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

For many tech companies, investors are applying a new valuation method that has caught our eye: AI proficiency. The current wave of AI hype has two main flavors that I’m interested in. First, the struggle between tech titans to create, or at least invest in and support, the latest and greatest in intelligent computing services. And the second, the startups levering the improving tool set to build and improve products, helping them grow quickly and attack new markets.

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Kovair - DevOps

MARCH 20, 2023

That ChatGPT took the internet by storm on November 30th, 2022, would be an understatement. Within a week of its release, it had reached a.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

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Flexagon

MARCH 20, 2023

Enhancing your DevOps pipeline is a crucial part of optimizing the IT lifecycle. For instance, you’ll streamline workflows, cut production time, and improve inter-team communications—all effective ways to deliver better software. At the latest Oracle CloudWorld, Flexagon shared its FlexDeploy platform for DevOps, which supports Oracle EBS and Salesforce.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

Embedded finance solutions in less developed markers are becoming more prominent as platforms look to provide various financial solutions to the unbanked and underserved. Banking infrastructure providers are mainly responsible for the proliferation of such solutions. They allow businesses such as mobile operators, e-commerce platforms, and logistics companies to embed and enable banking products for their customers.

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Dzone - DevOps

MARCH 20, 2023

Introduction In this article, we will understand the integration of AWS Secrets Manager in the Spring Boot Application. This service will load the secrets at runtime and make sure to keep the sensitive information away from the code. Context When we work on a Spring Boot Application, we have an application.properties file based on the different profiles (environment).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

The global circular economy, comprising the sale of secondhand and refurbished goods, was valued at about $339 billion in 2022 and is poised to more than double by 2026. Much of this is driven by consumer behavior to reduce waste and have more sustainable consumption of goods. Singapore-based Reebelo , a marketplace for affordable and sustainable consumer electronics, has had a passion for keeping electronics out of landfills since it was started by Philip Franta and Fabien Rastouil in 2019.

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CEO Insider

MARCH 20, 2023

Remote working has helped thousands of employees and businesses adjust to the new working style. It has saved people from moving from one place to another and spending half their salaries on gas. However, some opposing sides need to be considered if we want to continue working in that style. Here, we have the list […] The post The Challenges of Remote Work In a World That Takes a Remote Direction appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

French startup Roundtable has raised a $3.2 million (€3 million) funding round from a hundred business angels. That’s quite a large group of individual investors — but that’s because Roundtable runs an angel investment platform for European startups. Backed by eFounders , the company takes care of the administrative, legal and financial processes involved with startup investments.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2023

As technology becomes more powerful and affordable, your company is only limited by its imagination.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

Aembit , a Maryland-based security startup that focuses on helping DevOps and security teams manage how federated workloads talk to each other, is officially launching its service today and announcing a $16.6 million seed funding round from Ballistic Ventures and Ten Elven Ventures. In essence, Aembit’s workload identity and access management service applies industry knowledge, from managing user and device access to cloud workloads such as APIs, databases and other cloud resources —

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Dzone - DevOps

MARCH 20, 2023

In this blog post, you will be using AWS Controllers for Kubernetes on an Amazon EKS cluster to put together a solution wherein data from an Amazon SQS queue is processed by an AWS Lambda function and persisted to a DynamoDB table. AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (also known as ACK ) leverage Kubernetes Custom Resource and Custom Resource Definitions and give you the ability to manage and use AWS services directly from Kubernetes without needing to define resources outside of the cluster.

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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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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

On this week’s TechCrunch Live podcast, TechCrunch+ Editor In Chief, Alex Wilhelm, led the interview portion of our show. Alex spoke to Kleiner Perkins partner Mamoon Hamid and Founder & CEO of Thrive Global and co-founder of Huffington Post, Ariana Huffington. Huffington reckons that her company can help modern workers become healthier and more productive, partly through better habits — including sleep and calculated mental resets.

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Kentik

MARCH 20, 2023

What does it mean to build a successful networking team? Is it all about gathering the most highly certified engineers you can afford? Is it about getting a group of specialists, each with their own subject matter expertise? Or is it all about finding those people with years and years of experience working in the trenches? I’ve been thinking about this as I’ve been talking to some engineer friends of mine.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

Trucking is a vital industry and yet the majority of operations are operating on outdated platforms. AtoB thinks it has the solution and co-founder Harshita Arora says the company is essentially Stripe for transportation. I’m excited to have her and Eric Tarczynski of Contrary Capital speaking on an upcoming TechCrunch Live taking place on March 22 at 12 p.m.

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