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A Scrum Flight Checklist

Agile Alliance

Are you concerned that your team might have strayed from the foundational principles of Scrum? This checklist will help you stay on track. The post A Scrum Flight Checklist first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Autify advances no-code AI-powered software testing automation platform with $10M Series A

TechCrunch

While working as a software engineer in Japan, Singapore and San Francisco for the past 10 years, Ryo Chikazawa , CEO and co-founder of Autify , came to realize that there’s one common problem in the software development industry; software testing takes excessive time. Chikazawa and co-founder Sam Yamashita started Autify in 2016 in San Francisco to develop software testing automation, enabling software developers to expedite the delivery of quality software to their customers in a rapidly chang

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Lessons Learned in Becoming a Product-Centric Organization

Agile Alliance

How do you shift from a component, technology aligned organization to a product-centric organization? This is a challenge many organizations are now facing as they aspire to go beyond agile at the team level and align their whole organization for product-centric discovery and delivery. This experience report shares the story of a transformation to product-centricity … Continued.

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Senior care startup Honor secures $370M in debt and equity, reaches unicorn status

TechCrunch

Senior care can be a sensitive topic as many older people find themselves in situations where they need care, but are not to the point where they need the kind of around-the-clock care provided by nursing homes. Many older people still want some independence and to retain their dignity as they age and lose the ability to do some of the more basic tasks they were used to handling on their own.

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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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Top 5 Python Frameworks in 2021

The Crazy Programmer

Python has some of the most frequently used frameworks that have been chosen due to the simplicity of development and minimal learning curve. Based on the latest Stack Overflow 2020 poll, 66 percent of programmers are using the two of the most popular Python web frameworks, Django and Flask, and would want to continue using them. In addition, according to the study, Django is the fourth most desired web framework.

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Sustainable Disruption, Where We Go From Here

Agile Alliance

Three disruptive leaders share global insights on the impact and future of agile. Comparing the challenges of the late 1990s that resulted in the agile manifesto with those of today that indicate what we should work on now. Social responsibility, climate change, diversity, inclusion, trans-national work. This is not just a moral imperative it’s an … Continued.

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Tekion, the automotive retail platform headed by a former Tesla CIO, just tripled in value

TechCrunch

A year ago, we told you about the opportunity that former Tesla CIO Jay Vijayan was chasing. His plan? To pull car dealers into the 21st century with a snazzy end-to-end automotive SaaS platform like the one he helped develop inside Tesla. Customers could use it to order a car to their precise specifications; dealers could use it to see in real time to understand their inventory and seamlessly check in customers for service appointment; OEMs could use it to see exactly which of their parts were

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Your Agile Blind Spot: What’s Limiting Your Agility?

Agile Alliance

Does your Agile implementation produce *meaningful* agility? Too many implementations look fine, but they've really plateaued well short of their potential. They don't produce meaningful agility: good flow of valuable solutions to real customer problems; drama-free, affordable adaptation; and a healthy, collaborative, engaged human culture. If you’re leading teams (directly or indirectly), or are facilitating … Continued.

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Improving startup results through female leadership

TechCrunch

Leah Edwards. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Leah Edwards is a passionate fan and connector in technology and impact, a lecturer at UC Berkeley and Stanford and a partner at Pegasus Tech Ventures , a Silicon Valley-based VC firm. During my career — spanning entrepreneurship, academia, arts management and venture capital — I’ve learned the importance of female leadership in contributing to successful outcomes.

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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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CVE-2021-41773: Path Traversal Zero-Day in Apache HTTP Server Exploited

Tenable

The Apache HTTP Server Project patched a path traversal vulnerability introduced less than a month ago that has been exploited in the wild. Background. On October 5, the Apache HTTP Server Project patched CVE-2021-41773, a path traversal and file disclosure vulnerability in Apache HTTP Server, an open-source web server for Unix and Windows that is among the most widely used web servers.

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SmartRyde, a Japanese online platform for airport transfers, spurs global expansion with Series A

TechCrunch

SmartRyde , a Japanese online pre-booked airport transfers service platform, is a marketplace that connects travelers to local transportation operators/online travel agencies (OTAs). Sota Kimura, co-founder and CEO of SmartRyde, founded SmartRyde in 2017 after he experienced trouble getting a taxi from the airport to the hotel when he traveled abroad, Kimura told TechCrunch.

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Is bad test data killing DevOps?

TechBeacon

Test data used throughout the application lifecycle is stale, dirty, or polluted. The lack of adequate test data is eating into productivity gains from agile and DevOps investments because testing failures are slowing down the speed of software delivery.

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Udemy files to go public on back of growing B2B incomes

TechCrunch

After digging into the Rent the Runway IPO filing this morning, we’re turning to Udemy. The Udemy offering comes in the wake of the successful Duolingo IPO earlier this year. And the company’s debut may prove to be the final major edtech IPO ahead of Byju’s eventual debut — how well Udemy performs in its public offering could impact others in its market, including some incredibly wealthy education technology players.

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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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Best Practices for Codeless Test Automation

DevOps.com

Low-code and no-code development platforms have revolutionized how companies think about application development. The same can be said for software for quality assurance (QA), where codeless test automation solutions handle the burden of coding for organizations that can’t allocate extra programming resources or keep up with extensive writing and maintenance of automated tests.

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Sure raises $100M at a $550M valuation to help companies launch insurance products with its ‘flexible’ APIs

TechCrunch

Sure , an insurance infrastructure startup, announced today that it has closed on $100 million in Series C funding at a $550 million valuation. New York-based Declaration Partners and European growth investor Kinnevik co-led the financing, which also included participation from WndrCo and existing backers W. R. Berkley and Menlo Ventures. The round brings the Santa Monica-based startup’s total raised to $123.1 million since its 2015 inception.

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Azurescape: What You Need to Know

Aqua Security

Microsoft recently disclosed a security vulnerability in its Azure Container Instances (ACI) service, referred to as Azurescape. No actual exploitations were reported and, thankfully, no Azure customers were affected by this vulnerability. To clear any doubts around risks to current environments, in this post we will examine the anatomy of a possible attack leveraging Azurescape and what it means for an effective defense-in-depth strategy for cloud native environments.

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Rendered.ai raises $6M on the promise of ending data scarcity 

TechCrunch

The availability of data can paralyze a company and its effort to bring software-centric products and services to market. To solve this issue, two-year-old data startup Rendered.ai is generating synthetic data for the satellite, medical, robotics and automotive industries. At its most broad, synthetic data is manufactured rather than gathered from the real world.

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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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Radar trends to watch: October 2021

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

The unwilling star of this month’s trends is clearly Facebook. Between reports that they knew about the damage that their applications were causing long before that damage hit the news, their continued denials and apologies, and their attempts to block researchers from studying the consequences of their products, they’ve been in the news almost every day.

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Technical interview platform Byteboard spins out of Google’s Area 120, takes on new funding

TechCrunch

Byteboard , a service designed to replace the pre-onsite technical interview part of a company’s hiring process with a web-based alternative, will be spinning out of Google, TechCrunch learned and Google confirmed. The product was originally incubated as part of the company’s internal R&D lab known as Area 120, where it’s been led by CEO Sargun Kaur.

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Finding Solutions to Randomized Wi-Fi MAC Addresses

CableLabs

As Wi-Fi device and OS vendors move to implement Randomized and Changing MAC Address (RCM) to reduce or eliminate the ability to track users and their devices, related functionality costs on the Wi-Fi industry are emerging. This blog will discuss how the industry is enhancing users’ privacy while working to maintain legitimate functions that require a stable means of device identification.

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Temasek leads $550M Series C extension into Orca Security, which aims for further international foothold

TechCrunch

Orca Security , an Israeli security company offering an agent-less platform for protecting cloud-based assets, secured a $550 million extension to the Series C funding round it raised seven months ago. The initial $210 million round brought the company’s valuation to over $1 billion, and the latest round boosts the valuation by 50% to $1.8 billion, Avi Shua, co-founder and CEO told TechCrunch.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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But What About When You Fail?

DevOps.com

One thing Agile and DevOps definitely brought IT was a more accepting view of the whole “mistakes happen” mantra. Crashing systems is no longer a guarantee of a free ticket out the door. Indeed, off the top of my head, I can think of at least two cases where a CIO themselves checked in sloppy […]. The post But What About When You Fail? appeared first on DevOps.com.

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3 founders share strategies for navigating bias and building confidence

TechCrunch

Entrepreneurs from underrepresented groups are more likely to face an uphill climb than their white, male counterparts, but their challenges stretch well beyond systemic bias and a general lack of access to capital. Women, transgender and Black startup founders must navigate myriad issues for which there is no playbook: People of color may question how much of their authentic selves they can bring to the workplace, CEO moms are more likely to shoulder the majority of their family’s childcare res

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A Roadmap for On-Demand Food Delivery App Development

Radixweb

Once there was a magic show in the town. A magician asked a 10-year-old kid, “What do you like to eat?” A kid said chocolate. He performed some magic, got a chocolate and offered it to that kid. So, do you think he actually applied a magic or a trick? Is magic real?

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What Rent the Runway’s IPO filing says about the business of loaner garments

TechCrunch

Good news, everyone: The Q4 IPO cycle is now well and truly underway. For those of us who prefer to read IPO filings to funding announcements, new S-1 documents from Udemy , Rent the Runway and others just touched down. But we care the most about those two, as they are listings from venture-backed companies that we’ve covered here at TechCrunch over the years.

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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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What Leaders Can Learn from the Most Efficient Exit Interview Ever

Next Level Blog

A few weeks ago, I was in a conversation with a group of senior managers when one of them told a story that put what has come to be known as The Great Resignation in sharp relief. A colleague of his had recently received a text message out of the blue from a valued employee who had suddenly quit their job three months earlier. In the text, the former employee wrote that if any effort had been put into conveying why and how they and their work mattered, they would have stayed.

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From bootstrapped to a $417M valuation, Chile’s Buk raises $50M for its HR management platform

TechCrunch

Chile’s Buk , which has developed a human resources management platform for Latin American companies, announced today that it has raised $50 million in a Series A funding round that values the company at $417 million. There are a few notable things about this financing. For one, it represents one of the largest (if not the) largest Series A rounds raised by a Latin American startup to date.

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Data Literacy for Responsible AI: Governance and Accountability

DataRobot

At the organizational level, artificial intelligence represents the potential for major, novel gains. But the technology’s ability to unleash rapid impact with great scope and unique dimensions can also increase organizational risk. For companies implementing AI systems, that risk extends beyond revenue to the reputational damage of using an algorithm that is perceived to be discriminatory or harmful to vulnerable groups.