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AUGUST 8, 2022
The reality is that configuration drift will remain unavoidable for the foreseeable future. An EaaS solution, coupled with an IaC platform and good change management policies will help you prevent drift and shorten your development cycles. By Roxana Ciobanu.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 8, 2022
Miferia , a Mexico-based business-to-business wholesale marketplace, bagged $7 million in seed funding to continue developing its curated website connecting independent retailers in Mexico with domestic brands in categories like cosmetics, food and beverage and home décor. In 2021, nearly 300 million people were shopping online in Latin America; Mexico accounted for 27% of that e-commerce activity, according to Statista.
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CIO
AUGUST 8, 2022
The last thing consumers need when they’re hundreds or thousands of miles away from home is to be the victim of payment fraud. With a travel resurgence already well under way, it’s essential for industry organizations to ensure they are offering consumers payment options that are not just convenient, but that also reduce risk and instill confidence with every transaction.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 8, 2022
Earnings season is slowing, with the largest U.S. tech companies already having reported second-quarter results. But oftentimes the most interesting results come not from your Amazons or Apples, but from smaller concerns — and even those that are not traditional tech companies. SoftBank, for example. Today, the Japanese conglomerate and startup investing powerhouse reported earnings that were more than a little bleak.
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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
AUGUST 8, 2022
Enterprises that pushed in early to the cloud fared far better than their competition, Grant Thornton chief among them. The UK-based accounting and tax consulting firm was one of few accountants in the UK that weathered the 2020 tax season without a hitch, thanks to its early bet on SaaS, Microsoft Azure, and software-defined networking. So says Greg Swift, CIO of Grant Thornton, whose 5,000 employees switched to remote work seamlessly using the company’s core auditing applications on standard W
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CIO
AUGUST 8, 2022
The contact center has traditionally operated through on-premises servers and software, but shifting it to the cloud can help CIOs improve the customer journey. Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud-based contact center-as-a-service (CCaaS) options now give enterprises more confidence that they can better deliver high-quality customer experiences.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 8, 2022
Singapore-based cryptocurrency platform Crypto.com has acquired two startups in South Korea — payment service provider PnLink and virtual asset provider OK-BIT — for an undisclosed amount, Crypto.com said. . The company also said Monday it has secured registrations under South Korea’s electronic financial transaction act and as a virtual asset service provider.
CIO
AUGUST 8, 2022
It’s no secret that the last few years have been challenging for businesses, with the rise of remote and hybrid working demanding new information and communications technology (ICT) options, while the Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted supply chains. Economic conditions remain dynamic, and with that in mind, it’s never been more important for businesses to streamline and consolidate their ICT operations – both to face current challenges head-on, and to future-proof their growth path by embracing di
TechCrunch
AUGUST 8, 2022
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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.
Let's Grow Leaders
AUGUST 8, 2022
When you have a negative team member, strive to understand what’s happening. Leading a negative team member can be frustrating. You have a vision, and you’re energized about your new solution, but they’re skeptical, critical, and keep bringing up problems. Or, you have to translate new strategic objectives to your team and one person just can’t seem to go there.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 8, 2022
Accel has led a $2.6 million funding in Produze, an Indian startup that is attempting to help local agri producers sell to international retailers, the latest in a series of bets as investors and entrepreneurs look to bring efficiency to supercharge one of the world’s largest agri producers. “We are helping agri-producers to reliably access international markets where they can make more margins for their produce,” said Ben Mathew, who previously worked at Ninjacart, a Flipkart-
DevOps.com
AUGUST 8, 2022
This Wednesday, August 10, 2022, starting at 9:00 a.m. ET, Techstrong Group is hosting an awesome virtual conference: CloudNativeDay. I am sure most of you already know a lot about the many cloud-native solutions out there; are familiar with the great work the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) does and that you have Kubernetes clusters […].
TechCrunch
AUGUST 8, 2022
Two things are for certain: 1) There continues to be a lot of excitement around warehouse robotics and 2) Geek+ is extremely good at raising money based on that fact. The Beijing-based warehouse robotics firm just raised another $100 million in funding, labeled a “Series E1,” with participation from Intel Capital, Vertex Growth and Qingyue Capital Investment.
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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.
Agile Alliance
AUGUST 8, 2022
TechCrunch
AUGUST 8, 2022
After more than two years of remote work, many employees have no interest in returning to the office — at least not without good reason. Employers have responded in kind, more or less, with tech companies in particular offering generous work from home and hybrid work options. Not all businesses are behind the changes , but there’s no denying that the pandemic rewrote the rules around the workplace — quite possibly for good. .
DevOps.com
AUGUST 8, 2022
Being the new guy at Techstrong Group, the first couple of weeks was spent trying to find things. Like the bathroom when I’m at HQ in Boca Raton or the login to the SurveyMonkey account so I could check on the status of our various in-flight research projects. I also realize I have to learn […]. The post Learn Something New Every (Cloud-Native) Day appeared first on DevOps.com.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 8, 2022
The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every weekend in your inbox. Welcome back to The Station, your central hub for all past, present and future means of moving people and packages from Point A to Point B. This week it’s a dual-hosted event with transportation editor Kirsten Korosec and transportation reporter Rebecca Bellan steering the ship, er, car.
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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.
David Walsh
AUGUST 8, 2022
For those of you not familiar with the world of web extension development, a storm is brewing with Chrome. Google will stop support for manifest version 2, which is what the vast majority of web extensions use. Manifest version 3 sees many changes but the largest change is moving from persistent background scripts to service workers. This…is…a…massive…change.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 8, 2022
The pandemic prompted countless companies to migrate to the cloud. By 2025, driven partly by the need for digital services, 85% of enterprises will have a cloud-first principle, according to Gartner. But the transition isn’t always easy. In a recent MuleSoft survey , 84% of organizations said that data and app integration challenges were hindering their digital transformations and, by extension, their adoption of cloud platforms.
Exadel
AUGUST 8, 2022
In 2008, I was a newly-minted project manager charged with building out case studies for a large Seattle-based technology company. One of them was about a local engineer who was using the company’s technology to build his own personal smart home. I was taken aback by his ingenuity, as this was the first time I’d heard of a “smart home,” and it got me thinking about how that could work.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 8, 2022
Vadym Synegin. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Vadym Synegin is a Ukrainian impact entrepreneur, philanthropist and investor in fintech and crypto projects with more than 15 years’ experience as an entrepreneur in Europe and the UAE. Ukrainians have often pioneered market-leading companies and built products that positively impact society, especially in the fintech sector.
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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.
DevOps.com
AUGUST 8, 2022
Burnout is possible in any industry. But it seems to be especially rampant in tech, a space bursting at the seams with inflated expectations and ever-accelerating trends. Nearly 60% of tech workers said they were currently feeling burned out at their workplace, found a study by TeamBlind. Limiting burnout and supporting employee mental health is […].
TechCrunch
AUGUST 8, 2022
Alex and Grace are back to cover the biggest and most interesting technology, startup and markets news. This morning was a fun mix of stuff that we don’t always get to, so strap in for the following: Stocks and cryptos are mostly higher today, meaning that most listeners of the show are now richer than they were Friday. Congratulations! Coinbase earnings on the horizon, but we got word today from Palantir and SoftBank.
CloudZero
AUGUST 8, 2022
In the beginning of cloud computing, before the earliest cost tools came along to give companies a glimpse into their spending, most businesses found it hard to determine where their cloud budget was going.
Kaseya
AUGUST 8, 2022
Patching is your first line of defense against the rampant rise in frequency of ransomware attacks. Despite its importance, many IT teams and Managed Service Providers (MSPs) rely on manual patching processes that are inefficient and put your organization and clients at risk. Often, end users stall the application of a vital patch and leave a critical vulnerability open for exploitation.
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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.
DevOps.com
AUGUST 8, 2022
It is no surprise that the world today is driven by apps. Organizations all over the world are basing their business goals on their capacity to integrate new apps quickly, and they need to constantly reimagine how they interact with and communicate with their consumers and employees to fulfill changing expectations. To do this effectively, […].
Cloudera
AUGUST 8, 2022
In June 2022, Cloudera announced the general availability of Apache Iceberg in the Cloudera Data Platform (CDP). Iceberg is a 100% open-table format, developed through the Apache Software Foundation , which helps users avoid vendor lock-in and implement an open lakehouse. . The general availability covers Iceberg running within some of the key data services in CDP, including Cloudera Data Warehouse ( CDW ), Cloudera Data Engineering ( CDE ), and Cloudera Machine Learning ( CML ).
Dataiku
AUGUST 8, 2022
Focusing on quality control and process efficiency has helped manufacturers cost-effectively scale their operations. Scalable operations withstand stressors, handle fluctuations in volume, anticipate disruptions, and use automation to keep the business running smoothly and efficiently.
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