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The Future of Low-Code Development

DevOps.com

The days when IT teams relied on clunky software development processes and labor-intensive hand-coding to build tangible, reliable and modern applications are coming to an end. With the rise of new automation technology, rapidly rising expectations and demands from innovation-craving customers and end users and a shortage of developers, the software sector has been forced […].

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Airbnb commits to fully remote workplace: ‘Live and work anywhere’

TechCrunch

Airbnb is going all in on the “live anywhere, work anywhere” philosophy that much of the business world has been forced to adopt, committing to full-time remote work for most employees and a handful of perks like 90 days of international work/travel. It’s a strong, simple policy that so few large companies have had the guts to match.

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Taking the Numb Out of Numbers

Agile Alliance

Data journalist Mona Chalabi is on a mission to “take the numb out of numbers.” In her illustrations, animations, and articles for The Guardian and publications like FiveThirtyEight and The New York Times, she explores data sets from the timely (affirmative action, voting trends, race, politics) to the offbeat (popular dog names in New York … Continued.

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DeltaX wants to digitize the Andean region’s trucking sector

TechCrunch

Transportation startup DeltaX is accelerating its plans to digitize the trucking industry in its native Bolivia and beyond thanks to a recent $1 million seed round. DeltaX operates in the same space as Convoy , Loadsmart and Sennder – freight forwarding (plainly, helping companies move goods from point A to point B). But the startup focuses on a region of Latin America where trucking is still in dire need of a digital transformation, unlike other countries where this transition has already begun

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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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Article: Design-First Approach to API Development: How to Implement and Why It Works and How to Implement It

InfoQ Culture Methods

With the rapid growth of the API industry, developers and technology leaders alike need to know how to create a successful and scalable API program that will drive business value. Developers should consider prioritizing a design-first approach to building APIs which will ensure a positive experience for all stakeholders. By Steve Rodda.

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GitLab Adds Fourth DORA Metric API to CI/CD Platform

DevOps.com

The latest update to GitLab’s namesake continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform has added support for the application programming interface (API) for measuring change failure rates. This addition supports the fourth metric as defined in the DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) framework. Version 14.10 of GitLab also expands the GitLab Runner Operator for Kubernetes to any […].

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Aerones raises $9M to inspect wind turbines with robots

TechCrunch

A strange byproduct of writing about robots all the time is getting strange bits of insight into jobs you’d never really considered. Like, it makes sense, certainly, that it’s someone’s job to inspect and clean wind turbines, but the thought had never really crossed my mind. Turns out it’s a fairly harrowing job, as these things go, requiring people to dangle high in the air to get a closer look at the blades.

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5G Network Slicing and the Future of Connectivity

IDC

Over the last 12-plus months, one of the major topics here at IDC has been the future of connectivity. IDC’s Future of Connectedness is an evolving framework of technologies, operational goals and business outcomes that transform the way enterprises use connectivity to improve business agility. Investment in connectivity accelerated partially from business continuity requirements during [.].

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Daily Crunch: In latest earnings release, Twitter admits to miscounting users for the second time

TechCrunch

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PT, subscribe here. It’s Thursday, April 28, 2022, and Haje’s blood pressure is slowly returning to what passes for normal after raging about Social Security numbers for a few minutes. Look, it’s hard to get used to the quirks and foibles of a new country, OK?

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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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Tandem Honored as Bronze Stevie Award Winner in 2022 American Business Awards

Tandem

Tandem was named the winner of a Bronze Stevie Award in the Achievement in Diversity & Inclusion category in The 20th Annual American Business Awards. The Achievement in Diversity & Inclusion category is new for 2022, recognizing organizations’ initiatives since 2020 to make their organization more diverse and inclusive for customers, employees, partners, suppliers, and/or other stakeholders.

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Two years after Lemon Perfect was spotted in Beyoncé’s limo, the superstar is now a backer

TechCrunch

Lemon Perfect founder and CEO Yanni Hufnagel didn’t know it yet, but his hydrating lemon water brand was about to go viral in 2020, all thanks to an unexpected appearance of the Dragon Fruit Mango bottle in the door of Beyoncé Knowles-Carter’s limo. “She had posted a photo with it in her limo, and all of a sudden my phone blew up,” Hufnagel said. “We came to learn that she was an authentic fan of the brand.

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CRUD Operation in Firebase V9

InnovationM

Today, we will talk about firebase v9 and how to integrate it into a React.js project. So first of all let’s see what are we doing today- What is firebase ?- Firebase is a platform by Google which provide cloud, database and many other services for mobile and web applications. It provides Realtime Database and API that synchronizes application data.

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Madison Reed, which made DTC hair color a thing, is now going after larger retail footprint

TechCrunch

Madison Reed proved that women will buy hair color online, but over the years, the company, founded by Amy Errett, opened more than 60 hair color bars across the country, established a wholesale presence with Ulta and later got in on Ulta’s deal with Target while also operating website and Amazon sales. We last checked in on Errett two years ago , when she discussed Madison Reed’s hair color bars, how the pandemic affected the business and a possibility of creating a men’s color category.

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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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Datadog Unfurls Application Security Service

DevOps.com

Datadog, Inc. today made generally available an Application Security Monitoring (ASM) service that is based on the same agent software that many DevOps teams already use to monitor applications. Pierre Betouin, vice president of product for the cloud security platform at Datadog, said ASM is designed to make it simpler for DevOps teams to add […].

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Payroll provider Symmetrical.ai nabs $18.5M to streamline employee payouts

TechCrunch

Symmetrical.ai , a payroll tech provider, today announced that it raised $18.5 million in financing led by Target Global with participation from Global Founders Capital, Finch Capital, Partech, Market One Capital, and Inovo. The proceeds will support Symmetrical ’s expansion into new European markets and enterprise clients, CEO Piotr Smole? told TechCrunch via email, as well as the growth of the core 65-person team.

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Securing Digital Transformation with PowerEdge and VMware

Dell EMC

PowerEdge and VMware have the solutions you need to protect your infrastructure and secure your business for the future.

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Revise raises $3.5 million to build rails for programming NFTs

TechCrunch

A popular criticism of NFTs is that they are just static JPEG files. Technically, they are not, of course. They are pieces of code on a blockchain, which means they can be programmed to have various qualities. The NFTs that go on sale on marketplaces such as OpenSea are already programmed with instructions on the royalties to be provided to the owner, for instance.

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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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Ransomware: How Attackers are Breaching Corporate Networks

Symantec

Latest tools, tactics, and procedures being used by the Hive, Conti, and AvosLocker ransomware operations.

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Movable Ink, which taps AI to personalize marketing content, raises $55M

TechCrunch

Movable Ink today announced that it secured $55 million in a Series D funding round led by Silver Lake Waterman with participation from Contour Venture Partners, Intel Capital, and others, bringing the marketing software startup’s total raised to $97 million. The investment comes as Movable Ink — which is valued at $1.3 billion pre-money — plans to invest in “AI-driven” products and expand its over-550-employee workforce to more than 700 by 2023.

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The Key Principles of MLOps and Their Application in Manufacturing

Dataiku

Upon witnessing the success of DevOps, the analytics community quickly realized the opportunity for a similar application of practices into analytics work — enter MLOps, a way that data teams and analytics teams alike can benefit from the automation of model deployment and integration. Organizations now face the new challenge of defining and navigating this wellspring of opportunity.

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With Kard, banks and fintechs can build custom credit card rewards programs

TechCrunch

Credit card rewards often play a significant role in attracting users to a particular card over its peers. But for young fintech companies newer to card issuance, setting up an attractive rewards program from scratch can be onerous, requiring the issuer to negotiate with individual retail partners and manage the complexities of integration case-by-case.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

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.

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If you could only invest in helping your people build one skill this year, what would it be?

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Our reader poll today asks: If you could only invest in helping your people build one skill this year, what would it be? Leadership skills 23.38% Resilience skills 23.38% Interpersonal skills 28.92% Technical skills 11.32% Management skills 8.43% Something else 4.57% Getting along, getting through, and getting ahead. Read the rest of this post at thoughtLEADERS, LLC: Leadership Training for the Real World.

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BlocPower wants to evict fossil fuels one building at a time

TechCrunch

BlocPower founder Donnel Baird grew up in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn in the 1980s. The area was so poor that buildings often lacked decent heating systems. People would turn on the stove or use electric heaters to compensate for ineffective central heating. It wasn’t safe or efficient, but it was reality for many families, most of whom were Black, living in these deficient buildings at the time.

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Introducing Symantec DLP Support for Azure Virtual Desktop

Symantec

How to be more productive, and protect data when deploying Desktop-as-a-Service

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Why Latin America’s freight-forwarding opportunity is still attracting capital

TechCrunch

“Investors are pouring money into Latin America’s logistics and shipping businesses,” our former colleague Jon Shieber wrote in 2019. But a pandemic later, amid unrest over gasoline prices across the globe, it’s time for a revisit. Nowports (YC W19) is a good starting point for comparison. In February 2019, the Mexican startup was just graduating from Y Combinator, and in Shieber’s words, “sett[ing] itself up to be the Flexport of Latin America.” Fast-forward

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

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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How Dell IT is Driving Data-as-a-product

Dell EMC

Find out how Dell is unlocking the value of our data by partnering with the business to treat data as a product.

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Glorang scores $10M Series A to expand its edtech marketplace across Asia 

TechCrunch

Glorang , a Seoul-based edtech startup that offers after-school classes and extracurricular activities via online for students between the ages of 3 and 18, said Friday it has raised a $10 million Series A funding co-led by Korea Investment Partners and Murex Partners, along with Japan’s Pksha Capital. . The new funding, which brings its total raised to $18 million, values Glorang at around $40 million, Glorang CEO and founder Taeil Hwang told TechCrunch. .

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Error'd: Time is Time in Time and Your Time

The Daily WTF

Shocked sharer Rob J. blurts. "I feel like that voltage is a tad high." . On the Heisenbahn you either know where you're going, or how much it costs, but not both. Personenzug. Christian K. chose the wrong train, as he now knows neither place nor price. "Seems that I should get a ticket from %1$@ to %2$@. I wonder how much that’ll be." .