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How To Screen Java Developers

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Due to the number of increasing use cases, Java is among the most used programming languages right now. This goes without saying, the demand for Java developers is never-ending. As per StackOverflow , the demand for Java developers is as high as ever and 64% of respondents also stated that it’s the most used. There are quite a lot of talented JAVA developers out there but it still can be quite the hassle to find the right developer for your company.

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Geopolitical risks could present new opportunities for CIOs: Gartner

CIO

Digital geopolitics, emanating from cross-country politics, is rapidly becoming an issue that multinational CIOs must step up to lead, according to Gartner. Gartner predicts that by 2026 about 70% of multinational enterprises will adjust the countries in which they operate by hedging to reduce their geopolitical exposure. The research firm defines geopolitics as the geographic influence on power relationships in international relations.

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This freshly funded startup spun out of a student-run Stanford investment club

TechCrunch

In late 2020, a group of Stanford students banded together to create Stanford 2020, a venture fund solely to invest in their fellow classmates’ ventures. Given the school’s past in spinning out successful startup founders, it unsurprisingly had no trouble raising $1.5 million for the debut investment vehicle — waitlist not included. Now, two years later, the leader of that club, Steph Mui, is trying to replicate that playbook in the form of a venture-backed startup, and solo entrepreneursh

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Sharing Responsibility for Data Security in the Cloud

CIO

As organizations shape the contours of a secure edge-to-cloud strategy, it’s important to align with partners that prioritize both cybersecurity and risk management, with clear boundaries of shared responsibility. The security-shared-responsibility model is essential when choosing as-a-service offerings, which make a third-party partner responsible for some element of the enterprise operational model.

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Streamlining Database Compliance with CI/CD Integration

IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d

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AI-powered videoconferencing platform Headroom raises $9M

TechCrunch

Headroom , a startup developing AI-powered software to make meetings ostensibly more efficient, today announced that it raised $9 million in funding led by Equal Opportunity Ventures with participation from Gradient Ventures, LDV Capital, AME Cloud Ventures, and Morado Ventures. CEO Julian Green said that the proceeds will be put toward product development and expanding the company’s workforce.

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$10B crypto developer platform Alchemy buys coding bootcamp in first-ever acquisition

TechCrunch

Web3 developer infrastructure startup Alchemy, which last raised a $200 million Series C1 last February, has just made its first acquisition ever — and it’s in the education space. The company purchased education startup ChainShot , which runs coding bootcamps for aspiring web3 developers, Alchemy cofounder and CEO Nikil Viswanathan told TechCrunch exclusively.

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Avoiding Last-Mile Challenges for Remote Workers

CIO

Quickly rolling out and extending solutions to allow employees to work remotely has been one of the biggest operational changes in recent history. But there’s one catch we often hear regarding productivity, and that is inconsistent Internet connections that downgrade the experience, particularly while conducting conference calls or sharing material from a home office.

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India asks Byju’s to explain delay in filing audited financial accounts, report says

TechCrunch

India’s Ministry of Corporate Affairs has asked Byju’s to explain why it hasn’t filed its audited financials for the year ending March 2021, Bloomberg News reported Thursday. Edtech giant Byju’s, which is India’s most valuable startup with a valuation of $22 billion, has missed the deadline to file its audited results by 17 months. The startup — backed by scores of high-profile investors including Blackrock, Tiger Global, UBS, Prosus Ventures, Sequoia India and Lightspeed Venture Partners

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Kubernetes Version 1.25: An Overview

Aqua Security

Kubernetes Version 1.25 was released with 40 new enhancements including 13 Stable, 10 Beta, 15 Alpha, and 2 Deprecated. Join us as we present some of the notable features in this release, apply security with the Pod Security Admission (PSA), validate whether your cluster is using containerd, and give an overview of the features.

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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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As a Stripe investor cuts the value of its stake, more evidence of fintech valuation pressure

TechCrunch

News that T. Rowe Price cut the value of its stake in fintech giant Stripe is making headlines this week, the new data point coming in the wake of similar cuts by other investment houses regarding their ownership in late-stage startups. However, while it is true that T. Rowe Price reduced the value of its stake in Stripe, part of its Global Technology Fund, the latest reduction in its worth is not unique.

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NewOps? AIOps? NoOps? Just Don’t Call Me Late for Dinner

DevOps.com

Once again, we are seeing an uptick in the use of the term NoOps. I always felt that NoOps was a misleading and, in fact, empty phrase. I don’t care what magic you think you have; you are never going to eliminate the need to operate your software, applications and infrastructure. I first heard the […]. The post NewOps? AIOps? NoOps? Just Don’t Call Me Late for Dinner appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Daily Crunch: Hacking group penetrates 130+ organizations, captures credentials for nearly 10K workers

TechCrunch

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. Hello, you sparkling souls! Thursday is upon us once again. Have you ever noticed how Thursdays seem to keep coming along with alarming regularity? It feels like roughly once per week, but that’s anecdotal. More research may be required.

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Where DataOps and Opportunities Converge

DevOps.com

In today’s data age, getting data analytics right is more essential than ever. A robust data analytics implementation enables businesses to hit key performance metrics, build data and AI-driven customer experiences (think ‘personalize my feed’) and capture operational issues before they spiral out of control. The list of competitive advantages goes on, but the bottom […].

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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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India alleges a16z-backed CoinSwitch violated forex laws, searches offices

TechCrunch

India’s financial crime-fighting agency conducted searches at multiple premises of the Bengaluru-headquartered CoinSwitch Kuber on Thursday, alleging the crypto exchange startup violated forex laws, four people familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. The Enforcement Directorate searched the office facilities and residences of some executives and also questioned many, including chief executive Ashish Singhal, two people said, requesting anonymity as the matter is private and sensitive.

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Avoiding the Transformation Trap

TechBeacon

I’ve recently been experiencing the wide disparity in the readiness of different businesses to embrace the digital economy. In May, I moved from an urban area to a much more rural one—bucolic really—and I’ve been taken aback by the number of checks I’ve written in the few months since the move. Before, I almost exclusively made payments electronically—either online, through apps, or sometimes through third-party payment services.

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To bring PLG to cybersecurity, let’s change our hiring habits

TechCrunch

Ross Haleliuk. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Ross Haleliuk is a venture capitalist and head of product at LimaCharlie.io. More posts by this contributor. H1 2022 cybersecurity product-led growth market map. Product-led growth (PLG) is more about the company’s mindset than it is about the product. There is a lot a company needs to do to succeed with a PLG strategy, and hiring product managers is not enough — neither can it be the first step.

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Force Me Back to the Office? Apple ‘Hasn’t Learned Anything’

DevOps.com

In this week’s The Long View: New ways of working. Whether it’s remote work, enforced hybrid working or a four-day working week, let’s triage the trends and futz with the future. The post Force Me Back to the Office? Apple ‘Hasn’t Learned Anything’ appeared first on DevOps.com.

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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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Breaking into healthcare with WELL Health and Freestyle on TechCrunch Live

TechCrunch

Healthcare startups often face unique challenges — something Well Health founder Guillaume de Zwirek understands. Together with Freestyle Partner, Jenny Lefcourt, the two will speak on the strategies used by de Zwirek as he built and scaled WELL Health into a leading healthcare startup. This TechCrunch Live event opens on August 31 at 11:30 a.m. PDT/2:30 p.m.

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Creating a Better CTO Playbook With Dama Financial's CTO Zach Goldberg

Dzone - DevOps

Fact: There are guidebooks for everything in programming except for actually leading, managing, and inspiring programmers. That’s why I was so happy to have my friend Zach Goldberg on the podcast.

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Email will be with us until the universe dies, so these startups are working to make it better

TechCrunch

Ah, email. Why did you send my friend’s birthday party invite to my spam folder? Why do you make it so easy to archive an email when I don’t even know what that means? Why are you … blue now … Gmail? Email is a necessary evil. So whenever I hear about startups looking to innovate on the decades-old communication tech, I’m instantly intrigued considering the huge number of potential areas of improvement.

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Understanding the Importance of Developer Experience

DevOps.com

If you’re creating a developer tool, you’re bound to run into this dilemma—you know the inner workings of it really well, but others don’t. And without solid documentation and samples to follow, it can be challenging for another person to get started. Friction with the tools we use can contribute to burnout, inhibit creativity and […].

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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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In a down market, good messaging isn’t enough for managing international teams

TechCrunch

John S. Kim. Contributor. Share on Twitter. John S. Kim is the CEO of Sendbird , the leading API provider to embed chat, voice and video experiences inside of mobile apps. More posts by this contributor. We’re building a social+ world, but how will we moderate it? Leasing Creative Office Space? Don’t Get Screwed. Companies are clamping down on budgets, but startup CEOs shouldn’t assume that costs will go down just because it was decided they need to.

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L4S Interop Lays Groundwork for 10G “Metaverse”

CableLabs

What does the future look like to you? Your vision could very well be dependent on L4S—Low Latency, Low Loss, Scalable Throughput—technology. A key component of the Low Latency DOCSIS® specifications, L4S is fundamental to the cable industry’s 10G initiative and underpins three of the four tenets of the multi-gigabit platform: speed , low latency and reliability.

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Pitch Deck Teardown: Simba Chain’s $25M Series A deck

TechCrunch

Grab a cup of coffee and strap in, because this pitch deck teardown is pretty different from most of the ones I’ve done to date. Why? Let me count the ways. (OK, fine, there are only two ways.) But let’s take a closer look: 1. This is a blockchain pitch. The pitch deck is for Simba Chain , a blockchain company that raised $25 million in a Series A.

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Engagement and Motivating Employees

CoachStation

Engagement at work matters. Employee discretionary effort and focus are being challenged for many reasons, including the labour market and working from home. People are finding it easy to find jobs and unemployment is at a record low. It won’t always be like this, however. Developing the skills to engage team members is important. Maybe, no more so than right now.

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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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It’s brutal out there for DTC companies

TechCrunch

News that Haus, a consumer beverage brand looking to bring down the ABV in booze, had failed to close a funding round and was being forced to sell took many — this publication included — by surprise. Perhaps we should have been less taken aback. Tracking the value of recently public DTC companies is an exercise in zooming in as their valuations shrink.

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Preview What’s Coming in 6.0: Test Automation

Flexagon

Achieving speed within the software delivery process requires end-to-end automation. Achieving quality in your delivery requires extensive testing at various stages of the lifecycle. Although there is a place for manual tests, organizations need to increase test quality and effectiveness, and that means they need to incorporate automated testing. FlexDeploy’s Test Automation Framework for post-deployment testing got a major overhaul in FlexDeploy 6.0.

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6 industry conversations that don’t scream ‘OMG there’s a tech downturn’

TechCrunch

Journalists care a lot about tension, drama, and signal. Often times that looks like good news, like when small scrappy startups get starter capital to take on the public giant, or well-capitalized late-stage giant, or that moment when you realize healthcare’s disruption is just at its infancy. As of recently, though, we’ve seen startups face a massive correction across all stages, from double rounds of layoffs to valuation cuts to complete shutdowns.

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