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A Supreme Court ruling affirming Canada’s carbon tax opens the door for a startup explosion

TechCrunch

Last week the Canadian Supreme Court ruled that the national government’s plan to tax carbon emissions was legal in a decision that could have significant implications for the nation’s climate-focused startup companies. The ruling put an end to roughly two years of legal challenges and could set the stage for a boom in funding and commercial support for Canadian startup companies developing technologies to curb greenhouse gas emissions, according to investors and entrepreneurs repres

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Elastic Announces New Capabilities to Accelerate Root Cause Analysis

CTOvision

Elastic, the company behind Elasticsearch and the Elastic Stack, recently announced new features and updates across the Elastic Observability solution in the 7.12 release to accelerate root cause analysis and enable unified monitoring. Expanded capabilities include Elastic APM correlations, autoscaling, and support for ARM processor-based infrastructure.

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Ajaib raises $65M Series A extension led by Ribbit Capital, increasing the round’s total to $90M

TechCrunch

Ajaib , the Indonesian investment app, has added $65 million to its Series A, bringing the round’s new total to $90 million. The extension was led by Ribbit Capital, the fintech investor that also led Robinhood’s $3.4 billion funding last month. Ajaib is Ribbit Capital’s first investment in Southeast Asia. The extension will be used to expand Ajaib’s product development and engineering capabilities.

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Chainlink Integration Connects Filecoin to Smart Contract-Enabled Blockchains

CTOvision

Filecoin, a decentralized network allowing users to store, request, and transfer data via a verifiable marketplace, today announced integration with Chainlink, the popular decentralized oracle solution. The integration will enable a bidirectional connection between the Filecoin Network and smart contract enabled blockchains such as Ethereum. Smart contract developers will now have a full Web 3.0 infrastructure […].

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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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Python Remains Popular in Programming Language Study 

DevOps.com

A ranking by analyst firm RedMonk reflects on Python’s continued popularity as a leading enterprise programming language for a number of reasons. According to a recent study by RedMonk, JavaScript also remains widely popular as the web development programming language of choice for a significant number organizations. In many ways, Python’s strong showing in the […].

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Quality Sense Podcast: Sumit Agarwal — DevOps and Testing

Dzone - DevOps

In today’s Quality Sense episode, Federico has a conversation all about DevOps and testing with Sumit Agarwal, the Lead Cloud Architect for a global fin-tech leader with over $4.5 billion in revenues that helps clients get ahead of today’s challenges. Listen to today’s episode where they touch upon the origin of DevOps, testing and dealing with legacy code, and making the necessary culture shifts to successfully implement modern software delivery practices.

DevOps 101
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Hard to believe some say Bitcoin is in a “free fall” Here is what some say about the recent 15% decline:

CTOvision

In Bull Markets like the current one for Bitcoin, there is volatility. We believe it is volatility up, but still there are minor periods of decline. Be careful when you hear declines described as “free fall” as in this article: Read Eric Lam take a look at the free fall in Bitcoin prices and how […].

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What is Resilient Leadership?

Experience to Lead

Resilient leaders are some of the greatest leaders, identified by their ability to persevere through the tough times and maintain energy levels under pressure. Resilient leadership helps people manage disruptive changes in an organization and adapt to challenges. One of the highlights of resilient leaders is their ability to see failure as a temporary [.].

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Cisco request for new trial denied after $1.9 billion loss

CTOvision

Cisco has been denied a new trial after it suffered a record $1.9 billion patent case loss against Virginian start-up Centripetal Networks in October 2020. The Nasdaq-listed tech company submitted a motion for a new trial on November 2 2020, regarding the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia’s rulings on US patent number […].

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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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Megaport Success Stories: Evan Luza

Megaport

Our Senior Brand Designer Evan Luza talked to us about pixels, Irish lawyers, and why it’s okay to be confused. As Megaport’s Senior Brand Designer, Evan helps evolve the company’s design language and visual vocabulary and, as he puts it, “steer the ship through the waters of pixel land” Based in Chicago, US, Evan joined Megaport in May 2020 in the midst of COVID-19.

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A Future of Opportunities

DevOps.com

The post A Future of Opportunities appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Colruyt: Adaptable from the start

Beyond B2B

You might say Colruyt Group was “born ready.” In its nearly 100 years in business, retailer Colruyt has prospered by embracing change, from the birth of the supermarket, to the rise of the organic food movement, to the advent of e-commerce and mobile.

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BETTER OFF?

CEO Insider

Less than a decade ago many economic players pronounced the triumph of global marketing. Governments encouraged market-based decision rules of economic games. Those who invoked benefits of government planning and state monopolies rapidly encountered substantial public doubt. Ten years is a long time for firms and their customers. Conditions have changed.

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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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Megaport Success Stories: Aimee McGovern

Megaport

Megaport’s Accounts Payable (AP) Team Lead, Aimee McGovern, shares how she has grown and innovated while at Megaport, and what makes the company culture unlike any other. Accounts Payable guru Aimee’s magic skill with numbers keeps the Megaport cogs turning smoothly. Based in Brisbane, Australia, in her two years here, she has played a huge role in successfully moving the company to Microsoft.

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We Stand as One with Asian American and Pacific Islander Communities

Teradata

At Teradata, we're standing together with AAPI communities & commit to take action. It is our responsibility to create a change for the future - a world where everyone experiences safety & equality.

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How Netlify Supports Our Jamstack Partners

Netlify

The Jamstack has seen massive growth since 2015, as more companies and developers migrate to the modern web. Jamstack is about assembling the best solution for your team. And while Netlify is where those solutions are assembled, we’d be nowhere without the technology partners, web development agencies, and Jamstack advocates who we get to work with on a daily basis.

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Reinventing the Wheel

The Daily WTF

There are often two types of software development departments mentioned: the kind where software is the product, and the kind where software enhances or sells the product. ChemCo is a third type: a physical chemistry lab, one with extensive customization of lab setups and computer-controlled devices that need to be programmed, as well as a need for statistics and simulations to handle the results.

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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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Megaport Success Stories: Miwa Fujii

Megaport

As one of our long-time Megaporters, Miwa is full of wisdom on how to thrive at the company—and for our first-ever Success Story, she has shared her wisdom with us (hint: It’s all about teamwork). Meet Megaport’s APAC Customer Success Manager, Miwa. Based in Brisbane, Australia (the home of Megaport HQ), Miwa has been a Megaporter for almost five years now.

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Boruvka’s Algorithm with Implementation in Java

The Crazy Programmer

In this article, we will have a look at another interesting algorithm related to Graph Theory – Boruvka’s Algorithm. We will also look at a problem with respect to this algorithm, discuss our approach and analyze the complexities. Boruvka’s Algorithm is mainly used to find or derive a Minimum Spanning Tree of an Edge-weighted Graph.

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Megaport Success Stories: Aimee McGovern

Megaport

Megaport’s Accounts Payable (AP) Team Lead, Aimee McGovern, shares how she has grown and innovated while at Megaport, and what makes the company culture unlike any other. Accounts Payable guru Aimee’s magic skill with numbers keeps the Megaport cogs turning smoothly. Based in Brisbane, Australia, in her two years here, she has played a huge role in successfully moving the company to Microsoft.

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