DevOps.com
AUGUST 18, 2022
There’s been a lot of buzz about time-series data for the past few years. No matter what you’re monitoring—financial data, server performance, social media activity or something else entirely—time-series data can give you valuable insights into trends and patterns. But what exactly is a time-series database, and why do you need one? This article will […].
CIO
AUGUST 18, 2022
The nonsense was tucked away in a PowerPoint slide, as so much nonsense is. “We’ll help you institute best practices, followed by a program of continuous improvement,” the offending bullet said. Now, I’m willing to shrug at a bit of harmless puffery from time to time. And maybe this puffery was harmless. But I don’t think so. As my pappy used to say, ‘If someone sells this and someone else buys it, they have something in common: They’re both schmucks.
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TechCrunch
AUGUST 18, 2022
Analysts estimate that the market for “delaying human death” could be worth $610 billion by 2025. But that doesn’t sit well with Christian Angermayer, who co-founded Cambrian BioPharma and Rejuveneron, and whose family office Apeiron Investment Group has a special interest in expanding longevity. “This is a nonsensical, imaginary number that is almost entirely made up by the cosmetics and supplements industry,” Angermayer said of the $610 billion estimate.
CIO
AUGUST 18, 2022
Even as many business leaders debate the boundaries of remote work styles and schedules, there is little doubt that hybrid work will persist for most enterprises. Yet, how hybrid work takes shape for any given business will likely evolve as business needs and employee expectations change over time. For IT and network security teams, the challenge is to secure their environments, regardless of where people are working.
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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
TechCrunch
AUGUST 18, 2022
Sunstone, a higher education startup that collaborates with academic institutions to help upskill their students for employability, has raised $35 million in a new financing round as it looks to expand to more Indian cities. Sunstone founders said Friday WestBridge Capital led the startup’s Series C financing round. Alteria Capital also participated in the funding, which takes its to-date raise to about $68 million.
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TechCrunch
AUGUST 18, 2022
Daniel Faloppa. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Daniel Faloppa founded Equidam after completing his M.Sc. in Finance and Investments at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University with the goal of making valuations less problematic for entrepreneurs and investors. More posts by this contributor. What connects the stock market contraction to startup valuations?
CIO
AUGUST 18, 2022
The CIO 100 is celebrated internationally, with the CIO 100 UK 2022 being announced on 22 nd September. Following the awards ceremony, the virtual CIO 100 Conference will begin with a spotlight on the UK CIO #1, highlighting what crowned them the number one position, initiatives they have recently been working on, and what they are looking to achieve next.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 18, 2022
Aero Technologies , which describes itself as a “next-generation air travel company” which currently operates on a limited number of routes in the U.S. and Europe, today announced that it has raised $65 million, with $50 million of those as a Series B funding round co-led by Albacore Capital Group and $15 million in convertible notes. Expa and Keyframe Capital, as well as new investor Capital One Ventures also participated in this route.
Martin Fowler
AUGUST 18, 2022
Peer-to-peer systems treat each cluster node as equal; there is no strict leader. This means there is no explicit leader election process as happens in the Leader and Followers pattern. However, there still needs to be one cluster node acting as cluster coordinator for tasks such as assigning data partitions to other cluster nodes and tracking when new cluster nodes join or fail and take corrective actions.
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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.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 18, 2022
Rebill , an Argentina-based startup, raised $3.6 million to continue building automated payment collection and subscription management tools for Latin America. The funding announcement includes $600,000 from a pre-seed tranche. The $3 million seed round was led by Tiger Global Management and included Y Combinator, Soma Capital, SV Angel and a group of angel investors, including Dropbox co-founder Arash Ferdowsi and Vercel founder Guillermo Rauch.
Let's Grow Leaders
AUGUST 18, 2022
Turn Too Many Ideas into Ideas You Can Use. “Hey Karin, I’ve got to tell you. Your book, Courageous Cultures, kind of scares me. We don’t actually need more ideas around here… we have too many ideas! We’ve been growing so fast, it’s like the wild, wild west. Everybody’s bringing their ideas and moving in a gazillion directions.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 18, 2022
Rocketplace, a startup that aims to build a “next-generation asset management platform for crypto,” has raised $9 million in a seed funding round. A few things about this raise stood out. For one, the funding comes at an interesting time in the crypto world — during the so-called “crypto winter” and a period that has seen other major players in the space such as Voyager and Celsius go bankrupt and others such as Robinhood and Coinbase conduct mass layoffs.
DevOps.com
AUGUST 18, 2022
In the episode of View with Vizard, Mike Vizard sits down with Om Vyas, chief product officer for oak9, as he explains why security engineers need to become part of every DevOps team. The video is below followed by a transcript of the conversation. Vizard: Hey, guys. Thanks for the throw. We’re here with Om […]. The post Why DevOps Teams Need Security Engineers appeared first on DevOps.com.
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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.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 18, 2022
Max Brenner. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Max Brenner is part of the founding team at Compound , which specializes in helping tech founders and employees manage their financial lives. It’s the classic startup employee dream. You’ve worked hard for years, finally built your company equity into something big and now you’re finally ready for a payout.
Synopsys
AUGUST 18, 2022
This in-depth analysis explores CVE-2020-25669, a vulnerability that exploited a memory corruption issue in Linux Kernel. The post CyRC Case Study: Exploitable memory corruption using CVE-2020-25669 and Linux Kernel appeared first on Application Security Blog.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 18, 2022
The hearing loss market has long been dominated by a handful of legacy players with little incentive to innovate due to outdated regulations and social stigma. But a new ruling from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration could revolutionize the market by driving competition, giving startups a greater chance at success in this sector. On Monday, the FDA announced that hearing aids and other hearing technology can now be sold over the counter.
DevOps.com
AUGUST 18, 2022
In this week’s The Long View: Agile is bad, but “Wagile” is worse. Plus: This prod is even worse than yours. The post Agile Sucks (Redux) | Plus: DevOps on Mars appeared first on DevOps.com.
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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.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 18, 2022
Sofy , a startup developing a testing platform for mobile app devs it claims is used by Microsoft, today closed a $7.75 million seed round that brings its total capital raised to $9.5 million. Voyager Capital led the tranche with participation from PSL Ventures, GTMFund and Revolution, providing cash that CEO Syed Hamid says will be put toward supporting Sof’s general growth and R&D.
Steve Farber
AUGUST 18, 2022
Let’s play a word association game. If I say (or technically, write) the word “leader,” what word pops into your mind? I’m not a psychic, so I can’t claim to know exactly what word you. Read more. The post Leading with Courage Develops Impactful Leadership that Inspires Your Employees first appeared on Steve Farber.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 18, 2022
Ryan Breslow has had a tumultuous 2022. It’s not slowing him down. Few outside of Breslow’s world even knew his name a year ago. Then Bolt , a “one-click” checkout tech company that evolved from an earlier idea of his, announced $355 million in Series E funding at a reported $11 billion valuation. Suddenly, the startup was on everyone’s radar, as was Breslow.
DevOps.com
AUGUST 18, 2022
Modernizing databases is one of the best ways to improve database and application performance. However, many companies are hesitant to make major changes, even if they could lead to better outcomes. Why? Because there are prevailing myths about how database modernization projects fail to deliver on expectations. Five myths, in particular, seem to hold leaders […].
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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.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 18, 2022
Of all the stories passed on through history, the tales of life unending have persisted in the human imagination without much change. The details differ, but nearly every civilization right from the time of the Egyptians has in some form or the other sought to delay death. While we’re still far away from achieving that lofty goal, science has advanced a lot and as life expectancy increased, longevity is now a realm of technology and medicine that aims to increase how long people can live healthi
DevOps.com
AUGUST 18, 2022
A survey of 200 DevOps and IT/information security professionals published this week by Mezmo, a provider of an observability platform, conducted in collaboration with the market research firm Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), finds only 22% report their organization has a formal DevSecOps strategy to integrates security into their software development lifecycle (SDLC) processes.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 18, 2022
Health information publishing giant WebMD has announced that it’s acquiring Jim.fr , a French-language medical news and information website aimed at healthcare professionals (HCPs). Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Founded in 1979 as the Journal International de Médecine (JIM) by a hospital intern called Dr. Gilles Haroche, Paris-based Jim.fr collates and presents all manner of news, reports, and studies from the world of medicine, including new developments and treatments, op-eds, an
Dzone - DevOps
AUGUST 18, 2022
Before going into the functionality and features of Docker, we need to understand why we need Docker. If you have been around this industry for quite some time now, then you would have come across this meme about the introduction of Docker. Well, this meme is apparently funny but somehow turns out to be a factual one.
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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.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 18, 2022
All major social networks including Instagram , TikTok , and Snapchat have their own take on how collaborations should work. But most of these features have constraints like time limits and the number of creators included in a clip. A new app called Along wants to remove all these restrictions to allow infinite-length collaboration videos with multiple creators.
DataRobot
AUGUST 18, 2022
Supply chain and logistics industries worldwide lose over $1 trillion a year due to out-of-stock or overstocked items 1. Shifting demands and shipping difficulties make the situation worse. Challenges in inventory management, demand forecasting, price optimization, and more can result in missed opportunities and lost revenue. The retail marketplace has become increasingly complex and competitive.
InnovationM
AUGUST 18, 2022
So performance testing is one of the most important phases of any product launch as it verifies and validates the overall product performance. Performance Testing can be done in different forms depending upon the resource availability and the type and volume of the user base. The main agenda behind conducting performance testing on any product is to make sure that the product’s performance is as.
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