Wed.Nov 18, 2020

article thumbnail

Threat modeling gets its manifesto: Map out your app sec risk first

TechBeacon

Despite its importance in creating a proactive posture toward cyber attacks, threat modeling remains largely misunderstood by many organizations. To clarify matters, a group of 15 security community leaders released the Threat Modeling Manifesto to inform and educate other practitioners as well as to inspire them to adopt threat modeling and improve security and privacy during software development.

Education 132
article thumbnail

Dear Sophie: Can an H-1B co-founder own a Delaware C Corp?

TechCrunch

Sophie Alcorn. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” She connects people with the businesses and opportunities that expand their lives. More posts by this contributor. Dear Sophie: What does Biden’s win mean for tech immigration?

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Don't put data science notebooks into production

Martin Fowler

We've come across many clients who are interested in taking the computational notebooks developed by their data scientists, and putting them directly into the codebase of production applications. My colleague David Johnston points out that while data science ideas do need to move out of notebooks and into production, trying to deploy that notebooks as a code artifact breaks a multitude of good software practices.

Data 279
article thumbnail

IBM is acquiring APM startup Instana as it continues to expand hybrid cloud vision

TechCrunch

As IBM transitions from software and services to a company fully focussed on hybrid cloud management, it announced its intention to buy Instana , an applications performance management startup with a cloud native approach that fits firmly within that strategy. The companies did not reveal the purchase price. With Instana, IBM can build on its internal management tools, giving it a way to monitor containerized environments running Kubernetes.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

When BYOD Also Means Bring-Your-Own-Cyber Risk

CTOvision

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) used to be an emerging trend in the workplace, one that allowed professionals a bit more flexibility and comfort by using their personal computers and […].

Trends 202

More Trending

article thumbnail

How to Uninstall Python on Windows, Mac and Linux

The Crazy Programmer

Many times we ran into problems where nothing related to Python seems working fine and we want to uninstall it completely and re-install it to remove the problem. So, in this post, we are going to see How to uninstall Python on Windows, Mac and Linux. Uninstall Python on Windows. Uninstalling Python on Windows is an easy task. You just need to follow some steps and you are good to go.

Linux 165
article thumbnail

Marissa Mayer’s startup launches its first official product, Sunshine Contacts

TechCrunch

Former Yahoo CEO and early Google employee Marissa Mayer’s startup Lumi Labs is today rebranding to Sunshine and releasing its first official product. Its new app, Sunshine Contacts, aims to be a better tool for organizing, updating and sharing contact information with others. In time, the company envisions a portfolio of consumer-facing applications that simplify common tasks in areas like events, organization, family sharing, scheduling and more.

article thumbnail

Broadcom and Cisco support AT&T for IP edge routing platform

CTOvision

AT&T, the third largest mobile operator in the United States in terms of subscribers, has deployed a next-gen open dis-aggregated IP edge routing platform with support from Broadcom, Cisco, and […].

Mobile 164
article thumbnail

OpsLevel raises $5M to fix DevOps

TechCrunch

The term “DevOps” has been rendered meaningless and developers still don’t have access to the right tools to put the overall idea into practice, the team behind DevOps startup OpsLevel argues. The company, which was co-founded by John Laban and Kenneth Rose, two of PagerDuty’s earliest employees, today announced that it has raised a $5 million seed funding round, led by Vertex Ventures.

DevOps 267
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Wasabi and DataCore to Provide Low-Cost Solution for Automated Transfer and Archiving of Files to the Cloud

CTOvision

Wasabi, the hot cloud storage company, today announced a new partnership with DataCore Software, the authority on software-defined storage (SDS), to provide customers with a fast, practical, and cost-effective solution […].

Cloud 158
article thumbnail

Grouparoo snares $3M seed to build open source customer data integration framework

TechCrunch

Creating a great customer experience requires a lot of data from a variety of sources, and pulling that disparate data together has captured the attention of companies and big and small from Salesforce and Adobe to Segment and Klaviyo. Today, Grouparoo , a new startup from three industry vets is the next company up with an open source framework designed to make it easier for developers to access and make use of customer data.

article thumbnail

7 Important Truths About Chaos Engineering

DevOps.com

As a relatively new practice, chaos engineering has plenty of myths surrounding it, from randomly shutting down production systems to requiring huge investments of time and money. There’s a lot of confusion over the purpose, the value and the practice of chaos engineering. This presents a problem for DevOps teams, especially since more than half […].

article thumbnail

Farmstead, a grocery startup with a focus on software, raises $7.9M

TechCrunch

Farmstead , a startup that operates an online grocery business while also selling software to other grocers, is announcing that it has raised $7.9 million in Series A funding. While there’s been plenty of demand for grocery delivery this year, the major players like Instacart are making purchases and deliveries from existing supermarkets. Farmstead co-founder and CEO Pradeep Elankumaran said that this model puts a big constraint on the number of possible deliveries, which is why you may be

Software 262
article thumbnail

How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

article thumbnail

DevSecOps survey is a reality check for software teams: 5 key takeaways

TechBeacon

Companies looking for more efficient software development—and to head off security threats—are increasingly integrating security with a DevOps-style pipeline, but budget issues and a shortage of knowledgeable application security professionals are hindering efforts, a survey of nearly 1,200 IT and software-security leaders found.

Survey 131
article thumbnail

Abacus.AI raises another $22M and launches new AI modules

TechCrunch

AI startup RealityEngines.AI changed its name to Abacus.AI in July. At the same time, it announced a $13 million Series A round. Today, only a few months later, it is not changing its name again, but it is announcing a $22 million Series B round, led by Coatue, with Decibel Ventures and Index Partners participating as well. With this, the company, which was co-founded by former AWS and Google exec Bindu Reddy, has now raised a total of $40.3 million.

article thumbnail

DevOps Chat: Adopting Agile + DevOps in Large Orgs

DevOps.com

In this DevOps Chat, Akshay Anand, ITSM product ambassador at AXELOS, and David Crouch, senior advisor at Beyond20, join Mitch Ashley to share best practices and learnings from introducing and adopting Agile and DevOps in large organizations. Akshay and David discuss overcoming change management challenges and obstacles to increase adoption. As usual, the streaming audio […].

DevOps 132
article thumbnail

Astroscale sets March 2021 for first commercial orbital debris removal demonstration

TechCrunch

Japanese startup Astroscale is aiming for March 2021 for a launch of its first-ever active orbital debris removal mission. This demonstration of its technology, which it hopes to use to help ensure that low-Earth orbit becomes a sustainable environment for commercial activity as it becomes increasingly crowded thanks to the rapid pace of new spacecraft launches.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Use Cases and Architectures for HTTP and REST APIs with Apache Kafka

Confluent

This blog post presents the use cases and architectures of REST APIs and Confluent REST Proxy, and explores a new management API and improved integrations into Confluent Server and Confluent […].

article thumbnail

Rapid Robotics raises $5.5M for pre-programmed manufacturing robots

TechCrunch

Bay Area-based Rapid Robotics today announced it has raised $5.5 million in seed funding in a round led by Greycroft and Bee Partners. The announcement comes during what has been a solid several months for robotics funding, and more and more companies are looking to automate workforces as the COVID-19 pandemic has ground a lot of productivity to a halt.

article thumbnail

How to Make a Self-Healing IT Infrastructure a Reality

DevOps.com

In 2019, enterprises worldwide reported that every hour of infrastructure downtime cost them an average of $301,000- $400,000. If a system is down for five hours, that’s $1.5 million lost—and that’s on the low end. Five hours of downtime can impact companies for months down the road. It’s in the hands of DevOps practitioners to […]. The post How to Make a Self-Healing IT Infrastructure a Reality appeared first on DevOps.com.

article thumbnail

Will Zoom Apps be the next hot startup platform?

TechCrunch

When Zoom announced Zapps last month — the name has since been wisely changed to Zoom Apps — VC Twitter immediately began speculating that Zoom could make the leap from successful video conferencing service to becoming a launching pad for startup innovation. It certainly caught the attention of former TechCrunch writer and current investor at Signal Fire Josh Constine, who tweeted that “Zoom’s new ‘Zapps’ app platform will crush or king-make lots of startups.” Zoom&

Video 252
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Continuous integration for Go applications

CircleCI

Go , an open-source programming language backed by Google, makes it easy to build simple, reliable, and efficient software. Go’s efficiency with network servers and its friendly syntax make it a useful alternative to Node.js. All network applications need well-tested features, and those developed in Go are no different. In this tutorial, we will be building and testing a simple Go blog.

article thumbnail

Build.security raises $6M for its authorization policy management platform

TechCrunch

Build.security, a Tel Aviv and Sunnyvale-based startup that aims to make it easier for developers to bake authorization policy management right into their applications, today announced a $6 million seed funding round led by cybersecurity-centric firm YL Ventures. CrowdStrike CEO and co-founder George Kurtz also participated in this round, in addition to former Zscaler CISO Michael Sutton, former Bank of America Chief Security Scientist Sounil Yu, Fireglass co-founder Dan Amiga, Cynet CEO and co-

Policies 251
article thumbnail

Nvidia now powers a majority of the world’s top 500 supercomputers

CTOvision

TOP500 has released the 56th edition of its list of the top 500 supercomputers in the world revealing that nearly 70 percent of them are now powered by Nvidia technology. When […].

article thumbnail

Tapping into digital nomadism and ‘deep work’ trends, Skimlinks founder raises $1.5M for Flown

TechCrunch

We already knew there was a big trend toward remote working, and this has only been drastically accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. At the same time, the distractions of daily life can easily impinge on the “deep work” many need to get done when working on something important, like writing a book, or launching a company for instance. For many individuals and teams looking to get real, focused work done, the solution is often to book an Airbnb somewhere for several days.

Trends 249
article thumbnail

A Tale of Two Case Studies: Using LLMs in Production

Speaker: Tony Karrer, Ryan Barker, Grant Wiles, Zach Asman, & Mark Pace

Join our exclusive webinar with top industry visionaries, where we'll explore the latest innovations in Artificial Intelligence and the incredible potential of LLMs. We'll walk through two compelling case studies that showcase how AI is reimagining industries and revolutionizing the way we interact with technology. Some takeaways include: How to test and evaluate results 📊 Why confidence scoring matters 🔐 How to assess cost and quality 🤖 Cross-platform cost vs. quality tr

article thumbnail

Zoom adds tools to let you block, report people disrupting your meetings

CTOvision

Zoom on Monday released new features designed to remove and report “Zoombombers,” or uninvited attendees who break into and disrupt meetings. The features are available on the Zoom desktop clients […].

Meeting 98
article thumbnail

Kerry Washington backs jewelry startup Aurate

TechCrunch

Actress Kerry Washington has made an investment of undisclosed size in direct-to-consumer jewelry startup Aurate. This isn’t Washington’s first startup investment — she’s also backed The Wing, Community and Byte. In fact, when we asked her about her dream investment at Disrupt in September, she hinted at a new deal that “feels pretty dreamy.” When I brought up those comments earlier this week, Washington laughed and confirmed that Aurate is exactly what she’d

article thumbnail

How to Build a Successful Two-Sided Marketplace

CEO Insider

A platform is any two-sided environment that facilitates an exchange between parties. If you’re looking to build a platform, you’ll need to navigate the complexity of appealing to both buyers and sellers. Here are four best practices for getting started. Iconic venture capitalist Marc Andreessen famously proclaimed, “Software is eating the world.” With the benefit of […].

How To 111