Tue.May 17, 2022

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15 Mobile App Development Trends to Watch in 2022

Xicom

Growing from humble beginnings in the early 2000s, mobile applications are now an indispensable part of our daily lives. There are currently 2.6 million apps available to download on Google Play and Apple’s App Store, with hundreds more being added every day—and this number isn’t set to drop anytime soon. In fact, according to some experts, mobile apps will continue to play an important role in business over the next decade and beyond, with growth only expected to increase year on year.

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How to evolve your DTC startup’s data strategy and identify critical metrics

TechCrunch

Michael Perez. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Michael Perez is director of growth and data at M13. Direct-to-consumer companies generate a wealth of raw transactional data that needs to be refined into metrics and dimensions that founders and operators can interpret on a dashboard. If you’re the founder of an e-commerce startup, there’s a pretty good chance you’re using a platform like Shopify, BigCommerce or WooCommerce, and one of the dozens of analytics extensions like RetentionX, Sensai metr

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What’s New in Apache Kafka 3.2.0

Confluent

I’m proud to announce the release of Apache Kafka 3.2.0 on behalf of the Apache Kafka® community. The 3.2.0 release contains many new features and improvements. This blog will highlight […].

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Daily Crunch: Musk pauses Twitter buy until platform proves less than 5% of users are spambots

TechCrunch

It’s Tuesday, May 17, 2022, and we are currently in the midst of an existential crisis; aren’t we all, when we are being very honest with ourselves, a little bit spambot at heart? . Tomorrow, TC Sessions: Mobility kicks off. Last chance saloon to buy tickets for our in-person event Wednesday and Thursday, or the virtual event on Friday! — Haje and Christine.

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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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Making DevOps Smoother

DevOps.com

Being a DevOps developer isn’t just about technical expertise necessary to build a product. It is also about learning the operations that facilitate the entire process. That means working with a fast-paced, high-performance, cross-functional team using Agile methodologies. But because of these sometimes-conflicting demands, it can sometimes get rocky.

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Kovair Launches DevOps on Microsoft’s Azure Marketplace

Kovair - DevOps

Views: 42 Kovair, a global hybrid cloud and integration solutions provider, today launched its DevOps product “Kovair DevOps” on Microsoft’s Azure Marketplace. Kovair DevOps offers.

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Banking-as-a-service startup Unit closes on $100M at a $1.2B valuation

TechCrunch

Unit, a banking-as-a-service startup, has closed on a $100 million Series C round of funding led by Insight Partners. Existing backers Accel, Better Tomorrow Ventures and Flourish Ventures also participated in the financing, which values the company at $1.2 billion. The raise follows a $51 million Series B financing that was announced last June, and brings its total equity raised since inception to nearly $170 million.

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Building security into existing source code management workflows

Synopsys

Shifting visibility downstream in the SDLC with an AppSec tool like Code Dx enables companies to build high-quality software, faster. The post Building security into existing source code management workflows appeared first on Application Security Blog.

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Only 1 in 6 unicorns are true IPO candidates today

TechCrunch

There are more than 1,000 private companies with billion-dollar valuations backed by venture capital that need to go public. Fewer than one in six are IPO candidates, however. Data from Bessemer Venture Partners’ State of the Cloud 2022 report breaks the unicorn market into two categories. ( Notes here on TechCrunch+ from Bessemer partner Mary D’Onofrio.).

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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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Service Meshes Are on the Rise – But Greater Understanding and Experience Are Required

DevOps.com

CNCF conducted a microsurvey of the cloud native community at the end of 2021 to discover how organizations are adopting service meshes. Cloud native is driving digital transformation, with organizations keen to capitalize on the agility and flexibility it provides to their business and operations. But as more applications and services are deployed using a […].

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Vivun is digitizing pre-sales, and just got $75M in new investment

TechCrunch

Vivun was built by Matt Darrow, a guy who cut his teeth in pre-sales at Zuora. He believed that pre-sales teams had a lot to offer to the organization, but there really wasn’t any software to capture that knowledge. That’s why he built Vivun. The company is helping to define a new software category, which tends to get the attention of investors, Darrow says more than that, the company is fundamentally sound and growing fast.

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Apple Allows 50% Fee Rise | @ElonMusk Fans: 70% Fake | Microsoft Salaries up by 100%?

DevOps.com

In this week’s The Long View: Apple lets devs increase subscriptions “without consent,” Twitter has more than 19% spam accounts, and we dig into the claim that Microsoft is about to double salaries. The post Apple Allows 50% Fee Rise | @ElonMusk Fans: 70% Fake | Microsoft Salaries up by 100%? appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Starting up remotely? Keep these labor laws and tax guidelines in mind

TechCrunch

Ardy Esmaeili. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Ardy Esmaeili , CPA, is a startup tax accountant and tax services managing director at Burkland. More posts by this contributor. What US startup founders need to know about the R&D tax credit. When it comes to remote employment, employees and employers both face a plethora of benefits and pitfalls. While the cultural pros and cons have been covered, considerations from a setup and maintenance standpoint largely haven’t been addressed.

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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.

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CISOs: Think strategically to beat the bad guys

TechBeacon

With cyber threats becoming more varied and challenging to stop every day, CIOs and CISOs need to take a strategic approach to securing their organizations.

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Drip aims to provide thrill of live commerce to NFTs, physical collectibles

TechCrunch

Javaughn Lawrence was wandering around Eniac Ventures’ entrepreneur-in-residence program in 2020 looking for a product, and found inspiration from some Pokémon cards. He joined a Facebook group for Pokémon collectors and started watching people host what he called “ripping and shipping,” where they were ripping open packs of Pokémon cards and selling them.

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CodeSOD: Failed Successfully

The Daily WTF

Martin 's company had written a set of command line tools which their internal analysts could then string together via shell scripts to do their work. It was finicky and fragile, but frankly didn't work too badly for most cases. There was one tool, however, which seemed to be the source of an unfair number of problems. Eventually, Martin sat down with an analyst to see what was going wrong.

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Robinhood lets users manage their own crypto wallets in push to spur trading

TechCrunch

After a difficult first quarter, investing app Robinhood is doubling down on new product launches , particularly in its crypto unit, in hopes they will help buoy the business. CEO Vlad Tenev announced the company’s plans to roll out non-custodial crypto wallets at the Permissionless DeFi conference in Florida today, starting with a waitlist that’s already open.

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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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What Can Businesses Achieve With CRM Automation?

Daffodil Software

Every business needs to continuously find ways to utilize a workday to make the most of it. So, workflow automation in various business areas is the go-to alternative for a lot of enterprises. The Customer Relationship Management (CRM) workflow for businesses, handled by marketers, customer service executives, and sales reps, also derives cost and time efficiency-related benefits from automation.

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Warehouse robotics firm GreyOrange raises $110M via growth financing

TechCrunch

Robotics firm GreyOrange this week announced it has raised $110 million. The funding comes four years after a $140 million Series C that brought the Atlanta-based company’s raise to $170 million. Rather than the standard fundraising round, however, GreyOrange has opted for growth financing, largely backed by Mithril Capital Management, with support from BlackRock. “Given our track record of performance, we were in the advantageous position of strategically selecting when and how to best fu

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Increasing Use of SLOs to Enable Observability

DevOps.com

Observability is a growing discipline among most IT and operations departments. To release stable software faster, operators need continuous visibility into metrics like performance, uptime and availability. As a result, engineers are increasing their use of service-level objectives (SLOs) across the board—a recent study found that 82% of companies are increasing their use of SLOs. […].

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Jungle Ventures closes a $600M fund, bringing its total assets under management to over $1B

TechCrunch

Singapore-based venture firm Jungle Ventures is digging deeper into Southeast Asia and India with the close of its fourth fund. Fund IV totals $600 million, with $450 million for new investments and $150 million earmarked for follow-up investments in its portfolio companies. The fund’s close brings Jungle Ventures’ total assets under management to over $1 billion, which it says makes it the first independent, Singapore-headquartered venture firm that invests across Southeast Asia and India to hi

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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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SDLC Vs STLC: What's the Difference?

Dzone - DevOps

What Is STLC? STLC stands for software testing life cycle, and it consists of several phases that must be completed in order to test software applications. STLC consists of several phases that are used to test software programs and guarantee that they meet user requirements. STLC Phases Are as Below: Requirement Analysis. Test Planning. Test Case Development.

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Fortis Digital Ventures closing $100 million raise for new crypto fund

TechCrunch

Even as more traditional financial players enter the crypto world, blockchain investor Fortis Digital Ventures is closing a $100 million crypto fund that aims to bridge the gap between the old and new finance worlds. “By building an investment fund focused on blockchain opportunities, we get to spend our time doing due diligence on teams and tech in web3, which gives us insight into what is missing in the market,” Mike Boroughs, co-founder and managing partner of Fortis Digital Ventures, told Te

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HCL Technologies Launches Kubernetes Migration Platform to Accelerate Application Modernization

DevOps.com

Automated platform enables repeatable, reliable, and cost-effective transition from Cloud Foundry environments Valencia, SPAIN and Noida, INDIA – May 16, 2022 – HCL Technologies (HCL), a leading global technology company, has launched its Kubernetes Migration Platform (KMP) to help organizations accelerate application modernization. HCL KMP is an automated solution that helps organizations migrate workloads from […].

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Claap prevents meeting fatigue with async video collaboration

TechCrunch

Meet Claap , a French startup that has been working on a way to collaborate more efficiently as a distributed team. Claap is officially launching its product today. Instead of relying exclusively on a mix of written memos and Zoom calls, Claap lets you share and receive quick videos with other teammates so that everyone can understand more quickly what you’re talking about and provide feedback.

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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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Era Software Introduces EraStreams for Scalable and Cost-Effective Observability Data Management

DevOps.com

Company continues observability data management innovation to help IT reduce costs and gain real-time analytics Seattle, WA, May 17, 2022 – Era Software, the observability data management company, today announced the private beta version of EraStreams, a no-code data pipeline that lets users integrate, transform, and route observability data to EraSearch, the company’s petabyte-scale log […].

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A.Team emerges from stealth with a gig marketplace for product specialists

TechCrunch

The gig economy has, to use a well-worn word, disrupted industries from ride-hailing to quick-service restaurants. Contract work has its downsides , namely on the pay and benefits side of the equation. But sheer force of will and unit economics beneficial to corporations have catapulted it into the mainstream. A 2019 study by Mastercard estimated that the global gig economy now generates $204 billion in gross volume.

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Why Engineers Make the Best Entrepreneurs w/ Drata's Co-founder & CTO Daniel Marashlian

Dzone - DevOps

We want to make the Dev Interrupted podcast a vital, enjoyable part of your week. Please take 2 minutes and answer our new Listener Survey. It lets us know a bit about you, what you want from Dev Interrupted and what you want from podcasts in general! There are so many books, videos and workshops on starting your own company. The problem for anyone listening to this podcast is that none of them come from the perspective of a developer.