TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

There’s no denying the growth of healthtech globally over the past three years thanks to the pandemic. The event has accelerated the use of telemedicine, virtual care, and drug delivery, thus fuelling investor interest in the sector. Investment has also trickled down to Africa, with large checks going into growth-stage startups. Lagos- and Texas-based digital healthcare provider Reliance Health is the latest beneficiary and is doing so in grand style, raising $40 million.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2022

A 2002 article by Michael Feathers. This article introduced the idea of dealing with a hard-to-test GUI behavior by minimizing the behavior within the GUI element, moving as much as possible to a separate object that’s easier to test. This idea was generalized into the Humble Object pattern. The pdf of this article is here , but if you’re wish to share a link, please link to this page instead, as that pdf link may not be stable and this page allows us to more easily enhance this resource later.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Retail investment apps in Southeast Asia attracted a lot of funding last year , and the trend looks set to continue with Vietnam-focused Infina announcing that it has added $4 million to its seed funding. Along with the $2 million it announced in June, this brings the round’s total to $6 million. Investors include Sequoia Capital India’s Surge program, Y Combinator, Saison Capital, Starling Ventures, Alpha JWC and AppWorks.

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Lacework

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The vulnerability landscape is changing rapidly with the adoption of cloud-native computing. Services previously hidden to the outside world may now be accessible, and cloud services may be accessible due to complex configurations. The Log4j vulnerability (reported in Dec 2021) is a recent example of a critical vulnerability that may exist widely (e.g. java using bundled Log4j jars), but where the actual number of actively exploitable processes is much smaller.

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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.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Bruce Dahlgren. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Bruce Dahlgren is CEO of MetricStream , a risk management (IRM) and governance, risk and compliance (GRC) company. Browsing travel options on Google Flights, you may have noticed that airlines have begun to incorporate carbon emissions data into their offerings to consumers. As a frequent flyer, all things — including price — being equal, I’ll always choose the more carbon-efficient flight.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Gary Little. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Prior to becoming CEO of Foursquare, Gary was MD of Raine, leading the technology practice with a focus on advisory assignments and principal investments in consumer internet, enterprise software and emerging technology. In the current environment, businesses are now tasked with balancing the push toward recovery and developing the agility required to stay on top of reemerging COVID-19 obstacles.

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DevOps.com

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

DevOps culture and rapid cloud adoption mean developers are shipping code faster than ever and, in many cases, security teams struggle to keep up. To avoid relegating security to afterthought status, organizations must shift left and adopt a developer-first approach to application security (AppSec). Organizations that depend on software development need a solution that accomplishes […].

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Vivek Narayanadas. Contributor. Vivek Narayanadas serves as General Counsel for MetaMap , which helps online services become borderless through user-centric, privacy-forward trust and safety workflows. From securing a loan to renting a car to getting a job, our lives increasingly depend on the digital world to enable trust-based interactions online.

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DevOps.com

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Codenotary has launched a Codenotary Cloud platform that can automatically generate a software bill of materials (SBOM) and make it easier to discover what components have been included in an application. Moshe Bar, Codenotary CEO, said that capability can also play a key role in identifying which components in an application might contain, for example, […].

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Based out of the U.S., Sonder is a tech-driven hospitality company. It’s raised $529.6 million, and, in the post-pandemic world where the population has become far more movable due to remote working, similar businesses are raising funds to attend to the needs of this global, nomadic workforce. We first covered the NUMA Group (then called Cosi) back in 2019 when it raised €5 million for its “full-stack” hospitality alternative to boutique hotels, and then later on when it raised €20 m

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DevOps.com

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

How fast is real-time? According to Robert Miller’s 1968 seminal study on human-computer interaction, we perceive a response time of 100 milliseconds or less as instantaneous. This is much quicker than the average human reaction time, which one online test clocks at 273 milliseconds. Nowadays, customer-facing applications need to respond in as close to real-time […].

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Canadian startup Wyvern only just announced a $4.5 million seed round (which itself nearly doubled close to the wire thanks to new commitments) and entry into Y Combinator, and now it’s revealing that it has landed another $4 million in funding via Canada’s Sustainable Development Technology (SDTC) program. The SDTC program offers startups at seed, growth and scale-up stages funding for projects that can potentially move the needle on clean tech, through partnerships with agencies an

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CloudZero

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

As cloud use has increased, so have the costs associated with it. In 2020, surveyed organizations reported being over budget for their cloud spend by an average of 23%. Most are spending more than they expected, and to top it off — they don’t feel they’re getting value from that spend.

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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.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Dating app company Bumble, Inc. is making its first acquisition with today’s news that it’s adding the fast-growing French dating app Fruitz to its family of applications. Though Bumble, Inc. already has an international footprint as the parent company to Badoo, which is particularly popular in Europe, it sees the addition of Fruitz as a way to gain more traction with a younger, Gen Z audience.

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Dzone - DevOps

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

While working on establishing short- and long-term goals with a client, my focus was establishing horizon two and three objectives in the McKinsey Three Horizons Model. For those who are not aware of this framework, horizons two and three focus on new and next-generation features and functionality. At the top of my priorities list for this project was the adoption of an API gateway.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

As we head full throttle into a new year, the continued state of uncertainty is enough to make anyone have some sleepless nights. For those whose insomnia has taken over, Dawn Health , an insomnia treatment startup, wants to put you back in control over your sleep. The company was founded last year by Rahul Shivkumar, previously a product engineer with Intercom and Microsoft; Andreas Meistad, a cognitive behavioral therapist; and Varun Krishnamurthy, previously a software engineer at Yahoo.

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Dzone - DevOps

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

When it comes to delivering software through a DevOps model, the primacy of the platform is increasingly evident. DevOps platforms are multi-tenant, self-service oriented, developer-centric, and are an essential component of a multi-cloud strategy. They provide guide rails and standardized tools and technologies for developers to build, test, and iterate with ease.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

For many of us, our home is by far our biggest asset, and in the world of fintech, that’s led to a logical extension: when you need money, borrow against that biggest asset. Today, a London fintech called Selina , which provides flexible capital to consumers on five-year terms against up to 85% of the value of their homes — so-called Home Equity Line of Credit (HELOC) loans — is announcing $150 million in funding on the heels of making $100 million in loans out to homeowners.

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Dzone - DevOps

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Anyone who’s been in a rapidly scaling company with an ever-expanding engineering team knows that communication is never as simple as it seems. That’s why we were so excited when Shankar Ramaswamy decided to sit down with Dev Interrupted.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

SoftBank Vision Fund 2 has led a $300 million investment in ElasticRun as the Japanese conglomerate doubles down on its commerce bet in the world’s second largest internet market. Goldman Sachs and existing investor Prosus Ventures also participated in the Pune-headquartered startup’s Series E round, according to regulatory filings ElasticRun made on Monday.

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CEO Insider

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

It was two weeks before go-live. A small, dedicated team had worked for six months on the project’s many aspects. The software was ready to go. Publicity for this initiative had been happening for a good while. Training sessions explained the ins and outs of the new system and staff were learning the soft skills […]. The post Shelving a project?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Remember Wag? The dog-walking app made huge waves back in 2018 when it raised $300 million from SoftBank’s Vision Fund. Competing with rival Rover , Wag’s service fell out of our minds in the years since its mega-deal. Today, Wag is back in the news thanks to a recently announced SPAC deal that will take the company public. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.

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Dzone - DevOps

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

OroCRM is a customer relationship management software. It is a simple and low-cost CRM system ideal for small and medium-sized enterprises. OroCRM is an integrated CRM, marketing automation, and live chat platform that helps marketers build genuine relationships with their prospects and customers. It has all the features to create, manage, measure, and optimize customer journeys.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Morai , which provides autonomous vehicle developers with automotive simulation tools to verify the safety and reliability of self-driving systems, announced today it has raised $20.8 million (25 billion KRW) in a Series B funding round as it wants to increase its global presence, specifically into the U.S., Germany, Japan and Singapore. . The fresh capital was led by Korea Investment Partners along with KB Investment and Korea Development Bank.

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Flexagon

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

FlexDeploy helps create packages and deploy Salesforce changes from Org to Org or your source control to Org. A challenge with some metadata objects, like Profiles and Custom Objects, is that they contain a lot of information. Developers may not be comfortable deploying a complete Object when only part of it was changed. For this use case, FlexDeploy provides functionality called Subcomponents deployment.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Every Monday, Grace and Alex scour the news, and record notes on what’s going on to kick off the week. Today we had a fun mix of news, and things that made us laugh. The Spotify-Rogan situation continued as last week ended, with more episodes of the show coming down.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2022

For many organizations, it’s worth considering shelving that prepackaged CRM product in favor of a purpose-built solution. For better and sometimes for worse, the pandemic has provided companies across the business landscape with a technology reality check, followed in many cases by a realization that the generic, one-size-fits-all software on which they had been depending […].

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Rating symptoms on a numerical scale seems easy, but it can be harder than it appears. How much did it hurt when you stubbed your toe? Was it a two out of 10? A four? How often do you wake up at night? Twice, three times? Regularly? Rarely? These imprecise, self-reported scales can be found throughout medicine, even relating to diseases where the stakes are higher than a bruised toenail.

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