DevOps.com
APRIL 20, 2021
At its online RedisConf 2021 event, Redis Labs today detailed how the company’s in-memory database will be employed to drive real-time applications that are at the core of most digital business transformation initiatives. Yiftach Shoolman, Redis Labs CTO and co-founder, said there are four initiatives at the core of the Redis Labs effort to replace […].
TechCrunch
APRIL 20, 2021
“Challenger” startups in banking and insurance have upended their industries, and picked up significant business, by building more customer-friendly tools and services — more personalized, easier to access and usually competitively priced — than those typically provided by their bigger, incumbent rivals. Now, a startup out of Romania that is building tools to help the incumbents respond with better services of their own is announcing a significant round of funding as its
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Agile Alliance
APRIL 20, 2021
April 18-24th, 2021 is Volunteer Week in the US and Canada, and at Agile Alliance we recognize that much of our work and service to the community is accomplished through the hard work of many volunteers. As a member-supported organization, we want to give a round of thanks to the people who keep all of … Continued. The post A Huge Thank You to Agile Alliance Volunteers first appeared on Agile Alliance.
TechCrunch
APRIL 20, 2021
Earlier this year we covered the launch of Heights , a new supplements startup in an increasingly hot category. Feel is a year-old U.K. startup with another twist on this world: pure nutritional supplements. It’s now closed a $6.2 million investment, led by Fuel Ventures, with participation from TMT Investments, Sova VC, Richard Longhurst (founder of LoveHoney.com) and Igor Ryabenkiy (founder and GP of Altair Capital).
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Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.
TechBeacon
APRIL 20, 2021
Whether you’re reviewing a team member’s pull request, pairing, or even reviewing your own code before deploying, code review provides a moment to step back from the code and ask yourself the important questions.
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DevOps.com
APRIL 20, 2021
While modern business software solutions unlock organizational efficiencies, agility and the ability to deliver new value to customers, such tools were not available when applications deployed on mainframe systems were being developed. Today, many of the Fortune 500 companies, the world’s largest banks and insurance companies and several of the largest retailers in the U.S. […].
TechCrunch
APRIL 20, 2021
Apple’s introduction of ARKit changed the game for entrepreneurs, not unlike the App Store did on a much, much larger scale back in 2008. One entrepreneur, Dana Loberg , has capitalized on the launch of ARKit with her startup Leo AR. Leo is the result of a few pivots. The company first started out as MojiLala, which launched out of betaworks. It was a hassle-free sticker marketplace that allowed artists to upload their stickers and sell them through the platform for end-users to use in a n
TechBeacon
APRIL 20, 2021
Software development practices change fast. Development teams use an endless stream of new tools, frameworks, and practices, and it’s your job as a test engineer to make sure that no matter what your development teams use or create, everything runs and works reliably.
TechCrunch
APRIL 20, 2021
Catch&Release founder and CEO Analisa Goodin told me that she wants to help brands break free from the limitations of stock photography — and that her startup has raised $14 million in Series A funding to achieve that goal. Goodin explained that the company started out as an image research firm before becoming a product-focused, venture-backed startup in 2015.
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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
Tenable
APRIL 20, 2021
Threat actors are leveraging a zero-day vulnerability in Pulse Connect Secure, for which there is no immediate patch scheduled for release. Background. On April 20, Pulse Secure, which was acquired by Ivanti last year, published an out-of-cycle security advisory (SA44784) regarding a zero-day vulnerability in the Pulse Connect Secure SSL VPN appliance.
TechCrunch
APRIL 20, 2021
Many large enterprises now rely on hundreds of third-party SaaS applications to do business, but their security organizations can barely keep pace. Right now, the state of the art for SaaS enterprise security are cloud access security brokers (CASBs) that act as intermediaries between users and the actual service. But they don’t provide the kind of visibility that enterprises want since employees will often route around their IT departments.
DevOps.com
APRIL 20, 2021
In true DevOps fashion, I nearly forgot to cover the mainframe after saying it warranted its own blog! There is a lot going on right now in the mainframe space, so the question of mainframe language choices has several different answers. We’ve got Linux running on the mainframe, we’ve got cross-compiled open source capable of […]. The post Languages and DevOps: Mainframe appeared first on DevOps.com.
TechCrunch
APRIL 20, 2021
Farshad Yousefi and Masoud Jalali used to drive through Palo Alto neighborhoods and marvel at the outrageous home prices. But the drives sparked an idea. They were not in a financial position to purchase a home in those neighborhoods (to be clear, not many people are) either for investment or to live. But what if they could invest in homes in up and coming cities throughout the U.S.?
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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.
DevOps.com
APRIL 20, 2021
Human skills, among others, have always been important; now more than ever. Empathy, diversity, creativity, personal commitment have been put to the test. The increase in remote work tends to challenge individuals in unique ways, and these human skills are becoming critical. Top 5 Skill Domains for 2021 This year, 69% of respondents to the […].
TechCrunch
APRIL 20, 2021
The U.K.’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has given the go ahead to local startup sees.ai, which is developing a beyond-visual-line-of-sight (BVLOS) command & control solution to aid data capture for industrial use-cases, to trial a concept for routine BVLOS operations — the first such authorization for a U.K. company, the regulator said today.
Dzone - DevOps
APRIL 20, 2021
If your AWS Kubernetes bill went way over your budget this month, it’s not your fault. Typically, companies go over their cloud budgets by 23% ( Flexera ). Cloud providers aren’t exactly helping here. The bills are long, complicated, and hard to understand. AWS has 150+ types of EC2 instances available so how are you supposed to make sense of it all?
TechCrunch
APRIL 20, 2021
Community banks and credit unions aim to be the heart of the, well, communities, they serve. But without the big budgets of larger institutions, keeping up technology-wise can be a challenge. And not only are they competing with legacy players, there is also a slew of digital banks that have emerged in recent years, as well. Enter MANTL , a startup that has developed technology to make it easier for people to open accounts digitally at community banks and credit unions so that those institutions
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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.
TechSoup
APRIL 20, 2021
Seeing as how it is one of the original forms of online communication, it's pretty astonishing that email marketing has continued to maintain a central role in our daily lives as nonprofit professionals. How does email marketing fit within your nonprofit's communication strategy? Does your nonprofit even have an email marketing strategy?
TechCrunch
APRIL 20, 2021
A week after the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase staged a direct listing, much of the focus remains on the wealth that the listing generated for executives at the company, its board members, and its private investors. Citing data from Capital Market Laboratories, Cointelegraph on Monday noted, for example, that 12,965,079 shares worth close to $5 billion at the time had been sold by insiders by the close of stock market on Friday.
Toptal
APRIL 20, 2021
What does the motion design industry encompass, how does motion design impact business, and what problems are motion designers uniquely equipped to solve?
TechCrunch
APRIL 20, 2021
WayUp started out as a platform to help college graduates find jobs and internships , but over time, it has increasingly focused on helping employers find diverse job candidates. And it recently introduced a new feature to help those employers see exactly where their diversity and inclusion efforts may be falling short. Co-founder and CEO Liz Wessel explained that when companies aren’t hiring enough employees from diverse backgrounds, recruiters and executives often assume “we’
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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.
David Walsh
APRIL 20, 2021
Navigating and managing data structures is a really important skill for every level of engineer to have and improve upon. Over the years, the JavaScript language has continued to provide more methods for managing data structures, from Object.keys to Object.values and so on. One of my favorites is Object.entries , an API that provides the keys and values via an array of arrays.
TechCrunch
APRIL 20, 2021
The food tech industry is effectively now going into fast food. Sweetgreen in the U.S. is a “fast-casual” restaurant chain that serves healthy “bowl food”. It’s raised $478.6 million. A similar firm is Sweetfin. Both employ a lot of tech in their back-end to improve efficiencies. Into this area has come European startup Poke House , which is effectively industrializing the production of “poke bowls” for food delivery platforms.
CEO Insider
APRIL 20, 2021
A popular consumer goods company needed a strategic transformation to find its place in the growing health and wellness segment. The board hired a new CEO to lead the charge – a solid start but that alone was not enough. To make the transformation successful, the top leadership team would need to be aligned around […]. License and Republishing: The views expressed in this article Adapting Today’s C-Suite for Tomorrow’s Challenges are those of the author Anthony Abbatiello alone and not the
TechCrunch
APRIL 20, 2021
The investment landscape for insurtech startups is off to a hot start in Q2 2021. Since the end of the first quarter, we’ve seen several players in the broad startup category announce new capital, including Clearcover , Alan , Next Insurance and The Zebra. But, as anyone who’s familiar with startups that offer insurance-related products and services knows, the sector is enough of a mixed bag that one needs to segment down to get clarity on how constituent companies are performing.
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Invid Group
APRIL 20, 2021
Can You Connect Your Apps With Microsoft Teams BY: Neisha Santiago Microsoft Teams has taken the enterprise world by storm. Since its inception back in 2017, Teams has seen an incredible pace of growth, having 115 million daily active users in October 2020. To put that metric in perspective, 13 million daily active users used Teams in July of the previous year.
TechCrunch
APRIL 20, 2021
As AI improves, the possibilities of what we can do with the technology grow exponentially (for better or worse). Synthesia , an AI video generation platform, is looking to make video content creation as simple and efficient as possible, and FirstMark is taking a bet on it making the world better, and not worse. The company has just announced the close of a $12.5 million Series A funding round led by FirstMark Capital , with participation from angels Christian Bach (CEO, Netlify) and Michael Buc
InfoBest
APRIL 20, 2021
Over the past year, the COVID-19 pandemic has turned upside down the way we work and interact with each other. Traditional work models have been replaced with hybrid or fully remote ways of working. As a result, most of us have spent this past year separated from our colleagues and workplace. Nowadays, virtual meetings have become the new norm of greeting each other and working together as a team every day. 2020 was a year that asked a lot from all of us, and 2021 may not be that different.
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