Dataiku

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Using RNNs & DeepAR Models to Find Out. Time series forecasting use cases are certainly the most common time series use cases, as they can be found in all types of industries and in various contexts. Whether it is forecasting future sales to optimize inventory, predicting energy consumption to adapt production levels, or estimating the number of airline passengers to ensure high-quality services, time is a key variable.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Image Credits: Wasp. It seems that a lot of startups are trying to help developers reduce the complexity involved in coding an app. Last week we covered the seed round for RunX , a company that helps developers code back-end cloud resources more quickly. Today, Y Combinator Winter 2021 graduate Wasp announced a $1.5 million seed round to help programmers code the business logic side of the application faster.

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Kentik

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Yesterday the world’s largest social media platform suffered a global outage of all of its services for nearly six hours. Facebook and its subsidiaries, including WhatsApp, Instagram and Oculus, were unavailable to its 3.5 billion users in what can arguably be considered the most impactful internet service outage in modern history. When we first heard about problems with Facebook, we checked Kentik’s OTT Service Tracker, which analyzes traffic by over-the-top (OTT) service.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Life insurance has had a new lease on life in the era of insuretech, and today one of the companies building a business out of rethinking everything — from target customers through to how to provision and pay for insurance, and how much coverage to give — is announcing some funding on the back of strong growth. Ladder , which providers flexible term life insurance policies providing coverage ranging from $100,000 to $8 million, has raised $100 million in equity funding, a Series D th

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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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DevOps.com

OCTOBER 4, 2021

A DevOps implementation, if done correctly, can do wonders for any organization that’s on the hunt for efficiency, productivity and speed. As per the 2020 survey conducted by Atlassian, 99% of survey respondents said that DevOps has had a positive impact on their organization. However, it won’t do any good if security isn’t prioritized while […].

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Nathan Magnuson

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Join Nathan’s 30 minute webinar “ Mastering REALLY Difficult Conversations ” on Oct 28 at 12pm CST. Something happened at work that set off your alarm bells. Maybe you’re a nurse and the physician ordered a drug you think may trigger an allergic reaction from the patient. Maybe your employee showed up late for the third time this month – and this time it caused you to miss an important deadline.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

With its subscription-based legal services platform, Lawpath wants to become the Asia Pacific’s LegalZoom (in fact, LegalZoom is one of its investors). Based in Sydney, Australia, Lawpath serves small businesses with services like legal documents, customized legal workflows, e-signatures, business registration, and on-demand lawyers. The company announced today it has raised $7.5 million AUD (about $5.5 million USD) to expand into new markets, including upcoming launches in New Zealand and South

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TechBeacon

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Boards of directors and top brass at companies sometimes look at cyber insurance as a way to plug gaps in their security schemes. That’s going to be a lot harder from now on because insurance companies have started tightening up their cybersecurity requirements for initiating and renewing policies.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Pioneered by Snapchat and cloned by Instagram, the “Stories” feature has become a staple for modern-day mobile apps from Google search to Pinterest to streaming apps and more. And while the addition doesn’t work for everyone — LinkedIn and Twitter recently shuttered their Stories features, for example — there’s enough demand for Stories out there on the market that a company called Storyteller has managed to create a revenue-generating business that provides &

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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.

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David Walsh

OCTOBER 4, 2021

For better or worse, form fields have been somewhat difficult to style with CSS. Form control display is dependent upon device, operating system, and browser, so you can imagine the difficulty in making styling easy. We have slowly been given some controls over form control display, as evidenced by accent-color ! The accent-color CSS property allows us to change the accent of input , input[type=radio] , and input[type=checkbox] elements!

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Founders seeking to raise their first round of capital may feel overwhelmed by the prospect. There is definitely plenty of capital out there, but there are also a lot of startups clamoring for it. To help new entrepreneurs figure out this dilemma, we invited three investors to speak at a panel titled, “How to Raise Your First Dollars,” during TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 so they could share their best tips on what you should do as you attempt to raise that money, as well as strategies for

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DevOps.com

OCTOBER 4, 2021

ReleaseIQ has launched an orchestration framework for the open source continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) environment that makes it possible for DevOps teams to orchestrate pipelines across multiple instances of Jenkins. Seetharam Param, ReleaseIQ CEO, said ReleaseIQ Essentials for Jenkins is an implementation of an existing orchestration platform that enables DevOps teams to orchestrate pipelines across […].

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Taking a small detour today from traditional Exchange topics — we’ll get to some IPO news later on — to talk briefly about climate, climate tech and pessimism. Last week on the podcast , the Equity crew spent a bit of time digging into the planetwide impacts that our warming world will endure in the coming years — and the role that startups can play in combating climate change.

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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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Kovair - DevOps

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Views: 26 SAN RAMON, CALIFORNIA. USA. October 4, 2021 Kovair a global provider of multiple software development and data synchronization tools today launched its Managed.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Company benefits make or break the ability to recruit top talent. On one side of that is 401(k), while on the other are consumer-directed benefits, any accounts offered by the employer to use for a designated purpose that typically has tax-advantaged benefits. Elevate has a new approach to how employers and employees access, manage and experience consumer-directed benefits.

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CEO Insider

OCTOBER 4, 2021

I still remember the best pitches I’ve ever heard over a decade later. I don’t remember the CAC or the LTV. I don’t even remember the business model or the revenue projections. Truly exceptional pitches are that memorable and it’s all because of how their story is told. As a corporate storyteller I’ve helped hundreds […]. The post The Secrets of Power Pitching – Pivot Your Story appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

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Teradata

OCTOBER 4, 2021

An interdisciplinary team from Volkswagen, AWS and Teradata have created an intelligent solution that enables greater transparency and efficiency in car body construction. Find out more.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

It’s said that you should measure what you value, and for founders, nothing is more valuable than growth. Growth provides revenues, venture capital, prestige and scale — ultimately driving the success of every business. Yet, measuring growth is complex and challenging — and it’s only getting tougher. Changes to attribution in iOS 14 and further refinements in iOS 15, plus other privacy-preserving initiatives in the industry, have forced growth marketers to rethink how they define their growth an

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Mentormate

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) are together the most powerful hidden impact that Agile can have on a product development or engineering organization. Why is it hidden? The benefits of CI/CD are abstract, but the cost of getting the team, skills, and automation in can be daunting. In addition, the work required to get the needed automation in place and working reliably requires dedication to detail to master the tools used and is often viewed as thankless and uninteresti

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

In a world where fintech is so hot right now, and investors are being swept up by their excitement for the space, Chime has managed to ride the wave to near perfection. The company has raised upwards of $2.6 billion , including a fresh $750 million just this year. The startup, playing in the fee-free banking space, now has a valuation of $25 billion.

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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.

Cabot Solutions

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Software development nearshoring to Canada is becoming more popular among companies looking for software solutions This article will help you decide whether nearshoring software development to Canada is the right choice for your business

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Byju’s has raised about $300 million as part of a larger round of new investment as the Indian edtech giant focuses on expanding its international business and aggressively explores merger and acquisition opportunities. A filing, supplied to TechCrunch by research firm Tofler, showed that the new investment values the startup at $18 billion, up from a valuation of $16.5 billion in June this year.

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Dzone - DevOps

OCTOBER 4, 2021

According to the 2021 Test automation report , more than 40% of companies are looking to expand and invest their resources in test automation. While this doesn’t mean manual testing is going away, there is an increased interest in automation from an ROI perspective - both in terms of money and time. After all, we can agree that writing and running those unit test cases is boring.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Informatica filed to go public late last week, some six years after it was taken private by two private equity teams for $5.3 billion. The data-focused company used its passage through the private markets to execute a move to the cloud, work that came to a head in early 2021, when Informatica announced its dive into the lakehouse market , where Databricks plays today.

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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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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Organizational trauma comes in many forms but impacts organizations in predictable, destructive ways. Here’s how to tell if trauma is harming your workplace. Today’s guest post is by Dr. Diana Hendel, author of Trauma to Triumph: A Roadmap for Leading Through Disruption and Thriving on the Other Side (CLICK HERE to get your copy). My understanding of organizational trauma was born of firsthand experience.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Stable , an insurtech aiming to help minimize a businesses’ risk due to volatile commodity prices, today announced it has raised $46.5 million in a Series A round of funding led by Greycroft. Notion Capital, Anthemis, Continental Grain and existing backers Syngenta and Ascot also participated in the financing, which brings the Chicago-based startup’s total raised to about $50 million since its 2016 inception.

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Dell EMC

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Windows 11 is almost here and we’re eager for people to experience the new features on Dell PCs for the first time.

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