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Agile2022: A New Hope

Agile Alliance

We’ve made some big changes to the program for Agile2022. Our conference chair Kevin Stevens breaks it all down and shares why this year’s conference will be different than in years past. The post Agile2022: A New Hope first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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As Docker gains momentum, it hauls in $105M Series C on $2B valuation

TechCrunch

It wasn’t that long ago that Docker looked like it was on the ropes. In 2019, it sold its enterprise business and decided to focus strictly on a developer audience with a set of commercial and open source tools. It was a pretty big bet for a six-year-old company to sell off the part of itself that was most lucrative at the time and completely shift its focus.

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Peaks or Valleys? Three Factors to finding Agile Scaling Success

Agile Alliance

Have you ever thought to yourself. • How can we make Agile Scaling less of a goal itself and more of a method to get our organizational goals? • We know we need to scale but where do we go from here? If you have, come to this session to get the answers you've been … Continued. The post Peaks or Valleys? Three Factors to finding Agile Scaling Success first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Microsoft acquires process mining vendor Minit to grow its automation offerings

TechCrunch

Signaling its ambitions in the process automation market, Microsoft has acquired Minit , a Bratislava, Slovakia-originated process mining technology vendor, for an undisclosed sum, the companies announced today. Microsoft says that the purchase will “further empower” it to “help … customers digitally transform” by creating a more complete picture of their processes — and identifying which of those processes are ripe for automation. “Minit currently enabl

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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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No Estimates at Scale in the US Federal Government

Agile Alliance

When conversations about improving our backlog refinement ceremony started, we had no intention of getting rid of points. We did not set out prove or disprove the #NoEstimates debates waged on social media. “We" were the three teams of E-Verify Modernization (EVE-MOD) product group. E-Verify is web-based system offered by US Citizenship and Immigration Services … Continued.

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6 Must-Haves for Maximizing Virtual Dojo Engagement

Agile Alliance

Immersive Learning Dojos are an agile staple that consistently yield longstanding success in terms of skill building and habit development. A major contributing factor to Dojo success is collocation. Think hyper-collocation: an open space concept filled with whiteboard walls, oversized monitors, pairing stations, and busy collaboration. But when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the worldwide lockdown … Continued.

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Social commerce platform Tushop set for Kenya growth after raising $3 million pre-seed funding

TechCrunch

Tushop , a social-commerce platform in Kenya that enables the group-buying of fast-moving consumer goods (FMCGs), is set for expansion across Nairobi after raising $3 million in pre-seed funding in a round led by 4DX Ventures. Founded last year by Cathy Chepkemboi , also the CEO, Tushop uses community-leaders, who collect orders from their neighbors and also support last-mile deliveries.

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GitLab Updates CI/CD Platform to Improve Dev Productivity

DevOps.com

GitLab has made available a 14.9 update to its namesake continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform that adds epic-linking, integrated security training, rule mode for scanning result policies and a revamped design, among other capabilities. The updated environment makes it easier to discover the state of the application development projects, GitLab said.

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Black Crow AI raises $25M to predict which products e-commerce customers will buy

TechCrunch

In the pandemic era, when digital storefronts have become a matter of course for retailers, data analytics is proving its worth. Tools that analyze customer data can help better maintain stock, build a supply chain, detect fraud and predict which products might appeal to particular customer segments. Those advantages — as well as their ability to forecast inventory and measure the effectiveness of marketing campaigns — have driven predictive analytics software revenues to record heig

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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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Positioning ML Devs and Teams for Success

DevOps.com

Intelligent applications are (by their very nature) complex. While conventional software basically consists of one thing (code), intelligent software involves code, models and data. As previously discussed, three distinct fields—DevOps, MLOps and DataOps—have evolved to govern each of these interconnected disciplines. Moving through the ML life cycle quickly and efficiently requires collaboration between teams in […].

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6 methods for reducing bias in candidate sourcing and screening

TechCrunch

Steve Bartel. Contributor. Steve Bartel is the CEO of Gem , a talent engagement platform backed by Greylock, Accel and ICONIQ. Over the last several years, an increasing number of companies have pledged to hire a more diverse workforce and begun releasing their diversity numbers annually. The results have been a mixed bag at best. With so many organizations saying that diversity hiring is among their top goals and making good-faith efforts to revamp their recruiting practices accordingly, our

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Spring4Shell FAQ: Spring Framework Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Tenable

Spring4Shell FAQ: Spring Framework Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. A list of frequently asked questions related to Spring4Shell. Tenable Research is closely monitoring updates related to Spring4Shell. As more information becomes available, we will update this FAQ with additional details about the vulnerability, including Tenable product coverage.

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The how and why of raising OT security capital

TechCrunch

Matt Gatto. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Matt Gatto is a managing director at Insight Partners. He focuses on high-growth software and SaaS businesses across infrastructure, healthcare and enterprise applications, and also has experience with leveraged buyouts. Last year was huge for the cybersecurity market, fueled by rising incidents of cyberattacks, particularly ransomware that disrupted services and held companies hostage.

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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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Women of Teradata: Molly Treese

Teradata

In honor of Women's History Month, we are spotlighting Molly Treese, Teradata's Chief Legal Officer, as she looks back at her career in law & recounts the importance of inclusion in the workplace.

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5 things first-time founders must remember when working with VCs

TechCrunch

Zach DeWitt. Contributor. Share on Twitter. As a partner at Wing Venture Capital, Zach Dewitt focuses on early-stage investments in transformative enterprise technologies. After winning the 2013 TechCrunch Meetup and Pitch-off , I decided to drop out of business school to pursue my startup full time. Two years and two award-winning iPhone apps later, we ultimately decided it was time to sell our technology to Snapchat.

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Designing Your DevOps Ecosystem for Multi-Cloud

DevOps.com

As companies grow and expand to become global enterprises, IT infrastructure inevitably becomes more complex. When it comes to cloud computing, that usually means maintaining multiple clouds. There are many reasons for using different cloud service providers (CSPs)—some by choice and others by mandate. For instance, a large enterprise with operations around the world may […].

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Deepki grabs $166 million to help real estate investors reduce carbon emissions

TechCrunch

French startup Deepki has raised a $166 million Series C funding round (€150 million). The company is building a software-as-a-service platform for the real estate industry. It’s a monitoring and analytics product that helps you take better decisions. Companies using Deepki can track and analyze ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) criteria, starting with carbon emissions generated by their real estate portfolio.

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How Embedded Analytics Helps Product Managers Exceed Their KPIs

Embedded analytics can help you deliver cutting-edge analytics experiences to your end-users that align with KPIs that are critical to the growth and success of your business. Read this eBook to learn how an embedded analytics platform, like Qrvey, can help PMs exceed the following KPIs: Growing revenue while improving customer retention rate Delivering rapid time to value Earning a high net-promoter score Increasing Gross Margin / Profitability Conversion rate from trial to paid Don’t just meet

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A holistic approach to students' digital safety

TechBeacon

The accelerated adoption of hybrid learning has shifted the way we think about student safety. What once was a simple approach to protecting students within four walls has shifted to protecting students outside campus borders and in the digital universe. But a standard cybersecurity approach will not work in the education sector.

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Antimatter raises $12M Series A to help SaaS companies keep their customer data secure

TechCrunch

With SaaS becoming the standard for most business software, the security demands on SaaS companies are constantly increasing. Add users who need their data sandboxed from others or kept in a specific geographic region and the workload for development and security teams only increases. Antimatter , which is coming out of stealth today and launching its service into private beta, offers a different kind of solution to these problems.

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Infinidat Celebrates Awards for Product Innovation, Channel Expansion and Leadership

Infinidat

Infinidat Celebrates Awards for Product Innovation, Channel Expansion and Leadership. Evan Doherty. Thu, 03/31/2022 - 08:52. If someone had told you in 2020 that Infinidat would go on to win one of the “Storage Product of the Year” accolades, a 5-star rating for its channel partner program, and top honors for its visionary leadership in the channel and marketing, would you have believed them?

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Pursuit closes $10M fund to spin up a self-sustaining job training program

TechCrunch

More Americans than ever want to escape the rut of a low-paying job, but quitting to pursue a new profession is a risky proposition. Pursuit has raised $10 million in funding for a promising and potentially self-sustaining new model for training up new tech workers in which learners only pay when they land a real position. The job market is a strange one right now: Tons of open positions, but workers are holding out, demanding fair compensation and good working conditions — and many jobs with th

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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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New Zero-day RCE Vulnerability Spring4Shell: What You Should Know

Aqua Security

A new critical zero-day vulnerability has been discovered in Spring, a popular open source framework widely used in modern Java applications. The issue could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the vulnerable system. The vulnerability has been assigned CVE-2022-22965, and Spring has already released a patch.

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Archie aims to remove the complexity of managing freelancers

TechCrunch

As more people moved to remote work over the past few years, there was also an uptick in people choosing freelance or contract work, leaving companies to figure out how to manage that worker segment. If you are one of those having to find work and manage payments, tax filings and invoices, there’s help from a number of startups — for example, Bill.com and Deel that are business-facing and freelancer-focused ones AfriBlocks , Malt , Worksome , Meaningful Gigs , SteadyPay and Contra —

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Is Platform Engineering the New DevOps or SRE?

Daniel Bryant

What is platform engineering and why might it be key to good developer experiences? Almost every day we hear about another organization building an internal developer platform or developer control plane. We’re not alone in observing this trend in platform engineering; when Humanitec polled 1,850 engineering organizations in 2021, they found that the majority are already building, or plan to build, their own internal developer platforms.

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Find out how AWS, Brex, Mayfield and Dell can help your company scale at TC Early Stage

TechCrunch

If there’s one thing you’ll get out of attending TC Early Stage in San Francisco on April 14, it’s an accelerated education in the essentials of building a successful startup. . Seasoned founders and industry experts cover a range of topics — find your product-market fit, develop your target customer personas, get feedback on your pitch deck, learn how to tell your story in a way that makes investors take notice and so much more. .

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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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5 Tips for Making Your Website Accessible

TechSoup

When you construct a public space, an important part of the process is ensuring that it is accessible to anyone who may visit. Whether it be an elevator, ramp, handrail, or other adjustments, it is a requirement that comes with the project. The same concept applies to your website, mobile application, and any other user-facing technology that your organization uses.

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Yelp expands restaurant health ratings in partnership with food tech startup Hazel Analytics

TechCrunch

Yelp is broadening its partnership with Seattle-based food tech startup Hazel Analytics to expand health ratings on its platform, the company announced on Thursday. The two companies are working together to further expand Yelp’s health grades information on restaurant listings. Yelp first partnered with Hazel Analytics last year to display inspection details for restaurants on its platform.

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Securing Your CI/CD Pipeline

Dzone - DevOps

This is an article from DZone's 2022 DevOps Trend Report. For more: Read the Report. Software firms have long relied on a DevOps approach to enhance agility and collaboration in software delivery. CI/CD pipelines automate processes in the software development lifecycle (SDLC) to enable seamless integration and delivery of new features. While CI/CD pipelines enhance software development through automation and agility, they involve integrating numerous tools and services, which can introduce secur

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