DevOps.com
AUGUST 2, 2021
In this episode of DevOps Unbound, Alan Shimel is joined by Christine Yen of Honeycomb, Paul Bruce of Tricentis and Mitch Ashley from ASG/MediaOps to discuss how to effectively test the performance of your applications and how bringing observability into testing environments helps DevOps teams identify and resolve issues early in the SDLC. The video […].
TechCrunch
AUGUST 2, 2021
Pet pharmacy Mixlab has developed a digital platform enabling veterinarians to prescribe medications and have them delivered — sometimes on the same day — to pet parents. The New York-based company raised a $20 million Series A in a round of funding led by Sonoma Brands and including Global Founders Capital, Monogram Capital, Lakehouse Ventures and Brand Foundry.
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The Crazy Programmer
AUGUST 2, 2021
Nowadays, intellectual property is a very important aspect of companies. Even more than ever. Therefore, we must protect it at all costs. Of course, all contracts written by a team of lawyers are important, but this is only one side of the coin. In the IT world, the software is such intellectual property. Millions of lines of code that make our world look the way it looks.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 2, 2021
Nektar.ai founders Aravind Ravi Sulekha and Abhijeet Vijayvergiya. Organizing information about prospective deals is a challenging task for B2B sales teams, since salespeople usually rely on multiple tools (email, Zoom, WhatsApp, etc) to talk with buyer committees. It becomes even more unwieldy when sales teams work remotely. Nektar.ai is a B2B sales productivity startup that wants to help sales team by reducing the amount of time they spend on manual data entry and providing analytics that can
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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.
Let's Grow Leaders
AUGUST 2, 2021
5 Ways to Scale Your Leadership and Motivate Your Large Team. You have a solid track record of building high-performance teams. But, now your team is bigger and you need to scale your leadership. Perhaps you’ve been promoted and your team has tripled in size. Or, maybe you’re leading a fast-growing start-up, and it’s no longer feasible to have the direct influence you once had with every employee and customer.
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CTOvision
AUGUST 2, 2021
Read Katie Brockman explain which is a better investment option, Bitcoin or Ethereum on Motley Fool : Bitcoin (CRYPTO:BTC) and Ethereum (CRYPTO:ETH) have had a rollercoaster of a year so far. Over the past 12 months, Bitcoin’s price has surged by nearly 300%, and Ethereum is up by more than 900% — and that’s despite […].
TechCrunch
AUGUST 2, 2021
Early-stage venture capital fund Newtopia VC launched Monday with $50 million to invest in tech startups based in Latin America. The fund will invest between $250,000 and $1 million in startups at the seed stage to help them achieve the milestones needed on the path to raising a Series A. Newtopia is led by five major players in the regional entrepreneurial ecosystem: Patricio Jutard, co-founder of MURAL; Mariano Mayer, former national secretary for entrepreneurs and SMEs in Argentina and founde
CTOvision
AUGUST 2, 2021
Read David Luki? list all the cyber threats that supply chains can face and how to mitigate them on Security Boulevard : Supply chain networks have been driven by technology over the years and have evolved accordingly. However, the same technologies that make supply chains faster and more effective also threaten their cybersecurity. Supply chains […].
TechCrunch
AUGUST 2, 2021
Swiss alternative protein company Planted has raised its second round of the year, a CHF 19 million (about $21 million at present) “pre-B” fundraise that will help it continue its growth and debut new products. A U.S. launch is in the cards eventually, but for now Planted’s exclusively European customers will be able to give its new veggie schnitzel a shot.
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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
CTOvision
AUGUST 2, 2021
Read Jared Simons analyze how Palantir Technologies, Inc. is following the business ideals of Palantir’s co-founder, Peter Thiel in its pursuit for growth on Seeking Alpha : Palantir (PLTR) is a software, data analytics company that’s carved out a niche serving the U.S. government and its allies. While this approach is carving out a market […].
TechCrunch
AUGUST 2, 2021
It’s no secret that the technology for easy business-to-business payments has not yet caught up to its peer-to-peer counterparts, but Yaydoo thinks it has the answer. The Mexico City-based B2B software and payments company provides three products, VendorPlace , P-Card and PorCobrar , for managing cash flow, optimizing access to smart liquidity, and connecting small, midsize and large businesses to an ecosystem of digital tools.
CTOvision
AUGUST 2, 2021
Aerospike, the provider of real-time data platforms, has expanded its Accelerate Partner Program for systems integrators, independent software vendors, cloud service providers, value-added resellers, and other hardware and software platform providers. “The acceleration of digital transformation initiatives across all industries is driving demand for a real-time data platform that can handle petabyte-scale workloads, maintain five-nines […].
TechCrunch
AUGUST 2, 2021
If you’re trying to develop fluency in a non-native tongue, language immersion is a crucial part of the learning process. Surrounding yourself with native speakers helps with pronunciation, context building, and most of all, confidence. But what if you’re an eight-year-old kid in Spain learning English and can’t swing a solo trip to the United States for the summer?
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.
CTOvision
AUGUST 2, 2021
Read Claire Bushey and Matthew Rocco explain how freight delays are disrupting supply chains in the United States on Financial Times : Wayne Kaylor knew his shipping container was parked somewhere in a Chicago rail yard. He just did not know where, and for 78 days, no one could tell him. Thanks to soaring consumer […].
TechCrunch
AUGUST 2, 2021
Columbus, Ohio-based Finite State, a startup that provides supply chain security for connected devices and critical infrastructure, has raised $30 million in Series B funding. . The funding lands amid increased focus on the less-secure elements in an organizations’ supply chain, such as Internet of Things devices and embedded systems. The problem, Finite State says, is largely fueled by device firmware, the foundational software that often includes components sourced from third-party vendors or
CTOvision
AUGUST 2, 2021
Andreessen Horowitz is adding a new, high-profile partner to help deploy its $2.2 billion cryptocurrency fund. Thirty-year-old Arianna Simpson is being promoted to general partner from deal partner roughly a year after joining, the company announced Monday. Simpson has become somewhat of a celebrity in the cryptocurrency world. She left a global marketing job at Facebook and […].
TechCrunch
AUGUST 2, 2021
German electric aircraft startup Lilium is negotiating the terms for a 220-aircraft, $1 billion order with one of Brazil’s largest domestic airlines, the companies said Monday. Should the deal with Azul move forward, it would mark the largest order in Lilium’s history and its first foray into South American markets. “A term sheet has been signed and we will move towards a final agreement in the coming months,” a Lilium spokesperson told TechCrunch.
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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.
CTOvision
AUGUST 2, 2021
PayPal president and CEO Dan Schulman has issued new details about the payment giant’s Bitcoin and cryptocurrency services expansion. As part of the company’s Q2 earnings call Wednesday, Schulman hinted at the possibility buy and sell functionality would be available in the U.K. as soon as next month, a development that would find it following through […].
TechCrunch
AUGUST 2, 2021
We know how much you love a good startup pitch-off. Who doesn’t? It combines the thrill of live, high-stakes entertainment with learning about the hottest new thing. Plus, you get to hear feedback from some of the smartest folks in the industry, thus learning how to absolutely crush it at your next pitch meeting with a VC. With all that in mind, we’re introducing a special summer edition of Extra Crunch Live that’s all pitch-off, all the time.
High Scalability
AUGUST 2, 2021
What would a totally new search engine architecture look like? Who better than Julien Lemoine , Co-founder & CTO of Algolia , to describe what the future of search will look like. This is the first article in a series. Search engines, and more generally, information retrieval systems, play a central role in almost all of today’s technical stacks.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 2, 2021
Shares of Square are up this morning after the company announced its second-quarter earnings and that it will buy Afterpay , an Australian buy now, pay later (BNPL) player in a $29 billion deal. As TechCrunch reported this morning, Afterpay shareholders will receive 0.375 shares of Square in exchange for their existing equity. Shares of Afterpay are sharply higher after the deal was announced thanks to its implied premium, while shares of Square are up 7% in early-morning trading.
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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.
DevOps.com
AUGUST 2, 2021
A report published by the Continuous Delivery (CD) Foundation suggests that, in terms of achieving that goal, most organizations still have a long way to go. Based on analysis of the Developer Nation survey data collected by SlashData, nearly two-thirds of developers said it takes at least one week to go from code committed to […]. The post Report: Lots of Room for Continuous Delivery Improvement appeared first on DevOps.com.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 2, 2021
BoxGroup has quietly, yet diligently, been funding companies at the early stage for over a decade. The 11-year-old firm in fact was the first investor in Plaid, a fintech company that nearly got sold to Visa last year for billions of dollars. It has seen a number of impressive exits over the years, proving an eye that can detect winners before the winners themselves may even realize it.
Dzone - DevOps
AUGUST 2, 2021
In our Daily debugging we need to analyze logs files of various products. Reading those log files is not an easy task, it requires special debugging skills which can only be gained through experience or by god’s grace. Now while debugging we might need to extract some of the data or we need to play with a log file which can not be done by just reading, there is a need for commands.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 2, 2021
Stewart Hillhouse. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Stewart Hillhouse writes actionable growth marketing insights as senior content lead at Demand Curve. By night, he interviews marketers and creatives on his podcast, Top Of Mind. Before getting into marketing, Stewart was a semi-professional lumberjack. He also writes at stewarthillhouse.com. More posts by this contributor.
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“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.
CTOvision
AUGUST 2, 2021
Read Joanna Konings’ analytical commentary about why supply chain issues will continue to persist in the near future and the reasons behind it on ING Blog : As global demand improves and continues to support industrial production, we think supply chain problems are here to stay, making it difficult and expensive for firms to get […].
TechCrunch
AUGUST 2, 2021
Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. Last week, Natasha and Alex jumped on Twitter Spaces to discuss the tale of two edtech IPOs: Duolingo, the consumer language learning company , and PowerSchool, the enterprise K-12 software platform. It was a rare moment in the sun for the recently revitalized sector, which saw two companies list on the stock market on the same dang day.
O'Reilly Media - Ideas
AUGUST 2, 2021
Security continues to be in the news: most notably the Kaseya ransomware attack, which was the first case of a supply chain ransomware attack that we’re aware of. That’s new and very dangerous territory. However, the biggest problem in security remains simple: take care of the basics. Good practices for authentication, backups, and software updates are the best defense against ransomware and many other attacks.
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