DevOps.com
DECEMBER 22, 2020
Through identity and access management (IAM), it is possible to assign policies that determine whether a user and the role can access particular services or not. An IAM system is also supposed to maintain the principle of least privilege (POLP), which grants the roles and users the permission to access certain resources. As a business […]. The post The Best IAM Practices for DevOps appeared first on DevOps.com.
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 22, 2020
Even in a non-hell year, running a successful startup is a tremendous lift. After the events of 2020, however, no doubt many already lean businesses are hanging on by the skin of their teeth. For every company that saw increased interest in their offerings during the pandemic, there were several that simply couldn’t make it through the finish line. We’ve put this list together for several years now.
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Martin Fowler
DECEMBER 22, 2020
Like most people, I'm looking forward to seeing 2020 in the rear-view mirror, but even this ugly year has brought some good things. For the last three decades I've regularly bought a few albums every month, and I thought I'd pick out a half-dozen favorites in the hope that they lead some readers to share at least a bit of my musical tastes. I've been doing most of my musical buying on Bandcamp, so you can easily sample them.
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 22, 2020
WeRide, one of China’s most-funded startups developing autonomous driving capabilities, said on Wednesday that it has raised a $200 million strategic round from Chinese bus maker Yutong. Mega investments aren’t uncommon at companies like WeRide developing the next-generation level 4 driving standard, which denotes that the car can handle the majority of driving situations independently without human intervention.
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.
Xebia
DECEMBER 22, 2020
Any company wants to adapt quickly because of new or changed business ideas, or because of changes in the market. Only by adapting quickly, you can stay ahead of the competition. For a company that relies heavily on software built in-house, like Picnic, this means software needs to change rapidly. This is where things get […]. The post Staying Ahead Of The Competition With Executable Specifications appeared first on Xebia Blog.
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DevOps.com
DECEMBER 22, 2020
Microservices are all the rage. A Forrester study found that 76% of enterprises were rearchitecting applications for microservices. At the same time, microservices are definitely not a silver bullet. Among those already using microservices in production, one study found that 59% said each microservice added increased operational challenges such as data management.
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 22, 2020
Indianapolis-based Boardable , a provider of board management software tools for nonprofits, has raised $8 million in a new round of financing, the company said. The investment came from Base10 Partners with participation from the company’s seed-stage backer, the Indianapolis-based enterprise investment firm High Alpha. Boardable provides organizational tools to help nonprofits better manage their board meetings and offers management solutions for nonprofit operations.
TechBeacon
DECEMBER 22, 2020
2020 showed all the ways that data security could go wrong. Ransomware took off, with one incident-response firm attributing more than half of all of its 2020 breach investigations to ransomware attacks. Data sprawl and cloud access to data have become significant threats, as many employees moved to remote work and expanded companies' potentially breachable attack surface area.
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 22, 2020
Google said on Tuesday it is investing in two Indian startups, Glance and DailyHunt, as the Android-maker makes a further push into the world’s second-largest internet market. Two-year-old Indian startup Glance, which serves news, media content and games on the lock screen of more than 100 million smartphones , has raised $145 million in a new financing round from Google and existing investor Mithril Partners.
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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.
Darktrace
DECEMBER 22, 2020
Darktrace recently detected and investigated a WastedLocker attack. This blog explores how this high-speed, high-stakes ransomware uses ‘living off the land’ techniques to bypass traditional security tools, and how Darktrace Antigena can autonomously stop this threat in its earliest stages, before encryption has begun.
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 22, 2020
Group Nine Media — which owns Thrillist, NowThis, The Dodo, Seeker and PopSugar — is the latest company to form a SPAC, according to a filing with the SEC. These blank-check corporations, as they’re also known, have become a popular way to raise money from the public markets. The filing says that Group Nine is creating a SPAC “for the purpose of effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or similar business combination.” The co
Darktrace
DECEMBER 22, 2020
Darktrace recently detected and investigated a WastedLocker attack. This blog explores how this high-speed, high-stakes ransomware uses ‘living off the land’ techniques to bypass traditional security tools, and how Darktrace Antigena can autonomously stop this threat in its earliest stages, before encryption has begun.
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 22, 2020
VergeSense, a startup that uses machine vision to help businesses better understand how their office spaces are being utilized, today announced that it has raised a $12 million Series B funding round led by Tola Capital. Including the company’s $9 million Series A round , which it raised earlier this year, VergeSense has now raised a total of $22.6 million.
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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.
InfoQ Culture Methods
DECEMBER 22, 2020
Law, science, and engineering offer three distinct approaches to logical thinking. Each is important in different circumstances, and in practice, we can use all three. How much understanding and control do you have of a situation? Do you simply need to follow the rules? Are you operating in a world of uncertainty and volatility? Or are you building and defining the rules as you go along?
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 22, 2020
Japanese startup Astroscale has shipped its ELSA-d spacecraft to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazahkstan, where it will be integrated with a Soyuz rocket for a launch scheduled for March of next year. This is a crucial mission for Astroscale, since it’ll be the first in-space demonstration of the company’s technology for de-orbiting space debris, a cornerstone of its proposed space sustainability service business.
Coding Dojo
DECEMBER 22, 2020
Who doesn’t hope to become a coder at Netflix? Considering that everyone and their mother is glued to the streaming … Read more >>. The post How to become a coder at Netflix appeared first on Coding Dojo Blog.
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 22, 2020
As we head towards the exits of 2020, we have one more name to add to our roll call of private companies that have reached the $100 million annual recurring revenue (ARR) milestone. Well, one and a half. But before we get into Nexthink and give Coalition a honorable mention, let’s talk about the startups we’re looking for in 2021. The $100 million ARR list came together by accident, a quirk of a newscycle that happened to have a few companies reach the threshold when I was in transit
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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.
David Walsh
DECEMBER 22, 2020
I’ve written a number of blog posts about JavaScript tricks: Promise tricks , type conversion tricks , spread tricks , and a host of other JavaScript tricks. I recently ran into another JavaScript trick that blew my mind: how to break a forEach loop , shared by Andrea Giammarchi! To break the forEach loop at any point, you can truncate the array’s length : const myArray = [1, 2, 3]; myArray.forEach(item => { //. do some stuff if(someConditionIsMet) { // Break out of the loop by t
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 22, 2020
ReturnSafe , a symptom checking and contact tracing employee health management toolkit for businesses, has raised $3.25 million in financing from investors including Fifty Years and Active Capital. . With companies looking to reopen operations and have their employees return to work safely, management toolkits that track employee health are piling into the market offering all sorts of strategies to maintain a safe work environment.
The Daily WTF
DECEMBER 22, 2020
Thanks again to everyone who submitted a holiday tale for our What the Fun Holiday special. Like all good holiday traditions, our winner indulges in a bit of nostalgia for a Christmas classic, by adapting the classic "A Visit From St. Nicolas", a trick we've done ourselves. But like a good WTF, Lee R also mixes in some frustration and anger, and maybe a few inside jokes that we're all on the outside of.
Kaseya
DECEMBER 22, 2020
Although 2020 was not the year any of us planned for, it has certainly been unforgettable. From all of us at Kaseya, thank you for trusting us with your security and IT management needs, right from backup and email security to endpoint management. These are the tools supporting today’s business environment and we are honored to be a part of the great work you are doing to serve your customers.
Speaker: Liran Meir Frenkel, Performance Management and RPA Sr Product Marketing Manager at NICE; Harpreet Makan, Practice Director at Everest Group; & Santhosh Kumar, Practice Director at Everest Group
As contact centers navigate the challenges of delivering excellence within budget constraints and adapting to evolving employee expectations, optimizing agent tasks becomes crucial. Discover a holistic approach across three pillars - people, process, and technology - that is essential to excel in this dynamic landscape, and explore how next-gen technologies such as generative AI, performance analytics, and process intelligence play a pivotal role in transforming contact centers into advanced CX
Next Level Blog
DECEMBER 22, 2020
What would you do if your customer base tripled almost overnight and their lives depended on you scaling up your leadership and your organization to meet the sudden surge in demand? That’s exactly the question that Los Angeles Regional Food Bank CEO Michael Flood and his team had to answer and act on this year. Their experience provides a case study that holds lessons for any organization in any sector.
Gitprime
DECEMBER 22, 2020
Software engineering leadership isn’t just about making goals and executing on development cycles. It’s about embracing each developer’s weirdness and giving them the space to create in their way.
Kaseya
DECEMBER 22, 2020
MSPs provide essential services to their clients. They keep their operations humming along while continually upgrading technology, reinforcing their defenses against cybercrime, and protecting them from threats, outages and data losses. But MSPs aren’t doing this out of the goodness of their hearts. This is a business, and profitability is key to growth and sustainability for MSPs of all shapes and sizes.
Megaport
DECEMBER 22, 2020
From finding out how to reduce your cloud spend to learning more about AWS Hosted Connection and Transit Gateway to the launch of Megaport Virtual Edge, these articles will help you hit the ground running in 2021. 2020 was without a doubt a difficult year for the world with the COVID-19 pandemic on all of our minds. As we look forward to the holidays and a new year, we wanted to highlight 5 of our.
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Just by embedding analytics, app owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework from Software Pricing Partners explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. You’ll learn: How to take a disciplined approach to pricing The three elements of the Packaging Decision Framework Ways to structure your new embedded analytics offering Download the White Paper to learn about How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics.
TechSoup
DECEMBER 22, 2020
For many students, the internship experience is integral to their college experience and understanding of the working world. In fact, The NACE Student Survey Report notes that 60 percent of students do an internship or co-op during their time in college. As internships continue to be relevant and sought after, nonprofits should think about how they can create valuable internship experiences for students.
Apiumhub
DECEMBER 22, 2020
At Apiumhub we listen to hours of working software and software architecture podcasts each week covering architecture patterns, DevOps and architecture, iOS architecture, Android architecture, Backend architecture, Frontend architecture, etc. Whether you listen to them on your way to work or while having lunch or fervently coding, I hope you find them inspiring, enlightening, and useful. 20 Software engineering podcasts to follow.
Honeycomb
DECEMBER 22, 2020
OpenTelemetry has evolved so much since the 2019 KubeCon North America in San Diego, where I live-demoed OpenTelemetry on the keynote stage and highlighted our alpha to the world. We’re excited to be entering general availability of our Collector and Tracing SDKs soon. While I missed the energy from the packed crowd of over 10,000 technologists cheering me on, it was wonderful that this year’s event was more accessible than ever to a worldwide audience.
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