Tandem

JANUARY 26, 2022

Tandem’s software consultants come from many different backgrounds, and many of our engineers began their coding careers at a bootcamp program. In this three-part series, Jess and Caleb share their thoughts on the bootcamp experience, post-bootcamp paths, and Tandem’s apprenticeship program. Why did you decide to go to coding bootcamp? Caleb: I’ve always gravitated toward STEM, because both curiosity and problem-solving are just a part of my character.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Identity verification (IDV) provider Veriff , has raised a $100 million Series C round co-led by Tiger Global and Alkeon. They were joined by existing investors IVP and Accel, bringing Veriff’s total funding to date to $200 million. The new funding means the company is now valued at $1.5 billion. The new financing will be used for growing the workforce, R&D, sales and marketing.

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Agile Alliance

JANUARY 26, 2022

New Agile Alliance Board Chair, Heidi Musser greets the Agile community with a message of hope for the future of our non-profit member organization. The post A message from new Agile Alliance Board Chair, Heidi Musser first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Husk Power Systems , a clean energy company that has been at the forefront of fueling rural electrification since 2008, is planning to launch 500 solar mini-grids in Nigeria over the next five years. The renewable energy firm revealed the plans today when it announced the signing of a voluntary commitment with the United Nations to grow its energy market in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

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DevOps.com

JANUARY 26, 2022

What is enterprise technical debt? Technical debt slows down organizations and hampers their ability to deliver. Studies show that technical debt can triple the cost of support for technical products and services. Beyond this, technical debt can cripple a company’s ability to make the rapid changes needed to compete in today’s marketplace. Those all describe […].

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

JANUARY 26, 2022

The pandemic has reshaped the global workforce area dramatically, causing tech companies to hire more remote developers. According to a recent Eurofound report, 34% of employees residing in the EU worked exclusively from home as of July 2021. Compared to pre-COVID statistics from 2018, that’s a whopping six-fold increase. The numbers are similar in other regions around the world.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Latin Americans seeking the ability to invest in companies trading on the Nasdaq and New York Stock Exchange now have a new option in Vest, a startup that has launched a mobile-first brokerage app with zero-commission trading in the Americas. CEO and co-founder Aaron Polhamus said he, Miguel Arroyo and Jaime Rodas were driven to start Mexico City-based Vest in December 2020 because of their belief that while Latin Americans work hard for their savings, “historically their savings have not worked

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TechBeacon

JANUARY 26, 2022

This year some organizers are holding their agile and lean development conferences in person, some are opting to present their events online, and still others are offering hybrid events.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

With sales teams now operating remotely, it is even harder to monitor how well they are performing. Atrium wants to make sure sales managers, sales development managers and customer success leads have the data-driven insights to be able to do that. The sales management technology company closed on $20 million in Series A funding to continue developing its tools that automatically monitor a company’s most important key performance indicators, get insights into performance to evaluate what is work

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Synopsys

JANUARY 26, 2022

Learn more about CVE-2021-4034, a newly discovered vulnerability in PolKit software used in major Linux distributions. The post CyRC Vulnerability Analysis: Local privilege escalation vulnerability discovered appeared first on Software Integrity Blog.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Glossier, the popular beauty brand led by former blogger Emily Weiss, let go of 80 of its corporate employees today, according to an internal email obtained by Modern Retail. The cuts, which amount to around one-third of Glossier’s corporate workforce, will primarily impact the company’s technology team. “[W]e are shifting our technology strategy to leverage external partners for parts of our platform that we’re currently maintaining internally,” Weiss wrote in the email announcing the layoffs t

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Radixweb

JANUARY 26, 2022

Here’s a legendary myth: Hiring a dedicated development team is like digging a big hole in your pocket. It comes with a cold layer of confusion between the in-house and outsourced team, communication barriers, unaffordable prices, fading team spirit, and so on. And here’s the bonafide myth-buster/fact: Such stereotypes are downright incorrect.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

In the rush to automate warehouses, forklifts are something of a no-brainer. Lifting heavy payloads already requires heavy machinery, and these systems are somewhat notorious for being involved in incidents, with tens of thousands of forklift accidents recorded in the U.S. alone each year. Massachusetts-based Vecna Robotics is among those firms looking to bring autonomy to pallet moving and other forklift-centric warehouse activities.

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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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xmatters

JANUARY 26, 2022

System outages happen to the best of us. Communicating with your customers and other stakeholders effectively during downtimes is vital to maintaining a solid relationship with them. When a system outage occurs, technical teams are tasked with swiftly locating the cause and resolving the issue, while communications teams are tasked with notifying stakeholders and customers about the outage to maintain transparency.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Byteboard founders Sargun Kaur and Nikke Hardson-Hurley were working at Google when they recognized a fundamental problem with the way engineers were being hired. They saw a process of obscure algorithms, and those with access to the content could (and usually would) study it for months. They thought engineers should be judged by their ability to code and do the job on a daily basis, so they started a company to create a different kind of engineering job interview.

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CloudZero

JANUARY 26, 2022

Many companies don’t know where to begin when migrating to AWS. Some worry their data will leak, while others don't know the most efficient migration strategy for AWS. Another group worries about overspending when moving to AWS.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

When the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a global health emergency at the end of January 2020, the startup world held its breath. Many entrepreneurs prepared for a slowdown in funding, putting hiring and expansion plans on ice as they searched for ways to continue operating in a world that had been remade by the pandemic. TechCrunch and other tech publications ran stories and interviews with investors who noisily departed Silicon Valley, screening potential investments r

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Dzone - DevOps

JANUARY 26, 2022

Hello folks, I have been sharing a lot of resources about programming job interviews like the books , courses , and some interview questions on the software design and data structures like an array, string, and linked list. So far, we have looked at only the linear data structures , like an array and linked list, but all information in the real world cannot be represented in a linear fashion, and that's where tree data structure helps.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Israeli startup Firebolt has been taking on Google’s BigQuery, Snowflake and others with a cloud data warehouse solution that it claims can run analytics on large datasets cheaper and faster than its competitors. Now, it is announcing a big round of funding to fuel its big data growth: Firebolt has raised $100 million in a Series C round on a $1.4 billion valuation.

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CableLabs

JANUARY 26, 2022

We are pleased to announce today’s issuance of new versions of the Flexible MAC Architecture (FMA) System and MAC Manager Interface (MMI) specifications. This release denotes the completion of phase one for the FMA specifications and opens the doors for beginning FMA interoperability events. Speaking of such events, we are also pleased to inform you that we have completed our first formal FMA interop.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

French startup Resilience announced yesterday that it has raised a $45 million (€40 million) Series A round led by Cathay Innovation. The startup wants to improve the treatment journey when you’re diagnosed with cancer so that you live a healthier and longer life. In addition to Cathay Innovation, existing investor Singular is also participating. Other funds are joining the round, such as Exor Seeds, Picus Capital and Seaya Ventures.

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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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The Accidental Successful CIO

JANUARY 26, 2022

In order to create a diverse workforce, CIOs need to have a diverse pipeline Image Credit: Frerieke. Every person with the CIO job wants to have an IT department that is quick and nimble. We want our staff to be able to anticipate what is coming and make sure that the company is ready when it arrives. CIOs also realize that in order to be able to do this, they need to make sure that their IT department is diverse.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Black Sheep Foods , a food tech company making plant-based heritage breed meats and wild game, took in $5.25 million in seed funding as it continues developing its patent-pending flavor compounds. Sunny Kumar, co-founder, told TechCrunch that where some plant-based meats fall short is relying on the taste to be generated by the mouth. Rather, his company is creating flavors that are detected in your nose and at the right time.

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CEO Insider

JANUARY 26, 2022

Asking for Referrals is often a completely underutilized strategy as part of business development for an organization. If the referral strategy is incorporated, it is often done well by only a few individuals but never across the whole business. Managers of teams often do not inspire their teams to ask for referrals or guide them […]. The post 7 steps to unlocking the power of clients to generate referrals – Just Ask!

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Banking giant UBS announced earlier today that it will purchase venture-backed robo-advisor Wealthfront in an all-cash transaction worth $1.4 billion. Wealthfront, which raised just north of $200 million while private, per Crunchbase data , is one of a few wealth management services that grew on the back of offering automatic investing tools to consumers.

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The Daily WTF

JANUARY 26, 2022

Brian 's hired a contractor to tackle a challenging technical problem: they wanted to display three links in three table cells. Now, you or I might just write that as HTML. But if we did that, we'd lose the opportunity to do this in JavaScript. Plus think of all that repetition- you'll be outputting a tag pair three times. That's just wasteful.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

You’ve got a hundred-million-dollar mission — why are you using software built in the ’90s to design and launch it? That’s the question being asked by many new space companies, and Epsilon3 is looking to help them bring their operations out of spreadsheets and Word docs and into a modern and collaborative work platform. We covered Epsilon3 when they made their debut last year , and since then the company has been hard at work bringing its OS for launch ops from prototype to pro

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Dzone - DevOps

JANUARY 26, 2022

Maintaining JMeter infrastructure for performance testing, CI/CD integration with the enterprise pipeline, and managing are cumbersome tasks. By leveraging the Infrastructure as Code solution, Terraform is one of the excellent ways to build, manage, and deploy JMeter infrastructure quickly and efficiently. In this blog, we are going to dive deeper into spinning up an AWS infrastructure with JMeter using Terraform.

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