Wed.Aug 31, 2022

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What Is Data Ingestion And Why Is It Essential?

Daffodil Software

Nowadays, businesses can produce data analytics based on big data from numerous sources. Once they acquire access to all of the requisite data sources for analytics and business intelligence in order to make better decisions. The transfer of this data is facilitated in a streamlined manner by different data ingestion strategies.

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Solid banks $63M for easier deployment of embedded fintech products

TechCrunch

Solid , which rebranded from Wise in 2021, raised a $63 million Series B round of funding to continue providing its fintech-as-a-service offering for companies wanting to launch and scale their own fintech products. The San Mateo-based company works with fintech and vertical SaaS companies and offers banking, payments, cards and cryptocurrency products via easy-to-integrate APIs.

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The 10 most in-demand IT jobs in finance

CIO

The US financial services industry has fully embraced a move to the cloud, driving a demand for tech skills such as AWS and automation, as well as Python for data analytics, Java for developing consumer-facing apps, and SQL for database work. The push is part of an industrywide trend toward making banking more accessible by giving customers better access to savings accounts, investments, and loans through digital services, according to careers website Dice.com.

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Stacked gets $13M to be the Twitch for web3 gamers

TechCrunch

Few areas in tech today are as polarized as the blockchain gaming space. Legacy developers and gamers are calling play-to-earn games Ponzi schemes, while crypto-believers say games that incorporate “tokenomics” are the future for empowering players and creators. Before the debate is settled, the ecosystem around blockchain games is already getting built and funded.

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Streamlining Database Compliance with CI/CD Integration

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

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IT Issues that Need Cleaning Up: Herzog’s Dirty Dozen

CIO

If you are at a supermarket, the “dirty dozen” is a list of foods that are considered the most tainted. Similarly, if you are working in an enterprise or for a service provider, the dirty dozen is a list of issues that tarnish IT infrastructure, “contaminating” current enterprise-grade implementations and exposing the dangers and risks associated with them.

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Schrodinger’s Open Banking

CIO

By David Andrzejek, head of financial services, DataStax. Schrodinger’s Cat is a quantum mechanics thought experiment in which a hypothetical cat can be considered to be both alive and dead simultaneously. I can’t help but think of open banking in the United States — it’s not here, and, at the same time, it’s very much here. Pushed in part by an assault by upstart fintechs and non-financial tech giants like Google and Apple, North American financial institutions are turning to application progra

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The next big market opportunity for micromobility is commercial, not consumer

TechCrunch

Drones, sidewalk robots and autonomous vehicles are being touted as some of the next big movers in the last-mile delivery space, but what of the humble bicycle? Global logistics and delivery companies like UPS, FedEx and Amazon have all begun trialing some form of electric bike or cargo bike for delivery. At the same time, startups are cropping up to provide both fleets of micromobility vehicles for enterprises and e-bike subscriptions for couriers and gig workers.

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Stable Diffusion Goes Public — and the Internet Freaks Out

DevOps.com

This week: A Stable Diffusion special. Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past week, you’ll have seen something about the new open source machine learning model for creating images. The post Stable Diffusion Goes Public — and the Internet Freaks Out appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Trans founders to VCs: ‘Cut me a check’

TechCrunch

There is no data to show how little venture funding goes to trans founders. All that exists is a report from Backstage Capital saying 1% of all venture funds went to founders openly identifying as LGBTQ+. (According to a recent Gallup poll , 7.1% of Americans identify as LGBT+.). That’s a staggeringly low amount of funding, although not surprising when considering how homophobia and transphobia could easily slip in and prevent investors from giving money to those they don’t support or understand

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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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Work Smarter Not Harder: How To Reach Peak Efficiency With A Virtual Assistant

CEO Insider

A well-run business is prepared for growth. Operational efficiency leads to improved customer experiences, the erosion of employee stress, and most importantly, enhanced revenue potential. Once processes run smoothly and teams collaborate seamlessly, businesses are positioned to innovate and grow. However, many leaders struggle to reach this target.

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9 strategies that will help you overcome your fear of fundraising

TechCrunch

Masha Bucher. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Masha Bucher is the founder and general partner of Day One Ventures , an early stage venture capital firm that backs customer-focused startups and leads their communications. The contracting private tech markets are driving down the pricing and frequency of funding rounds, while inflation cuts into companies’ runways, meaning they are able to build less product and acquire fewer users with the money they raised.

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Getting Started With GraphQL APIs

DevOps.com

GraphQL, a query language for APIs and a runtime for fulfilling those queries with your existing data, is rapidly growing in popularity. According to the latest State of JavaScript survey report, 44.3% of respondents said they had used GraphQL APIs in 2020 compared to only 5% in 2016. Additionally, many Fortune 500 companies now use […]. The post Getting Started With GraphQL APIs appeared first on DevOps.com.

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We need to unlearn the lessons of the 2021 fundraising bubble

TechCrunch

Immad Akhund. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Immad Akhund is the co-founder and CEO of Mercury and an angel investor with more than 250 investments. A tumultuous financial market, rising interest rates and an uncertain economic future are all infusing a certain flavor of pessimism into the market that is shifting the power dynamic back in favor of investors.

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“Build vs Buy Analytics?” The Question ALL SaaS Leaders Need to Answer in 2024

As a SaaS leader, you know that the more metrics, insights, and analytics you add to your products, the more engagement you’ll have – and the stickier your product will become with customers. At what point do you decide to keep building your analytics in-house or invest in an embedded analytics solution? Read our Build vs. Buy Analytics guide to learn: Top 4 benefits of embedded analytics A quick cost comparison of in-house analytics development vs embedded analytics 10 considerations to help yo

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Deliver Value: Happy Contributing People, Satisfied Customers, Thriving Business

Agile Alliance

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Duplo digitizes payment flows for African B2B enterprises, gets $4.3M seed funding

TechCrunch

The process of sending and receiving payments in a $1.5 trillion B2B payments market in sub-Saharan Africa is one where merchants commonly use manual invoices and inefficient processes that burden merchants and make them struggle with their businesses. Duplo , a B2B payments startup that solves these issues by enabling African enterprises to collect payments from their clients and partners and make payments to their suppliers and vendors, has raised $4.3 million in seed funding.

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Build Once, Deploy Anywhere

DevOps.com

This late in the game, it seems stunning to me that I have to write this, but there are plenty of you who aren’t there yet—so let’s try a different approach. A huge part of DevOps is reducing redundancy. We have cut the fat until it hurt, then refocused and cut some more. There is […]. The post Build Once, Deploy Anywhere appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Dear Sophie: What are the quickest visa options for bringing in international talent?

TechCrunch

Sophie Alcorn. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” She connects people with the businesses and opportunities that expand their lives. More posts by this contributor. Dear Sophie: What should we know about the H-1B lottery before we hire STEM OPTs?

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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Securing Shadow IT Takes an Interconnected Approach

TechBeacon

The need to secure shadow IT is nothing new. In the wake of COVID-19, however, figuring out how to rein in the rampant use of cloud-based tools, services, and software poses greater challenges and more risks than ever.

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Reviver is building a company one licence plate at a time

TechCrunch

Do you want to run an “easy” startup? Be a coder, and realize that some aspect of your workflow is needlessly complicated. Create a tool to fix that, and spin it out as a dev-tools company. Get your first 100 customers from all of your friends, then raise $5 million to sell it to everyone else, and eventually, GitHub or Salesforce gets bored of paying you to use the tools and buys the whole company instead.

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Article: The Implication of Feedback Loops for Value Streams

InfoQ Culture Methods

Lead time and throughput are dynamic variables which impact flow in a value stream. Capacity, processing time and feedback loops (such as error conditions) have a significant impact on WIP and flow and need to be mapped and measured when building value stream maps By Pavel Azaletskiy, Jack Maher.

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Klarna, Affirm show how expensive fintech growth can be

TechCrunch

Just how lucrative is the buy now, pay later (BNPL) market? New data from Klarna and recent earnings results from Affirm make it clear that building a global business in the fintech space is far from inexpensive. The two companies, Affirm American and Klarna Swedish, are among the most valuable players in the BNPL market today. Both recently reported financial results.

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Addressing Top Enterprise Challenges in Generative AI with DataRobot

The buzz around generative AI shows no sign of abating in the foreseeable future. Enterprise interest in the technology is high, and the market is expected to gain momentum as organizations move from prototypes to actual project deployments. Ultimately, the market will demand an extensive ecosystem, and tools will need to streamline data and model utilization and management across multiple environments.

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The 15 Best GCP Cost Optimization Tools (Updated 2022)

CloudZero

Cost management in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) can be complex. It's a lot like costs in Azure or AWS. Often, companies don't know where to begin when they receive 20-page invoices.

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Coming out of COVID, investors lose their taste for board meetings

TechCrunch

Two weeks ago, longtime venture capitalist Chris Olsen, a general partner and cofounder of Drive Capital in Columbus, Ohio, settled into his seat for a portfolio company’s board meeting. It turned out to be a maddening exercise. “Two of the board members didn’t show up, and the company had a resolution on the agenda to pass the budget,” recalls an exasperated Olsen.

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When — and Why — You Should Explain How Your AI Works

Harvard Business Review

Four scenarios in which companies should be prepared to explain an algorithm’s predictions.

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Zilla Security automates identity access and governance across an organization

TechCrunch

Identity is a big part of any security strategy, helping control access to applications and services across a company. Sometimes that involves a person, and sometimes a machine, adding to the complexity and requiring a more automated approach to identity management. Zilla Security , a Boston-based startup, believes it has come up with a solution to meet these more modern identity requirements.

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How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics

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.

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AppSec Decoded: Addressing NIST guidelines begins with understanding your risk profile

Synopsys

In part two of our series on the new NIST guidance on supply chain risk management, we discuss the importance of understanding your risk profile. The post AppSec Decoded: Addressing NIST guidelines begins with understanding your risk profile appeared first on Application Security Blog.

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Let’s talk about party rounds

TechCrunch

When it comes to types of venture capital instruments, party rounds are as controversial as they come. A party round is an early-stage financing round, usually occurring between the pre-seed and Series A stages, that includes a laundry list — or “party” — of individual investors. It’s different from a more traditional round, which may look like it’s led by one or two institutional investors with a few participating investors also taking part.

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Quiet Quitting Is About Bad Bosses, Not Bad Employees

Harvard Business Review

Decades of research shows that workers are much more likely to go the extra mile when their managers invest in them.