Dataiku

APRIL 7, 2021

This tutorial provides a very basic, step-by-step example of batch scoring a machine learning (ML) model with scikit-learn, Docker, and Kubernetes. We’ll start with a basic Python example, dockerize our scoring code, and schedule our scoring on Kubernetes. I want to get you up and running quickly. But if you want to go even faster, I conclude this post by showing the same example in Dataiku, which makes batch scoring ML on Kubernetes fast and easy.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

As a company founded by data scientists, Streamlit may be in a unique position to develop tooling to help companies build machine learning applications. For starters, it developed an open-source project, but today the startup announced an expanded beta of a new commercial offering and $35 million in Series B funding. Sequoia led the investment with help from previous investors Gradient Ventures and GGV Capital.

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APRIL 7, 2021

It's often necessary to access the historical values of some property. But sometimes this history itself needs to be modified in response to retroactive updates. Bitemporal history treats time as two dimensions: actual history records what history should be given perfect transmission of information, while record history captures how our knowledge of history changes.

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APRIL 7, 2021

One of the more tedious aspects of machine learning is providing a set of labels to teach the machine learning model what it needs to know. Snorkel AI wants to make it easier for subject matter experts to apply those labels programmatically, and today the startup announced a $35 million Series B. It also announced a new tool called Application Studio that provides a way to build common machine learning applications using templates and predefined components.

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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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Xebia

APRIL 7, 2021

In a previous blog we talked about secure deployment. Secrets management is an important part of that. So what does that mean? In this blog we’ll give some pointers on how to do secrets management well in the perspective of a secure deployment. It’s easy to start saying “use tool X to store the secret” […]. The post Secure Deployment: 10 Pointers on Secrets Management appeared first on Xebia Blog.

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DevOps.com

APRIL 7, 2021

Linux does, occasionally, raise security concerns. While many users see it as the most secure, robust and versatile operating system available — that’s this writer’s opinion, as well — security precautions still have to be taken. A recent, widely publicized case illustrated this point; Linux creator himself, Linus Torvalds, warned against the use of the […].

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

ShareChat said on Thursday it has raised a new financing round that values it at over $2 billion, joining four other local startups in attaining the unicorn status this week. The Indian social network said it has raised $502 million in a new financing round — Series E — led by Tiger Global that valued ShareChat at $2.1 billion, up from about $650 million last year.

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Kaseya

APRIL 7, 2021

The migration to a remote workforce hit fast forward in the past year as businesses around the world asked employees to do from home what they used to do in the office. For some companies, this was an expansion of existing remote work activities, while it was a sudden shock for others. But after a year of attending business meetings in pajamas and zero-minute commutes, many employees are eager to keep their current work-from-home arrangements, at least some of the time, even after the pandemic i

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

Meet Nabla , a French startup launching a new app today focused on women’s health. On Nabla, you’ll find several services that should all contribute to helping you stay on top of your health. In short, Nabla lets you chat with practitioners, offers community content, helps you centralize all your medical data and will soon offer telemedicine appointments.

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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.

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TechBeacon

APRIL 7, 2021

According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, about one-quarter of IT workers in the United States do not hold a bachelor’s degree or higher. And while many businesses will interview only candidates with a certain level of education, most do not specify what type of degree is needed in their job descriptions, which range from software engineering to DevOps roles to software test automation engineers.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

Hiro Capital has gradually been making a name for itself as an investor in the area know as “Digital Sports” or DSports for short. It’s now led a $2.3 million funding round in PlayerData. While the round might sound small, the area it’s going into is large and growing. Also investing in the round is Sir Terry Leahy, previously the CEO of Tesco, the largest British retailer.

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DevOps.com

APRIL 7, 2021

If an organization desires a successful Agile transformation, the first step is to shift its thinking from ‘doing Agile’ to ‘being agile.’ Unfortunately, a commonly shared belief that Agile is just a software development methodology keeps too many companies stuck in the ‘doing Agile’ mindset. This belief ties back to the principles of Agile thinking […].

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

Thanks to major players like Amazon and Walmart, we’ve become accustomed to next- or same-day delivery. But the pandemic has also renewed our interest in buying from smaller businesses and retailers. Swyft , a company that has just raised $17.5 million in Series A, helps retailers of any size provide affordable same-day delivery. The round was co-led by Inovia Capital and Forerunner Ventures, with participation from Shopify and existing investors Golden Ventures and Trucks VC.

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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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DevOps.com

APRIL 7, 2021

Many people sometimes have a tough time figuring out what exactly digital transformation is and why it’s so important. I want to tell you a real-life story of how a once-respected brand, lululemon, has failed the digital transformation journey and, as a result, may fail in a new retail landscape. The story starts innocently enough […]. The post How lulu Became a Lemon: A Digital Transformation Fail appeared first on DevOps.com.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

Hundreds of thousands of used cars are sold in India each month. But buying one through the offline and traditional channel could prove to be a painstakingly long and high-risk process. A Gurgaon-based startup that is attempting to improve this experience said on Thursday it has raised a new financing round. Spinny has raised $65 million in its Series C financing round, the five-year-old Indian startup said.

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Dataiku

APRIL 7, 2021

Data has the power to transform your life by getting you accepted into your dream university or ruin it by falsely accusing you of a crime. In this blog post, we will discuss how organizations can use data in a fair way with insights from Nicole Alexander, Professor of Marketing & Technology, NYU and former SVP, Chief Innovation Expert, Ipsos, which she shared during the just-released Egg On Air Episode.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

Avant , an online lender that has raised over $600 million in equity, announced today that it has acquired Zero Financial and its neobank brand, Level, to further its mission of becoming a digital bank for the masses. Founded in 2012, Chicago-based Avant started out primarily as an online lender targeting “underserved consumers,” but is evolving into digital banking with this acquisition.

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CEO Insider

APRIL 7, 2021

The era of the chief risk officer (CRO) is upon us. Disruptions across the world are spurring changes in risk oversight and leading many organizations to think long and hard about adding a CRO. Consider the numbers: LinkedIn reports the number of CROs in the U.S. is rising. The RIMS 2020 Enterprise Risk Management Benchmark […]. License and Republishing: The views expressed in this article Three Reasons to Add a Chief Risk Officer to Your C-Suite are those of the author Jim Wetekamp alone

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

CaptivateIQ , which has developed a no-code platform to help companies design customized sales commission plans, has raised $46 million in a Series B round led by Accel. Existing backers Amity, S28 Capital, Sequoia and Y Combinator also participated in the financing, which brings the San Francisco-based company’s total raised to $63 million since its 2017 inception.

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DevOps.com

APRIL 7, 2021

In my experience, writing and distributing the postmortem is the least-practiced part of incident management. That is a shame, because it’s the bridge between resolving an incident and making sure it doesn’t happen again. The point of a postmortem is to capture the knowledge of what happened from the person who was there. If you […]. The post The Single-Sentence Postmortem appeared first on DevOps.com.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

Kavak , the Mexican startup that’s disrupted the used car market in Mexico and Argentina, today announced its Series D of $485 million, which now values the company at $4 billion. This round more than triples their previous valuation of $1.15 billion, which established them as a unicorn just a couple of months ago in October of 2020. Kavak is now one of the top five highest-valued startups in Latin America.

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TechBeacon

APRIL 7, 2021

The DevSecOps-CI/CD pipeline world is on the cusp of a major shift, away from manual to intelligent tools for building secure containers. Developers are looking for ways to deliver a faster CI/CD pipeline, a shift-left-everywhere approach, a reduction in the number of tools they use, streamlined, repeatable operations, and controls that are built in from the start, without even having to set them up or architect them, and with easy, ongoing maintenance.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

With 17 startups participating, Berkeley SkyDeck’s Demo Day isn’t the largest cohort we’ve seen by any stretch. The collection of companies is, however, defined by a wide range of focuses, from pioneering diabetes treatments to retrofitting autonomous trucking, curated by the SkyDeck’s small team and a number of advisors. Founded in 2012, the accelerator is focused on developing early-stage companies tied to the University of California system.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

APRIL 7, 2021

Testing video games goes beyond or differs in general from what Quality Assurance means and represents. It brings a new subset of responsibilities and skills intrinsic to the gaming industry. This article provides insights about the game industry, the role of the game tester, thoughts on challenges, and the learnings of testing games. By Ismael Sánchez.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

Fuel Capital General Partner Leah Solivan joined us at TechCrunch Early Stage 2021 to talk about how to avoid early mistakes in building your startup. Solivan has ample experience on both sides of the fence, as she founded TaskRabbit and led it to exit through an acquisition by Ikea in 2017. She shared a list of 10 things to avoid in total, but here are some highlights of what to watch out for.

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Dzone - DevOps

APRIL 7, 2021

Automation is not the next big thing. It’s the future that is now. It is easy to understand why. Technology does the job quicker and often better while freeing us for more creative tasks. When it comes to software testing that helps us get rid of nasty bugs and make users happy, the benefits of QA automation are pretty much the same. A higher speed, reduced costs, and fewer errors.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

Popular saving and investing app Acorns has acquired Pillar, an AI-powered startup built to help manage student loan debt, in its second acquisition of 2021. New York-based Pillar helps consumers optimize their debt payments by focusing first on student loans. It launched in May 2019 with $5.5 million in seed funding led by Kleiner Perkins. The companies declined to reveal the financial terms of the deal, only noting that within six months of launching, Pillar managed over $500 million worth of

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d2iq

APRIL 7, 2021

(This post originally appeared in The New Stack on June 8th of last year. We're reprising it here because it is as relevant now as it was then, if not more so.) Building the infrastructure to support cloud computing now accounts for more than a third of all IT spending worldwide, according to research from IDC. With spending anticipated to reach nearly $500 billion in 2023, organizations need to be mindful that all this investment doesn’t lead to redundant and disparate efforts that are impossib

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