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The Journey to an Enterprise Data Mesh

Dataiku

Everywhere one looks in the data blogs these days, people are expounding the freedom and scalability of a data mesh, but very little is being said about how one actually builds towards having this mystical mesh. While a microservices pattern aims to expose software as a network of discoverable, secure, and scalable atomic services, a data mesh conceives of data access and data services like inference engines as a similar set of composable data services.

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5 ways AI can help mitigate the global shipping crisis

TechCrunch

Ahmer Inam. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Ahmer Inam is the chief artificial intelligence officer (CAIO) at Pactera EDGE. He has more than 20 years of experience driving organizational transformation. His experience includes leadership roles at Nike Inc., Wells Fargo, Sonic Automotive and Cambia Health Solutions. With the fourth quarter now upon us, every industry faces a challenge in managing a holiday production calendar that will deliver the goods.

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Ashanti Gardner

Agile Alliance

Ashanti Gardner Shares experience as a BIPOC Graphic Recorder. The post Ashanti Gardner first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Latent AI, which says it can compress common AI models by 10x, lands some key backing

TechCrunch

Roughly a year ago, Latent AI , a now three-year-old, Menlo Park, Ca.-based startup, pitched a handful of investors during TechCrunch’s Battlefield competition. It didn’t win that contest, but that hasn’t kept it from winning the interest of investors elsewhere. It just closed on $19 million in Series A funding in a round co-led by Future Ventures and Blackhorn Ventures, with participation from Booz Allen, Lockheed Martin, 40 North Ventures, and Autotech Ventures.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

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.

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Agile Africa

Agile Alliance

Patrick Taiwo, Elvin Assiam, Grace Johnson, and Nchimunya Kabunda discuss social justice. The post Agile Africa first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Devon Morris

Agile Alliance

Devon Morris - 1st Black Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) Shares Journey. The post Devon Morris first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Privacy-oriented search app Xayn raises $12M from Japanese backers to go into devices

TechCrunch

Back in December 2020 we covered the launch of a new kind of smartphone app-based search engine, Xayn. “A search engine?!” I hear you say? Well, yes, because despite the convenience of modern search engines’ ability to tailor their search results to the individual, this user-tracking comes at the expense of privacy. This mass surveillance might be what improves Google’s search engine and Facebook’s ad targeting, to name just two examples, but it’s not very good for our privacy.

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A Talk with Jenny Tarwater

Agile Alliance

Jenny Tarwater discusses becoming more aware of social injustice. The post A Talk with Jenny Tarwater first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Turkey’s first decacorn: Trendyol raises $1.5B at a $16.5B valuation

TechCrunch

Trendyol , an e-commerce platform based in Turkey, has raised $1.5 billion in a massive funding round that values the company at $16.5 billion. General Atlantic, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Princeville Capital and sovereign wealth funds, ADQ (UAE) and Qatar Investment Authority co-led the round. . The deal marks SoftBank’s first in the country. The new financing also makes Trendyol Turkey’s first decacorn, and among the highest-valued private tech companies in Europe.

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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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Types of Secondary Memory

The Crazy Programmer

You will come across two kinds of memory, primary memory, and secondary memory. Primary memory has got limited storage capacity & is quite volatile. But, secondary memory overcomes such limitations by offering permanent data storage and in quantity. In this post, we will look in detail at the second type of memory that is secondary memory. Secondary memory is termed external memory and mainly refers to different storage media where the computer will store its data & programs.

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Wannabe ‘social bank’ Kroo swerves VCs to raise a $24.5M Series A from HNWs

TechCrunch

Launched in February 2019, Kroo, the London-based consumer-facing fintech, raised some seed funding last year for its prepaid card service which claims to offer more “social features” in its drive toward offering full-blown banking services. Kroo’s pitch is that it removes friction from financial interactions with friends and family, and throws in some environmental initiatives as well, such as tree planting.

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Ann-Marie Kong

Agile Alliance

Coaching social justice trauma. The post Ann-Marie Kong first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Two months after its Series A, Pintu gets $35M in new funding led by Lightspeed

TechCrunch

Just two months after its last funding announcement , Indonesian crypto assets platform Pintu has closed a $35 million Series A+. The new round was led by Lightspeed Ventures, with participation from returning investors like Alameda Ventures, Blockchain.com Ventures, Castle Island Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Intudo Ventures and Pantera Capital. Pintu’s previous funding, a $6 million Series A led by Pantera, Intudo and Coinbase Ventures, was announced in late May.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

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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The SolarWinds Query Report 2021: Database Priorities and Pitfalls

DevOps.com

The rise of hybrid IT and the accelerated adoption of cloud-native apps have evolved traditional database design, management and monitoring. Workloads are rapidly shifting to the cloud and application performance is heavily dependent on the performance of the underlying database. Meanwhile, the global COVID-19 pandemic has forced companies to make significant changes in the last […].

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Car-sharing startup Turo has filed confidentially for an IPO

TechCrunch

Turo, the peer-to-peer car-sharing startup, has initiated the confidential process of filing for an initial public offering with the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission. The number of shares to be offered in the IPO and the price range have not yet been determined, the company said in a statement. Turo declined to provide additional information to TechCrunch.

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Set a Default Node Version with nvm

David Walsh

As I’ve shown you in the past, nvm an excellent utility for switching between Node.js versions. Whether your host machine or CI, building and testing your apps on different Node versions is a necessity. I’ve recently found a few nvm commands that I found really useful during local development. To set a default node version on your machine, without touching your system’s install, you can use: nvm alias default [version_here].

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LawVu, a cloud-based platform for in-house legal teams, raises $17M NZD from Insight Partners

TechCrunch

In-house legal teams play a critical role in companies, but a lot of them don’t have the same kind of technology as their counterparts in sales or finance. Instead, they often rely on email, shared inboxes and spreadsheets. LawVu gives them a cloud-based platform to share legal advice, documents, communicate with each other or external counsel and create reports for the rest of the company, including the C-suite.

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Top 5 Challenges in Designing a Data Warehouse for Multi-Tenant Analytics

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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Data masking doesn't have to be that hard: 5 things to know

TechBeacon

Since going into effect May 2018, the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has required that all personal data held by a third party be protected. The definition of protected varies, from "not retaining sensitive data"—read "anonymization"—to "encrypting data so that the content cannot be compromised following a breach.".

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RentCheck raises $2.6M in seed funding to help renters get their security deposits back

TechCrunch

We’ve all been there. (Or at least I have.). You’re getting ready to vacate a property you’ve rented, only to be told by the landlord that you won’t be getting your security deposit back. This happened to me the first time I ever rented a place in the late 90s. I was shocked, but more than anything, I was angry at the injustice because I knew that what the landlord claimed was not true.

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A Talk with Jenny Tarwater

Agile Alliance

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The China tech crackdown continues

TechCrunch

The Chinese government’s crackdown on its domestic technology industry continues, with Tencent under fresh pressure despite the company’s efforts to follow changing regulatory expectations. News broke over the weekend that Beijing filed a civil suit against Tencent “over claims its messaging-app WeChat’s Youth Mode does not comply with laws protecting minors,” per the BBC.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

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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ProxyShell: Attackers Actively Scanning for Vulnerable Microsoft Exchange Servers (CVE-2021-34473)

Tenable

Three vulnerabilities from DEVCORE researcher Orange Tsai could be chained to achieve unauthenticated remote code execution. Attackers are searching for vulnerable instances to exploit. Background. Last week at the Black Hat USA and DEF CON security conferences, DEVCORE researcher Orange Tsai presented a talk titled “ProxyLogon is Just the Tip of the Iceberg: A New Attack Surface on Microsoft Exchange Server!

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SpaceX to acquire satellite connectivity startup Swarm Technologies

TechCrunch

SpaceX will be acquiring satellite connectivity startup Swarm Technologies, the first such deal for the 19-year-old space company headed by Elon Musk. Swarm operates a constellation of 120 sandwich-sized satellites as well as a ground station network. The deal would transfer control of Swarm’s ground and space licenses to SpaceX, in addition to any licenses pending before the commission.

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Top Reasons Why Proofreading is Important for IT Companies

Exadel

Read other Exadel content marketing tips for IT companies. Proofreading is a necessary step for tech companies trying to publish high-quality content. For example, content syndication at popular platforms may be much more difficult, since publishers may not be willing to make improvements to your content. If you find an error after publication, you may also have to go back and fix it, potentially costing you extra time and effort.

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Wheel the World raises $2M to provide unlimited experiences for travelers with limited accessibility

TechCrunch

Friends Alvaro Silberstein and Camilo Navarro came up with the idea for the Wheel the World travel booking site following a 2016 trip to Torres del Paine National Park in Chile. Initially, they thought this type of trip would be near impossible with Silberstein in a wheelchair after a car accident as a teenager left him paralyzed. Turns out it became the trip of a lifetime thanks to a successful crowdfunding campaign to finance a scouting trip and the purchase of a state-of-the-art hiking wheelc

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“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.

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Should You Hire a Clojure Engineer?

DevOps.com

Quite often, when developing applications, it becomes necessary to execute long-running code at the same time as performing other tasks. More recently, to run a program on the Java virtual machine (JVM) it was necessary to write the program in Java. Those days are long gone due to the wide variety of programming languages ??for […]. The post Should You Hire a Clojure Engineer?

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Harassment will happen at my startup and yours: Here’s how we prepare

TechCrunch

Roxanne Petraeus. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Roxanne Petraeus is the CEO and co-founder of Ethena , a compliance training platform for modern teams, and she is a former Army combat veteran. More posts by this contributor. Politics and personal time: Making room for both at work. Sexual harassment is, unfortunately, always in the news. Of late, it’s revelations at gaming giants and governments.

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Why penetration testing needs to be part of your IoT security

Synopsys

Penetration testing is critical to assessing the overall strength of your company’s defense against cyber criminals targeting IoT devices. The post Why penetration testing needs to be part of your IoT security appeared first on Software Integrity Blog.

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