The Crazy Programmer
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
With each passing day, a variety of technological advances and fields emerge at a rapid pace. The maintenance and development of software involve many different areas. It is common for people to confuse these two prominent career options – DevOps Engineer and Software Engineer. With today’s article, all confusion will move on, so without wasting a second, let’s start.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
French startup Mirakl has closed a new Series E funding round of $555 million. Following this round, the company is now valued at $3.5 billion. Mirakl helps you launch a marketplace on your online store for your end customers or for your B2B clients. It’s a software-as-a-service marketplace, meaning that Mirakl manages the marketplace for you. Silver Lake is leading the investment with existing investors 83North, Elaia Partners, Felix Capital and Permira also participating.
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CTOvision
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
Read Joan Westenberg explain how you can get your business ready for The Metaverse on Inc.: With the digitization of our lives, we’ve become citizens of the metaverse. It’s not science fiction; it’s the shift of our experiences from offline to digital. Every day we create and share content online. We share our thoughts, opinions, […].
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
Niio , a Tel Aviv-based digital art platform featuring work ranging from contemporary artists and galleries through to NFTs, announced today it has closed $15 million Series A funding in the wake of a strategic partnership with Samsung Displays, announced last week. The round was co-led by L Catterton, a joint venture between LVMH and Catterton, Entrée Capital and Pico Venture Partners.
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CTOvision
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
Ethereum, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency, is more than just an internet token. It is the top smart contract and decentralized application network, with more use cases than other digital assets.As it moves to a proof-of-stake model, the network’s capacity will increase substantially and significantly reduce its energy requirements. Therefore, ETH-USD represents the cream of the […].
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CTOvision
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
By some estimates, there are around 10 billion IoT devices operating in the world today. By 2025, there will be more than 25 billion — a huge increase in so-called “attack surfaces” potentially vulnerable to infiltration. And the main culprit for this explosion in vulnerable targets? There are many, from home Wi-Fi networks in a work-from-home […].
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
French startup Alan is better known for its health insurance products — they now insure 200,000 people. But it has been slowly building a superapp for your health and expanding with new services. Today, the company announced its first acquisition ever with the acquisition of Jour for $20 million. This is going to be the foundation for a new service called Alan Mind.
CTOvision
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
Japanese technology giant Olympus is currently investigating a cyber incident on its EMEA IT systems that happened earlier this month that sources said is the result of a BlackMatter ransomware attack. The company detected “suspicious activity” on Sept. 8 and “immediately mobilized a specialized response team including forensics experts,” according to a press statement released over […].
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
As companies continue to delay their returns to the office and find temporary remote work policies becoming permanent, the startups building tooling for remote work-first cultures are finding a seemingly endless supply of customers. “Companies are finding the shift to remote work is not a one-time aberration due to Covid,” Almanac CEO Adam Nathan tells TechCrunch. “Over the past several months we’ve seen pretty explosive revenue growth.” Almanac, which builds a doc editor
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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.
CTOvision
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
Sen. Elizabeth Warren has criticized the high fees on ethereum’s network during heightened trading volatility, arguing they could substantially harm small investors. Ethereum network fees can change rapidly, largely because the blockchain uses a blind auction system to set them. Users must put in bids to have their transactions processed and verified by miners.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
There is a physical activity deficit in our world. Three fourths of adults say staying in shape is very important for health benefits. Yet, one in four adults and 81% of adolescents are insufficiently physically active, according to the World Health Organization. Even before COVID-19, less than 24% of children 6 to 17 years of age did 60 minutes of physical activity daily, as per Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Confluent
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
I’m pleased to announce the release of Apache Kafka 3.0 on behalf of the Apache Kafka® community. Apache Kafka 3.0 is a major release in more ways than one. Apache […].
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
Evermos’ founding team (l to r): Arip Tirta, Ghufron Mustaqim, Iqbal Muslimin and Ilham Taufiq. Image Credits: Evermos. Evermos is an Indonesian social commerce startup with two goals: to let people earn extra income by opening online stores without spending capital and to help small brands grow into household names. The company, which focuses on halal products and other items for Muslim customers, announced today it has raised a $30 million Series B, led by UOB Venture Management’s Asia Impact
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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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SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
The term ‘metaverse’ was coined by science fiction writer Neal Stephenson in his 1992 science fiction novel ‘Snow Crash’, where humans, as avatars, interact with each other and software agents, in a three-dimensional virtual space that uses the metaphor of the real world. Stephenson used the term to describe a virtual reality-based successor to the […].
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
Kavak , a Mexico City-based startup that operates a pre-owned car marketplace in Latin America, announced today that it has raised a massive $700 million in a Series E round that more than doubles the company’s valuation to $8.7 billion. This news is notable for a few reasons. For one, it’s a staggering sum for any startup, much less one based in Latin America.
DevOps.com
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
In a prior article, I indicated why a new remote zero-trust platform is needed to support DevOps teams. Traditional remote access configurations are not well-suited for DevOps given a shifting user population comprised of employees, contractors and other third parties often using their own devices; the large number of tools and systems to which access […].
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
BioNTech’s founding story dates back to the late 1990s, when CEO and co-founder U?ur ?ahin, his wife and co-founder Özlem Türeci, and the rest of the seven-person founding team began their research. Focused specifically on an area dubbed “New Technologies,” mRNA stood out as one area with tremendous potential to deliver the team’s ultimate goal: Developing treatments personalized to an individual and their specific ailments, rather than the traditional approach of finding
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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.
O'Reilly Media - Ideas
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
Humans have wrestled with ethics for millennia. Each generation spawns a fresh batch of ethical dilemmas and then wonders how to deal with them. For this generation, social media has generated a vast set of new ethical challenges, which is unsurprising when you consider the degree of its influence. Social media has been linked to health risks in individuals and political violence in societies.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
Business Canvas , the South Korean document management SaaS company behind Typed, announced today it has raised a $2.5 million seed round led by Mirae Asset Venture Investment , with participation from Kakao Ventures and Nextrans Inc. The seed round will be used for accelerating product development and the global launch of an open beta for its AI-powered document management platform.
CTOvision
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
Fox is set to premiere a singing competition show next week called “Alter Ego” in which contestants perform not as themselves but as digitally rendered avatars. The launch follows a summer of hype for the metaverse, an immersive online experience across tech platforms that Mark Zuckerberg told the Verge in July is Facebook’s (FB) “overarching goal.” […].
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
Alpha Medical, a telemedicine company focused on women’s healthcare, closed a $24 million Series B round on Tuesday. It’s another company situated squarely in the crosshairs of a pandemic-fueled boom in telemedicine investment , though Alpha Medical’s approach has one notable difference: you won’t be logging on to any Zoom calls. . Alpha Medical was founded in 2017.
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SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
Read Ahan Vashi explain how Palantir Technologies, Inc. is changing the way data is used by companies around the world on Seeking Alpha : Palantir (PLTR) is diversifying its business away from the government sector by expanding into the commercial sector (small, medium, and large businesses), and this transformation can turn Palantir into the most […].
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
Back when Stairwell emerged from stealth in 2020 , the startup was shrouded in secrecy. Now with $20 million in Series A funding, its founder and CEO Mike Wiacek — who previously served as chief security officer at Chronicle , Google’s moonshot cybersecurity company — is ready to talk. As well as raising $20 million, an investment round co-led by Sequoia Capital and Accel , Stairwell is launching Inception, a threat-hunting platform that aims to help organizations determine if they were compromi
CEO Insider
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
In April my ex-husband passed away after a very short battle with cancer. It’s an unusual expression – to ‘battle’ with cancer. There was no battle. The cancer was cunning. It arrived unannounced and spread its evil through his body without fanfare. By the time he was aware that he was under attack, it was […]. The post Life is too short appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
Bilt Rewards , a loyalty program for property renters to earn points on rent with no fees and build a path toward homeownership, announced Tuesday a round of $60 million in growth funding that values the company at $350 million. The investment comes from Wells Fargo and Mastercard and a group of the nation’s largest real estate owners, including The Blackstone Group, AvalonBay Communities, Douglas Elliman, Equity Residential, GID-Windsor Communities, LENx, The Moinian Group, Morgan Properties, S
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TechBeacon
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
Why is there so much confusion within IT Ops teams about data management and data operations (a.k.a. DataOps)? The answer isn't simple. No, database administrators aren't going to make this go away. Yes, it's your problem in IT Ops. You need to learn to operate multiple databases and other data storage systems. To that end, there are four things you need to know to make your life easier.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
Just Insure , a pay-per-mile insurance technology company, has raised $8 million in a funding round. . CrossCut Ventures, ManchesterStory and Western Technology Investments co-led the investment, which brings its total raised to $15.3 million since its January 2019 inception. Los Angeles-based Just says it uses telematics “to reward safe drivers and reduce insurer bias” by looking at factors such as how, when and where customers drive, rather than factors such as ZIP code or marital status as mo
DevOps.com
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
Google today published the annual Accelerate State of DevOps Report created by its DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) team that finds 26% of DevOps teams surveyed can now be classified as elite performers. That compares to 20% the last time the study was conducted in 2019. DevOps teams, made up of a total of 32,000 […]. The post Google DORA Report Shows Modest DevOps Gains appeared first on DevOps.com.
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