TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
Denim, the fintech platform for freight and logistics formerly known as Axle Payments, today announced that it raised $126 million in a Series B funding round led by Pelion Venture Partners with participation from Crosslink Capital, Anthemis, Trucks VC, FJ Labs, Tribeca Early Stage Partners and Refashiond Ventures at a “nine-figure” valuation.
CIO
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
Like any other retailer, grocery stores want to build trust with their customers and keep them coming back. But the average bill and already slender margins in grocery can make it challenging to create a loyalty program that provides sufficiently compelling rewards. Nevertheless, it’s worth the effort, given that loyalty programs are a powerful incentive for grocery shoppers.
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TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
CRED plans to invest about $10 million in its lending partner LiquiLoans as the Indian fintech startup broadens its ownership in financial services, TechCrunch has learned and confirmed. The Bengaluru-headquartered startup’s investment in Mumbai-headquartered LiquiLoans increases the lender’s valuation to close to $200 million, the firms said in a statement.
The Crazy Programmer
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
Alan brought a revolution in the field of computers. He was one of the first scientists to recognize that a computer has the capability to represent objects as pictures. He is well-known as the Father of Personal Computers. Alan Kay was a Computer Scientist from America. He was a Fellow of the National Academy of Engineering, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Royal Society of Arts.
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TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
There’s no shortage of startups trying to make sense of the explosive growth of data generated from blockchain applications. Nansen has the support from a16z to provide on-chain data analysis for crypto investors. The Graph offers an API for developers to query blockchain data. The latest to get VC recognition is KNN3, a Singapore-based startup working to help developers make sense of relational data across blockchains.
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TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
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Agile Alliance
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
If you're familiar with unit testing, you're probably also familiar with the brittleness and excessive boilerplate that often results from overuse of mock objects and other test doubles. The post FAST: An Innovative Way to Scale first appeared on Agile Alliance.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
Autonomous and electric truck maker Einride is rolling into Germany, representing its first new market in Europe outside its native Sweden. Founded out of Stockholm in 2016, Einride has raised some $150 million in funding to commercialize a cab-less autonomous cargo truck, one that can be controlled remotely, if required, by human operators. It’s a notable departure from the slew of rival autonomous trucking companies out there, which are essentially retrofitting existing trucks for an aut
Dataiku
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
This is a guest article from Eric Kahuha. Kahuha is an ambitious data scientist and an experienced technical writer. His work has been published in many blogs. He writes highly technical yet easy-to-understand content for beginners and experts in the tech field.
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.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
Stop trying to make Polywork happen. It’s already happening. You may even be polyworking as you read this. Polywork is a venture-backed startup that is building a professional network to help people express their multihyphenated work lives. In other words, if you’re a reporter, who also podcasts, wants to write a book and would love to one day help teach at a university, Polywork wants to give you, well me in this case , a place to express that.
DevOps.com
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
At the Open Source Summit Europe conference this week, Microsoft revealed it will make available a compact tool that can automatically track every source code file incorporated into each built artifact. Nell Shamrell-Harrington, a principal software engineer for Microsoft, told conference attendees via a video link that a GitBOM tool, based on a compact Artifact […].
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
When financial institutions want to offer a debit card or credit card, they hire an issuing processor to help them with those services. When they want to offer merchants the ability to accept cards, they sign up with an acquiring processor. But when it comes to cross border payments and international fund transfers generally, banks have had far fewer choices, and to industry veteran Gary Palmer, that spelled opportunity.
DevOps.com
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
Linus Torvalds today told attendees of the Open Source Summit Europe conference today that he is hopeful the foundational work needed to add support for the Rust programming language will be laid in a forthcoming version 6.1 of the Linux operating system. It would take several additional releases of Linux to add full support for […]. The post Linus Torvalds Signals Support for Memory-Safe Rust Language appeared first on DevOps.com.
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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.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
Graph databases, which store information in nodes and relationships instead of tables like Excel sheets, have grown in popularity amid an explosion of data across industries. While TigerGraph and Neo4j have dominated the Western market, China is seeing its own homegrown pioneers in the space. NebulaGraph is one of China’s fastest-growing startups offering graph databases with open source and enterprise subscription options.
DevOps.com
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
The most successful software companies rely on repeatability, auditability and simplicity when building solutions. The emergence of infrastructure-as-code (IaC) has empowered developers to apply these practices to infrastructure allocation. What are the best practices for storing IaC? Should IaC code be stored with the application and feature code? Should it be stored separately in its […].
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
You know what’s a huge pain where the =sum() don’t shine? Financial reporting, planning and analysis. I often go on and on ( and on and on ) about startups not getting their financials and operating plans right in their startup pitch decks, so … not gonna lie, I picked Austrian startup Helu.io , which completed a €9.8 million round in July, in the hope that a company that focuses exclusively on FP&A (that’s “financial planning and analysis,” for those who aren&
DevOps.com
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
While artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are emerging technologies, we know they can help an organization parse large data sets and glean actionable insights. But do AI-infused processes actually make a difference in organizations that employ DevOps? The answer is explored in a recent survey by Tricentis. Working in partnership with Techstrong Group, […].
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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.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Alex , Natasha and Mary Ann jumped on the mic, with Theresa on backup, to talk through the biggest headlines. We started with a look at the Figma-Adobe deal, worth some $20 billion. TechCrunch’s news coverage is here , and Alex has more notes here.
DevOps.com
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
There was a time when pundits said that DevOps was the symptom and CI/CD the cure. While that may or may not be true, there is no denying that CI/CD is the very heart of DevOps. While that might still be true, DevOps today is so much more than CI/CD; it has evolved, far beyond […]. The post DevOps World 2022: DevOps is Not Just CI/CD appeared first on DevOps.com.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
Will Ross and William Steenbergen were AI researchers at Stanford working on climate and atmospheric modeling and reinforcement learning, respectively, when they began to collaborate on wildfire modeling and hurricane modeling initiatives for the insurance industry. They were surprised to learn how big of a difference there was between what the data told insurers to do and what carriers were actually doing, according to Ross.
TechBeacon
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
The story is as old as phishing itself. A malicious message is sent, disguised as something innocuous. Once the message is opened (or, possibly, even if it's not), the victimized endpoint is at the mercy of the spyware’s commands.
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DevOps.com
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
In this week’s The Long View: Twitter is in a “non-redundant state” thanks to a hot summer, AI is likely to eliminate us, and Patreon fires 80 staff amid nasty allegations. The post Heat Cooks Twitter DC | AI Will Kill All Humans | Patreon Layoffs, CSAM Claim appeared first on DevOps.com.
Daniel Bryant
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
What is an API gateway? An API gateway is a front door to your applications and systems. It’s on the hot path of every user request, and because of this, it needs to be performant, secure, and easily configurable. The fundamentals of API gateway technology have evolved over the past ten years, and adopting cloud native practices and technologies like continuous delivery, Kubernetes, and HTTP/3 adds new dimensions that need to be supported by your chosen implementation.
thoughtLEADERS, LLC
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
Defining your organization’s vision and mission helps you focus on work that is consistent with your purpose. A vision and mission define your purpose and your destination. While the mission and vision are usually written for top-level organizations, these tools can be used at a departmental level and even at a personal level. They help you focus on work that is consistent with your purpose and that takes you closer to achieving your goals.
DevOps.com
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
The DevOps Dozen² Awards are back for their eighth year and nominations are open. These awards highlight, recognize and honor the outstanding and inspiring leaders who have made significant contributions to the DevOps community over the past year. We are very proud of the explosive growth and continued success of our community and we are […]. The post DevOps Dozen² Awards 2022 Nominations Now Open appeared first on DevOps.com.
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Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
Today’s algorithms still largely lack empathy, ethics, and the ability to see the bigger picture.
Modus Create
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
If you are looking for an “insert tab A into slot B” technical article… Sorry. This isn’t that but it’s still important for any Atlassian administrator. The technical world is rife with tediously detailed articles. Too often, they leave out the human aspect. To that end, this treatise focuses on the real reason we do what we do for a living, and how we might best approach it.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
It can hurt employees and employers alike. Here’s how leaders can address the root causes.
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