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Ruby on Rails Examples to Consider for Your Developmental Journey

Coding Dojo

Ruby on Rails continues to be an extremely powerful yet developer-friendly solution for tackling all manner of web projects, and … Read more >>. The post Ruby on Rails Examples to Consider for Your Developmental Journey appeared first on Coding Dojo Blog.

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As Deezer goes public via SPAC, is the blank-check boom really over?

TechCrunch

From the next big thing to rueful error, the global SPAC market has had a big few years. So-called blank check companies, which take a skeleton corporation public with the aim of later merging with a private entity, can offer a quick path to the world’s stock markets. They can also, as we’ve relearned in recent quarters, incinerate shareholder wealth and potentially expose retail investors to outsized risk.

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Being Agile vs. doing Agile – what’s the difference?

Agile Alliance

Companies of all sizes are racing to adopt Agile ways of working. But, to truly reap the benefits of Agile methodology, organizations need to shift from ‘doing’ Agile to 'being' Agile. The post Being Agile vs. doing Agile – what’s the difference? first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Celus, which uses AI to automate circuit board design, raises $25.6M

TechCrunch

Just about every electronic contraption you care to think of contains at least one printed circuit board (PCB), which serves to house and connect the various components that allow the device to function as a whole. While circuit boards are mostly invisible to end-users, they are foundational to the world they inhabit, powering smartphones, automobiles, microwave ovens, garage doors, and the entire connected world.

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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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Applying Automation to DevOps

DevOps.com

In the book, “Life and the Art of Engineering,” author Haresh Sippy said, “Automation is cost-cutting by tightening the corners, not cutting them.” Today, businesses and organizations are constantly on the lookout for ways to improve productivity while reducing inefficiencies across their operations. Automation has emerged as the natural answer as it addresses these issues while […].

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Turning Off DevSecOps Noise for Functional Fidelity

DevOps.com

Analyzing the DevOps and DevSecOps software marketplace demonstrates the high demand for tools and platforms that reduce false positives. As businesses and organizations adopt a rigorous, disciplined software development life cycle and ascribe to strict compliance frameworks, they quickly realize that automated tools can generate a substantial amount of noise, in the form of false […].

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Daily Crunch: After filing for bankruptcy, crypto lender Voyager Digital says it will ‘maintain operations’

TechCrunch

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Greetings, and happy Wednesday! I had to check the calendar before I said the day because does anyone really know what day it is anymore? Amanda had me cracking up with her story on waiting for a new release of Nintendo Switch , only to have the news be something else.

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Building Your Company Culture: The Key To Being Lean And Successful With Angel Sanchez

Steve Farber

A lot of companies fail to scale because they think the key to scaling is to be lean. The real key is to develop your company culture. Have a culture where people are excited. Read more. The post Building Your Company Culture: The Key To Being Lean And Successful With Angel Sanchez first appeared on Steve Farber.

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Can Polestar succeed where other EV maker SPACs have failed?

TechCrunch

Polestar, the EV subbrand from Volvo and Geely that launched last week on the Nasdaq at a $20 billion valuation, didn’t earn its $PSNY ticker by taking the traditional route toward an IPO. With the ringing of the bell, Polestar became the latest EV maker to hurry to the stock exchange by merging with a special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, before becoming profitable.

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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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8220 Gang Deploys a New Campaign with Upgraded Techniques

Aqua Security

A recent campaign by the 8220 gang, who have been known to exploit the newly discovered critical Confluence vulnerability (CVE-2022-26134), targeted one of our honeypots. This campaign has evolved over time to deliberately target containers. In this game of cat and mouse, the threat actors used some new techniques, refurbishing the scripts from one attack to another, adding new capabilities to attack the compromised host, and spreading the attack to additional hosts.

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How e-commerce companies can brave the new retail environment

TechCrunch

Simon Wu. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Simon is a partner with Cathay Innovation , a global venture capital firm investing across North America, Europe, Asia and Africa. He focuses on software, fintech, digital health and consumer investments. More posts by this contributor. Fintech’s growing role in the healthcare revolution. From startups to Starbucks: The embedded API opportunity.

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Agile Book Club: System Architecture

James Shore

Teams that practice evolutionary design start with “the simplest thing that could possibly work” and evolve their design from there. But what about the components that make up a deployed system? Applications and services, network gateways and load balancers, and even third-party services? Those components and interactions form your system architecture.

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Finli puts service-based business payment management in the palm of your hand

TechCrunch

If your service-based business is still collecting paper checks and only knows clients by their first name, Finli has an app for you. After building mobile technology for fintechs and payment companies for the past 20 years, Lori Shao, CEO of Finli, started the mobile-first payment management company nearly 3 years ago when she noticed that she was around technology all day but still using a checkbook to manage household services, like landscaping and after-school programs.

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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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Is cloud getting less reliable? It depends.

TechBeacon

As more workloads find their way to the cloud and demand increases, it would not be surprising for cloud customers to experience a lot more outages. Yet this has not proved to be the case—at least not directly.

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Crypto gaming firm Cauldron raises $6.6M to build ‘Pixar of web3’

TechCrunch

A number of crypto gaming firms have ramped up production in the past year with hopes of revolutionizing the growing industry. Adding to the list is London-based gaming firm Cauldron, which plans on becoming the “Pixar of web3” through a key element: storytelling. The company just closed a $6.6 million seed round and plans to launch its first web3 gaming world, Project Nightshade, in the fall, Mark Warrick, founder and CEO of the company, exclusively told TechCrunch.

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Tips for leaders on how to create an employee-first culture

CEO Insider

Why You Should Create an Employee-First Culture For the first time in years, and perhaps decades, employees have unprecedented leverage in the workplace. Call it the Great Resignation or the Great Reshuffle, many employees are reevaluating everything from their work-life balance to the work they do for businesses. This reprioritization has employees looking to realign […].

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When did the startup boom peak?

TechCrunch

The startup market is global in footprint , varied in focus , diverse in business model and constantly evolving. The venture capital market, meanwhile, is slower to molt, but it’s also changed in the last decade. Startups and their financial backers went a bit nuts last year, raising too much money, often at unsustainable prices. We’re now watching a collective hangover work its way through the global startup markets.

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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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We Learn Systems by Changing Them

Honeycomb

It is only possible to come to an understanding of a system of interest by trying to change it. Michael C. Jackson explains Kurt Lewin’s work, in Critical Systems Thinking. Here, Jackson contrasts action research with old-style hard science, which tries to study a system from the outside. Laboratories draw a line between experiment and scientist. In the social world, there is no outside : we participate in the systems we study.

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The art of the pivot: Work closely with investors to improve your odds

TechCrunch

Marjorie Radlo-Zandi. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Marjorie Radlo-Zandi is an entrepreneur, board member, mentor to startups and angel investor who shows early-stage businesses how to build and successfully scale their businesses. More posts by this contributor. Finding your startup’s valuation: 5 factors to consider. Does your startup have enough runway?

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Crappy Wiring

The Daily WTF

Ellen had just finished washing her hands when her phone buzzed. It vibrated itself off the sink, so there was a clumsy moment when it clattered to the restroom floor, and Ellen tried to pick it up with wet hands. After retrieving it and having another round of hand washing, Ellen read the alert: the UPS was in overload. That wasn't good. Their power supply was scaled for future growth- there was more than enough capacity to run all their servers off the UPS.

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Japan’s gaming blockchain builder Oasys raises $20M in private token sale

TechCrunch

Veterans from the established gaming world are flocking to web3. Whether they do it out of a fear of missing out or genuine belief in blockchain technologies, the trend appears irreversible at least for now, as investment keeps pouring into the industry. Oasys, a Japan- and Singapore-based startup that’s building a blockchain for gaming developers, has just raised $20 million.

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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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The 20 Most Crucial Software Engineering Tools In 2022

CloudZero

As a modern software engineer or CTO, you're responsible for building, delivering, and maintaining high-quality software solutions at scale. Yet, software programs have grown increasingly complex over time, requiring meticulous work.

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Octopus keeps stuff out of Indonesia’s crowded landfills

TechCrunch

According to the World Bank, Indonesia produces 4.8 million tons of plastic waste each year that is “ mismanaged ”—meaning it ends up uncollected, chucked into dumpsites or leaked from improperly managed landfills. Octopus wants to reduce that number with a platform that makes it easier to collect back waste products from consumers and recycle it into raw materials that brands can reuse.

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What Skeptics Get Wrong About Crypto’s Volatility

Harvard Business Review

Price swings signal important information to investors — and build previously unseen levels of transparency into the system.

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Forever21’s parent company sued Bolt, but now it’s a shareholder

TechCrunch

A lawsuit that was filed against one-click checkout startup Bolt by one of its biggest customers will be dismissed as the two parties have agreed on a settlement, the companies announced jointly today. And interestingly, that same customer — Authentic Brands Group (ABG) — is now a shareholder of the company. ABG declined to comment on the settlement beyond a jointly issued press release, but in an interview with TechCrunch, Bolt CEO Maju Kuruvilla did acknowledge that the two parties

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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Understanding Strategic Filters

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Strategic filters are tools you can use to prioritize your organization’s initiatives. Being able to evaluate the initiatives you’re going to pursue as part of your strategic plan is at the core of the strategic planning process. You need to be able to identify what the high-priority initiatives are and what the low-priority initiatives are.

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What is eTMF And Why Is It Essential For Clinical Trials?

Daffodil Software

Innovative medical interventions that are new to the healthcare industry need to be evaluated through clinical trials before they are rolled out for real-time implementation. The field of clinical trials is going through a paradigm shift with digitalization. And electronic Trial Master File (eTMF) systems are a clinical trial documentation necessity for digitalization.

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Dell’s PowerProtect Cyber Recovery Expands to Microsoft Azure

Dell EMC

Secure, isolate and recover critical data from cyberattacks with PowerProtect Cyber Recovery. Available on the Azure Marketplace.

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