Martin Fowler
JULY 20, 2021
My colleagues do a lot of work that involves replacing legacy software systems. Three of my colleagues - Ian Cartwright, Rob Horn, and James Lewis - have started to capture their experience and advice for this is a collection of patterns. We begin with an overview article that lays out four main categories of activity that need to be done for a successful legacy displacement.
TechCrunch
JULY 20, 2021
Alex Dalyac. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Alex Dalyac is the CEO and co-founder of Tractable , which develops artificial intelligence for accident and disaster recovery. Today, Tractable is worth $1 billion. Our AI is used by millions of people across the world to recover faster from road accidents, and it also helps recycle as many cars as Tesla puts on the road.
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DevOps.com
JULY 20, 2021
The more a company modernizes, the more value it gets from the cloud, but not all digital transformation efforts are created—and executed—equally. According to Gartner, “87% of senior business leaders say digitalization is a company priority, yet only 40% of organizations have brought digital initiatives to scale … [and] without a shared vision across the […].
TechCrunch
JULY 20, 2021
It’s been a wild 2021 for NFT auction marketplace OpenSea. The startup was exceedingly well positioned in a niche space when NFTs exploded earlier this year, seemingly out of nowhere. Since then, the startup has found its user base expanding, the total volume of sales skyrocketing and more investor dollars being thrown at them. The startup announced in March it had closed a $23 million Series A, and now some four months later, the company tells TechCrunch it has raised another $100 million
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Confluent
JULY 20, 2021
We’re pleased to announce ksqlDB 0.19.0! This release includes a new NULLIF function and a major upgrade to ksqlDB’s data modeling capabilities—foreign-key joins. We’re excited to share this highly requested […].
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Toptal
JULY 20, 2021
State management in React has been a hotly debated topic for years, yet little attention seems to be paid to enterprise-level applications and their specific requirements. Let’s take a closer look and compare three of the most popular state management tools available today.
TechCrunch
JULY 20, 2021
Shaun Spivak. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Shaun Spivak is the senior director of Global Customer Support at RingCentral, a global leader in communication and call center software provider. There are many things I wish I knew when starting out with my small customer support team at RingCentral, but in the end, we figured it out. I’m going to share some critical lessons I learned along the way that I wish I had known at the outset, so that when it comes to scaling your own support team, you’ll
Xebia
JULY 20, 2021
So, what is software quality anyways? Let’s shed some light on some schools of thought. Three Perspectives on Quality. Conformance to specifications. Suppose we have a predefined list of requirements for a product, and all of these requirements are verified and validated throughout the process of constructing that product. When we are approaching a release, we can simply demonstrate the green check marks as the results of the verification and validation activities and be happy.
TechCrunch
JULY 20, 2021
Pivot Bio makes fertilizer — but not directly. Its modified microorganisms are added to soil and they product nitrogen that would otherwise have had to be trucked in and dumped there. This biotech-powered approach can save farmers money and time and ultimately may be easier on the environment — a huge opportunity that investors have plowed $430 million into in the company’s latest funding round.
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Xebia
JULY 20, 2021
So, what is software quality anyways? Let’s shed some light on some schools of thought. Three Perspectives on Quality Conformance to specifications Suppose we have a predefined list of requirements for a product, and all of these requirements are verified and validated throughout the process of constructing that product. When we are approaching a release, […].
TechCrunch
JULY 20, 2021
On Tuesday, R-Zero, a pandemic-era biosafety company, announced the acquisition of CoWorkr — a company that develops room occupancy sensors. The acquisition marks a shift in focus for R-Zero as people return to work, vaccines are rolled out and companies that sprung up in response to the COVID-19 adapt to another phase of the pandemic. . When R-Zero was founded in April 2020, the company primarily focused on developing hospital-grade UVC disinfection systems, or lights that can neutralize
TechBeacon
JULY 20, 2021
Application security testing (AST) is evolving to meet the speed demands of DevOps and the growing complexity of modern software programs.
TechCrunch
JULY 20, 2021
Titan , a startup that is building a retail investment management platform aimed at the new generation of “everyday investors,” has closed on $58 million in a Series B round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). The financing comes just over five months after Titan raised $12.5 million in a Series A round led by General Catalyst, and brings the startup’s total raised since its 2017 inception to $75 million.
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Dzone - DevOps
JULY 20, 2021
If you are a microservice developer or a DevOps engineer there is a good chance you came across Kubernetes. Many tech giants have adopted it for orchestrating their containers. let us try to understand what it is and why it is so popular. Kubernetes is an open-source container-orchestration system for automating computer application deployment, scaling, and management.
TechCrunch
JULY 20, 2021
The startup market is having a moment around the world, but few regions can brag as much as Europe when it comes to venture capital investment. Yes, the United States is putting up impressive numbers and Indian startups are booming. But Europe is such a bright spot in the larger world of private startup investment that it deserves more solo attention.
Darktrace
JULY 20, 2021
Latin America has been one of hardest hit regions for cyber-crime this last year. This blog unpacks an intrusion at a pharmaceutical organization based in LATAM, and how Self-Learning AI detected the data exfiltration attack at every stage.
TechCrunch
JULY 20, 2021
The quest to disrupt the traditional baby food aisle continues as more of today’s parents seek out nutritional food for their children. One of the startups taking on the $100 billion children’s health and wellness market is Little Spoon , producing fresh, direct-to-consumer baby and children’s meals. The New York-based company announced on Tuesday a $44 million round of Series B funding led by Valor Equity Partners, with participation from Kairos HQ.
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DevOps.com
JULY 20, 2021
Puppet today published an annual State of DevOps report that suggests overall adoption of DevOps practices has stagnated. The survey of 2,650 IT, development and information security professionals finds 83% are implementing DevOps practices, to a degree. However, only 18% of respondents are working for organizations that have highly evolved, automated DevOps processes in place. […].
TechCrunch
JULY 20, 2021
With the pandemic affecting every aspect of life and industry, it’s no surprise that digitization is coming to construction fast. Construction suppliers are increasingly under the same pressure as other sectors to perform at a higher level. We’ve seen the rise of companies like Dozer, Reno Run and Toolbox try to address this, but often the model is closer to a vertical integration rather than something more open.
Dzone - DevOps
JULY 20, 2021
SREs may “own” reliability engineering, but they can succeed in that role only with help from a variety of other stakeholders. If you can’t collaborate and communicate readily with developers, IT engineers, and even non-technical teams like PR and legal, you’ll struggle to optimize reliability engineering. That’s why de-siloing the organization is such a crucial part of managing reliability.
TechCrunch
JULY 20, 2021
Founded in 2014 as an in-person rowing studio, CityRow was relatively early to adopt the at-home connected model. The New York-based company launched a digital platform in 2018, two years before the pandemic completely transformed the way many of us work out. Of course, things have been trending that way a while, but 2020 accelerated home fitness in ways few thought possible.
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CableLabs
JULY 20, 2021
On behalf of CableLabs, Kyrio will be hosting upcoming DOCSIS 4.0 interoperability events! . DOCSIS 4.0 technology is the next evolution of the HFC network, moving the industry towards the 10G vision and offering multigigabit symmetric services as well as low latencies over the network. . As vendors work to create the development of DOCSIS 4.0 products, CableLabs and Kyrio are busy preparing for the next phase of technology development: conducting interoperability events.
TechCrunch
JULY 20, 2021
Sundae , a residential real estate marketplace that pairs sellers of dated or damaged property with potential buyers, has raised $80 million in a Series C funding round co-led by Fifth Wall and General Global Capital. QED Investors, Wellington Management, Susa Ventures, Founders Fund, First American Financial, Prudence Holdings, Crossover VC, Intersect Capital, Gaingels and Oberndorf Ventures also participated in the financing.
Dzone - DevOps
JULY 20, 2021
One thing about the DevOps route is that it comes with a lot of range. Two organizations may be using a DevOps approach, but differ considerably in how they apply it. Ultimately, different organizations will succeed or fail at DevOps for different reasons. Naturally, DevOps leaders implementing specific and widespread changes are caught in the middle.
TechCrunch
JULY 20, 2021
Fabric8Labs this morning announced that it has raised $19.3 million. The Series A was led by Intel Capital and features Lam Capital, TDK Ventures, SE Ventures, imec.xpand, Stanley Ventures and Mark Cuban. It follows $4 million in seed funding raised in mid-2018. The San Diego-based startup specializes in metal 3D printing. It’s a hot category, of late, as evidenced by Desktop Metal and Markforged’s decisions to go public via SPAC over the past two years.
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As a SaaS leader, you know that the more metrics, insights, and analytics you add to your products, the more engagement you’ll have – and the stickier your product will become with customers. At what point do you decide to keep building your analytics in-house or invest in an embedded analytics solution? Read our Build vs. Buy Analytics guide to learn: Top 4 benefits of embedded analytics A quick cost comparison of in-house analytics development vs embedded analytics 10 considerations to help yo
InfoQ Culture Methods
JULY 20, 2021
Test management is dead, it just really needs to evolve. Test Leadership means focusing more on raising the awareness of testing across an organisation, and coaching/mentoring your team to be passionate advocates for quality. As a test leader, you need to learn to adapt to remain relevant, take time to self-reflect on what is important to you, building personal leadership values.
TechCrunch
JULY 20, 2021
Our kids can’t read. As of 2019, roughly a third of U.S. fourth graders were unable to read at the level expected of them. The scores have barely changed in decades. Something isn’t working here. Litnerd , a company out of New York City, wants to try something new. They’re writing books and building lesson plans with a twist: professional actors, streamed into the class, to recreate scenes from each book and — hopefully!
Palo Alto Networks
JULY 20, 2021
Imagine building applications in the cloud with the knowledge they are natively protected with industry-leading security controls. Imagine having your own personal, best-in-class threat research team at your fingertips, while taking advantage of cloud simplicity, scalability and speed. Now meet Google Cloud Intrusion Detection System (Cloud IDS). It’s the first network threat detection system delivered as a native Google Cloud service, built with the industry-leading security technologies of Pal
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