Agile Alliance

MARCH 23, 2021

In Part 1, we focused on lean thinking, we can accomplish more, reliably and consistently. In Part 2, we discussed how local variation can enhance a team’s adaptability. In Part 3, we explained cycle time, lead time, and seeing the team’s actual internal data. In this part, we’ll address how the team can use its … Continued. The post Explain Dates to Anyone with Forecasts Based on Your Historical Data first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

Clubhouse, the social audio app that first took Silicon Valley by storm and is now gaining much wider appeal, is an interesting user experience case study. Hockey-stick growth — 8 million global downloads as of last month, despite still being in a pre-launch, invite-only mode, according to App Annie — is something most startups would kill for. However, it also means that UX problems can only be addressed while in “full flight” — and that changes to the user experience will be felt at

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CTOvision

MARCH 23, 2021

Two years after announcing the general availability of its fully-managed blockchain service, Amazon has extended it with Ethereum support. Using Ethereum on Managed Blockchain, developers can easily instantiate Ethereum nodes without […].

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

Public App, a location-based social network that connects individuals to people in their vicinity, has raised $41 million in a new round, just six months after securing $35 million as the hyper-local Indian startup looks to expand its presence in the world’s second-largest internet market. A91 Partners led the new round in Public App , valuing the Indian startup at over $250 million (more than double since its last fundraise).

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CTOvision

MARCH 23, 2021

Read why Billy Bambrough favors Ethereum over Bitcoin in the face of probable cryptocurrency launch by the United States Federal Reserve on Forbes : Bitcoin has soared by almost 1,000% […].

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MARCH 23, 2021

The volume and velocity of data generated by government agencies continues to grow at astronomic rates. At the same time, agencies have a lot of legacy applications that need to […].

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

ServiceNow became the latest company to take the robotic process automation (RPA) plunge when it announced it was acquiring Intellibot, an RPA startup based in Hyderabad, India. The companies did not reveal the purchase price. The purchase comes at a time where companies are looking to automate workflows across the organization. RPA provides a way to automate a set of legacy processes, which often involve humans dealing with mundane repetitive work.

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Xebia

MARCH 23, 2021

A data-platform is nothing more than a normal (cloud) platform with some additional functionality on top to make it specific to the requirements of the data domain. Instead of the applications that run on a “normal” platform like (web)services and front-ends it runs ELTs/ETLs and data applications. It builds on top of common platform building […].

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

Last fall, delivery startup goPuff made a big splash by raising $380 million in funding and acquiring West Coast beverage retailer BevMo shortly afterwards. Just a few months later, the Philadelphia-based company is announcing that it has raised another $1.15 billion in funding at an $8.9 billion valuation (compared to $3.9 billion in October). Available in more than 650 U.S. cities, goPuff delivers a wide variety of products in under 30 minutes while charging a flat $1.95 delivery fee.

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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.

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MARCH 23, 2021

Crypto asset management company Grayscale has added five new investment trusts to its product suite. The new products are Basic Attention Token ($BAT), Chainlink ($LINK), Decentraland ($MANA), Filecoin ($FIL) and Livepeer […].

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

Y Combinator’s latest batch — W21 — features 350 startups from 41 nations. Fifty percent of the firms, the highest percentage to date, in the new batch are based outside of the United States. India is the second largest demographic represented in the new batch. The world’s second largest internet market has delivered 43 startups in the new batch, another record figure in the history of the storied venture firm.

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DevOps.com

MARCH 23, 2021

Cloud and DevOps are almost a match made in heaven. Cloud started truly gaining steam in the age of DevOps and Agile, and has adapted – or grown up in it – well, depending on your viewpoint. If not for the combined issues of data gravity and data (im)mobility, we might have gone even farther […]. The post Languages and DevOps: To The Cloud!

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

Buying and selling residential real estate is a complex business, no matter where you live. A slew of startups in the United States are focused on streamlining that process for people. But in Brazil, where no MLS exists, the challenge of digitizing real estate is even greater. One startup that has set out to serve as a “one-stop shop” for Brazilians to help them manage the home buying and selling process has managed to attract one of the largest — if not the largest — funding rounds

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CTOvision

MARCH 23, 2021

Shelly Morales, Chief People Officer at Balbix, has joined the board of advisors at Censia, a leading Talent Intelligence provider. Other board members include technology leaders Shakti Jauhar, Former SVP, […].

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

Today Bloomberg reported , and Axios confirmed that Robinhood has filed privately to go public. The well-financed Robinhood is an American fintech company that provides zero-cost trading services to consumers. Private IPO filings have become common in recent quarters, making Robinhood’s decision to file behind closed doors before showing its numbers to the public unsurprising.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

MARCH 23, 2021

It seems harder than ever to agree with others on basic facts, let alone to develop shared values and goals: we even claim to live in a post-truth era. 1 With anti-vaxxers, QAnon, Bernie Bros, flat earthers, the intellectual dark web, and disagreement worldwide as to the seriousness of COVID-19 and the effectiveness of masks, have we lost our shared reality?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

We’ve reached the end of Y Combinator’s biggest Demo Day, which saw more than 300 companies pitching back-to-back over eight hours. Earlier, we highlighted some of the companies that caught our eye in the first half of the day. Now we’re back with our favorite companies from the second half. From a marketplace to help you resell formalwear to a startup that offers self-driving street cleaners, it’s quite the mix.

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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.

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Dzone - DevOps

MARCH 23, 2021

About 3,5 years ago, I started this blog. Why have I done this and has it brought to me what I expected it to be. In this blog, I will look back at the past 3,5 years and share my experiences. It will also containe some tips and tricks when you want to start blogging yourself. Enjoy! 1. The Beginning. Since the start of my career, I have always been interested in learning new things.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

For patients and healthcare professionals to properly track and manage illnesses especially chronic ones, healthcare needs to be decentralized. It also needs to be more convenient, with a patient’s health information able to follow them wherever they go. Redbird , a Ghanaian healthtech startup that allows easy access to convenient testing and ensures that doctors and patients can view the details of those test results at any time, announced today that it has raised a $1.5 million seed investment

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CTOvision

MARCH 23, 2021

Chainlink reserves on crypto exchanges have been in a state of constant decline since September 2020 when they were at 34% of the total supply of LINK. According to data […].

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

Digital advertising company Kargo is launching a new product and new business unit called Fabrik. Founder and CEO Harry Kargman explained that Fabrik is a content management system designed for publishers’ modern needs and integrated with Kargo’s advertising technology. Kargman suggested that he sees this as part of Kargo’s broader mission of “saving publishing.” That might seem like a tall order for an ad business, but he said the company has tried to do that ̶

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DevOps.com

MARCH 23, 2021

We hear a lot in the industry about the importance of automation in DevOps to enable speed. However, there is another element that is often missing in the discussion – risk, compliance and security. Traditionally we have a zero-sum approach, where we need to either go fast or be safe and secure. It’s one or […]. The post Managing Business Risk in a DevOps Context appeared first on DevOps.com.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

Hopin , a unicorn best known for its online events-hosting service, announced this morning that it has acquired two more companies. The smaller concerns, Jamm and Streamable , were acquired in deals that Hopin declined to detail. However, in an email to TechCrunch, Hopin CEO Johnny Boufarhat said that both companies were “early-stage” concerns.

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Dzone - DevOps

MARCH 23, 2021

DevOps is the unification of software development and software operations; it has given a cultural twist to the otherwise technology-oriented industry. There is a lot more collaboration within the team, which has given rise to high levels of efficiency. Undergoing a DevOps Certification Training will be incredibly beneficial to tech professionals as well as freshers of the IT industry.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

Last week a select group of 20 employees and guests gathered at an event space on the San Francisco Bay, and, while looking out at the Bay Bridge, dined on a selection of choice elk sausages, Wagyu meatloaf and lamb burgers — all of which were grown from a petri dish. The dinner was a coming out party for Orbillion Bio , a new startup pitching today in Y Combinator’s latest demo day, that’s looking to take lab-grown meats from the supermarket to high-end, bespoke butcher shops.

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David Walsh

MARCH 23, 2021

I’ve been using Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code text editor for years with great success. The app has always been stable, flexible, and the best compliment I can give it: an afterthought. Recently, however, every time I added a console.log to a JavaScript file, VS Code would add import console from 'node:console'; to the top of file. As you could imagine, that insertion would break the build and annoy the hell out of me.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

Russ Heddleston. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Russ is the co-founder and CEO of DocSend. He was previously a product manager at Facebook, where he arrived via the acquisition of his startup Pursuit.com, and has held roles at Dropbox, Greystripe and Trulia. Follow him here: @rheddleston and @docsend. More posts by this contributor. What to expect while fundraising in 2021.

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LaunchDarkly

MARCH 23, 2021

I want to share some of my experiences to help other women know more of what to expect, consider, and maybe even demand. I also want pregnancy and motherhood to become topics that don’t feel so foreign in the setting of, say, a tech blog.

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