The Citus Data

MARCH 25, 2021

One of the performance projects I’ve focused on in PostgreSQL 14 is speeding up PostgreSQL recovery and vacuum. In the PostgreSQL team at Microsoft , I spend most of my time working with other members of the community on the PostgreSQL open source project. And in Postgres 14 (due to release in Q3 of 2021), I committed a change to optimize the compactify_tuples function , to reduce CPU utilization in the PostgreSQL recovery process.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

Meniga , the London fintech that provides digital banking technology to leading banks, has closed €10 million in additional funding. The round is led by Velocity Capital and Frumtak Ventures. Also participating are Industrifonden, the U.K. Government’s Future Fund and existing customers UniCredit, Swedbank, Groupe BPCE and Íslandsbanki. Meniga says the funding will be used for continued investment in R&D, and in particular further development of green banking products — building on its

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 25, 2021

Too many meetings can frustrate productivity and morale. Reduce them to free your team. When your calendar staggers under the weight of too many meetings, start with design thinking, involve your team, and improve your use of asynchronous tools. It’s a refrain […]. The post Too Many Meetings – How to Free Your Team to Build, Create, and Thrive appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

Gorillas , the Berlin-HQ’d startup that promises to let you order groceries and other “every day” items for delivery in as little as ten minutes, has raised $290 million in Series B funding, at a valuation that surpasses $1 billion. The round — which was first reported by BI — is led by Coatue Management, DST Global, and Tencent, with participation from Green Oaks, Fifth Wall, and Dragoneer.

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The Crazy Programmer

MARCH 25, 2021

A credential stuffing attack is a cybercrime technique where attackers use automated scripts and try them on a targeted website. It happens because the majority of users repeat similar credentials on more than one account. That means one data threat can also threaten several others. The attackers use tools like Sentry MBA to test such certificates in the highly automated bulk effort.

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DevOps.com

MARCH 25, 2021

As a senior DevOps consultant working with large organizations over many years, I have been involved in more than 70 digital transformation projects, with hundreds of applications. While many things have changed over time, one thing has been a consistent source of problems that presents a formidable impedance to these transformations. The diverse number of […].

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

Indian edtech giant Byju’s, which raised over a billion dollars last year as the pandemic accelerated the adoption of online learning services in India, is about to begin a new fundraising spree. Byju’s is in talks to raise over $600 million in a new financing round that values the Indian startup at $15 billion, up from about $11 billion late last year , and $5.75 billion in July 2019, two people familiar with the matter told TechCrunch.

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Dzone - DevOps

MARCH 25, 2021

Developers face a number of challenges and pressures when creating an application — most obviously, the need to meet release deadlines. When approaching a looming deadline, security is sometimes deprioritized, so the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Top Ten list was created as an easy reference for developers to learn about major web application security issues and to use as a starting point when performing security assessments.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

The home medical supply market in the U.S. is significant and growing, but the way that Americans go about getting much-needed medical supplies, particularly for those with chronic conditions, relies on outdated and clumsy sales mechanisms that often have very poor customer experiences. New startup Better Health aims to change that, with an e-commerce approach to serving customers in need of medical supplies for chronic conditions, and it has raised $3.5 million in a new seed round to pursue its

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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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Teradata

MARCH 25, 2021

Learn how best to host a virtual hackathon, or any virtual event, with these tips and tricks from our Teradata team. Read more.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

When the world shifted toward virtual one year ago, one service in particular saw heated demand: remote online notarization. The ability to get a document notarized without leaving one’s home suddenly became more of a necessity than a luxury. Pat Kinsel, founder and CEO of Boston-based Notarize, worked to get appropriate legislation passed across the country to make it possible for more people in more states to get documents notarized digitally.

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Darktrace

MARCH 25, 2021

Malicious emails sent from trusted third parties bypass defenses all too often. This blog examines how Antigena Email stopped a recent supply chain attack by identifying a behavioral shift in the emails even though they came from a trusted source, while still allowing legitimate traffic from the same account to pass through.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

Ariane de Bonvoisin. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Ariane de Bonvoisin is an executive coach to top CEOs, startup founders and VCs. She has keynoted the Oprah conference, given a TED talk, and been invited to Google, Amazon, the World Bank, Union Square Ventures and Red Bull to teach about navigating change and founder and startup wellness. The business world has a love-hate relationship with coaching.

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MARCH 25, 2021

The book Kill it with Fire by Marianne Bellotti provides strategies that organizations can use to modernize, maintain, and future-proof their systems. She suggests choosing strategies based on the organizational context, and defining what value you’re hoping to see from modernization. By Ben Linders.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

Skycatch today announced a $25 million raise, led by ADB Ventures and Wavemaker. Founded in 2013, the Bay Area-based company provides centimeter-accurate 3D scanning services, primarily for construction sites and mining operations. The service has already been rolled out in a number of different locations around the world — with north of 10,000 sites, according to founder and CEO Christian Sanz.

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Dzone - DevOps

MARCH 25, 2021

Continuous Integration (CI) is a practice that allows developers to seamlessly merge code in a common repository whereas Continuous Delivery (CD) is a practice that adds a layer to CI by providing multi-stage infrastructure provisioning and deployment which helps in automating the entire software release process. For Azure data pipelines, CI/CD means nothing but moving data factory pipelines from one environment to another.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

Data centers and bitcoin mining operations are becoming huge energy hogs , and the explosive growth of both risks undoing a lot of the progress that’s been made to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions. It’s one of the major criticisms of cryptocurrency operations and something that many in the industry are trying to address. Enter LiquidStack , a company that’s spinning out from the cryptocurrency hardware technology developer Bitfury Group with a $10 million investment.

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TechBeacon

MARCH 25, 2021

California has added new regulations to the CCPA —the state’s Consumer Privacy Act. It now prohibits dark patterns that prevent users opting out of having their personal data sold.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

Ryu Games , a startup that helps developers add cash tournaments to their mobile games, announced this morning it has raised $2.3 million in a seed round. The funds came from a number of investors, including Side Door Ventures , MGV Capital , Velo Partners and Citta Ventures. In addition, 500 Startups participated in the round. To see the accelerator take part in the funding round is not a surprise, as TechCrunch first caught wind of Ryu during its participation in the most recent 500 Startups

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CEO Insider

MARCH 25, 2021

It’s no secret that we all have toxic people at work and in our personal lives. It seems like no matter how great our job is, or what a wonderful life we’re living, there’s always that one person who tries to bring us down. Why? I’m convinced that, nine times out of ten, it’s to […]. License and Republishing: The views expressed in this article Here Are 5 Kinds of People Who Can Help You Get Past the Toxic People in Your Life are those of the author Peter Economy alone and not the CEOWORLD

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

This morning CoScreen , a startup that helps teams share screens and collaborate in real-time, formally launched its product to market. It also disclosed that it has raised $4.6 million to date. Unusual Ventures led its Seed round. Till Pieper , CoScreen’s co-founder and CEO told TechCrunch in an interview that it raised the bulk of its capital pre-pandemic, with the rest coming during 2020 in smaller chunks.

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MARCH 25, 2021

Cloudera and Dell Technologies collaboration in Big Data Analytics/Apache Hadoop workloads helps customers get the most out of their data and realize the benefits of the latest advancements in analytics.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

Digital House , a Buenos Aires-based edtech focused on developing tech talent through immersive remote courses, announced today it has raised more than $50 million in new funding. Notably, two of the main investors are not venture capital firms but instead are two large tech companies: Latin American e-commerce giant Mercado Libre and San Francisco-based software developer Globant.

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Kovair - DevOps

MARCH 25, 2021

Terraform is an open-source IaC device created by Hashicorp, to arrange foundation and gives numerous advantages to the administration and tasks of your current circumstance.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

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MARCH 25, 2021

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

Holberton , the education startup that started out as a coding school in San Francisco and today works with partners to run schools in the U.S., Europe, LatAm and Europe, today announced that it has raised a $20 million Series B funding round led by Redpoint eventures. Existing investors Daphni , Imaginable Futures , Pearson Ventures , Reach Capital and Trinity Ventures also participated in this round, which brings Holberton’s total funding to $33 million.

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David Walsh

MARCH 25, 2021

Note: I expect a large number of people to object to cryptocurrency mining’s energy use and I totally understand. Hell, I agree. A few notes to consider: first, this will soon be remedied by Ethereum switching to proof os stake. Second, much of the energy used to mine cryptocurrencies is renewable. While mining cryptocurrency isn’t a new concept, it’s something I’ve recently put an effort into understanding and executing.

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