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Where Programming, Ops, AI, and the Cloud are Headed in 2021

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

In this report, we look at the data generated by the O’Reilly online learning platform to discern trends in the technology industry—trends technology leaders need to follow. But what are “trends”? All too often, trends degenerate into horse races over languages and platforms. Look at all the angst heating up social media when TIOBE or RedMonk releases their reports on language rankings.

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Kenyan insurtech startup Pula raises $6M Series A to derisk smallholder farmers across Africa

TechCrunch

Pula , a Kenyan insurtech startup that specialises in digital and agricultural insurance to derisk millions of smallholder farmers across Africa, has closed a Series A investment of $6 million. The round was led by Pan-African early-stage venture capital firm, TLcom Capital , with participation from nonprofit Women’s World Banking. The raise comes after Pula closed $1 million in seed investment from Rocher Participations with support from Accion Venture Lab, Omidyar Network and several angel i

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Automation is an essential driver of post-pandemic business value

CTOvision

Robotic process automation was already experiencing strong growth in 2019. By the middle of 2020, the pandemic had accelerated the automation mandate, pushing adoption up 27%. And the trend is not […].

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Fintechs could see $100 billion of liquidity in 2021

TechCrunch

Jake Jolis. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Jake Jolis is a partner at Matrix Partners and invests in seed and Series A technology companies including marketplaces and software. More posts by this contributor. 4-year founder vesting is dead. 2019 saw a stampede of fintech unicorns. Dana Stalder. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Dana Stalder is a partner at Matrix Partners, where he invests predominantly in fintech, consumer marketplaces and enterprise software.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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Nvidia Views Kubernetes as Key to GPU Accelerated AI Scale

CTOvision

When you think about Kubernetes, clusters of CPU and memory resources all scaling to meet the demands of container workloads probably springs to mind. But where does GPU acceleration fit […].

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Psychological Safety or More Courage? What Your Team Needs Now.

Let's Grow Leaders

Psychological safety pioneer, Dr. Amy Edmonson discusses the difference between psychological safety and courage at work, and why both are so critical in our teams right now. An excerpt from her foreword of Courageous Cultures: How to Build Teams of Micro-Innovators, Problem Solvers, […]. The post Psychological Safety or More Courage? What Your Team Needs Now. appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Unpacking Chamath Palihapitiya’s SPAC deals for Latch and Sunlight Financial

TechCrunch

This morning, investor and SPAC raconteur Chamath Palihapitiya announced two new blank-check deals involving Latch and Sunlight Financial. Latch, an enterprise SaaS company that makes keyless-entry systems, has raised $152 million in private capital, according to Crunchbase. Sunlight Financial, which offers point-of-sale financing for residential solar systems, has raised north of $700 million in venture capital, private equity and debt.

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INSPIRE 20 Podcast: Vandana Verma Sehgal, Infosec Girls

TechBeacon

An experienced security solutions architect, Vandana Verma Sehgal is president of Infosec Girls, an initiative that assists women in their cybersecurity careers.

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Proving voicemail doesn’t have to be wack, the Slack-backed startup Yac raises $7.5 million

TechCrunch

Yac , the Orlando, Florida-based startup that’s digitizing voice messages for remote offices, has raised $7.5 million in a new round of funding. The company’s service has garnered enough attention to pick up a pretty sizable new round from investors led by GGV Capital and a return investment from the Slack Fund. Apparently, reinventing voicemail is a multi-million-dollar endeavor.

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How Embedded Analytics Helps Product Managers Exceed Their KPIs

Embedded analytics can help you deliver cutting-edge analytics experiences to your end-users that align with KPIs that are critical to the growth and success of your business. Read this eBook to learn how an embedded analytics platform, like Qrvey, can help PMs exceed the following KPIs: Growing revenue while improving customer retention rate Delivering rapid time to value Earning a high net-promoter score Increasing Gross Margin / Profitability Conversion rate from trial to paid Don’t just meet

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An Analytics Workload is a Critical Data Management Tool

DevOps.com

From an organizational perspective, an analytics workload is a way to gain a data-driven business advantage. Analytics workloads can serve a primary objective that translates to an actionable business impact (such as analyzing A/B testing results, understanding user retention or finding anomalies in a flow, for instance) or can serve in a supporting role for […].

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Alma raises $59.4 million for its Klarna-like payment option

TechCrunch

French startup Alma is raising a $59.4 million Series B funding round (€49 million). The company has been building a new payment option for expensive good. You can choose to pay over three or four installments. This product sounds familiar if you’ve used Klarna in the past. But Klarna isn’t available in France. Cathay Innovation, Idinvest, Bpifrance’s Large Venture fund, Seaya Ventures and Picus Capital are participating in today’s funding round.

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JavaScript Wake Lock API

David Walsh

An enjoyable web apps rely on engineers implementing the APIs that cover all of the small things. Those small things sometimes improve performance, usability, accessibility, and the app’s relationship with its host system. The Wake Lock API is the latter — an API that allows developers to instruct the host machine to not dim the screen or sleep, especially useful when users view videos.

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Taboola is going public via SPAC

TechCrunch

Taboola is the latest company seeking to go public via special purpose acquisition corporation — more commonly known as a SPAC. To achieve this, it will merge with ION Acquisition Corp, which went public in 2020 with the aim of funding an Israeli tech acquisition ( Haaretz reported last month that Taboola was in talks with ION). The transaction is expected to close in the second quarter, and the combined company will trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol TBLA.

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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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Overcoming Cloud Asset Management Challenges

DevOps.com

Twenty years ago, no one in IT could have predicted the monumental role that cloud computing would play in our everyday lives. To play off the words of Back to the Future‘s Doc Brown: “On-premises? Where we’re going, we don’t need on-premises.” As technology continues to evolve, though, security teams face greater challenges. Infrastructure is […].

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Virtual social network IMVU raises $35M from China’s NetEase and others

TechCrunch

The line between social networking and gaming is increasingly blurring , and internet incumbents are taking notice. NetEase, the second-largest gaming company in China (behind Tencent), is among a group of investors who just backed IMVU, an avatar-focused social network operating out of California. Menlo Park-based Structural Capital among other institutions that also joined in the strategic round totaling $35 million.

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Assessing Enterprise Firmware Security Risk in 2021

CTOvision

In a year of historic challenges, 2020 saw firmware and hardware issues become one of the most active areas of enterprise security. APT and ransomware threat actors targeted enterprise VPNs […].

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BlackCart raises $8.8M Series A for its try-before-you-buy platform for online merchants

TechCrunch

A startup called BlackCart is tackling one of the key challenges with online shopping: an inability to try on or test out the merchandise before making a purchase. That company, which has now closed on $8.8 million in Series A funding, has built a try-before-you-buy platform that integrates with e-commerce storefronts, allowing customers to ship items to their home for free and only pay if they choose to keep the item after a “try on” period has lapsed.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Demystifying Google Container Tool Jib: Java Image Builder

Dzone - DevOps

Are you are wondering what Jib is, actually? You should probably read my previous article before going ahead. In short, Jib is an excellent tool for Java developers who are interested in containerizing Java applications, but not so interested in creating and maintaining Dockerfile or installing Docker. A Java developer can add a plugin to Maven or Gradle, and that's it.

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Virgin Orbit will launch first Dutch defense satellite in mission that will demo rapid response capabilities

TechCrunch

Virgin Orbit isn’t slowing down after joining the exclusive club of small launch companies that have made it to orbit – the company just announced that it’s flying a payload on behalf of customer the Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNAF). This is the first ever satellite being put up by the Dutch Ministry of Defense, and it’s a small satellite that will act as a test platform for a number of different communications experiments.

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Women in Tech: “What’s important is that my work is positively influencing the world”

CTOvision

Read Dominik Mohilo profile Dr. Denise Gosnell, Chief Data Officer, at DataStax on JAX Enter : A research study by The National Center for Women & Information Technology showed that […].

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Smart lock maker Latch teams with real estate firm to go public via SPAC

TechCrunch

This week, Latch becomes the latest company to join the SPAC parade. Founded in 2014, the New York-based company came out of stealth two years later, launching a smart lock system. Though, like many companies primarily known for hardware solutions, Latch says it’s more, offering a connected security software platform for owners of apartment buildings.

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A Tale of Two Case Studies: Using LLMs in Production

Speaker: Tony Karrer, Ryan Barker, Grant Wiles, Zach Asman, & Mark Pace

Join our exclusive webinar with top industry visionaries, where we'll explore the latest innovations in Artificial Intelligence and the incredible potential of LLMs. We'll walk through two compelling case studies that showcase how AI is reimagining industries and revolutionizing the way we interact with technology. Some takeaways include: How to test and evaluate results 📊 Why confidence scoring matters 🔐 How to assess cost and quality 🤖 Cross-platform cost vs. quality tr

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Why Leaders Can No Longer Ignore Their Employees’ Social Media Content.

CEO Insider

Business leaders everywhere can no longer afford to ignore what their employees are saying on social media. Here’s why. There’s just too much valuable information shared by your people that impacts your organization’s climate. Face it; your employees look to social media how my father turned to the newspaper back in the 1990s. Whether or […]. License and Republishing: The views expressed in this article Why Leaders Can No Longer Ignore Their Employees’ Social Media Content. are those

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Sano Genetics, a startup helping with Long Covid research, raises £2.5M in seed funding

TechCrunch

Sano Genetics , a startup with a broad mission to support personalised medicine research by increasing participation in clinical trials, has raised £2.5 million in seed funding. The round is led by Episode1 Ventures, alongside Seedcamp, Cambridge Enterprise, January Ventures, and several Europe and U S.-based angel investors. It adds to £500,000 in pre-seed funding in 2018.

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TechStrong TV: How to Build and Refine Your DevOps Skills with OpsCompass

DevOps.com

The role of DevOps is constantly evolving as new technologies and trends keep emerging and reshaping the business. It is critical for DevOps engineers to continuously learn about the latest tools, best practices and technology, and be able to adapt to change. There are many ways for DevOps teams to refine their skills in order […]. The post TechStrong TV: How to Build and Refine Your DevOps Skills with OpsCompass appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Equity Monday: Clubhouse, Taboola, and why the SPAC wave will get worse

TechCrunch

Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest private market news, talks about the coming week, digs into some recent funding rounds and mulls over a larger theme or narrative from the private markets.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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Lucidum Unveils Community License of IT Asset Discovery Platform to Eliminate Blind Spots Across AWS Environments

DevOps.com

Driven by machine learning, Lucidum provides complete visibility of all critical assets and context of how and why they are used for IT teams to take corrective action SAN JOSE, Calif. — January 25, 2021 – Lucidum today announced the commercial availability of its IT asset discovery platform that eliminates blind spots across cloud, security and IT […].

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The state of tech: 4 tough questions about change in the shadow of COVID-19

Gitprime

Technology experts discuss COVID-19’s lingering impact on the way we work, the biggest issues and opportunities the technology industry needs to address, and which technologies you should be investing time in right now.

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Standard SNMP Device Monitoring

Kaseya

Monitoring of Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) devices, such as routers, switches and printers, allows system administrators to quickly detect and remediate potential issues before they can cause major damage to an organization’s productivity. In this blog, we’ll take a look at what SNMP monitoring is and why it is an essential part of overall network monitoring and management.

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