DevOps.com
JANUARY 19, 2022
Testing can be one of the more time-consuming aspects of the DevOps process. It can be exhaustive, frustrating, requires a lot of hands-on labor hours and people seldom enjoy it. But testing is vital, and no developer should simply skip it. Recently, a strong trend has emerged wherein DevOps experts encouraged developers to automate their […].
TechCrunch
JANUARY 19, 2022
French startup Luko is acquiring German startup Coya in order to grow its European presence and get an insurance license from German regulator. While Luko isn’t disclosing terms of the deal, the company says it’s a 100% share deal, which means that Coya investors are now Luko investors. Those investors include Valar Ventures, Headline and Roland Berger’s family office.
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Agile Alliance
JANUARY 19, 2022
Many companies have trouble adopting Agile, so let’s revisit the fundamentals, its importance to organizations, and what you need to know to start applying it. The post A Guide to the Agile Approach and Why It Matters to Your Company first appeared on Agile Alliance.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 19, 2022
Carry1st , a South African publisher of social games and interactive content across Africa, has raised a $20 million Series A extension led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). This is a16z’s first investment in an Africa-headquartered company (the firm has previously invested in Branch and Zipline, companies with some of its operations in Africa but headquartered in the U.S).
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Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.
Martin Fowler
JANUARY 19, 2022
Business Leaders often need to make decisions that are influenced by a wide range of activity throughout the whole enterprise. To support this systems often have a what Ian Cartwright, Rob Horn, and James Lewis call a Critical Aggregator : a component whose job is to visit various other systems and pull this information together. A critical aggregator is important, but often metastasizes into an Invasive Critical Aggregator.
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DevOps.com
JANUARY 19, 2022
Testlio announced today it is adding fused testing capability to its application testing platform; Testlio is used by IT organizations to manage application testing teams consisting of internal employees and external contractors vetted by Testlio. Fused testing describes the combination of automated and manual testing IT organizations use to improve overall productivity.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 19, 2022
Password management platform 1Password has closed a massive $620 million Series C funding round that raises the company’s valuation to $6.8 billion. The investment was led by Iconiq Growth, with participation from Tiger Global, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Backbone Angels and Accel, which led the company’s $200 million Series A and $100 million Series B rounds.
CEO Insider
JANUARY 19, 2022
“A ship is safe in harbour, but that’s not what ships are for.” On July 20, 1850, a young man named John Graves Shedd was born on a New Hampshire farm. By age 16, he had begun work as a clerk in a grocery store in Vermont. A year later, he found work at a […]. The post Ten Pathfinding Principles for Risk-Taking Career Decisions appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 19, 2022
Working remotely has become the norm for a lot of desk-based employees, and there have been a number of tech companies that have seen their business explode in catering to that shift. But today comes news of a different kind of startup called Turing Labs , which is addressing the same challenges, but as they apply to people who work in laboratories.
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Dzone - DevOps
JANUARY 19, 2022
AI/ML and DevOps are hot buzzwords in the tech industry right now. Moreover, more than 15 million new jobs will be created in AI-related industries. Altogether, many companies are investing heavily in these fields to bring faster, more accurate, and more efficient tech solutions to their existing problems. Thus, demand for Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and DevOps is picking up an increased pace every hour.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 19, 2022
Autograph , an NFT agency co-founded by athlete Tom Brady with a particularly deep bench of star power, has banked new funding from crypto investors who hope the platform can bring a new generation of celebrities and their fans into the fold of crypto collectibles. The startup tells TechCrunch it has closed a $170 million Series B round led by Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins with participation from Katie Haun’s new fund and Lightspeed partner Nicole Quinn.
Dzone - DevOps
JANUARY 19, 2022
K8ssandra is a complete stack for running Apache Cassandra® in production. As such, it comes with several components that can consume a lot of resources and make it challenging to run on a dev laptop. Let’s explore how we can configure K8ssandra for this environment and run some simple benchmarks to determine what performance we can expect. Managing Expectations.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 19, 2022
Multinationals like Amazon and Alibaba have leveraged logistics infrastructure such as UPS and FedEx to create large businesses. It’s not the same in Africa, where few third-party infrastructure players exist to provide end-to-end logistics to e-commerce companies. PAPS , a Senegal-based logistics and delivery company, is filling this gap in its region by offering customers various logistics services.
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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.
CEO Insider
JANUARY 19, 2022
As a business owner, it feels surreal to look around years after the inception of your idea to see what you created. You see the jobs you’ve developed, the processes you’ve mastered, and the ways you’ve changed the world. But at some point, you know when it’s time to exit; you feel it in your […]. The post How to Estimate the Value of Your Business appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 19, 2022
Less than 2% of venture capital funding went to all-female founding teams in 2021, marking a five-year low, new data from Pitchbook shows. All-female founding teams did receive 83% more funding in 2021 in absolute dollars compared to the year prior, but that’s likely because US startups overall raked in a record amount of cash last year. Still, the rising tide did not lift all boats.
DevOps.com
JANUARY 19, 2022
Though sometimes described as competing architectures, API management and service mesh have slightly different use cases and can actually work well together. Whereas API management provides the business logic for outside-facing traffic, a service mesh excels at handling intercommunication between microservices. An organization could certainly adopt both simultaneously across their projects.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 19, 2022
Big banks are under a lot of pressure to modernize their services to meet demands of consumers who now view things like mobile apps that identify who and where you are; or instant, on-demand products, as table stakes — consumers that are in turn increasingly looking at neobanks to give them a better level of service when it comes to their money and managing it.
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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.
DevOps.com
JANUARY 19, 2022
In this week’s The Long View: The return of the CEO who fired 900 staff on a Zoom call, Capitol Hill has a bill to kill ads, and a last-minute hiccup in the FAA/FCC 5G truce. The post Zoom-Layoff CEO is Back | Bill Bans Targeted Ads | More FAA 5G Stupidity appeared first on DevOps.com.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 19, 2022
The first electric bus by Swedish-Kenyan EV startup, Opibus , has hit Kenya’s roads marking the beginning of the company’s venture into the mass transit industry. Opibus first announced plans to roll out electric public transport buses last year when it raised $7.5 million in a pre-Series A round. The startup is now running a pilot in readiness for the commercial launch of EV buses in Kenya later this year, and across Africa by the end of 2023.
CEO Insider
JANUARY 19, 2022
We worked with two leaders who have young workforces, mostly people in their mid-twenties just starting their careers. These two leaders were all about giving their employees more to do and supporting and coaching them along. Empowering their staff was part of their leadership DNA—and it was clear that their employees loved working for them. […].
TechCrunch
JANUARY 19, 2022
Wrangle raised $2 million in an oversubscribed pre-seed funding to advance its technology that automates workflows, approvals and tickets so that a company can track work and provide call-to-action tasks within chat platforms like Slack. Bloomberg Beta and Eniac Ventures co-led the investment, with participation from Liquid 2 Ventures, Hustle Fund, TDF Ventures and more than 20 founder angel investors.
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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.
The Daily WTF
JANUARY 19, 2022
"Include descriptive comments for each method," isn't bad advice. I mean, ideally, the method name and parameters would be descriptive enough that you don't need to add lots of comments, but more comments is rarely going to hurt things. Unfortunately, "include descriptive comments" usually decays into "include comments" And that's how we get piles of code like this one, from Patrick : //. // Function name : CZiArecaRaidController::ReadAllRaidsetInfo // Machine
TechCrunch
JANUARY 19, 2022
Prashant Fonseka. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Prashant Fonseka is a partner at Tuesday Capital , where he invests in early-stage technology companies. In nine years as a VC, I have seen many founders misinterpret the standard advice to ask potential investors questions during pitch meetings. Frequently, these questions can derail, distract, and make investors feel defensive.
DevOps.com
JANUARY 19, 2022
Harness today announced a free community edition of its continuous delivery (CD) platform is now available under a source-available license rather than a more traditional open source license. Scott Sanchez, chief marketing officer for Harness, said the goal is to make CD as accessible to developers and DevOps teams as their current CI platform. Harness […].
TechCrunch
JANUARY 19, 2022
Mantra Health , a digital mental health startup focused on young adults, has raised $22 million in Series A funding led by VMG Partners. The round includes new investors New Market Venture Partners, Elements Health Ventures, 14W and Alumni Ventures. Returning investors include Canaan Partners, Global Founders Capital, Baleon Capital, Western Tech Investments and City Light Capital.
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InfoQ Culture Methods
JANUARY 19, 2022
In this podcast summary Thomas Betts, Wes Reisz, Shane Hastie, Charles Humble, Srini Penchikala, and Daniel Bryant discuss what they have seen in 2021 and speculate a little on what they hope to see in 2022. Topics explored included: hybrid working and the importance of ethics and sustainability within technology. By Daniel Bryant, Wesley Reisz, Thomas Betts, Charles Humble, Shane Hastie, Srini Penchikala.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 19, 2022
In a move rarely made by Western venture capitalists, QED Investors announced today that it has hired an African partner, Gbenga Ajayi. He will focus on Africa investments as part of QED’s international team. Last September, the fintech-focused venture capital firm announced closing $1.05 billion for its oversubscribed seventh fund. TechCrunch reported that Fund VII, made up of a $550 million early-stage fund and a $500 million growth-stage fund, will be used to back “fintech companies primarily
CEO Insider
JANUARY 19, 2022
Have you ever worked for a leader who doesn’t handle stress well? Trust me, it’s not a great experience—and it certainly doesn’t bring out the best in people. On the other hand, working for a leader who responds well under pressure is a great experience. How leaders handle stress is one key way to sort […]. The post Want to Become the Type of Leader Other People Want to Work For?
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