DevOps.com
JANUARY 11, 2022
Enterprises know that their customers and partners expect a superior personalized experience. After all, customer experience has been a top priority for organizations over the last decade. However, despite all the technological advancements and transformation initiatives, the ability to deliver innovation with speed continues to elude. Without this ability, enterprises constantly play catch-up with rapidly […].
TechCrunch
JANUARY 11, 2022
Refyne has raised a new financing round, just seven months after securing its previous funding, as the Bengaluru-based startup scales its platform that helps workers access their earned salaries in real time. Tiger Global led Refyne’s $82 million Series B funding, the two said Wednesday. Existing backers QED Investors, partners of DST Global, RTP Global, Jigsaw VC and XYZ Capital also participated in the new round, which takes the one-and-a-half-year-old startup’s all-time raise to $106 million.
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Martin Fowler
JANUARY 11, 2022
One of the core challenges in a distributed system is keeping the state synchronized across all the nodes, especially when neither the nodes, or the connections between them, are reliable. The core approach to handle with is a replicated log : using the write-ahead log pattern over the cluster. Unmesh Joshi shows how this works using its most common implementation: the Raft protocol.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 11, 2022
A study by McKinsey & Company on general e-commerce activities in Africa says consumer spending will reach over $2 trillion in the next three years. Much of this spending falls under the importation of products, primarily influenced by consumer demand and the positioning of major e-commerce platforms in Africa. Afrikrea , an Ivorian startup founded in 2016, is one of the few platforms facilitating product exports.
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IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d
DevOps.com
JANUARY 11, 2022
A long-simmering debate over the sustainability of smaller open source projects moved beyond the theoretical when two widely used open source node packaged modules (npm) were deliberately sabotaged this week, allegedly by a primary contributor. Colors.js is an npm that has been downloaded more than 3.3 billion times, with more than 19,000 projects depending on […].
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Confluent
JANUARY 11, 2022
Whether you’re a seasoned Apache Kafka® developer or just getting started you’re likely to hit a snag at some point or another—either in configuring and understanding your clients or setting […].
TechCrunch
JANUARY 11, 2022
Novo , the startup building a new kind of banking service from the ground up for small and medium businesses, has closed a significant round of funding to take the next step in growing its platform. It has raised $90 million, a Series B round that values the Miami-based startup at $700 million, funding that it will use to build out its infrastructure (going from 24,000 customers to 150,000 is no small feat); to add in new products, specifically around lending; and to acquire more customers.
High Scalability
JANUARY 11, 2022
This is a guest post by Ankit Sirmorya. Ankit is working as a Machine Learning Lead/Sr. Machine Learning Engineer at Amazon and has led several machine-learning initiatives across the Amazon ecosystem. Ankit has been working on applying machine learning to solve ambiguous business problems and improve customer experience. For instance, he created a platform for experimenting with different hypotheses on Amazon product pages using reinforcement learning techniques.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 11, 2022
StoreDot , the Israeli next-generation battery technology startup touting an “extreme fast charging” (XFC) battery for electric vehicles, has secured the first close of its latest funding round led by Vietnamese electric vehicle manufacturer VinFast. The Series D round is due to close at up to $80 million. The capital will be used for the completion of StoreDot’s R&D and mass production scale-up of its technology, which, says the company, is currently being shipped to automotive manufa
Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage
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.
DevOps.com
JANUARY 11, 2022
The technical oversight committee (TOC) for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced today it is elevating the open source LitmusChaos application testing platform to the incubation level. LitmusChaos is a chaos engineering platform donated to the CNCF by ChaosNative in 2020. Since then, it has seen adoption within production environments by more than 25 […].
TechCrunch
JANUARY 11, 2022
Kirsten Prost. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Kirsten Prost is a VP at Tercera and supports the sourcing, execution, and monitoring of investments in third wave services businesses. In the war for talent, equity compensation has become more important than ever, but it’s not the easiest concept to explain, especially in privately funded companies. Equity isn’t a new concept.
Aqua Security
JANUARY 11, 2022
Last month, a zero-day vulnerability in the extremely popular Log4j logging framework overwhelmed the security community during the already busy end-of-year rush. Just keeping up with Log4j news and updates has been no easy task, let alone fixing the multiple vulnerabilities discovered almost daily. Organizations worked hard to apply patches for the original zero-day vulnerability, only to be forced to repeat the process when additional vulnerabilities appeared.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 11, 2022
Foxtrot is changing the way we think about convenience stores, and just picked up $100 million in new Series C funding to expand its brick-and-mortar footprint to 50 new retail locations in the next two years. We last looked in on Chicago-based Foxtrot in early 2020, just before the world was shook by the global pandemic. It had secured $17 million in a growth round and was offering customers the option to buy in-store or order online for delivery and had retail stores in Dallas and Chicago.
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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.
O'Reilly Media - Ideas
JANUARY 11, 2022
Every year starts with a round of predictions for the new year, most of which end up being wrong. But why fight against tradition? Here are my predictions for 2022. The safest predictions are all around AI. We’ll see more “AI as a service” (AIaaS) products. This trend started with the gigantic language model GPT-3. It’s so large that it really can’t be run without Azure-scale computing facilities, so Microsoft has made it available as a service, accessed via a web API.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 11, 2022
It’s painful to watch SPAC deals collapse post-combination. You can viscerally feel dreams melting away to disappointment as founders, employees and investors still holding shares in the newly public entities watch their wealth dwindle. The mess is not sector-specific. Media? Not a good SPAC target. Insurtech? Nope. 3D printing? Not looking good.
DevOps.com
JANUARY 11, 2022
Almost all companies are modernizing their IT infrastructure to remain competitive, with the focus firmly on migration to the cloud and the use of dynamic infrastructures. In a recent Trends in IT Ops 2021 survey, more than 160 IT professionals were asked how the implementation of IT strategies affected their day-to-day work. The results provided […].
TechCrunch
JANUARY 11, 2022
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PST, subscribe here. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for January 11, 2022! Today we have new venture funds, spyware news, Brex raising (again), and more. We’re back to 100% of last year’s startup and technology news pace, so we do hope you are rested up.
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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.
Tenable
JANUARY 11, 2022
Microsoft’s January 2022 Patch Tuesday Addresses 97 CVEs (CVE-2022-21907). Security Respo…. Tue, 01/11/2022 - 15:32. Microsoft addresses 97 CVEs in its January 2022 Patch Tuesday release, including four zero-day vulnerabilities that were publicly disclosed but not exploited in the wild. 9 Critical. 88 Important. 0 Moderate. 0 Low. Microsoft patched 97 CVEs in the December 2021 Patch Tuesday release, including nine rated as critical and 88 rated as important.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 11, 2022
With so many apps and tools out there to try, most companies ask you to fill out a standard form and then create a username and password. Once you get through all of that, you find that the app was not all it was cracked up to be. Arcade is out to change that. The interactive demo company, which launched to the public today, is making it easier for companies to create demonstration videos, called “arcades,” that walk people through how their tools work.
Mentormate
JANUARY 11, 2022
With hundreds of active clients and projects each year, MentorMate is in an excellent position to share our perspective on what’s happening across different industries, technology stacks, and business environments from startup to enterprise. Forecasts from industry analysts may be useful for setting your longer-term strategy, but they aren’t quite as helpful for understanding how to get things done in our current reality.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 11, 2022
French startup Doctolib is expected to close the acquisition of Tanker today (based on regulatory filings). Doctolib is a French unicorn that develops a software-as-a-service product to help doctors and medical workers with admin tasks. In particular, Doctolib acts as a booking platform that connects doctors with patients; 300,000 health professionals pay for the service and 60 million people have used it in Europe.
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“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.
Openxcell
JANUARY 11, 2022
We live in an app-centric world. Apps drive more and more of our personal, social, and professional lives. Whether it’s talking with friends on social media, ordering movie tickets on your phone, or planning a business trip using an airline app. This service digitalization has come. Companies that recognize this shift have a unique chance to leapfrog their competitors, attract clients faster, and increase revenue.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 11, 2022
Twig , a London-based fintech targeting Gen Z and younger Millennial consumers with an e-money account that gives them instant cash-outs on fashion and electronics they want to sell, has closed a $35 million Series A round of funding. The investment is led by UK-based fintech specialist, Fasanara Capital, with additional backing from a number of undisclosed strategic investors which Twig says include current and former executives from LVMH, Valentino and Goldman Sachs, among others.
Dzone - DevOps
JANUARY 11, 2022
Think of a world where you don't need a separate testing environment, where you can test everything in production and capture valuable data that helps you improve along the way. The secret ingredient: feature flags. What Are Feature Flags? Features flags is a software engineering technique that lets developers integrate code constantly into the main trunk.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 11, 2022
If there’s one thing that venture capitalists have taught me, it’s that aligned incentives can kick ass. It’s a phrase you’ll hear often if you spend time with professional private market investors. But if I summon my collegiate years, the phrase is really just the economic principle that individuals respond to incentives, restated in a slightly more targeted fashion.
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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.
Next Level Blog
JANUARY 11, 2022
So, this is usually the week when your good intentions for the year smack up against the reality of the work at hand. In the words of the great philosopher, Mike Tyson, “Everybody’s got a plan until they get hit in the jaw.” As the meetings mount and the emails accumulate, that clarity and sense of calm you developed over the extended holiday break can start to fade.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 11, 2022
Kleiner Perkins , one of Silicon Valley’s legacy venture capital firms, is kicking off 2022 right by celebrating five decades in business and $1.8 billion in funds raised for two new funds — KP20 and Select2. KP20 is an $800 million venture fund focused on early-stage investments in enterprise, consumer, hardtech, fintech and healthcare companies, while Select2 is a $1 billion fund — the most the firm has raised at once — that extends its core investment strategy to focus on high inflection inve
Daffodil Software
JANUARY 11, 2022
Every new technological innovation in any industry is dependent on the availability of infrastructure to support said innovation. For instance, Electronic Medical Records (EMR) could not have been a reality without the requisite facilitation of storage and performance-enhancing tools. Solutions implementing Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is one such requirement for innovations in healthcare.
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