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What are Salesforce Managed Services?

Daffodil Software

Salesforce is the world’s leading CRM with over 150,00 customers that include businesses, non-profits, and institutions. The cloud-based CRM unites sales, marketing, eCommerce, service, IT, etc. under a roof, enabling businesses to drive growth.

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Masterschool raises $100M seed round for its network of coding schools

TechCrunch

Masterschool , which describes itself as a “network of tech career-training schools,” today announced that it has raised a $100 million seed funding round (yes, that’s correct — a $100 million seed round). The round was led by Group 11 , with participation from Target Global, Pitango Ventures, Dynamic Loop Capital, Sir Ronald Cohen, and a number of additional strategic investors.

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Pull-Based Kubernetes Deployments Moving to GitLab Free Tier

DevOps.com

GitLab will include support for pull-based deployment in the platform’s Free tier in an upcoming release, which will provide users increased flexibility, security, scalability, and automation in cloud-native environments. With pull-based deployment, DevOps teams can use the GitLab agent for Kubernetes to automatically identify and enact application changes.

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Block rival SpotOn lands $300M at $3.6B valuation after doubling ARR last year

TechCrunch

Payments and software startup SpotOn has closed on $300 million in a Series F financing that values the company at $3.6 billion. Dragoneer Investment Group led the latest round, which included participation from existing backers Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), DST Global, Franklin Templeton and Mubadala Investment Company, as well as new investor, G Squared.

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Streamlining Database Compliance with CI/CD Integration

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

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What Will a Digital-First World Look Like in the Future?

IDC

Tech leaders plan to deliver innovative digital products and services at a faster pace than ever. You need to support their business outcomes and help them achieve cost-effective digital operations, deliver on their vision to be a trustworthy organization, and speed their innovation.

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Why to Implement GitOps into Your Kubernetes CI/CD Pipelines

Dzone - DevOps

Continuous integration and continuous delivery have become essential to meet the demands of the modern software development process. CI/CD pipelines are popular within software delivery pipelines for facilitating software development and deployment tasks. However, infrastructure management is often tracked outside of CI/CD. Most of the time, infrastructure and configurations are managed outside the CI/CD pipeline, even for applications requiring rapid infrastructure modifications or configuratio

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Aurora expands autonomous freight pilot with FedEx in Texas

TechCrunch

Aurora Innovation, an autonomous vehicle technology company, has expanded its self-driving freight pilot with FedEx to include a new lane from Fort Worth to El Paso, Texas. The startup has been hauling freight for FedEx between Dallas and Houston since September 2021, which has involved making the 240-mile trip every night. The new lane challenges Aurora’s trucks to a much longer journey of about 600 miles, on which they will operate on a weekly basis, according to the company.

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SlashData: Cloud Native Continues to Grow with More than 7 Million Developers Worldwide

DevOps.com

The global cloud native developer population has grown by 1 million in the last 12 months, according to the Q3 2021 State of Cloud Native Development Report developed for CNCF by SlashData. The company estimates that there are now 7.1 million cloud native developers worldwide. This represents an increase of 51% from our first report […]. The post SlashData: Cloud Native Continues to Grow with More than 7 Million Developers Worldwide appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Lithium-silicon batteries get vote of confidence with Sila’s Mercedes deal

TechCrunch

For years, scientists and engineers predicted that lithium-ion batteries would get a boost if they could just add more silicon. In the lab, the prediction held, but only for a short period of time. The material had a downside — it became brittle after repeated charging. Sila seems to think it’s solved the problem. The startup, along with its strategic partner Mercedes-Benz, announced that its silicon anode material is scheduled to appear in an electric G-Class in 2025.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

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.

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Is Your Future in SaaS? Yes, Except …

DevOps.com

The growth of SaaS—including IaaS—was phenomenal when it came and it has become somewhat pervasive. Today, there are SaaS tools in use at just about every business, large or small. From sales to marketing to customer management, there is a SaaS tool that does it affordably and well. For now. The same is true of […]. The post Is Your Future in SaaS?

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For better or for worse: Managing founder-CEO tension inside a startup

TechCrunch

Max Schireson. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Max Schireson , the former CEO of MongoDB, is an executive-in-residence at Battery Ventures, where he helps advise the firm’s cloud and data portfolio companies on a variety of strategic and tactical business issues. More posts by this contributor. Tracking the explosive growth of open-source software. The Money In Open-Source Software. “Are you gonna hire a bunch of useless salespeople like they have at Oracle?

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Creating Automated GitHub Bots in Go

DevOps.com

Events management requires quick responses, which can be challenging since there is typically an incredibly large volume of events that take place every day. Therefore, relying on humans to respond to these events quickly is error-prone, messy and often frustrating. These events have easily reproducible steps that can be codified and are perfect reasons for […].

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Investors discuss how labor shortage is shaking up the construction tech stack

TechCrunch

Construction as an industry has evolved with civilization through the ages. But today, it’s one of the few industries that has one foot firmly planted in the past, even as the other tries to step into the future. Construction’s digital transformation journey is only just beginning, and the sector offers a ton of space for innovation. To get a clear picture of where construction tech stands today, we spoke with five active investors in the space.

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Top 5 Challenges in Designing a Data Warehouse for Multi-Tenant Analytics

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.

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DevOps Institute Releases Upskilling IT 2022 Report 

DevOps.com

DevOps Institute, a professional member association working to advance the humans of DevOps, announced the release of its Upskilling IT 2022 report. In its fourth year, the Upskilling IT report highlights the need to close the DevOps skills gap and identifies emerging job roles within the industry. Through data collected in the Upskilling IT 2022 […].

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QuestBook raises $8.3 million to help web3 developers secure funds

TechCrunch

Blockchain and other web3 projects are racing to reach developers, hosting hackathons, bandying out grants and offering other perks to lure those who can build. But they currently don’t have the bandwidth to review the voluminous number of applications they receive, which pushes away some of the same builders who can bring immense value to those projects.

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LitmusChaos Enhances Developer Experience for Cloud Native Reliability

DevOps.com

In cloud native computing, the applications are expected to be resilient, loosely coupled, scalable, manageable and observable. Because of containerization, there is a proliferation of microservices and they ship quickly. Microservices environments are more dynamic. In such an environment, making applications resilient means deploying the applications in a fault tolerant manner, but it also means […].

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CipherMode Labs launches open source solution to protect data without encryption expertise

TechCrunch

CipherMode Labs CEO and co-founder Sadegh Riazi has been working with encryption his entire career. He studied it as part of his PhD. He was part of the Microsoft SEAL team that worked on improving homomorphic encryption and making it more efficient. What he found was that while homomorphic encryption allows you to work with encrypted data, it does so at an extremely high resource cost, one that’s so high, it is bad for the environment.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

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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New Relic Expands Scope of Observability Reach

DevOps.com

At its Futurestack conference, New Relic announced it expanded the integrations and tools it provides for its observability platform and added its first cybersecurity tool. The company now provides more than 470 integrations with cloud services, open source tools and other enterprise technologies, with support for offerings from Akamai, Atlassian, CircleCI, Cloudflare, Netlify, PagerDuty and […].

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Isabl’s rapid whole-genome analysis opens the playbook for cancer treatment

TechCrunch

Every cancer is unique because every person is unique, and one of the most important weapons in any cancer battle is information. Isabl offers that in abundance through rapid sequencing of cancer cells’ entire genomes, potentially showing which therapies will and won’t be effective within days. The company has received a breakthrough designation from the FDA and raised $3 million to bring its approach to market.

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CNCF Launches Cloud Native Network Function Certification Program

DevOps.com

New CNF Test Suite-based program will allow CSPs and telecom organizations to adopt Kubernetes and cloud native tools with confidence Valencia, SPAIN, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe – May 18, 2022 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, today announced the Cloud Native Network Function (CNF) Certification Program. […].

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Glean aims to help employees surface info across sprawling enterprise systems

TechCrunch

At enterprises of a certain size, keeping track of data including apps, employees, and projects becomes increasingly challenging. According to McKinsey, employees spend 1.8 hours every day — 9.3 hours per week, on average — searching for and gathering information. The veracity of metrics like these has been challenged over the years. But it’s reasonable to say that knowledge workers in particular devote a sizeable chunk of their workdays to sifting through data, whether to find

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“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.

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CVE-2022-22972: VMware Patches Additional Workspace ONE Access Vulnerabilities (VMSA-2022-0014)

Tenable

Organizations and government agencies are strongly advised to patch two newly disclosed vulnerabilities in VMware products, following warnings from VMware and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Background. On May 18, VMware published an advisory ( VMSA-2022-0014 ) to address two vulnerabilities across several VMware products: CVE.

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Dear Sophie: Can I do anything to speed up the EAD renewal process?

TechCrunch

Sophie Alcorn. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” She connects people with the businesses and opportunities that expand their lives. More posts by this contributor. Dear Sophie: What are the visa options for international founders?

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CodeSOD: The String Buildulator

The Daily WTF

"Don't concatenate long strings," is generally solid advice in most languages. Due to internal representations, strings are frequently immutable and of a fixed length, so a block like this: string s = getSomeString(); s = s + "some suffix" ; creates three strings- the original, the suffix, and the third, concatenated string. Keep spamming instances, especially long ones, if you want to stress test your garbage collector.

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Heartex raises $25M for its AI-focused, open source data labeling platform

TechCrunch

Heartex, a startup that bills itself as an “open source” platform for data labeling, today announced that it landed $25 million in a Series A funding round led by Redpoint Ventures. Unusual Ventures, Bow Capital, and Swift Ventures also participated, bringing Heartex’s total capital raised to $30 million. Co-founder and CEO Michael Malyuk said that the new money will be put toward improving Heartex’s product and expanding the size of the company’s workforce from 28

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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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Pure Storage Boosts Developer Productivity by Expanding the Portworx Portfolio and Making Kubernetes Adoption a Reality

DevOps.com

Portworx portfolio advancements provide more data services than ever before while giving DevOps teams greater control over their workstreams Mountain View, CA, May 16, 2022 – Pure Storage® (NYSE: PSTG), the IT pioneer that delivers the world’s most advanced data storage technology and services, today announced a series of updates to its Portworx portfolio which include: […].

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Here’s what’s happening on day 1 of TC Sessions: Mobility

TechCrunch

Attention mobility enthusiasts! It’s been three long years since our last in-person mobility event, but the day has finally come. Welcome to Day One of TC Sessions: Mobility 2022 ! Get ready for two days of programming dedicated to taking a deeper dive into the future of transportation and to meet the people who are shaping it. Mobility’s a rapidly evolving revolution, and we’re thrilled to have the community’s best founders, investors and technologists standing by ready to help you build

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Quickly Turn ALB/ELB Status Codes into an Issue-Seeking Heatmap

Honeycomb

More often than not, as developers, when we get a report that a large customer is hitting 500 errors, there’s a flurry of activity. What’s wrong? Is something deeply broken? So you start digging through AWS logs to see what you can find, but it’s hard to reproduce. Sometimes, there’s no clear answer, and you move on without any resolution.