TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2021

More M&A activity is underway in the red-hot field of cybersecurity. In the latest development, private equity giant Thoma Bravo is buying Proofpoint , the SaaS security vendor, for $12.3 billion in cash. Proofpoint is traded publicly on the Nasdaq exchange and as of its closing price on Friday, it had a market cap of $7.5 billion. This bid, which will see the company go private, is a big hike on its latest share price.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 26, 2021

How You Respond Sends a Powerful Message. You don’t just want ideas from your team. You want ideas you can use. And let’s be real—sometimes the ideas are so wacky, you might even be fighting back a sarcastic chuckle. Here’s a proven, human-centered “how to respond” technique that recognizes the effort while providing information to help them contribute more relevant ideas in the future.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2021

Brex, a fintech company that provides corporate cards and spend-management software to businesses, announced earlier today that it closed a $425 million Series D round of capital at a valuation of around $7.4 billion. The new capital came less than a year after Brex raised $150 million at a $2.9 billion pre-money valuation. So, how did the company manage to so rapidly boost its valuation and raise its largest round to date?

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DevOps.com

APRIL 26, 2021

According to Gartner, the worldwide low-code development market is projected to be $13.8 billion in 2021, a whopping increase of 22.6% from 2020. Gartner also predicts that the surge in remote development during COVID-19 will continue to boost low-code adoption, despite budget cuts and efforts to optimize cost. Low-Code’s Popularity Among Professional and Citizen Developers […].

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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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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2021

Mighty Networks , a platform designed to give creators and brands a dedicated place to start and grow communities, has closed on $50 million in a Series B funding round led by Owl Ventures. Ziff Capital Partners and LionTree Partners also participated in the financing, along with existing backers Intel Capital, Marie Forleo, Gretchen Rubin, Dan Rosensweig, Reid Hoffman, BBG Ventures and Lucas Venture Group.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2021

Lamont Orange. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Lamont Orange is Netskope’s chief information security officer. He has more than 20 years of experience in the information security industry, having previously served as vice president of enterprise security for Charter Communications (now Spectrum) and as senior manager for the security and technology services practice at Ernst & Young.

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DevOps.com

APRIL 26, 2021

Given how the individual unit of deployment has gotten increasingly smaller, such that the unit of deployment is usually a microservice, it would be tempting to think that individual developers are more able to control how well the code they write (the service they deploy) will work in production. In fact, though, almost the opposite […]. The post Reducing Friction in Developer Collaboration appeared first on DevOps.com.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2021

Orbillion Bio’s plans to make high-end meats in a lab have investors lining up for a seat at the company’s cap table. Mere weeks after launching from Y Combinator’s famous accelerator program , the Silicon Valley-based potential purveyor of premium lamb loins, elk steaks, bison burgers and more has managed to haul in $5 million in financing.

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Confluent

APRIL 26, 2021

We’re excited to announce ksqlDB 0.17, a big release for 2021. This version adds support for managing the lifecycle of your queries from CI servers, a first-class timestamp data type, […].

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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.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2021

Signal Advisors is building a specialized financial platform for financial advisors, and the company is announcing it raised a $10 million Series A led by Brian Ru and Hemant Taneja at General Catalyst. This funding is on top of the $6 million seed round it raised in 2020 from Detroit Venture Partners, Ludlow Ventures, General Catalyst and others. In a released statement, new board member and managing partner at Michigan-based Annox Capital Robert Mylod puts it well: “We’ve seen a lo

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CloudZero

APRIL 26, 2021

Like a lot of SaaS companies, the CloudZero engineering team uses our own product — or as many would say, we “eat our own dog food” and “drink our own champagne”. So, when we built and released our cost per customer functionality last year, it was only natural that we were our own guinea pigs. Today, I use our cost per customer reports and cost intelligence data all the time, especially when it comes to answering important questions that the rest of the leadership team needs — like when our CEO

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2021

Faculty , a VC-backed artificial intelligence startup, has won a tender to work with the NHS to make better predictions about its future requirements for patients, based on data drawn from how it handled the COVID-19 pandemic. In December 2019, Faculty raised a $10.5 million Series A funding round from U.K.-based VCs Local Globe, GMG Ventures , and Jaan Tallinn, one of Skype’s founding engineers, giving it a valuation of around $100 million.

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DevOps.com

APRIL 26, 2021

Former Director of Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to headline free one-day event Boca Raton, FL, April 26, 2021 — MediaOps, the place to tell your story in the most powerful way, today announced that Former Director of the Department of Homeland’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Christopher Krebs, will be […].

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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.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2021

The Honest Company, a heavily venture-backed consumer goods company, announced an IPO price range this morning, telling investors that it expects to sell shares in its debut at $14 to $17 apiece. The former startup is selling 6,451,613 shares in its debut, while existing shareholders are letting 19,355,387 shares go. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.

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TechBeacon

APRIL 26, 2021

The software supply chain has gotten more attention than usual in the past months, as companies have disclosed issues resulting from flawed approaches to protecting the integrity of their software-based applications. The software supply chain is weakly held together, and most people have no idea just how fragile it is. This state of things suggests we should be asking ourselves, "Can I vouch for all the software dependencies that make up my Ruby on Rails application?".

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2021

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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CEO Insider

APRIL 26, 2021

COVID-19 has raised our awareness of uncertainty and volatility, and emphasised our need to build resilience to mitigate future risks. Governance and risk professionals have an important leadership role to play in this process. The Global Risk report 2021 (World Economic Forum) clearly states that: “Strengthening strategic foresight is now more important than ever.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2021

Main Sequence’s team (top row from left to right) Viringa Crawter, Bill Bartee, Mike Nicholls, Phil Morle; (bottom row from left to right) Stella Xu, Mike Zimmerman and Jen Baxter. Main Sequence , the venture firm founded by Australia’s national science agency, announced today a new $250 million AUD (about $194.3 million USD) fund to invest in deep-tech startups.

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Cloudera

APRIL 26, 2021

CDP is using Apache Ranger for data security management. If you wish to utilize Ranger to have a centralized security administration, HBase ACLs need to be migrated to policies. This can be done via the Ranger webUI, accessible from Cloudera Manager. But first, let’s take a quick overview of HBase method for access control. HBase Authorization. If authorization is set up ( for example with Kerberos and setting the hbase.security.authorization property to true ), users can have rules defined on r

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TechSoup

APRIL 26, 2021

April commemorates Autism Acceptance Month , kicked off with World Autism Awareness Day on April 2 as observed by the United Nations. This year, we are honoring Autism Acceptance Month by sharing some best practices and resources on how to best support neurodiverse folks in your workplace and wider community. Uplifting diversity, equity, and inclusion remains an overarching goal for many organizations.

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Trigent

APRIL 26, 2021

As companies scale up their digital transformation initiatives, achieving the desired outcome is dependent on finding the right talent with skills and experience relevant to their domain. Rapid changes in technology, emergence of new platforms and tools need high investment in training. At Trigent Software, we have a customer-first approach. We deliver scalable, secure, agile, flexible, high-quality software that our clients require.

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Ivanti

APRIL 26, 2021

Here at Ivanti, we are excited about iOS and iPadOS 14.5. I ’ m pleased to share that we offer zero-day compatibility and key feature support across the Ivanti product portfolio for the new features built into Apple ’ s updated OS. Apple is bringing a major change to the integration between the iPhone and the Apple Watch. iOS 14.5 introduces the ability to unlock your Face ID enabled phone with an associated Apple Watch.

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Arcserve

APRIL 26, 2021

Remote office and branch office (ROBO) security has always been a bit of a challenge for IT pros. Regardless of whether we’re talking about remote workers, retail store chains, bank branches, or construction sites, all are a ripe target for cybercriminals. In fact, 20 percent of IT and cybersecurity professionals say they faced a security.

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Palo Alto Networks

APRIL 26, 2021

Today’s digital journey is long and complex, creating equal parts opportunity and risk for organizations. The recent crisis of the pandemic has fueled more complexity in an already complicated world, and the digital landscape has been no exception. Networks have further expanded into the cloud, and organizations have reinvented themselves even while reacting and responding to new circumstances – and new cyberthreats.

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DevOps.com

APRIL 26, 2021

The IT talent shortage is becoming a growing problem. The U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics projects the industry demand for software developers will grow 22% between 2019–2029. This is significantly higher than the average demand growth rate of 4% for all other occupations. As the IT talent gap grows, companies across industries are looking to […].

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APRIL 26, 2021

Finding a mentor who has experience in your field can be a transformative step in your career. Today’s post is by Harma Hartouni, author of Getting Back Up: A Story of Resilience, Self-Acceptance and Success (CLICK HERE to get your copy). I was born in the U.S. but raised in Iran from the time I was an infant. As a gay man in an extremely homophobic country like Iran, there was no way for me to thrive while being honest about who I was.

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Openxcell

APRIL 26, 2021

Agile teams are meant to work together. They are envisioned to sit in front of each other discussing the problems and solving them face to face. The goal was towards effective communication and fast results. Usually this methodology is used to build a strong team. This team is expected to work together by being in touch at small intervals of time. The team mates understands each others strengths and support each other through out the term of the project.

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The Daily WTF

APRIL 26, 2021

At a certain point, it becomes difficult to write a unit test without also being able to provide mocked implementations of some of the code. But mocking well is its own art- it's easy to fall into the trap of writing overly complex mocks, or mocking the wrong piece of functionality, and ending up in situations where your tests end up spending more time testing their mocks than your actual code.

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