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Introducing Current 2022: The Next Generation of Kafka Summit

Confluent

Data streaming is a new category of technology that is reshaping the way businesses operate, but there hasn’t been a place for everyone in the ecosystem to come together and […].

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What will Elon actually do if he buys Twitter?

TechCrunch

Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Every Monday, Grace and Alex scour the news and record notes on what’s going on to kick off the week. Stocks are down, and cryptos are not looking too impressive as the world gears up for a packed week of mega-tech earnings.

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What’s New in Kubernetes Version 1.24

Aqua Security

With another Kubernetes release upon us, there are, as ever, a load of new features to consider. These include features to help companies use Windows containers securely and improvements in Kubernetes’ supply chain security. In this post, we’ll take a look at some of the more significant features of this release.

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Ghanaian agtech Farmerline to use new funding to strengthen its infrastructure, help farmers create wealth

TechCrunch

A McKinsey and Co. study suggests that while sub-Saharan Africa has the potential to increase (even triple) its agricultural output and overall contribution to the economy, the sector remains untapped largely due to lack of access to quality farm inputs, up to par infrastructure like warehousing and market. This is in an economy that derives 23% of its GDP from agriculture, with 60% of its population being involved in small-scale farming.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

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.

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Securing at Cloud Native Pace with Aqua Terraform Provider

Aqua Security

At Aqua, we believe that cloud native is an opportunity to do security right. With the release of our Terraform Provider, we’ve added another tool to do security the cloud native way. With Aqua Terraform Provider, security teams can easily adopt DevOps processes and infrastructure as code (IaC) to consistently automate how they deploy and update Aqua components as resources, with a governance overlay for peer reviews, code checks, and attestation of changes for audit and compliance.

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Tackling the Complexities of Multi-Cloud With a New IT Model

DevOps.com

The pandemic put incredible pressure on organizations to modernize and accelerate digital transformation efforts, with many businesses rushing to embrace cloud strategies in response. According to this year’s Enterprise Cloud Index from Nutanix, multi-cloud—an IT operating model that combines multiple clouds, public or private—is the most commonly deployed IT environment and the only IT model […].

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Volunteer at TC Sessions: Mobility for a free Disrupt Pass

TechCrunch

TC Sessions: Mobility is back and raring to go big — returning live and in-person — for year number four. It’s a two-day deep dive featuring the best, brightest and most intriguing founders, engineers, investors, regulators and technologists dedicated to transforming the way we move people and packages around the globe! Here’s where you come into the picture.

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How to Avoid Crappy Culture and Keep Engineers Happy

DevOps.com

Software engineers know how much they are worth—everyone wants them and there aren’t enough of them to fill that demand. While the need for tech talent is greater than ever, the pandemic has shifted priorities for many engineers. And they’re not alone. It’s a reality shared with millions of others in a variety of fields […]. The post How to Avoid Crappy Culture and Keep Engineers Happy appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Skich’s new app brings social discovery to mobile game recommendations

TechCrunch

A new startup called Skich wants to help mobile users find games to play that better match their interests. To do so, it’s created a game recommendation app that carefully toes the line in order to not bump up against Apple’s App Store rule that prohibits other apps from acting as App Stores themselves. Instead, Skich simply lets you “match” with games you might like using a card-style interface, similar to a dating app like Tinder.

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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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Article: Improving Your Estimation Skills by Playing a Planning Game

InfoQ Culture Methods

Underestimation is still the rule, rather than the exception. One bias especially relevant to the estimation process is the planning fallacy. This article explores the planning fallacy and how we are vulnerable to it. It explains how you can reduce your vulnerability to this fallacy through playing a planning game that has been specifically devised to help mitigate it.

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Circa wants to make first-of-the-month rent payments obsolete

TechCrunch

Paying rent on time can mean the difference between having a place to live, and well, not. Circa believes there is a simpler way to help renters keep a roof over their heads. The Maine-based payment technology company has created a mobile-first platform to enable renters to pay on time, in full, each month. And, if you run into problems and can’t pay the entire rent, Circa provides the option to break up the payments.

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The Role of AI in Intelligent Portfolio Management

Daffodil Software

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has introduced major breakthroughs in the finance industry. Risk management, customer segmentation, credit scoring, personalized banking, process automation, etc. are some of the advantages of AI and its technologies that are leveraged by the finance sector.

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Pandemic-fueled companies are finding the new reality hard to swallow

TechCrunch

Companies that rode COVID-driven demand for their products during the first years of the pandemic are seeing their fortunes come back to Earth. Whether some of the biggest names in the cohort have a next act is becoming an open question. Even more, could it be that companies that fell out of favor due to COVID-induced shifts in the economy are best prepared to excel this year?

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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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The Insider s Guide to UI UX Design and Development

Cabot Solutions

Want to learn more about UI UX design and development Look no further Our guide will teach you everything you need to know from the basics of user experience to tips for designing beautiful user interfaces

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How to know when it’s time for your startup to stop DIY-ing legal work

TechCrunch

From the outside looking in, the world of startups can feel informal: You meet your co-founder at a happy hour, your lead investor over Twitter DMs, and focus more on launching a minimum viable product than buttoning up onboarding processes. But that’s not where the story stops. When founders take the formal leap into entrepreneurship, there’s a whole host of (sometimes tedious) work that needs to be done — legally and professionally.

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Ivanti Workspace Control 2022.2 – 10.9.0.0 Is Now Available!

Ivanti

We have just released Workspace Control 2022.2 (10.9.0.0), which contains one major new feature, several compatibility updates and bug fixes. We’ve also included several workflow improvements based on ideas submitted via the Ivanti Community. New features. Audit trail – versioning. While adding details to the audit trail, our engineers added another great feature: an export button.

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Klaviyo co-founder Ed Hallen’s 3 top pieces of advice for launching a startup

TechCrunch

Ed Hallen. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Ed Hallen is the co-founder and chief product officer of Klaviyo , a unified customer platform for email, SMS and more that empowers online brands to own their data and grow on their own terms. I’ll tell you a (not so well-kept) secret that’s probably not a surprise to any of my former bosses: I wanted to become a founder because it sounded a lot more fun than getting a job and having a boss.

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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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The Power of Self Reliance for Adversity in Modern Times

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Inner resilience is the secret to outer results. Today’s post is by thoughtLEADERS instructor Jan Rutherford. What role does character, courage and virtue play in business achievement, and how should we deal with the difficulties, obstacles and adversity we inevitably face? Napoleon held, “Adversity is the midwife of genius.” An alternate expression for adversity is crucible, and the Oxford English Dictionary defines ‘crucible’ as “a melting pot, for metals, etc.,” and adds that it can be

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Pre-Commit Hooks DevOps Engineer Should Know To Control Kubernetes

Dzone - DevOps

Generally speaking, all companies are looking to increase their productivity at all levels: human, infrastructure, processes, and so on. Often, productivity is driven by the addition of automated processes to facilitate and increase the pace of production. This automation requires an evolution, an adaptation, or even a complete transformation of the concepts historically used.

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Answering Your Top Services Questions at Dell Technologies World

Dell EMC

Discover our top recommendations for getting connected with the services expertise you need at Dell Technologies World.

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The Core of Putin’s Weakness

The Cipher Brief

OPINION — In 2017, I wrote a short piece for Foreign Policy asking if Putin was more a product of his KGB background and personal circumstances, or whether he could be better described as acting in the longer cultural and historical tradition of Russian Tsars and Soviet Party bosses. I came down on the former explanation. However, since that time, Putin has justified his actions – to include the invasion of Ukraine – in increasingly nationalist and historic terms.

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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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Everything I Needed to Know About Observability, I Learned from ‘Bewitched’

Dzone - DevOps

Recently, I was asked to write an article on "How to Convince your Boss to Prioritize Observability." You can read it here ). As I was pulling it together, one particular sentence sent me down the Wikipedia rabbit hole. My original draft included a line that mentioned “winning the big __ account.” My thought was to reference the famous account from the TV show Bewitched that Darren and his partner Larry were always trying to win.

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3 Key Pillars to Safely Scaling AI Successfully: Breaking Down Pillar #2

Dataiku

Every organization strives to become a disruptor, rather than be disrupted themselves. Not surprisingly, they see the longed-for land of milk and honey in AI — and rightly so. According to McKinsey , the estimated gains are significant. By building machine learning (ML) into processes, leading organizations increase process efficiency by 30% or more while increasing revenues from five percent to 10%.

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Watch online: APEX and Multi-cloud Dell Technologies World Sessions

Dell EMC

You can attend these APEX and multi-cloud portfolio sessions at Dell Technologies World without leaving home.

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Why the Buzz on XDR Solutions?

SecureWorks

Why the Buzz on XDR Solutions? Learn about the benefits and value of XDR solutions in this EM360 podcast episode XDR solutions do a lot more than just aggregate telemetry. They empower you and your team to really make use of that telemetry—and to minimize the time spent dealing with minor issues when there are major ones requiring your attention.

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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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Creating a High-Performance Image Resizer Proxy as a Dockerized Go Microservice

QBurst

While working on applications that process a large number of images, we often come across the requirement to resize images for different resolutions. An image generated by a typical 12MP mobile phone camera can be 5MB-12MB depending on the quality of the image. Once uploaded, the image must be optimized for different devices. As you […]. The post Creating a High-Performance Image Resizer Proxy as a Dockerized Go Microservice appeared first on QBurst Blog.

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How AI lets Priefert Manufacturing stay productive without sacrificing security

Darktrace

The main Darktrace user at a manufacturing organization explains how Autonomous Response reduces cyber risks arising from human error, and allows the security team to adopt a proactive rather than reactive approach to security.

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A Slice of Spam

The Daily WTF

In addition to being a developer, Beatrix W manages a few small email servers, which means she sometimes needs to evaluate the kinds of messages arriving and their origins, especially when they're suspicious. One such suspicious message arrived, complete with a few malicious links, and some hints of possibly being the start of a spear-phishing attack.