Dataiku
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
The concept of self-service analytics isn’t exactly a new topic. However, there are many misconceptions around what self-service analytics involves. Many people think that self-service analytics is only about pulling data from dashboards. This is — spoiler alert — false!
CIO
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
IT freelancing offers multiple benefits, including flexible working schedules, location choice, engaging assignments, diverse clients, and an opportunity to apply one’s talents in several different areas. But freelancing is also a business, and skilled IT freelancers know what it takes to find and keep great clients, as well as how to drop organizations that make unreasonable demands or fail to pay on time.
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TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
Day One Ventures , a venture firm launched in 2018 with a pitch to combine venture capital acumen with marketing and communications support, has launched a program aimed explicitly at those impacted by tech layoffs this year. The program, titled “ Funded Not Fired, ” will write $100,000 checks into 20 startup teams by the end of the year. Top businesses from the cohort will then get follow-up capital from Day One Ventures commitment to lead their pre-seed round with a $1 million check.
CIO
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
What is the future of analytics and AI? And how can organizations thrive in an era of disruption? We asked Bryan Harris, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of analytics software company SAS, for his perspective. Q: What is your advice to technology leaders for improving organizational resiliency? A: Right now, we are all in a race against disruption and data.
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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.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
Dear Sophie, I was laid off and I’m on an H-1B. I have enough savings to survive for a while. What should I do if I have been let go from my job? I am on an H-1B, have an approved I-140 and an I-797 that expires in March 2024. If I have to leave the U.S., can my current I-797 be transferred to my next employer? Are there any issues I should be aware of?
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TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
John Foley clearly didn’t take (ahem) a brake after leaving Peloton. The former co-founder and CEO of the connected fitness company — who stepped down as CEO in February and left the company altogether in September — is back with a new startup. Ernesta, which aims to launch in spring 2023, will sell custom rugs through a direct-to-consumer strategy.
CIO
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
By Ginna Raahauge, CIO at Zayo For businesses to deliver value to customers, they must stay on top of customer challenges. At Zayo, we understand the macro trends our customers are currently facing — such as remote and hybrid work and the growing importance of user experience — have impacted how they approach business. To get to the heart of these pain points, we sat down with CIOs and IT leaders across industries to candidly discuss where they are in their digital transformation journeys, the e
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
Speedoc , a health tech platform that brings hospital care to homes, has raised $28 million in pre-Series B funding. The round included Bertelsmann Investments, Shinhan Venture Investment and Mars Growth. Returning investor Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia and India, which led Speedoc’s $5 million Series A in 2020, also participated. Based in Singapore, Speedoc was founded in 2017 by Dr.
Martin Fowler
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
The usual Twitter convention is to follow the whole person, meaning one Twitter account for a person would tweet on many different subjects. In the Fediverse, however, that's not encouraged, so we'll see many people having multiple Mastodon (and other) accounts.s. more….
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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
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
Matt Armanino. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Matt Armanino serves as the CEO of national consulting and accounting firm Armanino, where he focuses on driving firmwide growth and innovation. Recent economic headlines have been dominated by the declining stock market, rampant inflation and widespread talk of recession. At Armanino, we use the term “VUCA” to describe such broadly adverse market conditions.
CIO
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
CIO.com: Can you give us a snapshot of your role and responsibilities as CPTO at Ovo? Christina Scott: I joined Ovo, the UK’s third largest energy supplier, in September 2021 as chief product and technology officer. In this role, I lead Ovo’s technology, product and data teams, who provide intelligent energy technology solutions as we work towards decarbonising UK homes, an integral part of ‘plan zero’: Ovo’s journey to net zero.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
Veriti, a platform for unifying cybersecurity infrastructure, today emerged from stealth with $18.5 million in funding, a combination of $12 million from Insight Partners and a $6.5 million round led by NFX and Amiti. According to CEO Adi Ikan, the newly announced capital is being put toward scaling Veriti’s business operations and developing its product suite.
InfoQ Culture Methods
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
This article dives into the throughput and quality of the async code review process, which are very important dimensions to optimize for in product development teams. It also explains why co-creation patterns – Pair and Mob programming – as an alternative way of working are able to optimize for both of those dimensions, instead of needing to trade off between them.
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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.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Today, we’ve been learning about what the hell a Mastodon even is, so the timing of Amanda ’s piece ‘A beginner’s guide to Mastodon’ is all sorts of perfect. Give it a read, and come find us on Mastodon after. If you can — that’s another challenge.
DevOps.com
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
DevSecOps is having a moment in the federal government. With President Biden’s Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity and federal agencies’ issuance of DevSecOps best practices based on the Enduring Security Framework, government organizations are shoring up and standardizing their DevSecOps processes to meet today’s cybersecurity challenges head-on.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
Beekeeper , a platform for businesses to engage with frontline workers, has raised $50 million in a Series C round of funding. Founded out of Switzerland in 2011, Beekeeper targets the estimated 80% of the global “deskless” workforce who don’t work from a fixed office-based location, spanning hospitality, retail, manufacturing, logistics, healthcare, among other industries.
Darktrace
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
Since the release of version 2 of Raccoon Stealer in May 2022, Darktrace’s SOC has observed a continuous surge in Raccoon Stealer v2 activity. In this blog, we will outline the typical steps of a Raccoon Stealer v2 infection, paying close attention to the info-stealer’s network-based behaviors.
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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.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
Excess inventory, including returned items, from e-commerce, logistics and retail companies often ends up being disposed. Manila-based Humble Sustainability is a circular economy startup that wants to keep it out of the Philippines’ landfills. Since its launch, it has processed more than 150,000 items like clothing, consumer electronics and household appliances that are either resold through Thrift, its Shopee storefront, or passed onto B2B recyclers and resellers.
O'Reilly Media - Ideas
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
We’ve all been impressed by the generative art models: DALL-E, Imagen, Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, and now Facebook’s generative video model, Make-A-Video. They’re easy to use, and the results are impressive. They also raise some fascinating questions about programming languages. Prompt engineering, designing the prompts that drive these models, is likely to be a new specialty.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
Still on the fence about going to TC Sessions: Crypto on November 17 in Miami? There’s no better time or way to get the latest news, trends and expert insight on the rapidly changing, always evolving world of crypto. And in case you haven’t heard, this daylong conference is no one-trick pony. We go deep on blockchain, DeFi, NFTs and web3 too. So, what’s it gonna take?
Dzone - DevOps
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
Productivity in software development has always been tricky to measure. Unlike in other industries, the act of programming is not something that’s easy to parallelize. The development process is unique in that it requires a diverse mix of technical and communications skills, which calls for a set of specialized metrics to keep track of the team’s vitals.
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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.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
Why are software companies valuable? Put another way, why have we spent so many years valuing software companies using revenue multiples, instead of the profit multiples that are more common in other industries? There are several key reasons. First, software companies have very strong gross margins; software is cheap to sell once you’ve written the code.
DevOps.com
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
During a Snowday 2022 event, Snowflake this week moved to make it simpler to build applications on top of its cloud platform for managing data in addition to enhancing the overall security of the platform. The company has made generally available Snowpark, a framework for building Java, Scala, SQL or Python applications. Snowflake also committed […].
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
Increasingly, as Moore’s law rears its ugly head, computer chip developers are adopting “chiplet” architectures to scale their hardware’s processing power. Chiplets are Lego-like integrated circuit blocks designed to work with other, similar chiplets to form complex, stackable chips that boost performance while maintaining a similar physical footprint.
DevOps.com
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
Fuzz testing continues to grow in popularity among developers within the open source community. Google’s open source security (OSS) team recently reported finding more than 40,000 bugs in 650 open source projects through the use of fuzz testing. But if you have no clue what fuzz testing is (yet), don’t worry. You’ve come to the […]. The post Developer’s Guide to Fuzz Testing appeared first on DevOps.com.
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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.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
Kuda , the London-based and Nigerian-operating startup taking on incumbents in the country with a mobile-first and personalized set of banking services, is expanding to the U.K. by offering a remittance product to Nigerians in the diaspora. . The digital bank has seen some success since launching in Nigeria in 2019. Kuda claims to have up to 5 million users, more than thrice the number it had last August during its $55 million Series B round , money it raised to enter into other African countrie
Tenable
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
Microsoft’s November 2022 Patch Tuesday Addresses 62 CVEs (CVE-2022-41073) Microsoft addresses 62 CVEs including four zero-day vulnerabilities that were exploited in the wild. 9 Critical. 53 Important. 0 Moderate. 0 Low. Microsoft patched 62 CVEs in its November 2022 Patch Tuesday release, with nine rated as critical, and 53 rated as important. As part of its Patch Tuesday release, Microsoft also released a Defense in Depth Update ( ADV220003 ) for Microsoft Office and advisories attributed to A
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
Compliance with privacy and security frameworks like SOC 2, HIPAA and GDPR has become a central component not just of how organizations build trust with their users, but of how organizations work together these days: fail to meet the requirements of these frameworks, and you might lose your business relationship. Today, Laika — one of the bigger startups providing tools to help meet those compliance demands — is announcing $50 million in funding, underscoring the growth in this space
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