Thu.May 26, 2022

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Equipping Our Developers Inside Dell With Application Intelligence

Dell EMC

Dell IT is providing development teams with observability tools to better understand and own the products they build.

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FlexID gets Algorand funding to offer self-sovereign IDs to Africa’s unbanked

TechCrunch

Much of the world’s attention around blockchain is on the highs and lows of cryptocurrency values. Startups like FlexID remind us that distributed ledger technology has the potential to play other roles, including offering trusted records of identities without the need for a centralized authority. One of the startups working toward this vision is Zimbabwe’s FlexID, which is building a blockchain-based identity system for those excluded from the banking system due to their lack of ide

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Callback Function in C

The Crazy Programmer

Suppose you call your friend for some help and at that time he is busy with some work. He told you that he will callback you after some time. This process is called callback and when it comes to programming, the process of calling back a function from another function is called callback. To understand this let us suppose there is a function A doing some work, and there is a function B doing some other work.

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Foursquare founder banks funding for mystery 3D social network startup

TechCrunch

The excitement around web3 and the metaverse have pulled plenty of entrepreneurs who defined the first generation of native mobile apps to begin questioning what’s next. Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley is on the co-founding team of a new startup called LivingCities , alongside Matt Miesnieks, who sold his most recent startup 6D.ai to Niantic for an undisclosed sum, as well as designer John Gaeta, who best known for his work on the Matrix Trilogy.

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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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Why DevSecOps Should Be Top Priority

DevOps.com

DevOps culture and process are integral to maintaining the pace of cloud-native software development for organizations, especially when code deployments might take place many times a day. The ability to instantly create, populate and scale cloud applications and infrastructure, often automated through code, allows enormous agility and incredible speed.

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JFrog Aims to Push DevOps to the Edge

DevOps.com

At its swampUP event, JFrog launched a JFrog Connect platform for updating, managing, monitoring and securing remote Linux and internet of things (IoT) devices. The JFrog Connect platform is based on a lightweight agent JFrog gained last year with the acquisition of Upswift and that has now been integrated with the JFrog Artifactory repository. DevOps […].

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Viola Credit closes $700M fund to provide asset-based lending to fintech startups

TechCrunch

Fintech startup and alternative credit asset manager Viola Credit has closed its latest $700 million fund, which provides asset-based lending capital to fintech, proptech and insurtech startups. If this fintech play reminds you of Silicon Valley Bank, think again. The latter provides corporate lending, also known as venture lending. Instead, Viola provides lending capital to fintech lenders.

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Why Do Microcontainers Matter in Your Enterprise?

Dzone - DevOps

The global enterprise software market demonstrated significant growth in recent years with its global revenue projected to reach a staggering US$243.30bln in 2022. Today, regardless of its size or industry, each organization uses enterprise software in its day-to-day routine. Moreover, this software serves various goals. Software application components carry on the different functional areas of responsibility and should deliver smooth operation to complex systems.

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New Zealand’s Humble Bee Bio is using bees to create bioplastics

TechCrunch

Humble Bee Bio is on a mission to create a biodegradable alternative to plastics by synthesizing the biology of bees. While the New Zealand-based company is still at an early stage – it’s about halfway through its proof of concept – if Humble Bee is successful, its bioplastics are likely to make it into the sustainable textiles industry. Humble Bee, which just raised $3.2 million (NZD $5 million) in convertible notes as part of its Series A, has been studying the Australian masked bee, a t

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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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Broadcom Acquires VMware to Expand Software Portfolio

DevOps.com

Broadcom today pulled the trigger on an acquisition of VMware for $61 billion in cash and stock that could dramatically expand its software portfolio. Tom Krause, president of the Broadcom Software Group, told investors that the Broadcom infrastructure software group will become part of VMware once the deal closes. The deal, however, includes a 40-day […].

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Friendly Apps raises $3 million, pre-product, for apps that improve people’s well-being

TechCrunch

Longtime engineer and product designer Michael Sayman has been building apps since he was a kid, landing him roles at Facebook , Google , Roblox, and most recently Twitter , where he’s often been tasked with developing products aimed at a teenage audience. Sayman was only 17 when he joined Facebook, but had already built several apps — an experience documented in his book “ App Kid.” Over the years, Sayman contributed to high-profile products like Instagram Stories, Whats

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How Should You Apply Automation in DevOps Practice?

Dzone - DevOps

To deal with the increased demand for software products, businesses worldwide have started adopting the well-known DevOps practices for rapid prototyping and delivery of software updates. Automation is an integral part of following DevOps principles. With the help of automation, DevOps excels at providing speed, consistency, and reliability of their end products.

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Does WeWork’s Adam Neumann really deserve his second chance?

TechCrunch

Image Credits: TechCrunch. Plenty of entrepreneurs have used the crypto boom to plot the next step of their Silicon Valley character arcs, but few of them have an active television series chronicling their misdeeds. This week, Adam Neumann made his post-WeWork debut, co-founding a blockchain-based carbon credits market, and — more impressively — raising $70 million in funding for it, about half of which came from VCs with the other portion coming from a private token sale.

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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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Dockerizing Your Node.js Application

Dzone - DevOps

Docker has completely revolutionized how we build, package, and ship software. Docker has made it possible for developers to package their applications and share them with others. Because of Docker, we now see so many advancements in cloud computing. Many emerging startups keep Docker technology as their base. Additionally, Docker enhanced the DevOps approach by bridging the gap between Dev and Ops teams.

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Former Binance executives launch $100M crypto fund

TechCrunch

A group of former executives from Binance , one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges globally, has created a $100 million venture fund, the team told TechCrunch on Thursday. Old Fashion Research ( OFR ) – whose name is derived from the classic cocktail – was founded in late 2021 by managing partners Ling Zhang, who was previously the vice president of M&A and investments at Binance, and Wayne Fu, former head of corporate development at the crypto exchange.

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System Hardening Standards and Best Practices With Chef

Dzone - DevOps

If you have anything to do with IT infrastructure, operations management, or DevOps , you've certainly come across the term "system hardening." While system hardening seems like a regular everyday activity in large IT teams with diverse infrastructure, the use and benefits cover a wide range of functions that secure your systems. This blog explores what system hardening is, why it's needed, its benefits, and how Chef enables DevSecOps teams to harden heterogeneous systems with speed and ease.

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Daily Crunch: In one of the largest tech deals ever struck, Broadcom will buy VMware for $61B

TechCrunch

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. It’s Thursday, May 26, 2022, and we have a busy day of news on the site today. Here are the gems sparkling in the spotlight of our journalistic gaze. For later in the year, we’re pretty excited about this panel at TechCrunch Disrupt, where VCs will discuss how you can raise money when you’re not at one of the major tech hubs.

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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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"Help me Obi-Wan, InfiniBox is our only hope."

Infinidat

"Help me Obi-Wan, InfiniBox is our only hope." Evan Doherty. Thu, 05/26/2022 - 12:42. A long time ago, in an office cubical far from home, I used to be a Level 3 storage engineering at JP Morgan Chase Bank. Yes, I’m a Star Wars fan and had to be a bit geeky to start this blog. In my days at JP Morgan Chase, we did manage PBs of storage, albeit hundreds of DMX, VMAX, and USP-V frames.

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Bowery opens a new vertical farm in Pennsylvania

TechCrunch

When I wrote my big TC1 on Bowery Farming late last year , there was a lot of talk of the company’s third commercial farming site in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Today the facility finally comes online after a big press unveiling. The New Jersey–based vertical farming startup says the facility, built on a former brownfield lot, is its most technologically advanced to date.

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What it Means to Entrust

CEO Insider

Earlier this week, I led the final module of a six-week professional certification program for Peernovation. I created the curriculum for an inaugural cohort of nine executive coaches from four countries to help them augment their executive coaching practices and extend their reach to building high-performing teams. These coaches will take what the top CEO […].

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Revenue-based financing platform Bloom secures $377M Series A led by Credo and Fortress

TechCrunch

While the likes of Pipe are reaching multi-billion valuations , European revenue-based financing is experiencing as much of a boom as it is in the U.S. U.K.-based startup platform Bloom has now secured a £300 million / $377 million financing round led by Credo Capital and Fortress Investment Group LLC (NYSE:FIG), making it one of the better-funded revenue-based lending businesses in Europe.

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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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How “situationally aware” is your team of the perceptions others have of them?

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Our reader poll today asks: How “situationally aware” is your team of the perceptions others have of them? Very: They are very attuned to how others perceive them 12.56% Somewhat: They’re aware of obvious perceptions others have 46.05% Not very: They only pick up on the strongest perceptions 30.23% Not at all: They’re clueless about how others perceive them 11.16% Do you know what they think?

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Joby Aviation secures certificate to operate commercial air taxis

TechCrunch

Joby Aviation — the publicly-traded electric air vehicle company with a current market cap of $3.1 billion — has received the necessary certification from the Federal Aviation Administration to begin on-demand commercial air taxi operations, the company said on Thursday. While it’s a significant milestone that puts Joby closer to its stated goal of launching its electric aerial ridesharing service commercially in 2024 , the startup still has a ways to go until it can ferry pass

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How to Spot — and Develop — High-Potential Talent in Your Organization

Harvard Business Review

Past performance isn’t always the sole measure of what someone can really do.

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Pitch Deck Teardown: Lumigo’s $29M Series A deck

TechCrunch

In Novembar last year, Frederic wrote about Lumigo ‘s $29 million Series A round led by Redline Capital. The company makes a cloud-native application monitoring and debugging platform and has raised a total of $38 million since its launch in 2019. In the most recent installment of my Pitch Deck Teardown series, I am beyond excited to share the deck it used when it raised its Series A last year.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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JFrog Integrates with ServiceNow to Improve Software Security Vulnerability Response Times with “ServiceOps”

DevOps.com

New JFrog Xray Integrations with ServiceNow Lightstep Incident Response and Spoke Help IT and SRE Teams Proactively Secure the Software Supply Chain with Real-Time, Cross-Department Visibility & Team Activation for Security Incidents Sunnyvale, CA and San Diego, CA, May 26, 2022 — (swampUP 2022) – JFrog Ltd. (“JFrog”) (NASDAQ: FROG), the Liquid Software company and creators of the JFrog DevOps […].

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Report: Substack, the highly hyped newsletter platform, has ditched plans for a Series C

TechCrunch

Substack , the five-year-old newsletter platform that has aggressively positioned itself as a disruptive force in media, has abandoned efforts to raise a Series C round, the New York Times is reporting today. According to its sources, Substack held discussions with potential investors in recent months about raising $75 million to $100 million at a valuation of between $750 million and $1 billion.

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Ransomware Defense Measures: ESG Study Reveals Lingering Shortfalls

SecureWorks

Ransomware Defense Measures: ESG Study Reveals Lingering Shortfalls The majority of organizations remain at risk for repeat ransomware attacks. An instructive look into the deficiencies that are leaving organizations susceptible and insights to help you bolster your organization’s ransomware defense.

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