CloudZero
APRIL 15, 2021
Every engineering team has their own approach when it comes to development methodologies. Most teams have embraced popular frameworks, Agile Scrum seems to be the most popular, both putting their own spin on it and choosing the parts that work for them.
TechCrunch
APRIL 15, 2021
Dharmesh Thakker. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Dharmesh Thakker is a general partner at Battery Ventures and a former managing director at Intel Capital. More posts by this contributor. Tracking the explosive growth of open-source software. The Money In Open-Source Software. More than half a decade ago, my Battery Ventures partner Neeraj Agrawal penned a widely read post offering advice for enterprise-software companies hoping to reach $100 million in annual recurring revenue.
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Henrik Warne
APRIL 15, 2021
Here are more good programming quotes I have found since my last post. Programming. “It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants. It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.” Alan Cooper. “Changing random stuff until your program works is bad coding practice, but if you do it fast enough it’s Machine Learning.” via @manisha
TechCrunch
APRIL 15, 2021
Four years ago, MasterClass, a platform that sells celebrity-taught classes, invited chess legend Garry Kasparov to teach a class. He said yes, but soon realized that creating a message that could satisfy a majority of players was a “struggle throughout the process.”. While the class did pretty well, Kasparov found it “a little bit annoying” that he had to downplay concepts and stick to a specific structure.
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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.
Hacker Earth Developers Blog
APRIL 15, 2021
Domina McQuade, Microsoft Azure’s Senior Recruiting Manager had some interesting things to share when it comes to recruiting, and all of its highs and lows. Confronting and limiting bias in tech recruiting comes with education and experience. In her early days of recruiting, Domina McQuade, Microsoft Azure’s Senior Recruiting Manager, recalls one such experience where an interview panel hiring for a female Sales Manager role had no women interviewers on the panel.
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DevOps.com
APRIL 15, 2021
For all the technological advancements we are witnessing in AI and machine learning, the practical benefits remain elusive in the non-tech business world, frustrating decision-makers as AI investment climbs. For example, over the past several years, many Fortune 500 companies have invested in strong data science teams and AI labs, but still struggle when it comes […].
TechCrunch
APRIL 15, 2021
Coinbase’s direct listing was a massive finance, startup and cryptocurrency event that impacted a host of public and private investors, early employees, and crypto-enthusiasts. Regardless of where one sits in the broader tech and venture world, Coinbase storming north of a $100 billion valuation during its first day of trading was the biggest startup happening of the year.
InfoQ Culture Methods
APRIL 15, 2021
The fourth article in a series on how software companies adapted and continue to adapt to enhance their resilience explores the strategies used by engineering leaders to help create the conditions for sustained resilience. It provides stories, examples, and strategies towards designing an organizational structure to support resilient performance and managing for resilience.
TechCrunch
APRIL 15, 2021
The safety pilot has his hands off the controls during an Xwing demonstration flight. Image Credits: Xwing. Xwing has scored another win two months after it completed its first gate-to-gate autonomous demonstration flight of a commercial cargo aircraft. The company said Thursday it has raised $40 million at a post-money valuation of $400 million. The company is setting its sights on expansion — not only tripling its engineering team, but eventually running regular fully unmanned commercial
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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.
TechBeacon
APRIL 15, 2021
Organizations face an uphill battle as they try to recruit top technical talent. It's in short supply—and the problem is only getting worse. According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, the shortage of software engineers in the United States will exceed 1.2 million by 2026. The unfortunate reality is that there simply are not enough qualified candidates to meet the increasing demand, whether you're looking for software engineers, software development engineer in test or some other development
TechCrunch
APRIL 15, 2021
Chili Piper , which has a sophisticated SaaS appointment scheduling platform for sales teams, has raised a $33 million B round led by Tiger Global. Existing investors Base10 Partners and Gradient Ventures (Google’s AI-focused VC) also participated. This brings the company’s total financing to $54 million. The company will use the capital raised to accelerate product development.
CableLabs
APRIL 15, 2021
Motivational speaker, Jim Rohn is known for saying, “What is powerful is when what you say is just the tip of the iceberg of what you know.” For an organization like CableLabs, the challenge morphs into something quite monumental when the goal is to enable convergence across multiple industries and technologies that have been progressing independently of one another.
TechCrunch
APRIL 15, 2021
While the seemingly unending debate around Substack has focused on well-known writers with a national profile, the newsletter platform just announced that it will be supporting local (presumably non-famous) journalists through a new program. The startup described Substack Local as a $1 million initiative that will fund independent writers creating local news publications.
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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.
DevOps.com
APRIL 15, 2021
In light of the points brought up in these articles, what is my advice for which language to use on a given project? The same advice I have always given development teams: Use the right tool for the job. My father was a woodworker, and drilled that concept into me. I brought it to development, […]. The post Languages and DevOps: Recommendations appeared first on DevOps.com.
TechCrunch
APRIL 15, 2021
JustKitchen , a cloud kitchen startup, will start trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) Venture Exchange on Thursday morning. It is doing a direct listing of its common shares, having already raised $8 million at a $30 million valuation. The company says this makes it one of the first—if not the first—cloud kitchen company to go public in North America.
DevOps.com
APRIL 15, 2021
Not long ago, if you can believe it, software was shipped on physical floppy disks and CDs. These physical relics contained dense paper instruction books that humans read diligently for hours on end (I guess they had more time to spare back then?). Complexity was a given for computer-based tasks. Fast forward past the consumerization […]. The post Seeing the Bigger Picture With BizDevSecOps appeared first on DevOps.com.
TechCrunch
APRIL 15, 2021
Fintech startup N26 is launching N26 Insurance as it plans to offer insurance products that you can access from the company’s mobile app and website. The first insurance product is a smartphone insurance plan for German customers. But the startup doesn’t plan to stop there. N26 says it is also working on private liability insurance, home insurance, life insurance, pet insurance and coverage for bikes, electronics and large purchases.
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Tenable
APRIL 15, 2021
Nine new DNS-related vulnerabilities have been identified across TCP/IP stacks embedded in millions of devices. Background. On April 13, 2021, researchers at Forescout and JSOF published a report called NAME:WRECK. The report details the discovery of nine Domain Name System (DNS) vulnerabilities across four widely used open-source TCP/IP stacks. Conservative estimates suggest that the flaws are present in over 100 million devices.
TechCrunch
APRIL 15, 2021
E-commerce is booming, but among the biggest challenges for entrepreneurs of online businesses are finding a place to store the items they are selling and dealing with the logistics of operating. Tyler Scriven, Maxwell Bonnie and Paul D’Arrigo co-founded Saltbox in an effort to solve that problem. The trio came up with a unique “co-warehousing” model that provides space for small businesses and e-commerce merchants to operate as well as store and ship goods, all under one roof.
Coding Dojo
APRIL 15, 2021
At Coding Dojo, we’re proud to offer a range of financial assistance that lowers the financial barrier for people wanting … Read more >>. The post How $10 Million in Scholarships Helped Create 6,000+ Developer Careers appeared first on Coding Dojo Blog.
TechCrunch
APRIL 15, 2021
Casa Blanca , which aims to develop a “Bumble-like app” for finding a home, has raised $2.6 million in seed funding. Co-founder and CEO Hannah Bomze got her real estate license at the age of 18 and worked at Compass and Douglas Elliman Real Estate before launching Casa Blanca last year. She launched the app last October with the goal of matching home buyers and renters with homes using an in-app matchmaking algorithm combined with “expert agents.
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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.
TechBeacon
APRIL 15, 2021
This week brings yet more examples of poor design. Specifically: Two apps trusting phone numbers without properly authenticating the actual user.
TechCrunch
APRIL 15, 2021
If you or a loved one has ever undergone a tumor removal as part of cancer treatment, you’re likely familiar with the period of uncertainty and fear that follows. Will the cancer return, and if so, will the doctors catch it at an early enough stage? C2i Genomics has developed software that’s 100x more sensitive in detecting residual disease, and investors are pouncing on the potential.
Trigent
APRIL 15, 2021
The education sector, like many others, has been hugely impacted owing to the COVID-19 pandemic. Not that it wasn’t familiar to disruption. Homeschooling, online degree programs, virtual classrooms have all been progressive steps in the direction of transformative technological innovation. But with Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) coming into the picture, things have changed radically for the education sector.
TechCrunch
APRIL 15, 2021
Olist , a Brazilian e-commerce marketplace integrator, has raised $23 million in a Series D round extension led by new investor Goldman Sachs Asset Management that brings its total Series D financing to $80 million. Existing backer Redpoint eventures , which first put money in Olist in 2015, also participated in the latest round. With this latest infusion, Olist has now raised more than $126 million since its 2015 inception.
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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.
DevOps.com
APRIL 15, 2021
Gartner recognizes New Relic in the Leaders quadrant for its completeness of vision and ability to execute SAN FRANCISCO—New Relic, Inc. (NYSE: NEWR), the observability company, announced it has again been recognized by Gartner, Inc. as a Leader in its “Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring” report by Federico De Silva, Padraig Byrne, Josh Chessman […].
TechCrunch
APRIL 15, 2021
We all know the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated digital adoption in a number of areas, particularly in the financial services space. Within financial services, there are few spaces hotter than B2B payments. With a $120 trillion market size , it’s no surprise that an increasing number of fintechs focused on digitizing payments have been attracting investor interest.
DevOps.com
APRIL 15, 2021
SAN FRANCISCO, April 15, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Tecton, the enterprise feature store company and primary contributor to Feast, today announced Feast 0.10, the first feature store that can be deployed locally in minutes without dedicated infrastructure. The new release makes it possible for data scientists to reap the benefits of a functionally complete feature […].
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