Thu.Oct 06, 2022

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What’s Next for Cloud Computing? Distributed Cloud

DevOps.com

The public cloud has greatly advanced IT by allowing teams to interact with their data and write new applications in a cloud-native way. The cloud simplifies the application development process, provides services on demand and allows you to pay as you go. There has been phenomenal growth in public cloud use and all estimates show […]. The post What’s Next for Cloud Computing?

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7 ways to foster IT innovation

CIO

As an IT leader, being able to foster innovation not only benefits the IT itself, with greater efficiency, effectiveness and value, but the organization it serves and you personally, as it illustrates your ability to be an internal agent of change, a true business partner, and an asset at the strategy table. 1. Define and articulate your definition of IT innovation.

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Microsoft explores investment in Indian gaming platform Zupee

TechCrunch

Microsoft has held conversations to invest in the Indian play-to-earn gaming platform Zupee in recent weeks and proposed to potentially lead a funding round of over $100 million, two people familiar with the matter told TechCrunch, the latest in a series of bets from the cloud services giant to expand its business in the key overseas market. The two firms haven’t reached an agreement and there is a reasonable chance the deal will not materialize, the people cautioned.

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Why Having a Growth Mindset is Critical for Company Success

CIO

By Milan Shetti, CEO Rocket Software. As a leader, setting the culture of an organization is a massive undertaking, especially if the task is to change the culture at a company that has been around for decades. How a culture is implemented in an organization oftentimes comes down to the idea of the company having a “fixed mindset” or a “growth mindset” – one will help the company get ahead, while the other can create a hostile, stagnant organization that falls behind the competition.

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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 your startup needs a prenup

TechCrunch

Yonaton Aronoff. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Yonaton Aronoff is a partner at litigation and employment law firm Harris St. Laurent & Wechsler in New York City. The early months of a startup are like the beginning of a new romantic relationship: full of promise and excitement, with everyone entranced in a blissful state of possibility. In these days of wine and roses, it is natural to want to focus on the positive.

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Uber and Motional to launch robotaxis across US over 10 years

TechCrunch

Uber is getting back into the robotaxi game, only this time it’s tapping a third party to handle the self-driving tech. Motional, the Aptiv-Hyundai joint venture commercializing self-driving vehicle tech, will put its robotaxis on the Uber network later this year as part of a 10-year operating agreement that will eventually roll out to major cities across North America.

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Want to Drive Industry Breakthroughs or Speed Up Innovation? Start by Optimising Your HPC and AI Workloads

CIO

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is fast becoming the cornerstone of business analytics, allowing companies to generate value from the ever-growing datasets generated by today’s business processes. At the same time, the sheer volume and velocity of data demand high-performance computing (HPC) to provide the power needed to effectively train AIs, do AI inferencing, and run analytics.

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The US venture capital slowdown doesn’t look that bad

TechCrunch

This year is supposed to be a venture-capital wasteland, especially when compared to 2021’s cycle-topping excess. And yet. New data from PitchBook providing a first look at Q3 2022 venture capital aggregates in the United States make it a bit hard to square reality with the leading narrative. Data indicate that U.S. venture capital was perfectly healthy in the third quarter, and 2022 has been a good year.

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Keep Calm and Respond: A Beginner's Heuristic to Incident Response

Dzone - DevOps

A few years ago, when working as a software developer building and maintaining internal platform components for a cloud company, I deleted an application from production as part of a deprecation. I had double and triple-checked references and done my due diligence communicating with the company. Within minutes, though, our alerting and monitoring systems began to flood our Slack channels, in a deluge of signals telling me something wasn’t working.

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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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Pitch Deck Teardown: Vori’s $10M Series A deck

TechCrunch

Large supermarket chains have their own purchasing and logistics functions, but there are thousands of small, independent grocery stores and chains. They typically don’t have the benefit of the specialized software and tech to help make everything run smoother, but that’s where Vori saw an opportunity. The company agreed to share the pitch deck it used to raise a $10 million Series A so I can take a closer look.

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Linux 6.0 is Faster, Cooler | Debian Goes Proprietary | Google Africa Region

DevOps.com

In this week’s The Long View: Linux 6.0 promoted to Stable, Debian 12 will include closed-source binaries, and Google Cloud opens its first Africa region. The post Linux 6.0 is Faster, Cooler | Debian Goes Proprietary | Google Africa Region appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Jiko banks $40M in Series B funding to offer companies a way to park their cash in T-bills

TechCrunch

Jiko started its life as a mobile bank for consumers. But over time, the fintech startup has evolved its model – mostly fueled by demand – and is now making a push into corporate money storage. In 2020, Jiko made headlines by being the first fintech to acquire a nationally regulated U.S. bank. The company also was unique in another way: Rather than hold customer deposits, it used the funds to buy short-term Treasury bills (T-bills). .

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How to Attract and Retain Quality IT Help

TechBeacon

For IT and the tech sector, a silver lining of COVID-19 may be the work-from-anywhere trend it kicked into high gear. Today, two-thirds of US firms are adopting work-from-anywhere employment strategies to offset the scarcity of talent in their local markets, according to Forrester's "Adopt an Anywhere-Work Strategy to Compete in the Future Tech Labor Market" report.

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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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The Startup Battlefield 200: Climate tech and health tech edition

TechCrunch

We think you’ll be as amazed as we are by the collective creativity, ingenuity and technical prowess of the Startup Battlefield 200. Out of thousands of applications, only 200 early-stage startups made the final cut, and you’ll find all of them — and only them — exhibiting on the TechCrunch Disrupt show floor on October 18–20 in San Francisco. That’s a whole lotta noteworthy startups, so we’re highlighting them by vertical.

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10G Challenge Winners Leverage Power of Multi-Gigabit Network

CableLabs

What if our loved ones could easily receive life-changing or even lifesaving medical care no matter where they live? What would be different if critical learning opportunities were broadly available to students from all communities, including urban and rural areas? Scenarios like these could certainly change how we live our lives. In 2021, CableLabs issued a challenge to individuals and organizations to think big.

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Volocopter completes crewed eVTOL test flight out of Rome vertiport

TechCrunch

German electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) startup Volocopter conducted its first crewed public test flight in Italy Thursday morning. The flight launched from a vertiport built at Rome’s Fiumicino Airport, Italy’s first advanced air mobility (AAM) testing vertiport, during a two-day event meant to demonstrate what a service between the airport and the city of Rome would look like.

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How to Prevent Turnover in DevOps Teams

DevOps.com

Turnover is all too common in software engineering. The Bureau of Labor Statistics 2021 report found that the average software engineer turnover is 57.3%. It’s a programmer’s market, and these sought-after folks might jump ship for a higher salary, better work-life balance, different team dynamic or perhaps even for a company with a better ESG […].

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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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Cyber firm Arctic Wolf raises $401M in debt, eyeing a potential IPO

TechCrunch

In a sign that pure equity financing is getting harder to come by, cybersecurity firm Arctic Wolf , which last July raised $150 million at triple its previous valuation ($4.3 billion), opted for all debt in its latest funding round. The company today announced that it secured $401 million in convertible notes from Owl Rock with participation from new and existing investors Viking Global Investors, the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, and Neuberger Berman.

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Adobe Experience Manager vs. HubSpot vs. Contentful: How to Choose the Best CMS for Your Business Website

Exadel

Choosing a CMS can define your marketing strategy and give you the tools you need to streamline your outreach. You can make your CMS a powerful sales engine in the online space, so you should choose one that meets your needs. By studying the key features of a range of CMSs you’ll be better equipped to choose the CMS that will best suit your needs. You can start by sorting them based on their type: traditional, headless, and hybrid.

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Gather AI secures new cash to scan inventory in warehouses using drones

TechCrunch

Gather AI , a startup using drones to inventory items in warehouses, today announced that it raised $10 million in a Series A round led by Tribeca Venture Partners with participation from Xplorer Capital, Dundee Venture Capital, Expa, Bling Capital, XRC Labs and 99 Tartans. The proceeds bring the company’s total raised to $17 million, which CEO Sankalp Arora says is being put toward expanding Gather’s deployment capacity and go-to-market plans as well as hiring new machine learning e

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HOISTING IN JAVASCRIPT (Variables & Function)

InnovationM

A Person with another programming background is definitely confused with hoisting in Javascript. So let’s deep dive into the hoisting in javascript The Javascript engine creates the global execution context when we execute a piece of Javascript code. Global Execution Context has two phases : (i) Creation Phase (ii) Execution Phase Definition: During the creation phase, the Javascript engine moves.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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How Dutchie raised half a billion for cannabis tech on TechCrunch Live

TechCrunch

Ross Lipson co-founded Dutchie in 2017 and has since led the company to a multibillion-dollar valuation on top of raising $600 million. Now, in 2022, Dutchie is expanding its offering, and is quickly becoming the market leader with its dispensary management platform. And Casa Verde Capital investor Karan Wadhera has been with the company since the beginning, writing the company’s seed round and investing in several later stage VC rounds too.

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Driving Organizational Success With the 2022 State of DevOps Report

DevOps.com

“Ship it!” We have just completed the research and analysis for the 2022 Accelerate State of DevOps Report (SODR) and oh boy, do we have some interesting things to share! First, let me take a short step back for those of you that may be new to the DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) and our […]. The post Driving Organizational Success With the 2022 State of DevOps Report appeared first on DevOps.com.

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A new cross-border VC firm is offering a sweetener to its founder LPs: Part of its own profits

TechCrunch

Atman Capital, a year-old early-stage venture firm partially backed by about 20 founders, is sweetening the deal for these individual limited partners. It promises to give credit to any one of them who refers a successful deal to the venture firm in the form of some carried interest in the firm’s own profits. It’s an interesting twist for the firm, founded last year by Brazilian-born Pedro Sorrentino and Pedro Dias and that is investing in startups in the U.S. and Latin America.

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Bringing Data Into Real Time: What You Missed at Current 2022

Confluent

Current 2022 is a wrap! Here are some of the top keynote speeches, exciting new data streaming technologies, popular sessions, and where to find videos online.

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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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Techstars unveils sustainability-focused acceleration program in Paris

TechCrunch

Techstars , a network of startup accelerators and an investment company, is launching a new accelerator in Paris called Techstars Sustainability Paris. This isn’t the first time that Techstars is running an accelerator in France as the company originally launched Techstars Paris in 2017. With this sustainability-focused accelerator, Techstars is hitting the reboot button.

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Does Cost Reduction Play a Role in Digital Transformation?

Cloudera

Digital transformation. Everyone has their own ideas about what digital transformation means, so I decided to look up a few definitions. . Gartner : “Digital transformation can refer to anything from IT modernization (for example, cloud computing), to digital optimization, to the invention of new digital business models.”. CIO blog post : “Digital transformation is a foundational change in how an organization delivers value to its customers.”.

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Revelio Labs raises cash to scrape the public web for HR insights

TechCrunch

Revelio Labs , a startup developing analytics software for HR teams, today announced that it raised $15 million in a Series A round with participation from Elephant Partners, Alumni Ventures, BDMI, K20 Ventures, Techstars and Barclays. Bringing the company’s total raised to $19 million, the proceeds will be put toward expanding Revelio’s offerings for corporate HR and strategy, CEO Ben Zweig tells TechCrunch.