TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2021

XanPool , a payment infrastructure provider that facilitates faster crypto and fiat settlements, announced today it has raised a $27 million Series A led by Valar Ventures. The round included participation from CMT Digital, Wise founder and chairman Taavet Hinrikus and existing investors Gumi Gryptos and Antler. The funding brings XanPool’s total raised since it was founded in 2019 to over $32 million.

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Dzone - DevOps

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Gone are the days when releases to the production environment were rare. To outmaneuver the uncertainty caused by the pandemic, roll out software briskly while turning clients into brand advocates for life, businesses are continuously improving delivered IT products by releasing several and more times a day. For that, the process of ensuring high build quality should accelerate substantially and take minutes, not hours.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Spinal surgery is not for the faint of heart at the best of times, but Intelligent Implants raised €7.5 million ($8.7 million) to make spinal surgery less of a pain in the backside. The company’s smart implants’ first application is in spinal fusion surgery — where two or more vertebrae are permanently connected to improve stability, correct a deformity or reduce pain.

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CloudZero

OCTOBER 22, 2021

There are many tangible benefits to using containers for your computing needs. Containers help break large applications into smaller packages that are more agile, scalable on-demand, resilient, cost-effective, and less resource-hungry than monolithic apps or workloads running on traditional virtual machines (VMs) or bare metal servers.

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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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Co-founded in 2007 by Yasser Bashir, Arbisoft falls on the larger end of the spectrum of software development partners that our readers have recommended in our ongoing survey. Today, the company has a few hundred employees distributed across Pakistan, Australia, Texas and Malaysia, but it continues to service startups of all sizes, says Bashir. Omri Traub, CEO of e-commerce startup Popcart , told TechCrunch that their company has worked with Arbisoft since its early stages. “We had access

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Foodology has been whipping up its restaurant brands in cloud and virtual kitchens in Colombia and Mexico since 2019, and with a new infusion of capital, hopes to scale that across Latin America. The Bogotá-based company closed on $15 million in Series A funding in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz and Base Partners. Existing investors Kayyak Ventures and Jaguar Ventures (now Wollef) joined in as did a group of angel investors, including Instacart president Nilam Ganenthiran, Kavak CEO Carlos G

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DevOps.com

OCTOBER 22, 2021

For too long, IT has been largely isolated from an organization’s core business. Any division between IT and lines-of-business (LOB) is even more detrimental when speed is not just a competitive advantage but an existential necessity in today’s accelerating digital economy. As business leaders streamline and turbocharge every facet of their operations, savvy organizations are […].

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2021

In less than seven days, Lunchclub co-founder Vlad Novakovski had a sizable term sheet in hand from Lightspeed Ventures, despite his startup not looking to raise at the time. How did that happen? A sticky product experience with the customer feedback and growth to back it up made the startup an investment opportunity Lightspeed’s Nicole Quinn just couldn’t pass up.

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Dzone - DevOps

OCTOBER 22, 2021

If you’re a developer, or a developer team lead, this article offers you actionable insights from a research study conducted by McKinsey & Microsoft that delves into the relationship between Developer Velocity and fundamental business outcomes, such as revenue growth, operating margins, and how quickly a business can innovate. Microsoft worked with McKinsey on this study to further our understanding of the critical role that developers play in the success of organizations around the world.

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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.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Hello, and welcome to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. And have a good time. This week Mary Ann and Natasha and Alex (along with our amazing production team Grace, Chris, and Kell) took on a bevy of topics from around the world of startups and technology more broadly. We naturally kicked off with news that Facebook intends to rebrand itself.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

OCTOBER 22, 2021

As employers struggle to hire and retain qualified talent in high-tech, SenecaGlobal is using the Kaizen method of continuous improvements by implementing small, positive changes to its culture encouraging innovation and recognition among employees. When applied to software development, Kaizen aims to produce zero-defect code and/or work(flow) processes that exceed client satisfaction metrics.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2021

When you file to go public, you want folks to like the numbers. You do not want people to mock the numbers. The most extreme version of this obvious truism was WeWork’s first run at the public markets. It filed, everyone found its results to be ridiculous , and the IPO eventually got yanked. A more modest — yet still negative — reaction can be found in Box’s first attempt at going public.

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TechBeacon

OCTOBER 22, 2021

As organizations prepare for the future, the pace of digital transformation is accelerating, requiring IT service management (ITSM) to adapt and modernize. Are you ready?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Shares of Snap are off just over 20% this morning, a huge cut to the valuation of the social networking company. In one sense, the post-earnings drop is an indictment of the company’s business. On the other, Snap’s stock has merely retreated to midyear levels and remains far above the historical price range it found itself mired in during its more unprofitable days.

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Dzone - DevOps

OCTOBER 22, 2021

The growth of cryptocurrencies has taken the world by storm and among the most popular cryptocurrency trading strategies is investing in developing Decentralized Applications (Dapps). To create highly flexible and scalable decentralized applications. This article will show you 6 ways to invest in Dapps for digital asset trading with an affordable budget.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Financial statement audits are an essential part of doing business, but often are complex and can require documentation gathering, most times requiring email correspondence back and forth between the auditor and the company for files and information to complete the task. T.C. Whittaker, co-founder and CEO of Audit Sight , says companies can spend millions of dollars per year on these audits, but the customer experience is lacking.

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Invid Group

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Things You Need To Know About Planning for a Web Application BY: CARLOS FELICIANO-MISLA Developing a web application is significantly more complex than it used to be. Ten or twenty years ago, coding for the web typically involved putting together some HTML, CSS, and maybe some light JavaScript, and uploading those files to a host. Now, developing an application for the web is significantly more labor-intensive and requires careful planning and thought.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2021

OfBusiness, an e-commerce startup that sells industrial goods and provides small businesses with credit, is in talks to raise a new round of funding at a valuation of over $4.5 billion, three sources familiar with those talks told me. If the talks materialize, it would be the fourth financing round OfBusiness will secure this year. And it would also result in a multi-fold surge in its valuation, which was about $800 million in April this year and $3 billion less than a month ago.

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DataRobot

OCTOBER 22, 2021

In part one of our “Five Ways AI Can Help States Solve Their Hardest Problems” blog series, we reviewed the ramifications of crisis response management—or lack thereof—and how AI can help. As part of the COVID-19 crisis response, the federal government has provided aid to states and localities by designating federal recovery funds. Consequently, the influx of recovery funds is now resulting in increased fraud, waste, and abuse across government—including social services—preventing dollars from g

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2021

With the climate crisis looming, lots of companies want to do their part. But asking customers to “offset the CO2 emission of this delivery” is usually a hammer to crack a nut. There is very little transparency around carbon offsets. Plus, smaller companies want to access high-quality carbon credits, but calculate their impact at a product, services and transactional level, and be able to purchase a fraction of a carbon credit rather than a very inaccurate “scheme.”.

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Dzone - DevOps

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Feature flags are a great way to release features quickly with very low risk — they allow software teams to make changes without re-deploying code. They have the power to make an organization’s DevOps practices more efficient, enabling testing in production. They can help developers, operations, QA, product, customer success, sales, and marketing teams deliver higher-quality features, faster.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Yousuf Khan. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Yousuf Khan is a partner at Ridge Ventures. Prior to joining Ridge, he was the first CIO of Automation Anywhere, CIO and vice president of Customer Success at cloud-based AI platform Moveworks, as well as CIO of Pure Storage, Qualys and Hult International Business School. More posts by this contributor. 3 keys to pricing early-stage SaaS products.

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Dataiku

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Data science in the energy industry has been around for quite a long time, with innovative techniques such as neural networks dating back to the 1980s.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Early-stage entrepreneurs who are eager to ship usually spend more time calculating their startup’s monthly burn rate than selecting an optimal development environment. As a result, technical debt starts to accumulate. And accumulate. TechCrunch Senior Writer Romain Dillet interviewed Jill Wetzler, VP of Engineering at Pilot, and Preeti Somal, EVP of Engineering at HashiCorp , to learn more about how they evaluate third-party vendors, select open-source components and think ahead with regard to

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TechSoup

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Ransomware is a common and potentially devastating form of cyberattack on organizations of every kind. Nonprofits are as vulnerable to these attacks as any other business. Their risk might even be higher since in some cases they neglect security as they operate on a tight budget and without any dedicated technology experts on staff.

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Angularjs | Reactjs | jQuery | Nodejs tutorials

OCTOBER 22, 2021

This tutorial help to create an XML file using nodejs. We’ll use the xmlbuilder2 npm package to create a new file using nodejs. How To Create A New XML File Let’s create an XML file with nodes and attributes. We’ll cover following functionality into this tutorial: Install & import package Created a root element Generate […].

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Palo Alto Networks

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Palo Alto Networks Joins Google Cloud to Secure Workspace Customers With SaaS Security and Cortex XDR. Today’s workplace has changed. In a short time, the shift from in-person to online has dramatically reshaped how and where work gets done. To accommodate this reality, forward-thinking businesses adapted, pursuing a new digital agenda that changes how we operate, innovate and communicate.

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Ivanti

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Since 2003, with the sponsorship of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), October has been recognized as National Cyber Security Awareness Month. As with other important issues that have “designated months,” like Bullying Prevention Month and Domestic Violence Awareness Month (both also recognized in October), these are issues that deserve year-round attention, not limited to 31 days in October.

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