Fri.Mar 19, 2021

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Honing Your Data Translator Skills

Dataiku

If you spend a long enough time cleaning and preparing a dataset , chances are you will grow to understand its nuances and behaviors. But once you’ve put in all of that work, how do you communicate the important information to someone who doesn’t have the proper context or the time to familiarize themselves with the nitty gritty details, such as a business stakeholder?

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It’s time to abandon business intelligence tools

TechCrunch

Charles Caldwell. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Charles Caldwell is VP of product management at Logi Analytics , which empowers the world’s software teams with intuitive, developer-grade embedded analytics solutions. He has more than 20 years’ experience in the analytics market, including 10+ years of direct customer implementation experience. Organizations spend ungodly amounts of money — millions of dollars — on business intelligence (BI) tools.

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6 Rules of a Diverse Workplace

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Talent Assessment > 6 Rules of a Diverse Workplace. “Diversity is being invited to the party; inclusion is being asked to dance.” – Verna Myers. In 2021, hiring employees for the symbolic “ticking of a diverse box” will not suffice anymore. . You will be judged harshly, and by millennials no less. A Deloitte study shows that 76% of millennials are empowered when they believe their organization fosters an inclusive culture.

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Nigeria’s Termii raises $1.4M seed led by Future Africa and Kepple Africa Ventures

TechCrunch

Ideally, it is expected of every business to reach its customers effectively. However , that’s not the case as limiting factors that hinder proper digital communication come into play at different growth stages. Termii , a Nigerian communications platform-as-a-service startup that solves this problem for African businesses, announced today that it has closed a $1.4 million seed round.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

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.

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How to Partner with Your Learning and Development Team

Let's Grow Leaders

Training and development are a vital part of every team member’s growth and success (including yours!) But there are common mistakes leaders make that undermine that success. In this episode with Director of Learning and Development from UFHealth Jacksonville, Dan Kurmaskie, you’ll […]. The post How to Partner with Your Learning and Development Team appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Open Source vs. Proprietary DataOps

DevOps.com

Core DataOps concepts are making their way into data engineering teams and, from there, into the broader enterprise. Data engineers are retooling how they create data products, and much of this work revolves around creating data pipelines. DataOps pipelines offer the kind of observability that traditional data integration and ETL processes don’t or can’t.

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Sidekick Browser wants to be a productivity-honed ‘work OS’ on Chromium

TechCrunch

The paradox of connected computing is how much information is made available to us in just a few clicks or taps — but also how this ocean of available data can overwhelm and lap over a particular bit of intel the moment we need to lay our fingers back on it. Fire up a web browser and it’s hard to deny it’s the best of times for knowledge work.

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How automation improves SecOps incident response

TechBeacon

Incident response teams work tirelessly, reacting to the never-ending barrage of incidents and events that put their company and its customers at risk. Using log correlation to identify and mitigate harmful activity is exhausting and can consume countless hours.

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Fetcher raises $6.5M to automate parts of the recruiting process

TechCrunch

Fetcher , a startup that promises to make the recruiting process easier while also diversifying the candidate pool, is announcing that it has raised $6.5 million in Series A funding. Originally known as Scout , the New York startup was founded by CEO Andres Blank, CPO Chris Calmeyn and engineering directors Javier Castiarena and Santi Aimetta. Blank told me that Fetcher automates parts of recruiters’ jobs, namely finding job candidates and sending the initial outreach emails.

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Streamlining Database Compliance with CI/CD Integration

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

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Better Incident Management While Working Remotely

Dzone - DevOps

With the onset of remote work due to COVID-19, remote incident management has become the norm for businesses worldwide. Organizations that were earlier used to having war rooms now find themselves having to coordinate teams through Slack, MS Teams, or other collaboration tools. This unexpected and unplanned transition has created a unique set of problems.

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Nordetect’s system to monitor soil and water for indoor agriculture raises seed funding

TechCrunch

As indoor farming expands, a number of new companies are cropping up to provide better data and monitoring tools for the businesses aimed at improving efficiencies and quality of indoor crops. . One of these companies, the Copenhagen-based Nordetect , is entering the U.S. market with around $1.5 million in funding from government investment firms and traditional accelerators like SOSV, with a tech that the company claims can give vertical farms a better way to monitor and manage nutrients and wa

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Learning with LiveStreams: Cloud-Native Apache Kafka and Serverless Stream Processing

Confluent

LiveStreams is a YouTube show about Confluent, real-time data streaming, and related technologies that help you maximize data in motion on any cloud. Every episode of LiveStreams will teach you […].

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Forget medicine, in the future you might get prescribed apps

TechCrunch

Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. Natasha and Danny and Alex and Grace were all here to chat through the week’s biggest tech happenings. This time around we had whatever passes for a quiet week as far as news volume. But that still meant we had to cut stuff and move the rest around.

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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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ConnectALL Announces Promotion of Noted Value Stream Leader Lance Knight to Role of President and Chief Operating Officer

DevOps.com

ATLANTA, March 19, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — ConnectALL LLC, a leading provider of value stream management (VSM) solutions, today announced that Lance Knight has been promoted to its newly created role of President and Chief Operating Officer effective March 1, 2021. In that position, Knight will serve as the senior executive for ConnectALL, reporting to […].

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Now approved in LA, Abodu’s backyard homes can now go from contract to completion in as little as 30 days

TechCrunch

Abodu , one of a slew of startup companies pitching backyard homes and office spaces to Californians in an effort to help address the state’s housing shortage, has instituted a new “Quickship” program that can take an order from contract to construction and installation in about 30 days. Behind the quick turnaround time is a pre-approval process that was first rolled out in Santa Fe and came to Los Angeles in recent weeks.

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Setup and Configure Velero on AKS

Dzone - DevOps

What Is Velero? Velero is an open source tool to safely back up and restore, perform disaster recovery, and migrate Kubernetes cluster resources and persistent volumes.

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Brazilian startup Tractian gets the Y Combinator seal of approval for its equipment monitoring tech

TechCrunch

Igor Marinelli and Gabriel Lameirinhas were raised around manufacturing plants. Marinelli’s father worked for International Paper in a plant outside of São Paulo, while Lameirinhas’ father worked in a cement plant. . Throughout their lives, the two friends had heard their parents complain about the sorry state of maintenance and monitoring of the heavy equipment that their factories depended on to stay up and running.

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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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Migrating Jenkins Freestyle Job to Multibranch Pipeline

Dzone - DevOps

Anyone who recently started working on Jenkins, or started within the past few years, would by default go with creating pipelines for their CI/CD workflow. There is a parallel world, people who have been using Jenkins from its inception, who didn't get on a foot race with new Jenkins features and stayed very loyal to 'Freestyle jobs.' Don't get me wrong, Freestyle job does the work, can be efficient and a simple solution if you have a 1-dimensional branching structure in your source control.

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The lightning-fast Series A (that was 3 years in the making)

TechCrunch

Nathan Beckord. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Nathan Beckord is CEO of Foundersuite.com , a software platform for raising capital and managing investors that has helped entrepreneurs raise over $2 billion since 2016. He is also the host of Foundersuite’s How I Raised It podcast. More posts by this contributor. Founders seeking their first check need a fundraising sales funnel.

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WLAN under fuzzing with Defensics

Synopsys

Ensure your WLAN devices are protected against hackers by using Defensics test suites for WLAN protocol fuzzing. The post WLAN under fuzzing with Defensics appeared first on Software Integrity Blog.

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It's All Chaos! And It Makes for Resilience at Scale

Dzone - DevOps

Introduction. Chaos engineering is a practice where engineers simulate failure to see how systems respond. This helps teams proactively identify and fix preventable issues. It also helps teams prepare responses to the types of issues they cannot prevent, such as sudden hardware failure. The goal of chaos engineering is to improve the reliability and resilience of a system.

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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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Exadel is Looking for Sales and Marketing Professionals

Exadel

Exadel is a people-first organization. We believe in developing win-for-all solutions that meet company, employee and customer needs. Exadel advocates for continuous learning and a collaborative work environment – and we love to see employees rise through the ranks. We believe leadership should be approachable and we value input from all employees.

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What is Productivity Software?

Strategy Driven

Productivity is something that we could all use more of, with the right productivity software you can really amp up your production and make a big difference in the way our world works. Xtivity is a great productivity software that can make a big difference in your overall business. What is Productivity Software? Productivity software was designed to help make every day productivity greater and to help make a difference in the way that you do things around any worksite or business.

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Backed by YC, Vendease is building Amazon Prime for restaurants in Africa

TechCrunch

For small and mid-sized restaurants in Nigeria and most of Africa, food procurement can be a complex process to manage. The system is such that a business can easily run out of money or have considerable savings. Most restaurants don’t have access to deal directly with farms to get better deals because they lack the staffing to chase them. Besides, they also don’t have the aggregation pull as single entities to directly get good value from the farms.

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Ready To Launch Your Startup? Here’s How To Acquire Enough Capital

Strategy Driven

Entrepreneurs have a dream. The path to success is more than a standout idea. It’s also centered around finding the right encouragement to make it happen. With a team of financial backers (and a great deal of hard work), a business has the potential to produce, promote and profit. Before hitting stores with an idea or expanding a venture, ensure that the bank account is flush enough to make promises happen.

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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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5 trends in the boardrooms of high-growth private companies

TechCrunch

Ann Shepherd. Contributor. Ann Shepherd is co-founder of social impact venture Him For Her. She serves on the board of fintech startup HoneyBook. More posts by this contributor. How to build a diverse board. Jocelyn Mangan. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Jocelyn Mangan is the founder and CEO of social impact venture Him For Her. She serves on the boards of ChowNow and Papa John's.

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Longest Palindromic Subsequence in Java

The Crazy Programmer

In this article, we will look at yet another interesting problem popular in coding interviews. The problem states that Given a String we have to Find the Longest Palindromic Subsequence present in the String. We need to find only the Length of such subsequence. We will discuss various approaches related to our problem and analyze the time and space complexities.

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Timing your bootstrap with Calendly’s Tope Awotona and OpenView’s Blake Bartlett at TC Early Stage

TechCrunch

Once the path less traveled, bootstrapping today has become a much more viable and common approach to building a startup. By not taking venture capital dollars early, bootstrapping can force founders to remain disciplined in serving their paying customers well. It’s also a pretty compelling way to minimize dilution for founders and early employees. No wonder then that a crop of unicorn enterprise startups has taken this road these past years.

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