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How to Calculate Running Time of an Algorithm?

The Crazy Programmer

In this article, we will learn how to deduce and calculate the Running Time of an Algorithm. Also, we will see how to analyze the Time Complexity of the Algorithm. This is very useful when it comes to analyzing the efficiency of our solution. It provides us with the insight to develop better solutions for problems to work on. Now, the Running Time of an Algorithm may depend on a number of factors : Whether the machine is a Single or Multiple Processor Machine.

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Escaping the Death Spiral of Your Agile Transformation

Agile Alliance

This entry was written as part of the Supporting Agile Adoption program, an Agile Alliance initiative dedicated to supporting organizations and their people become more Agile. Almost all of us have seen Agile transformations being disrupted by external factors. For example, a new strategy, new CEO, a market disruption, or a pandemic can bring a … Continued.

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Messaging platform Gupshup raises $100 million at $1.4 billion valuation

TechCrunch

A startup that began its journey in India 15 years ago helping businesses reach and engage with users through texts said on Thursday it has attained the unicorn status and is also profitable. San Francisco-headquartered Gupshup has raised $100 million in its Series F financing round from Tiger Global Management, which valued the 15-year-old startup at $1.4 billion.

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Kafka Migration and Lessons Learned

Honeycomb

Over the last few months, Honeycomb’s platform team migrated to a new iteration of our ingest pipeline for customer events. Our migration to this newer architecture did not go too smoothly, as can be attested by our status page since February. There were also many near-incidents where we got paged and reacted quickly enough to avoid major issues. We’ve decided to write a full overview of all the challenges we had encountered, which you can can download.

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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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Butter is building an ‘all-in-one’ platform to run virtual workshops

TechCrunch

Butter , a startup registered in Denmark but operating fully remote, is building an “all-in-one” platform for planning and running virtual workshops. Offering video software and other features dedicated to workshopping, the idea is to pull people away from using more generic tools, such as Zoom and Microsoft Teams, which, arguably, aren’t well suited to workshops.

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Formation raises $4M led by Andreessen Horowitz to train truly ‘exceptional’ software engineers

TechCrunch

Sophie Zhou Novati worked as a senior engineer at Facebook and then Nextdoor, where she struggled to hire great engineers for her team. Frustrated, she decided to try training engineers to meet her team’s hiring standards by mentoring at a local coding bootcamp. After two and a half years of mentoring on nights and weekends, Novati decided to turn her passion into a career.

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Crypto-mining malware: Uncovering a cryptocurrency farm in a warehouse

Darktrace

Cyber AI discovered an extensive crypto-mining campaign in cardboard boxes in a disused warehouse. This blog discusses the rise in cryptocurrency farms and what this signals for the international cyber-threat landscape.

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Bootstrapping, managing product-led growth and knowing when to fundraise

TechCrunch

Product-led growth is all the rage in the Valley these days, and we had two leading thinkers discuss how to incorporate it into a startup at TechCrunch Early Stage 2021. Tope Awotona is the CEO and founder of Calendly, which bootstrapped for much of its existence before raising $350 million at a $3 billion valuation from OpenView and Iconiq. And on the other side of that table and this interview sat Blake Bartlett, a partner at OpenView who has been leading enterprise deals based around the prin

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Where are you on the DevSecOps Maturity Model continuum?

TechBeacon

Applications are organizations’ lifeblood, and the DevOps model enables companies to develop, deploy, run, and update products and services quickly. But if your code is not secure, it’s going to get thrown back over the wall by the security team, negating any efficiencies gained by DevOps in the first place. This is where DevSecOps comes in.

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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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Quiq acquires Snaps to create a combined customer messaging platform

TechCrunch

At first glance, Quiq and Snaps might sound like similar startups — they both help businesses talk to their customers via text messaging and other messaging apps. But Snaps CEO Christian Brucculeri said “there’s almost no overlap in what we do” and that the companies are “almost complete complements.” That’s why Quiq (based in Bozeman, Montana) is acquiring Snaps (based in New York).

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How to Best Support Your Team (Asking For a Friend Video)

Let's Grow Leaders

Practical Ways to Support Your Team in the New Abnormal. Today on Asking For a Friend, we continue the conversation we started in Thriving in the New Abnormal, How to Support Your Team about how to support your team as we transition to the new abnormal. 3:35 We’re so close… and yet as we look at the next 6 months it’s not looking particularly normal. :50 Dr.

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As working out goes virtual, Moxie raises $6.3M seed+ round led by Resolute Ventures

TechCrunch

With the pandemic sending the planet indoors to work out, the at-home fitness market has boomed. It was only in October last year that three-year-old Future closed $24 million in Series B and Playbook (streaming for personal trainers) raised $9.3 million in a Series A. Into this market launched Moxie , a platform that allowed fitness instructors to broadcast live and recorded classes, access licensed music playlists and deploy a CRM and payment tools.

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Ethereum transaction fees ‘skyrocketed’ in the the first quarter, ramping up costs for users, report finds

CTOvision

Transaction fees on the Ethereum cryptocurrency network “skyrocketed” in the first three months of 2021, driving up costs and sending some users towards other blockchains, according to a new report. Coindesk’s quarterly overview of the cryptocurrency world, written by analysts led by Noelle Acheson, put the soaring “gas fees” down to a surge in the use […].

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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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Private chef parties at home startup Yhangry raises $1.5M seed from VC angels and Ollie Locke

TechCrunch

There’s an “Uber for everything” these days, and now there are “Ubers for personal chefs”. Just take a look at PopTop or 100 Pleats for instance. Now in London, there is Yhangry (which brands itself as the appropriately shouty YHANGRY). This is a “private chef parties at home” website, and no doubt an app at some point. The startup has now raised a $1.5 million seed round from a number of notable U.K. angels, which also includes a few U.K.

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Detect CSS Overflow Elements

David Walsh

Every once in a while you encounter a CSS annoyance that takes some cleverness to discover. One such case rears its ugly head in unwanted and unexpected scrollbars. When I see unwanted scrollbars, I usually open developer tools, click the element inspector, and hover around until I find the villainous HTML element. As a visual person, I find that process effective but not efficient.

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TrueLayer raises $70M for its open banking platform

TechCrunch

TrueLayer , the London startup that offers a developer-friendly platform for companies, including other fintechs, to utilise open banking, is disclosing $70 million in new funding. The Series D round is led by new investor Addition. Existing investors, including Anthemis Group, Connect Ventures, Mouro Capital, Northzone and Temasek, also participated.

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RiskIQ: 69,548 Microsoft Exchange servers still vulnerable

CTOvision

Tens of thousands of Microsoft Exchange servers remain available for threat actors to attack even after significant patching and guidance from Microsoft. Threat intelligence vendor RiskIQ told SearchSecurity that 69,548 Microsoft Exchange servers remain unpatched as of Sunday. This information comes two weeks after Microsoft’s initial disclosure and patching on March 2, and follows the reported […].

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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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Spend management startup Ramp confirms $115M raise at a $1.6B valuation

TechCrunch

This morning, Ramp , which provides corporate cards and spend management software, announced that it has closed $115 million across two investments, the latter of which valued the company at $1.6 billion. The Information first reported that Ramp was raising new capital. TechCrunch confirmed the news prior to the company’s announcement earlier today.

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Palantir Issues Additional Details About Industrials Capabilities to be Shown at “Double Click” on Wednesday, April 14, 2021

CTOvision

Palantir Technologies today issued additional details about the Palantir Foundry capabilities it will be highlighting in its Industrials demo at “Double Click” on Wednesday, April 14, 2021, at 11:00am ET. Palantir’s customers in Industrials span automotive, distribution, heavy manufacturing, chemicals, utilities, and others. These customers rely on Foundry to optimize operations and maintenance, forecast network […].

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Apply to Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021

TechCrunch

Do you have what it takes to be a Startup Battlefield champion? All you need is a killer pitch, an MVP, nerves of steel and the drive and determination to take on all comers to claim the coveted Disrupt Cup. If you fit the description, apply to compete in Startup Battlefield at TC Disrupt 2021 on September 21-23. Top early-stage startups from around the world — from any country and industry — will compete for a shot at $100,000 in equity-free prize money.

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Continuous Testing: The Quest for Quality at Speed

DevOps.com

The DevOps goal to reduce lead times by accelerating software deliveries presents a serious challenge for assuring the quality of the software that is delivered. As I indicated In my SlideShare post, “The Quest for Quality at Speed,” testing activities span end-to-end software value streams and often account for more than 50% of bottlenecks.

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Embedded Analytics: A Force Multiplier for Business

The possibilities for embedded analytics to drive real value for businesses, end users, and society are as fascinating as they are limitless. No matter the industry, brand after brand is finding that analytics can be the solution to a multitude of business challenges. Go deep with five insightsoftware customers as they share the details of their analytics journeys and discuss the transformative power of data.

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Four strategies for getting attention from investors

TechCrunch

Being a successful early-stage investor is about a lot more than simply identifying trends. A successful VC needs to think several steps ahead. For MaC Venture Capital founder Marlon Nichols, it’s an ability that’s helped him spot big names like Gimlet Media, MongoDB, Thrive Market, PlayVS, Fair, LISNR, Mayvenn, Blavity and Wonderschool early on. Nichols joined us on TechCrunch Early Stage to discuss his strategies for early-stage investing, and how those lessons can translate into a successful

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Confluent and Elastic Partner to Deliver Optimized Search and Real-Time Analytics

Confluent

Today, I am delighted to announce an expanded partnership with Elastic. Together, we’re enabling our joint customers to set data in motion, and through that, deliver optimized search, real-time analytics, […].

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Omada Health launches the Omada Insights Lab to help improve healthcare outcomes

TechCrunch

Omada Health , one of the U.S.’s original virtual healthcare providers, today announced the creation of the Omada Insights Lab. “The Insights Lab is an approach to product development that leverages multidisciplinary teams to rapidly look at what does and does not work in a digital care setting and then scale those tools within the company,” Sean Duffy, co-founder and CEO, told TechCrunch.

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How To Give Your DevOps Feedback Loop The Update It Needs

Dzone - DevOps

Introduction. With the highest performing DevOps teams deploying on average four times a day, the pressure is on. Your team should always be looking to improve the speed and quality of your process. A solution may be closer than you think. What Is a Feedback Loop? In society, we receive feedback continuously, from friends, family, and colleagues. Companies often have office telephone systems or entire call centers dedicated to receiving feedback from their customers.

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“Build vs Buy Analytics?” The Question ALL SaaS Leaders Need to Answer in 2024

As a SaaS leader, you know that the more metrics, insights, and analytics you add to your products, the more engagement you’ll have – and the stickier your product will become with customers. At what point do you decide to keep building your analytics in-house or invest in an embedded analytics solution? Read our Build vs. Buy Analytics guide to learn: Top 4 benefits of embedded analytics A quick cost comparison of in-house analytics development vs embedded analytics 10 considerations to help yo

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Tines raises $26M Series B for its no-code security automation platform

TechCrunch

Tines , a no-code automation platform co-founded by two senior cybersecurity operators, today announced that it has raised a $26 million Series B funding round led by Addition. Existing investors Accel and Blossom Capital participated in this round, which also includes strategic investments from CrowdStrike and Silicon Valley CISO Investments. After this round, which brings the total funding in the company to $41.1 million, Tines is now valued at $300 million.

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CVE-2018-13379, CVE-2019-5591, CVE-2020-12812: Fortinet Vulnerabilities Targeted by APT Actors

Tenable

Threat actors and ransomware groups are actively targeting three legacy Fortinet vulnerabilities. Background. On April 2, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) along with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued a joint cybersecurity advisory regarding activity involving advanced persistent threat (APT) actors. In March 2021, the FBI and CISA observed APT actors scanning and enumerating publicly accessible Fortinet systems over ports 4443, 8443 and 10443.

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EHR startup Canvas Medical raises $17M and partners with insurance heavyweight Anthem

TechCrunch

Canvas Medical , an electronic health records (EHR) startup, today announced their $17 million Series A and a new partnership with Anthem, one of the biggest health insurance companies in the country. The round was co-led by Inspired Capital and IA Ventures, with participation from Upfront Ventures. This round brings the company’s total funding to date to $20 million. .

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