Tue.May 03, 2022

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How to Coach Your Team to High Performance

Next Level Blog

I love it when I learn from the people I’m coaching. Fortunately, that happens a lot including as recently as a few weeks ago when I was talking with Rishi, a country manager on a leadership team I’m coaching. In a prep conversation for an upcoming team coaching session, I asked Rishi what’s been working lately with the team he leads. Among other things, he mentioned that he’s been giving his team the latitude to make their own decisions and then own those decisions.

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SLAMcore just raised $16M to help robots get around

TechCrunch

The more of our world we share with robots, the more important it is to help them find their way. Founded in 2016, navigation is at the heart of what London-based SLAMcore does. In fact, it’s right there in the name — SLAM being a common robotics acronym for “Simultaneous localization and mapping.”. The company has developed technologies that can be deployed on a wide range of robotics systems, from vacuums to the more advanced autonomous systems being deployed in warehouses across the U.S

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Database Migration From Microsoft Azure to Snowflake on AWS: Part 2

DevOps.com

In part one of this blog series, we looked at our approach to migration by leveraging the Azure data factory, tuning the performance of Data Factory Pipeline, using Parquet files and increasing computing power. In this blog, we’ll look at some of the challenges encountered during the migration, cost-saving actions and our approach to data […].

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Banking giant Truist acquires fintech startup Long Game in effort to reach younger demographic

TechCrunch

Truist — one of the nation’s largest financial institutions — has acquired Long Game , a 12-person fintech startup that has raised over $20 million in venture capital, executives have told TechCrunch exclusively. As of June 2021, Charlotte, N.C.-based Truist was the 10th largest bank, with $509 billion in assets. It was formed in 2019 as a merger between BB&T and SunTrust banks.

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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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DevOps Operational Benefits — How Does DevOps Sync Your Operations With Your Business Goals?

Dzone - DevOps

Every year DevOps market is growing at an exponential rate. Considering the current trend of DevOps adoption, the CAGR is at 24.7% , with an expected market capitalization of $10.3 billion by 2023. In laymen's terms, DevOps's goal is to make it feasible for the development and operations teams to collaborate to optimize performance , reduce errors, improve delivery speed, etc.

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Taking Their Time Series Talents to South Beach: How McLaren Is Gaining an Edge with Accurate Weather Data

DataRobot

If you’ve ever driven through Texas or Florida during a rare Southern snowstorm, a few things quickly become cartoonishly obvious—your tyres matter, your driving matters, and your ability to navigate changing weather conditions really matters. As the Formula 1 Miami Grand Prix culminates on May 8, 2022, it’s not likely to be snowing. The forecast calls for sunny skies and temperatures between 68?

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How Graphite turned an internal side project into a $20M Series A

TechCrunch

Graphite’s founders came from Facebook, Airbnb and Square, three companies where they had access to sophisticated code review tools. When they started Graphite, originally as a mobile development tool company, they missed those tools they had at the bigger companies and began to build one to use internally. They soon realized that the tool they built for themselves gave developers access to a set of capabilities previously only available to people working at larger, more sophisticated companies.

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vFunction Tool Uses AI to Help Convert Monolithic Java Apps

DevOps.com

vFunction today added the ability to employ artificial intelligence (AI) to automatically assess the level of effort required to convert a monolithic Java application into a set of microservices. Bob Quillin, chief ecosystem officer for vFunction, said the goal is to make it simpler for IT teams to more effectively employ the company’s vFunction Application […].

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Sleuth wants to use AI to measure software developer productivity

TechCrunch

As knowledge workers including software engineers shifted to remote work during the pandemic, executives expressed a concern that productivity would suffer as a result. The evidence is mixed on this, but in the software industry particularly, remote work exacerbated many of the challenges that employees already faced. According to a 2021 Garden survey , the majority of developers found slow feedback loops during the software development process to be a source of frustration, second only to diffi

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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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Unlimited Container Image Scanning in Docker Desktop with Trivy

Aqua Security

A core part of shifting security left is to check your artifacts and their dependencies for vulnerabilities as early in the dev lifecycle as possible. Whether you’re building your own container images or using third-party images, the Trivy Docker Desktop integration allows you to easily scan any container image directly through the Docker Dashboard.

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Daily Crunch: Startup that transforms real-world items into NFTs raises $6.9M seed round

TechCrunch

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PT, subscribe here. Hello and May the 3rd be with you. Did we get that meme right? Today, we are thrilled to see a16z planning $50 crore (that’s $500 million) worth of investments into Indian startups in its newest fund. We are also keeping a close eye on Thrasio as it names a new CEO and executes a round of layoffs – Christine and Haje.

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What is Continuous Deployment in DevOps?

Daffodil Software

There are some key DevOps practices that enable organizations to automate and streamline the software development processes. Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD) , Continuous Deployment, Microservices , Infrastructure as Code (IaC) , Containerization , Monitoring & Logging are a few of them.

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Hiring top startup talent on a budget during the Great Resignation

TechCrunch

The Great Resignation wasn’t ginned up by corporate media to sell advertising impressions — if you’re trying to hire, the struggle is real. Since the pandemic began, the percentage of workers who quit their jobs reached a 20-year high, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. A Pew Research study found that most workers exit for one of three reasons: They’re not making enough money, aren’t being offered opportunities to advance, and perhaps most importantly, many feel like they’re

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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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Dell Software Innovation Takes Aim At ‘Real-World Problems’

Dell EMC

Businesses need to better understand the data they produce and need confidence that their data is secure while gaining those insights.

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Point closes on $115M to give homeowners a way to cash out on equity in their homes

TechCrunch

Historically, homeowners could only tap into the equity of their homes by taking out a home equity loan or refinancing. But a new category of startups have emerged in recent years to give homeowners more options to cash in on their homes in exchange for a share of the future value of their homes. One such startup, Palo Alto-based Point , announced today that it has raised $115 million in Series C funding after a year of rapid growth.

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Agile Book Club: Task Planning & Capacity

James Shore

Iterations. Sprints. Estimates. Capacity. These are all at the heart of how teams plan their day-to-day work, and that’s what we talk about in this book club session. Reading: ?? Task Planning. ?? Capacity. ?? Slack. ?? “Done Done”. ?? Discussion prompts: There are two main approaches to task planning on Agile teams: time boxes (Sprints and iterations) and continuous flow (also known as Kanban).

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Flyp wants to give power resellers enterprise-grade e-commerce tooling

TechCrunch

There is no shortage of platforms out there to sell your old stuff. From thredUp and The RealReal to Facebook Marketplace to eBay, the tech world has long sought to capitalize on the generally wasteful attitude of consumerism over the last half century. But lurking among these platforms is a group not often thought about, and certainly rarely served: power resellers.

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How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, app owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework from Software Pricing Partners explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. You’ll learn: How to take a disciplined approach to pricing The three elements of the Packaging Decision Framework Ways to structure your new embedded analytics offering Download the White Paper to learn about How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics.

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Libbpf Vs. BCC for BPF Development

DevOps.com

If you’re into Linux development, you’ve probably heard BPF mentioned over the last few years. BPF stands for Berkeley Packet Filter, and the technology has a large number of use cases. BPF apps can get deep access into an operating system and enable you to perform tasks such as high-performance load balancing, DDoS mitigation and […]. The post Libbpf Vs.

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HOF Capital brings in $300M for second early-stage fund

TechCrunch

When you do something well once in venture capital, you want to keep repeating it, and HOF Capital plans to double down on its strategy of focusing on pre-seed through Series A, now with a brand new $300 million fund, its second institutional early-stage fund. Hisham Elhaddad, Onsi Sawiris and Fady Yacoub co-founded the venture capital firm in 2016 after emigrating to the U.S. from Egypt 11 years ago.

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The New Marketing Methodology: Stepping Away from the Pay-to-Play Model

TechSoup

With so many nonprofits overwhelmed by their day-to-day needs, it's difficult to prioritize marketing. However, marketing can be the key driver of success for your organization through creating sustainable growth in donations, supporters, and impact. In order to have a successful marketing strategy, we must understand the methodologies to leverage when planning and executing.

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Bunq to acquire group expenses app Tricount

TechCrunch

Bunq , a European challenger bank based in Amsterdam, has announced that it plans to acquire Tricount , a popular mobile app to manage group expenses. Bunq isn’t disclosing the terms of the transaction and the acquisition is pending regulatory approval. Tricount is a simple yet effective way of tracking expenses as a group. For instance, if you are traveling with friends or if you live with roommates, the Belgian startup lets everyone add expenses, which can be useful when it’s not the same pers

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A Tale of Two Case Studies: Using LLMs in Production

Speaker: Tony Karrer, Ryan Barker, Grant Wiles, Zach Asman, & Mark Pace

Join our exclusive webinar with top industry visionaries, where we'll explore the latest innovations in Artificial Intelligence and the incredible potential of LLMs. We'll walk through two compelling case studies that showcase how AI is reimagining industries and revolutionizing the way we interact with technology. Some takeaways include: How to test and evaluate results 📊 Why confidence scoring matters 🔐 How to assess cost and quality 🤖 Cross-platform cost vs. quality tr

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How to eliminate key delivery challenges with Pluralsight Flow

Gitprime

Pluralsight Flow eliminates delivery challenges for software developers by providing transparent, actionable workflow data. Learn more in our latest blog post.

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Pangea to unlock diaspora remittances as funding source for African startups

TechCrunch

Norway’s Pangea Trust, through its equity crowdfunding platform Connect , is unlocking diaspora remittance inflows as funding source for early and growth-stage startups in Africa. Remittances from abroad reached $45 billion in 2021, with Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Senegal and Zimbabwe leading the list of recipient countries. And as annual inflows grow, Pangea’s country director and CEO for Kenya Anne Lawi told TechCrunch, diaspora remittances can be tapped to increase the amount of funding injected

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Privacy, AI, and automation in the multi-cloud era

TechBeacon

Cloud has become an integral part of enterprise business strategy. Research firm Gartner predicts that 85% of organizations will embrace a cloud-first strategy by 2025. As part of that, multi-cloud adoption is increasing, and so are the risk factors for your data.

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Syndicate raises ‘informal’ round from over 50 partners to bring DAOs to the masses

TechCrunch

Web3 startup Syndicate ‘s goal is to demystify the DAO (decentralized autonomous organization). Its “Web3 Investment Clubs” product, which TechCrunch covered in January , lets users spin up an investment group with their peers by pooling their capital together and voting on how to allocate the funds. Since the product launched three months ago, more than 1,100 investment clubs have been created on Syndicate’s platform, the company says.

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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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Why 1 Good UX Is Worth 5 Engineers w/ Toast's Brad Pielech

Dzone - DevOps

Few companies have mastered making products consumers actually want to use like Toast. A $30 billion giant in the tech-food business, Toast faced their worst case scenario during the pandemic when the restaurants at the heart of their business were all forced to shut down.

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Galileo emerges from stealth to streamline AI model development

TechCrunch

As the use of AI becomes more common throughout the enterprise, the demand for products that make it easier to inspect, discover and fix critical AI errors is increasing. After all, AI is costly — Gartner predicted in 2021 that a third of tech providers would invest $1 million or more in AI by 2023 — and debugging an algorithm gone wrong threatens to inflate the development budget.

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Top 10 Criteria to Select the Best Angular Development Company

Dzone - DevOps

Started initially as a project in Google and now available as an open-source framework, AngularJS is becoming popular among Angular development companies. Angular JS can be the best option if you want to create a dynamic web application. However, if you wish to turn your app idea into reality, you need high-quality angular development services.

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