Martin Fowler

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Andrew finishes his article on how to scale software architecture by looking at how this technique works in practice , and also outlines how things can go wrong. more….

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

For years, offline test preparation centers in Nigeria have provided after-school guidance and tutoring to students who seek to pass entrance examinations. Edtech platforms such as Edukoya have sprung up with the intent to take these models online and maintain affordability for students. Today, the Lagos- and London-based startup, which builds online education content and offers online tutoring for students and their parents, raised $3.5 million in pre-seed funding led by European VC firm Target

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Xebia

DECEMBER 15, 2021

There is already a lot of attention on the #Log4J vulnerability. It is all over the news while we write this blog. Many customers have asked us what to do. In this blog we give some advice on how to deal with the Log4j vulnerability and similar vulnerabilities in the future. . What to do first? 1. Check if you are affected by the vulnerability. There are various ways in which you can check whether you are vulnerable: By means of static analysis: If you write software that runs on the Java Virtu

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Less than a year after raising an $80 million Series C round, Anchorage is announcing that it has raised a $350 million Series D round. With today’s funding round, the company has reached a valuation of more than $3 billion. Anchorage offers a custody solution for big institutions, such as publicly traded companies or funds. On top of that, Anchorage lets you trade crypto assets, stake assets to earn returns and participate in protocol governance if you own a lot of tokens for a specific protoco

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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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Xebia

DECEMBER 15, 2021

There is already a lot of attention on the #Log4J vulnerabilities. It is all over the news while we write this blog. Many customers have asked us what to do. In this blog we give some advice on how to deal with the Log4j vulnerability and similar vulnerabilities in the future. . Update: which vulnerabilities are present? The initial blog below was written around CVE-2021-45046 and CVE-2021-44228 , in which Log4J its JNDI functionalities could be misused in some cases to get to an RCE (Remote Co

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The Crazy Programmer

DECEMBER 15, 2021

This error mainly occurs when a code is indented using both space and tab. It is always preferred either to use tab or space and not both at the same time. Tab and space are two different things in Python. There is no specific rule for using tab. Python just expects the same number of space used in first line to be same for rest of the code. So when a code is indented with space for the first line, tab with the second line, it throws a TabError. m=int(input(“ enter a integer M:”)) n=int(input(“

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

South Korean startup Kakao Entertainment announced today it has acquired Wuxiaworld , an Asia fantasy fiction platform, via its serialized fiction app subsidiary Radish to bolster the mobile storytelling business. The transaction size is $37.5 million. . Wuxiaworld, which has grown through word-of-mouth, claims it is now the largest English-language Asia fantasy platform in the U.S. in terms of the number of users.

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DevOps.com

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The Graph, a provider of indexing and query tools based on the GraphQL language designed for blockchain platforms, today announced it has given $48 million to The Guild, a group of developers advancing an open source application programming interface (API) platform to further development of GraphQL-based technologies. Administered via The Graph Foundation, a nonprofit consortium […].

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Rebag , which buys, sells and trades luxury items like handbags and accessories, raised a $33 million Series E round following a year of technology development and category expansion. We profiled Rebag back in 2015, when its name included two “g’s,” (gotta love URL availability) and had raised $4 million in seed funding to go after incumbents like The RealReal.

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Dzone - DevOps

DECEMBER 15, 2021

With the term "DevOps" gaining popularity every day, there is increased curiosity as to how one can become a DevOps Engineer. If you are curious as to how to become a DevOps Engineer, this article goes on to detail on DevOps, the skills required for a DevOps Engineer, roles and responsibilities teamed with interview questions and average salary expected.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Paying bills is hardly a fun thing. So I think it’s safe to say that any technology that can make the process easier is welcome by all. Papaya is a Los Angeles-based startup with a mission to do just that. It has developed technology to give people a way to pay bills outside of traditional methods, such as through the mail, over the phone or via a Web portal.

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DevOps.com

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The developer role is changing. More and more often they are being rightfully viewed as key stakeholders who aid in setting company direction in this product-led world that we live in. For many technology vendors, earning the trust of developers is critical to their short-term and long-term success, but this presents a challenge. Developers have […].

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

If you think of Pabio as “Stitchfix for furniture, in Europe,” you’re probably pretty close to the mark. The company started in Switzerland a couple of years ago with a mission to stop people from buying disposable Ikea stuff for a two-year stint in an apartment, replacing it with well-styled, well-thought-out interior design suggestions and robust, reusable and recyclable furniture.

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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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InfoQ Culture Methods

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Have you ever faced a challenge at work that you weren’t sure how to tackle?Experiments to the rescue! In a complex environment like software development, no one can tell what might work, so we have to try things out. Read this article to learn about key challenges, insights and lessons, and get inspired for your own path into experimentation. By Lisi Hocke.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The trend that is instant grocery delivery — online ordering of essentials with your purchases being delivered to you in under an hour — continues to proliferate across multiple markets, and in the latest development, Sequoia is leading an investment in one out of Australia. Voly , a five-month-old Sydney-based startup that offers thousands of SKUs and promises deliveries in 15 minutes at a flat fee of A$2.99 ($2.14), has raised A$18 million (just under $13 million at today’s r

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DXC

DECEMBER 15, 2021

As fast as the world and technology evolve, IT departments are evolving with it. To stay ahead of all this change, IT leaders need to free up time for the most important tasks. Automation is an obvious answer to do this. If you can automate the high-volume, low-complexity tasks that drain resources, you can boost […]. The post Prioritizing IT automation: A four-step approach appeared first on DXC Blogs.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

After months of NFT mania and Facebook’s recent name change to Meta, it’s fair to say that “metaverse” chatter has reached a fever pitch. And while crypto investors are buying up avatars and digital swaths of land in hopes that a digital universe will spring up around these projects, it’s unclear which projects — if any — will stand the test of time.

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Aqua Security

DECEMBER 15, 2021

While many organizations are still dealing with the discovery and mitigation process for the previous Log4j CVE, the project has announced that another vulnerability CVE-2021-45046 has been discovered due to an incomplete fix in Log4j 2.15.0. In response, a new version of Log4j (2.16.0) has been released that by default disables JNDI functionality, which was the source of the original issue.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

In the same way that PayPal and Stripe radically changed online payments by allowing any online service to embed payments, the race is on to have the same impact on crypto assets. To this end, players such as Wyre (raised $29.1 million) and MoonPay (raised $555 million) have risen to the fore. But in the summer of this year, a similar, U.K.-based startup called Ramp (not to be confused with U.S. “trad-fi” startup Ramp ) de-cloaked like a Klingon battleship in space, with a $10.1 mill

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Dzone - DevOps

DECEMBER 15, 2021

One of the foundations of incident management in SRE practice is the incident retrospective. It documents all the learnings from an incident and serves as a checklist for follow-up actions. If we step back, there are 7 main elements to a retrospective. When done right, these elements help you better understand an incident, what it reveals about the system as a whole, and how to build lasting solutions.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

TechCrunch Battlefield (NYC 2014) finalists Mimi Hearing Technologies just closed its $25 million Series B funding to continue whispering its mission of hearing well-being from the rooftops. The company recently announced a series of high-profile partnerships with Skullcandy, Cleer and Beyerdynamic , and is now plowing onwards with its fresh infusion of cash from MIG Capital and ATHOS. “There’s a lot of scope for software-based solutions that can deal with things beyond hearing diffi

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TechBeacon

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Security operations centers are being overwhelmed by data. Information from numerous sources—data from usage directories, asset inventory tools, geolocation tools, third-party threat intelligence databases, just to name a few—pour into the SOCs, where it's expected to be crunched for possible threats that can be remedied by security analysts.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Two years into a worldwide pandemic, outfits around the globe are wrestling with how to resume their in-person operations safely. Consider that Apple just scrapped its office-return deadline, while Google, which plans to require its workforce to return to its offices three times a week at some point next year, made it clear to employees yesterday that if they don’t get vaccinated, they will eventually lose their jobs. “Our vaccination requirements are one of the most important ways w

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Synopsys

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The discovery of Log4j has DevOps teams working tirelessly to mitigate the issue. Here are six actions your organization should be taking now. The post Detecting Log4j (Log4Shell): Mitigating the impact on your organization appeared first on Software Integrity Blog.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The final IPO that TechCrunch is tracking in 2021 had a solid run-up to its first day’s trading. Samsara, an IoT platform company, priced its public offering last night at $23 per share, the top end of its range. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Read it every morning on TechCrunch+ or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday.

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DevOps.com

DECEMBER 15, 2021

In this week’s The Long View: Improving U.S. government CX, how much money Mozilla makes, and the latest on the Log4j/Log4Shell débâcle. The post U.S. Govt. CX EO | Mozilla Revenue | Log4j Latest appeared first on DevOps.com.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Investors are excited about the opportunities in the space market that are being unlocked by exit events and continued interest and private investment in the biggest and most successful space companies, including SpaceX. During a TC Sessions: Space 2021 panel discussion on the growth-stage investment outlook for startups, Bessemer’s Tess Hatch, Sequoia’s Shaun Maguire and Hemisphere Ventures’ Lisa Rich shared their thoughts on the active year that just passed and on what’

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Lacework

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Editor’s Note: Log4j is an unfolding situation that we are closely monitoring. We will be updating our blog on a regular basis so check back for updates. The vulnerability with the Log4j logging library has been keeping IT teams up at night since late last week. We know when a zero day event occurs like [.]. Read More. from How To Get a Handle on the Log4j Issue in Your Environment.

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