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Seven Cloud Native Security Trends to Watch in 2021

Aqua Security

Cloud native security is a vibrant, fast-moving space. As enterprises across industries continue to accelerate digital initiatives with cloud native tools, security is becoming more critical than ever, and new trends are bound to emerge. To keep you ahead of the curve, here are the top seven developing trends that will shape cloud native security in 2021.

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3 Strategies for Coping With the Pressure of the C-Suite

CEO Insider

Of course, C-suite executives have a significant amount on their plates when leading their respective areas of the company. And in many cases, the changes brought on by COVID-19 have worsened their stress and anxiety. Thankfully, there are some tried-and-tested ways to better manage their workloads, become more efficient and productive, and avoid stress and […].

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Different Types of ROM

The Crazy Programmer

ROM is Read-Only Memory and the most important type of electronic storage, which comes in-built to the device during manufacturing. You must have seen ROM chips in your computers and other electronic products; game consoles, VCRs, and even car radios all of them use ROM for completing their functions effectively and smoothly. ROM chips generally come built-in the external unit – just like flash drives or other auxiliary devices –and are installed in the hardware of a device on the removable chip

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Scrumban Should NOT Just Be a Hybrid of Scrum and Kanban

Agile Alliance

Is Scrumban just adding a Kanban board with a few other ornamental changes, or are there deeper issues that need to be addressed? What advantages do you expect to achieve by infusing your current practices with Lean Kanban? Hybrids are problematic at best. Without principles guiding your actions, they create indecision about in which direction … Continued.

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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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A Supreme Court ruling affirming Canada’s carbon tax opens the door for a startup explosion

TechCrunch

Last week the Canadian Supreme Court ruled that the national government’s plan to tax carbon emissions was legal in a decision that could have significant implications for the nation’s climate-focused startup companies. The ruling put an end to roughly two years of legal challenges and could set the stage for a boom in funding and commercial support for Canadian startup companies developing technologies to curb greenhouse gas emissions, according to investors and entrepreneurs repres

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coinlayer API Review – How to Add Crypto Rates to Your Website

The Crazy Programmer

The launch of coinlayer , an API that integrates real-time crypto rates on websites and applications, has made it easier for developers to provide exchange rates for over 385 cryptocurrencies. One of the most-watched markets globally is the cryptocurrency market, and the rising interest of investors has made it crucial to provide reliable cryptocurrency data in real-time.

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Agile2021 Updates: Partnerships, Speakers, and More!

Agile Alliance

Reinventing Agile2021 as an online event has led to reconsidering almost everything about how we put the conference together. On the upside, moving the event online has really opened up opportunities for us to think differently in designing the experience. With three time blocks of programming so that everyone can attend during daylight hours, shorter … Continued.

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Uganda’s Tugende closes $3.6M Series A extension to meet the demand for its asset finance products

TechCrunch

Ugandan technology-enabled asset finance company Tugende today announced that it has closed $3.6 million in a Series A extension round. The investment, which, according to the company, was agreed on and structured in 2020, follows the $6.3 million raised in November 2020 and led by Toyota Tsusho investment fund Mobility 54. This brings Tugende’s total Series A financing to $9.9 million.

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Winning Well: Be the Leader You Want Your Boss to Be (Videos)

Let's Grow Leaders

Winning Well – the art of blending the bottom line with the human spirit Winning Well gives leaders practical tools to achieve breakthrough results that last. After training over 10,000 leaders in fourteen countries in our Winning Well practical leadership tools and […]. The post Winning Well: Be the Leader You Want Your Boss to Be (Videos) appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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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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Palo Alto Networks latest security giant accused of patent infringement

CTOvision

A company is suing Palo Alto Networks for patent infringement, alleging that proprietary technologies were demonstrated to the cybersecurity giant, then used in a number of its major security products and systems. The episode highlights the peril that some companies face in the preliminary stage of business discussions before any formal agreements are reached and in […].

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A Little Lean Can Create a Whole Lot of Positive Change

Agile Alliance

(This is Part 5 in a 5-part series.) We started this article series asking this question: How much Lean is in today’s Agile? “Agile” has become an umbrella term that is used for many things that are useful and helpful. However, “Agile” is also a term that is widely associated with cargo cult behaviour. To … Continued. The post A Little Lean Can Create a Whole Lot of Positive Change first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Jeff Bezos’ investment fund is backing a startup hoping to be the AWS for SMB accounting

TechCrunch

One of the biggest pain points for startups and small businesses is keeping up with back office tasks such as bookkeeping and managing taxes. QuickBooks, it seems, just doesn’t always cut it. Three-time co-founders Waseem Daher, Jeff Arnold, and Jessica McKellar formed Pilot with the mission of affordably providing back office services to startups and SMBs.

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Apache Kafka Made Simple: A First Glimpse of a Kafka Without ZooKeeper

Confluent

At the heart of Apache Kafka® sits the log—a simple data structure that uses sequential operations that work symbiotically with the underlying hardware. Efficient disk buffering and CPU cache usage, […].

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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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Goldman close to offering Bitcoin to private wealth clients

CTOvision

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is close to offering investment vehicles for Bitcoin and other digital assets to clients of its private wealth management unit. ?We are working closely with teams across the firm to explore ways to offer thoughtful and appropriate access to the ecosystem for private wealth clients, and that is something we expect to […].

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What is vmlinux.h and Why is It Important for Your eBPF Programs?

Aqua Security

eBPF is a powerful and exciting technology that allows developers to add custom code to strategic points in the Linux kernel and interact with it by writing simple C or Go programs. The eBPF programs you write and run can inspect data in the memory of processes they attach to. In order to do so, however, the eBPF programs need to know what data structures they’re dealing with.

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ChargerHelp raises $2.75M to keep EV chargers working

TechCrunch

The coming wave of electric vehicles will require more than thousands of charging stations. In addition to being installed, they also need to work — and today, that isn’t happening. If a station doesn’t send out an error or a driver doesn’t report it, network providers might never know there’s even a problem. Kameale C. Terry, who co-founded ChargerHelp!

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Python Remains Popular in Programming Language Study 

DevOps.com

A ranking by analyst firm RedMonk reflects on Python’s continued popularity as a leading enterprise programming language for a number of reasons. According to a recent study by RedMonk, JavaScript also remains widely popular as the web development programming language of choice for a significant number organizations. In many ways, Python’s strong showing in the […].

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Visa will settle transactions in USD Coin via the Ethereum blockchain

CTOvision

Visa Inc (NYSE:V) will start allowing the cryptocurrency USD Coin to be used for payment settlements on its network. It’s the latest sign that mainstream financial companies are starting to accept digital currencies. According to CNBC, Visa launched the pilot program with Crypto.com, a payment and crypto platform. The companies plan to offer the option […].

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Announcing the launch of TFTs

The Daily WTF

Totally Fungible Tokens. NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, are an exciting new application of. Blockchain technology that allows us to burn down a rainforest every. time we want to trade a string representing an artist's signature. on a creative work. Many folks are eagerly turning JPGs, text files, and even Tweets into NFTs, but since not all of us have a convenient rainforest to destroy, The Daily WTF is happy to offer at alternative, the Totally Fungible Token.

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Bunch adds $1M to its seed round to flesh out its leadership learning app

TechCrunch

This morning Bunch announced that it has closed a total of $4.4 million in seed capital, including a new $1 million infusion this week. The company’s product, a mobile app , focuses on teaching leadership skills to the younger generations more accustomed to learning in smaller chunks, often on the go. Don’t roll your eyes, all ye who attended business school.

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Making Cloud-Native Observability More Robust

DevOps.com

I was having a conversation with a CxO level customer as part of an AIOps/Observability workshop, and from what I could tell, most are confused about how to properly operationalize cloud-native production environments – especially the monitoring/observability portion. Here is how the conversation went. “Andy, we are thinking about getting [vendor] to use for our […].

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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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The American company helping Israeli startups scale-up to the next level

CTOvision

It is no secret that the main destination targeted by Israeli tech startups is the U.S. market. However, it isn’t just one-way traffic. Take Aerospike, for example, an American company founded in 2009 that provides solutions to help companies build data-intensive apps or scale-up by boosting performances of existing databases. Aerospike boasts as clients Israeli […].

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Stimulus, response, check: The core of test automation

TechBeacon

In a 1970s commercial, a boy asked a wise owl, "How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?" The owl, who was obviously a tester, decided to see how many licks it would take; in a humorous twist, he concluded that the answer was three. But on the third "lick," he crunched down on the pop and ate the candy.

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IoT satellite network startup Hiber secures €26M in funding round led by EU’s innovation agency

TechCrunch

European satellite and communications startup, Hiber BV has secured €26 million in EU and private investment to expand its IoT satellite network. The funding comes from the European Innovation Council Fund (EIC Fund), the EU’s innovation agency, which has a €278 million Innovation Fund. The EIC co-invested with an innovation credit provided by the Dutch government and existing shareholders.

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One Year of Graviton2 at Honeycomb

Honeycomb

A year ago, we wrote about our experiences as early adopters of Graviton2 , and how we were able to see 30% price-performance improvements on one dogfood workload from switching to the arm64 architecture. In those initial experiments, we validated running 20% fewer shepherd ingest workers, using the m6g instance type, which cost 10% less per instance compared to c5 instances.

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Revolutionizing Contact Centers: Next-Gen Tech for Enhanced CX

Speaker: Liran Meir Frenkel, Performance Management and RPA Sr Product Marketing Manager at NICE; Harpreet Makan, Practice Director at Everest Group; & Santhosh Kumar, Practice Director at Everest Group

As contact centers navigate the challenges of delivering excellence within budget constraints and adapting to evolving employee expectations, optimizing agent tasks becomes crucial. Discover a holistic approach across three pillars - people, process, and technology - that is essential to excel in this dynamic landscape, and explore how next-gen technologies such as generative AI, performance analytics, and process intelligence play a pivotal role in transforming contact centers into advanced CX

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New Aerospike Kubernetes Operator Advances Consistent App Delivery Across Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Deployments

CTOvision

Aerospike, provider of next-generation, real-time NoSQL data solutions, has released the Aerospike Kubernetes Operator and advancements in Aerospike Cloud Managed Service to help enterprises unlock cloud productivity and agility with scale-out cloud data. According to Aerospike, enterprises are increasingly tasked with delivering superior customer experience by leveraging cloud-native architectures that scale elastically and update continuously.

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10 experts advise aspiring test automation engineers

TechBeacon

Talk to 10 test automation experts on how to get started (or get better at your job), and you're likely to get 12 different answers. We know, because we tried, asking not for general, vague advice such as "Learn to code," but for specific websites, books, videos, and other resources to study.

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Startups must curb bureaucracy to ensure agile data governance

TechCrunch

Jon Loyens. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Jon Loyens is chief product officer and co-founder of Data.World. By now, all companies are fundamentally data driven. This is true regardless of whether they operate in the tech space. Therefore, it makes sense to examine the role data management plays in bolstering — and, for that matter, hampering — productivity and collaboration within organizations.