Cloudera

DECEMBER 15, 2020

It is crucial for organizations to focus on supporting the new way of work, enhancing productivity, and improving cost efficiency to ensure business survival in the post-pandemic world. However, those that are overly focused on these short-term goals risk losing sight of what’s truly important. As shared in my previous post , diverse teams can help organizations unlock innovations that allow them to adapt to market changes quickly and drive business growth.

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DevOps.com

DECEMBER 13, 2020

As Software 2.0 takes shape, how are AI processes—and the jobs that go with them—changing? When it comes to new AI automation, the Software 2.0 movement can be seen as akin to the auto industry’s recent evolution. Beginning in the 1990s and rapidly progressing into the 2000s, the auto industry saw a huge rise in […]. The post AI Automation Won’t Replace Jobs – It Will Replace Processes appeared first on DevOps.com.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Social gaming platform Rec Room has scored some new funding as it aims to bring its once VR-centric world to every major gaming platform out there. The startup has closed a $20 million Series C led by Madrona Venture Group. Existing investors, including First Round Capital, Index, Sequoia and DAG, also participated in the round. They’ve raised just shy of $50 million to date.

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Erik Bernhardsson

DECEMBER 15, 2020

It's a popular attitude among developers to rant about our tools and how broken things are. Maybe I'm an optimistic person, because my viewpoint is the complete opposite! I had my first job as a software engineer in 1999, and in the last two decades I've seen software engineering changing in ways that have made us orders of magnitude more productive.

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Agile Alliance

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Wondering how Agile Alliance conference gets the most innovative, thought-provoking, and noteworthy sessions? Our reviewers find them among the hundreds of submissions we receive. Now is the time to join the review team — we are looking for you! As a reviewer, you will be guided by the track chairs about what the program is … Continued. The post Agile2021 Call for Reviewers first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Only about a third of the yields Indian farmers produce reaches the big markets. Those whose produce makes it there today are able to leverage post-harvest services. Everyone else is missing out. A Noida-based startup is working with all the stakeholders — farmers, food processors, traders and financial institutions — to bridge this post-harvest services gap — and it just secured new funds to continue its journey.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 16, 2020

When FireEye Inc. discovered that it was hacked this month, the cybersecurity firm’s investigators immediately set about trying to figure out how attackers got past its defenses. It wasn’t just […].

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DevOps.com

DECEMBER 16, 2020

To keep pace with the swiftly changing digital ecosystem, organizations can’t afford to stand still. It’s vital for organizations to continually assess their business models as part of their digital transformation. Organizations must walk a difficult line between maintaining their core competencies while successfully anticipating what is ahead.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 17, 2020

If you’re like many leaders we talk with, you’ve been on such a fast pivot this year, you may not have had all the strategic planning time you’d hoped for. Or, your business has changed so much, it’s the perfect time to […]. The post Strategic Planning Tool: How to Engage Your Team in Better Conversation appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2020

Editor’s note: Get this free weekly recap of TechCrunch news that any startup can use by email every Saturday morning (7 a.m. PT). Subscribe here. Maybe it is a stock market bubble, or a tech-stock bubble at least. And maybe DoorDash, Airbnb and C3.ai and their bankers should have priced higher regardless to take advantage of all of the enthusiasm.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Atlanta, Georgia-based internet of things company Bastille Networks has received an other transaction agreement from the Department of Homeland Security to continue the development of a technology designed to protect […].

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Toptal

DECEMBER 17, 2020

WebAssembly gives near-native performance to web apps and allows languages other than JavaScript—plus their libraries—to be used on the web. This tutorial leverages Rust and the Web Audio API to make a basic guitar tuner app that runs at 60 FPS, even on mobile.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Whether affected by the pandemic or some other unforeseen and monumental setback, to lead, you have to find a way to move beyond anger, guilt, emptiness or pain. It’s not only possible to overcome adversity, but it’s imperative. In this episode, retired […]. The post Overcoming Adversity – Interview with Jason Redman appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

While there’s been plenty of recent debate around the gig economy, Jarah Euston argued that it’s time to rethink a bigger part of the workforce — hourly workers. Euston, who was previously an executive at mobile advertising startup Flurry and a co-founder at data operations startup Nexla , told me that although 80 million Americans are paid on an hourly basis , the current system doesn’t work particular well for either employers or workers.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Palo Alto Networks has rolled out a series of as-a-service offerings to help service providers and enterprises secure 5G networks, services, applications and devices. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based platform security vendor […].

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DevOps.com

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Companies that are working toward optimizing DevOps processes have over the past few years adopted a practice of testing throughout the software application design, development and production phases—a practice of continuous testing throughout the product life cycle. This includes shifting testing operations “left,” i.e. beginning testing earlier in the life cycle, to catch any software […].

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TechBeacon

DECEMBER 14, 2020

As IT environments become more dynamic, hybrid, and complex, it’s becoming increasingly difficult for security operations center (SOC) teams to quickly detect and address critical threats with traditional tools.

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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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Zomato has raised $660 million in a financing round that it kicked off last year as the Indian food delivery startup prepares to go public next year. The Indian startup said Tiger Global, Kora, Luxor, Fidelity (FMR), D1 Capital, Baillie Gifford, Mirae and Steadview participated in the round — a Series J — which gives Zomato a post-money valuation of $3.9 billion.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Read Diego Asturias explain how Pulumi and Snowflake are enabling a big shift in how cloud engineering works on Silicon Angle: More than 10 years ago, cloud computing began offering […].

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Confluent

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Consuming messages in parallel is what Apache Kafka® is all about, so you may well wonder, why would we want anything else? It turns out that, in practice, there are […].

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David Walsh

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Knowing what input type you’ve received is hugely important in JavaScript, which is a big reason for Flow and TypeScript’s rise. One such case where it’s useful to know what an object represents is if the input is a string or a React element. To detect if an object is a React element, you can use React.isValidElement(obj) : // Add a wrapping DIV if the content isn't a React element // PropTypes.oneOfType([PropTypes.string, PropTypes.element]) render() { const { content } = this

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2020

French startup PhotoRoom is launching its app on Android today. The company has been working on a utility photography app that lets you remove the background from a photo, swaps it for another background and tweaks your photo. And it’s been working well on iOS already as the company attended Y Combinator, doubled its annual recurring revenue to $2 million and raised a $1.2 million seed round.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Read Andrew Wooler explain how Kinetica can provide a cost-effective streaming data warehouse on Forbes : I recently watched the movie Ford v Ferrari, based on the true story of […].

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Synopsys

DECEMBER 17, 2020

CVE-2020-28052 is an authentication bypass vulnerability discovered in Bouncy Castle’s OpenBSDBcrypt class. It allows attackers to bypass password checks. The post CyRC analysis: Authentication bypass vulnerability in Bouncy Castle appeared first on Software Integrity Blog.

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Netflix Tech

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Life of a Netflix Partner Engineer?—?The case of the extra 40 ms By: John Blair , Netflix Partner Engineering The Netflix application runs on hundreds of smart TVs, streaming sticks and pay TV set top boxes. The role of a Partner Engineer at Netflix is to help device manufacturers launch the Netflix application on their devices. In this article we talk about one particularly difficult issue that blocked the launch of a device in Europe.

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“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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Enterprise recruiting company iCIMS is announcing that it has acquired Altru. iCIMS declined to comment on the terms of the deal, but a source with knowledge of the companies told us that the price is a combination of cash and stock, totaling around $60 million. Founded in 2000, iCIMS offers a “talent cloud” used by more than 4,000 employers attract, engage and hire new employees, and to help existing employees continue to develop their careers.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 16, 2020

MongoDB today released into general availability its Atlas Online Archive service, providing users with a service that enables data tiering. With data tiering a user can archive older, less active data […].

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TechBeacon

DECEMBER 15, 2020

In many organizations, the first step toward automation and artificial intelligence/machine learning is the adoption of robotic process automation (RPA) technology.

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