TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Magic, a startup developing a code-generating platform similar to GitHub’s Copilot , today announced that it raised $23 million in a Series A funding round led by Alphabet’s CapitalG with participation from Elad Gil, Nat Friedman and Amplify Partners. So what’s its story? But absent a demo, we have only his word to go on.

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Honeycomb

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

In this review, we will cover the incident itself, and then we’ll zoom back out for an analysis of multiple contributing elements, our response, and the aftermath. The most recent flip had fully stopped any remaining writes that kept the system alive. It impacted all user-facing components from 1:40 p.m. UTC to 2:48 p.m.

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Honeycomb

AUGUST 18, 2020

But every once in a while, teams or systems hit an inflection point where enough things change at once and the pattern of incidents shifts. 8/3 – Query engine lambda startup failures : A code change was merged that prevented the lambda-based portion of our query engine from starting. The meta-review.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

Instead of relying solely on strategic partners, his team visited Japan before ramping up to host events and engage directly with early adopters. Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. Is algorithmic VC investment compatible with due diligence?

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CIO

JANUARY 12, 2023

GPU manufacturer Nvidia is expanding its enterprise software offering with three new AI workflows for retailers it hopes will also drive sales of its hardware accelerators. Instead, it will make them available for enterprises to integrate themselves, or to buy as part of larger systems developed by startups or third-party systems integrators.

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Honeycomb

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Our industry is in the early days of an explosion in software using LLMs, as well as (separately, but relatedly) a revolution in how engineers write and run code, thanks to generative AI. In theory , all software is debuggable. There is a much longer list of things that make software less than 100% debuggable in practice.

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OverOps

JUNE 4, 2019

The following is a guest post from Herb Krasner, an Advisory Board Member for the Consortium for IT Software Quality (CISQ) and industry consultant for 5 decades. In a previous post , we looked at the magnitude and impact of the soaring cost of poor software quality in the US and where those hidden costs are typically found.

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Tenable

APRIL 16, 2024

As has become crystal clear in recent years thanks to events like Log4j’s Log4Shell vulnerability and the SolarWinds breach, software supply chain security is critical. At Tenable, protecting our software supply chain is a top priority. Ensuring the integrity of software artifacts across your entire software supply chain.

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Puppies, Flowers, Rainbows and Kittens

DECEMBER 11, 2021

This article is the second in a four-part series on writing performance reviews. In this article, I talk about filling out the review form. The final post covers delivering the review. Before you begin to write your review, make sure you have the role and level definition for the person’s current role and level.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2023

Welcome, friends, to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter covering the major events in tech over the past few days. Natasha, who reviewed it for TC, found it to be an improvement upon the original in several ways, including (very importantly) in the form-factor department. Not to worry. Learn more.

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CIO

AUGUST 30, 2022

In the wake of the Rogers outage, Canadian CIOs and IT executives and experts are reviewing their readiness to cope with such failures in the future. But their CIOs are determined experts accustomed to “accomplishing amazing feats using free software and donated hardware,” says Knight. Build redundancy. Sapper Labs. says Guthrie. “Do

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CIO

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Tanzu is a central part of VMware’s software portfolio and its multi-cloud strategy, and will remain that way after Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware closes. With no existing footprint of tools, practices, or personnel, DOD and Tanzu Labs were starting from scratch when they first stood up a VMware-enabled Software Factory within the U.S.

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James Shore

MARCH 29, 2021

To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. We produce high-quality code in small, verifiable steps. At best, mistakes lead to code that won’t compile. No wonder, then, that software is buggy. Test-driven development, , or TDD, is a rapid cycle of testing, coding, and refactoring.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2022

Certainly, he never imagined launching a private event management platform for restaurants and venues, but that’s what he is building, and VCs think enough of it that they just seed funded the company to the tune of $3.6 The private events business is estimated to generate roughly $80 billion per year in the U.S.,

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Honeycomb

JANUARY 5, 2024

For developers, understanding the performance of shipped code is crucial. Through the last decade, a tablestake function in software monitoring and observability solutions has been to save and track app metrics. There is a level of modern system complexity where relying on metric collection spirals into cost inefficiency.

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Perficient

MAY 30, 2023

In this technical blog post, we will explore the limitations of Databricks regarding synchronous updates, introduce the pattern of “Simulating Synchronous Operations with Asynchronous Code,” and compare it with the widely adopted event-driven architecture. The events are then published to a message broker or event bus.

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CIO

APRIL 26, 2023

The number of complaints would also fall as a result, and the condition and maintenance of systems would be optimized, the provider said. While production itself is fully automated—order-controlled from the SAP system—things are different in the warehouse, as manual processes with forklift drivers continue to work more profitably.

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CIO

DECEMBER 21, 2023

A simple Google search can reveal that some of the major airlines with state-of-the-art IT infrastructure had customer data stolen due to security breaches. This is also due to the demographics of airline passengers, who are likely to be affluent enough to travel with platinum credit cards at their disposal. Well not exactly.

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Honeycomb

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

In this review, we will cover the incident itself, and then we’ll zoom back out for an analysis of multiple contributing elements, our response, and the aftermath. The most recent flip had fully stopped any remaining writes that kept the system alive. It impacted all user-facing components from 1:40 p.m. UTC to 2:48 p.m.

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CIO

MARCH 12, 2024

Despite these challenges, having an up-to-date disaster recovery plan that works and guaranteeing a robust network, security, and systems support framework for new business directions are foundational elements of IT that can’t be ignored — and should be funded. When these additional costs appear, the original ROI prognosticators get unhappy.

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Puppies, Flowers, Rainbows and Kittens

DECEMBER 4, 2021

For many of us, it is now—or soon will be—time to write performance reviews for our team. Writing reviews can be daunting for many, especially those with large groups or little experience. I often hear managers (even senior leaders) bemoaning the effort it takes to write the reviews for their group members.

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Perficient

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Processing data on-site allows you to react to events near real-time and propagating that data to every part of your organization will open a whole new world of capabilities and boost innovation. The basic flow of data can be summarize like so: Events are emitted by IoT devices over OPC-UA or MQTT to a local broker. Self-Managed.

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Ivanti

APRIL 4, 2024

Events in recent months have been humbling, and I want you to hear directly from me about the actions we are taking to ensure we emerge stronger, and our customers are more secure. The challenges we face are not unique in the software industry and we are committed to taking the necessary steps to lead the way for others.

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Xicom

JANUARY 13, 2021

The software industry evolves too fast! According to Coding Sans annual report , the challenges software developers in Dubai and across face were knowledge sharing and capacity. According to Coding Sans annual report , the challenges software developers in Dubai and across face were knowledge sharing and capacity.

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Apiumhub

JANUARY 18, 2024

Software deployment best practices are crucial for ensuring the smooth and reliable release of software. This frequency is a pivotal value stream metric and a fundamental benchmark within the core DORA metrics, providing insights into your software delivery efficiency. Version Control Use version control systems (e.g.,

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Apiumhub

MARCH 6, 2023

The software development industry is growing rapidly due to the huge demand for technology-based tools and digital products that are commonly used in our day-to-day lives. This era of software development provides many opportunities for developers on a global scale.

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Xebia

JANUARY 15, 2024

When you speak with software developers, they will probably tell you that they use design patterns. For example, you can use the console to create a function and type your code in an editor via your browser. Or, you create a CloudFormation template and you put your code in the template itself.

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CIO

AUGUST 8, 2022

The contact center has traditionally operated through on-premises servers and software, but shifting it to the cloud can help CIOs improve the customer journey. For example, many systems have carefully constructed call flows, routing rules, and natural language libraries featuring customer terminology.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Graded has been in business since the 1950s, so it’s rooted in non-digital systems, which have been modernized over time. Software is invisible. In fact, CNR has had a data warehouse for 15 years, which gathers information from internal management systems to perform analyses and guide strategies. We need to focus on interfaces.”

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CIO

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

These global events have also underscored the crucial significance of safeguarding our critical infrastructure against domestic or foreign attacks. As technology advances, so too does the sophistication of threats to these essential systems. The impact of these disruptions reverberated worldwide, reaching beyond just our economy.

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Honeycomb

MARCH 16, 2021

Recently, we added a new derived column function to Honeycomb, INGEST_TIMESTAMP() , which can help customers debug event latency and/or inaccurate timestamps. A meaningful minority of the events sent to Honeycomb are already old when they arrive, and a very special few claim to have been sent from the future. Has this happened to you?

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CIO

APRIL 27, 2023

As recent, widely publicized events have shown, it is a business problem that can have serious consequences for organizations. Technical debt can be defined as the accumulation of legacy systems and applications that are difficult to maintain and support, as well as poorly written or hastily implemented code that increases risk over time.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Next month we’re back with the star-studded TC Sessions: Space – an event dedicated exploring all things innovation, investment and industry in the final frontier. In addition to the opportunity to pitch, you’ll get training with TC’s Startup Battlefield Editor, two complimentary passes to the entire TC Sessions: Space event.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

Meet Athenian , a new startup that analyzes your software delivery workflow and gives you insights. Athenian isn’t the first company trying to provide analytics for software development. But founder and CEO Eiso Kant told me that tools like Jellyfish and Code Climate focus too much on individual performance.

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Xebia

JANUARY 17, 2024

Rotating secrets is a critical element to your security posture that, when done manually, is often overlooked due to it being a more and more tedious and complex process as the company and secrets grow. Oftentimes teams have to plan rotation events every few months that involve going through a list of secrets and manually rotating each one.

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Planbox

APRIL 27, 2021

With the launch of its Center of Excellence (CoE), Planbox has been a strategic enabler of growth for its customers by providing a self-service innovation management system that reinforces future-fit practices to support company-wide adaptivity, creativity, and resilience. times the industry average. Product Highlights. About Planbox.

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Coveros

APRIL 3, 2024

The emergence of AI and machine learning has upended how software leaders and practitioners think about their work, creating a mix of panic and excitement across our industry. While software testers are not immune from fear of what AI might mean for their careers, they should look at AI as an opportunity.

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