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TechCrunch+ roundup: Why you should go APE, H-1B lottery tips, how to check references

TechCrunch

Cloud companies generally rely on efficiency metrics like CAC payback and LTV-to-CAC, but “they feel more like financial metrics than operational ones, and it is difficult for employees to execute against these concepts,” according to Neeraj Agrawal, Brandon Gleklen and Jack Mattei of Battery Ventures. yourprotagonist.

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Ask Miss O11y: Long-Running Requests

Honeycomb

We won’t necessarily have a “success” metric per stream to make a percentage with and a very successful stream could last for days before finishing. We in fact have one of those continuous processing services— Beagle , our Service Level Objective stream processor—which we’ve instrumented in this fashion.

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Daily Crunch: Plaid unravels a fifth of its workforce after ‘growth did not materialize as quickly as expected’ 

TechCrunch

I assume companies will get better at forecasting, although, with this macroeconomic climate, it’s probably better to throw the crystal ball out the window. Image Credits: Richard Drury (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. Just in time for the movie. To win over investors, use growth as your differentiator.

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Daily Crunch: Shark Tank India host Ashneer Grover tries to get his BharatPe CEO fired

TechCrunch

How to reform coding bootcamps : TechCrunch’s Natasha Mascarenhas has a great look at the world of teaching folks to code in rapid fashion. She told me earlier today that “edtech is always in search of a magic metric, one that encompasses outcomes, engagement and, heck, even fun. We also talked about cute robots!

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Extra Crunch roundup: ‘Nightmare’ security breach, Poshmark’s IPO, crypto boom, more

TechCrunch

Alex Wilhelm keeps a close watch on the public markets in his column The Exchange, but this week, he branched out to look at some of the metrics underpinning soaring cryptocurrency prices and turned his gaze on StockX , the consumer reseller marketplace that just raised $275 million in a Series E that values the company at approximately $2.8

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April Patch Tuesday 2021

Ivanti

Microsoft has released updates for the Windows OS, Office and O365, Exchange Server, Edge (Chromium), Visual Studio, Azure DevOps, Azure AD Web Sign-in, Azure Sphere, and many other components. Publicly Disclosed: A vulnerability exists in Windows Installer that could allow for Information Disclosure CVE-2021-28437. Microsoft Release.

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Autoscaling Deployment with MLOps

DataRobot

In this technical post, we’ll focus on some changes we’ve made to allow custom models to operate as an algorithm on Algorithmia, while still feeding predictions, input, and other metrics back to the DataRobot MLOps platform —a true best of both worlds. After, under your profile, select developer tools to open the token window.

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