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Heartex raises $25M for its AI-focused, open source data labeling platform

TechCrunch

Heartex, a startup that bills itself as an “open source” platform for data labeling, today announced that it landed $25 million in a Series A funding round led by Redpoint Ventures. ” Software developers Malyuk, Maxim Tkachenko, and Nikolay Lyubimov co-founded Heartex in 2019. Heartex’s dashboard.

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The Good and the Bad of Kubernetes Container Orchestration

Altexsoft

Kubernetes or K8s for short is an open-source platform to deploy and orchestrate a large number of containers — packages of software, with all dependencies, libraries, and other elements necessary to execute it, no matter the environment. Source: Dynatrace What auxiliary processes do companies entrust to the orchestrator?

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The Good and the Bad of Databricks Lakehouse Platform

Altexsoft

Designed to handle big data, the platform addresses problems associated with data lakes — such as lack of data integrity , poor data quality, and low performance compared to data warehouses. Besides that, its native integration with MLflow , an open-source tool for building machine learning pipelines in production, backs MLOps initiatives.

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The Good and the Bad of Apache Kafka Streaming Platform

Altexsoft

Similar to Google in web browsing and Photoshop in image processing, it became a gold standard in data streaming, preferred by 70 percent of Fortune 500 companies. Apache Kafka is an open-source, distributed streaming platform for messaging, storing, processing, and integrating large data volumes in real time. What is Kafka?

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Thoughtworks NEO streamlines in-house app dev

CIO

Even software developers can use a hand. That’s the intent of Thoughtworks’ homegrown Network Enabled Organization (NEO) toolbox, a development portal that has sped up application development from idea to deliverable on average 30% faster by automating much of the grunt work — and advanced tasks, too — out of the development process.

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Cloudy with a chance of threats: Advice for mitigating the top cyber threats of 2024

Lacework

Securing the cloud is a race against time. Developers are building systems and applications faster than ever, but this creates more risks and vulnerabilities for hackers to exploit. In the cloud, we are typically concerned about two categories of threat actors: State sponsored and criminal. The truth is that both are crucial.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Stealth recruiting, virtual sales kickoffs, Google Cloud’s Q4

TechCrunch

Traditionally, companies hold in-person sales kickoffs (SKOs) in January and February to network, educate sales teams about new products and devise strategies for the year ahead. With a $22B run rate, does it matter if Google Cloud is still losing money? This week, Google Cloud reported $5.5 Walter Thompson.