August, 2022

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Fixed Partitions

Martin Fowler

When partitioning data across a set of cluster nodes we need a uniform distribution and to be able add and remove nodes to the cluster without causing a lot of data to be moved around. Unmesh Joshi. explains how to do this by allocating data to a large number of virtual fixed partitions which are then allocated to the nodes.

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How to Give Your Boss Bad News: Avoid This Mistake and What to Do Instead

Let's Grow Leaders

Avoid This Mistake When Giving Your Boss Bad News. You’ve got to give your boss bad news. But the timing isn’t great–for you or for them. The restructure. The uncertainty. The promotion that’s right around the corner. Maybe it’s just not a great time to rock the boat. . How do you give your boss bad news well, while avoiding the proverbial shooting of the messenger?

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Role of AI In Hiring Software Engineers

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Artificial intelligence has generated a lot of buzz lately. Popular AI techniques like computer vision and object recognition have revolutionized the scope of working across healthcare, science, retail, and education to improve the accuracy of success. More than just a supercomputer generation, AI recreated human capabilities in machines. Nowadays, AI-powered software is used to automate the daily set of business operations and ease product hassles of departmental stakeholders.

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Joy of Agility – Joshua Kerievsky

Agile Alliance

Joshua shares six essential agile mantras, plus unforgettable, real-world agile stories that will empower you to be quick, adaptable, and resourceful in the face of opportunities and challenges. The post Joy of Agility – Joshua Kerievsky first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Struggling to Scale Test Coverage Under Pressure?

When test coverage falls behind release velocity, quality suffers, and your team feels the consequences. This guide outlines when it makes sense to outsource quality assurance (QA), the risks to watch for, and how to scale testing without increasing headcount or slowing down engineering. You will learn how leading teams are leveraging external QA partners to expand coverage, enhance defect detection, and remain aligned with CI/CD timelines.

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Anders Hejlsberg Biography

The Crazy Programmer

Anders Hejlsberg is quite a famous personality, being a Technical Fellow in the Developer Division of Microsoft, Hejlsberg is popularly known as the influential creator of the development tools and various programming languages. He’s a chief designer of C# programming language as well as a key participant in the development of the Microsoft.NET Framework.

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Reflections on Agile2022

Agile Alliance

Profiles in Agility, courage, resilience and humility I am in awe of Agile2022–the world’s largest gathering of Agilists and all things Agile, which Agile Alliance hosted the week of July 18th in Nashville! I literally stood back and observed the stage the Agile2022 Conference committee created for the phenomenon of Agile to shine! AGILITY This … Continued.

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7 Best Online Compilers 2022 – C, C++, Java, Python

The Crazy Programmer

An online IDE or compiler comes in quite useful especially when you are looking to compile and interpret programming code to & from different languages. There is a possibility that your computer might hang if you use a bunch of apps at one time, thus, for these scenarios, the online compiler is the best option. Suppose, you wish to run three programs that are written in C++, Java, and Python, rather than installing 3 compilers, you can use an online compiler that, in one single click.

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Product Thinking: The Secret to Scaling Value – Melissa Perri

Agile Alliance

Melissa breaks down what product thinking is and how successful companies scale their product management organizations to create extreme value. The post Product Thinking: The Secret to Scaling Value – Melissa Perri first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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A troubling startup layoff trend has emerged

TechCrunch

We don’t need to tell you about the layoffs that are defining the tech landscape right now, concentrated particularly in late-stage companies that are struggling to raise extension rounds and grow into existing valuations. What we do think is important, though, is focusing on a frustrating trend that is emerging between all these headlines: some companies have announced layoff after layoff in quick succession , a double reduction that feels surprising.

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Mastering Apache Airflow® 3.0: What’s New (and What’s Next) for Data Orchestration

Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate

Apache Airflow® 3.0, the most anticipated Airflow release yet, officially launched this April. As the de facto standard for data orchestration, Airflow is trusted by over 77,000 organizations to power everything from advanced analytics to production AI and MLOps. With the 3.0 release, the top-requested features from the community were delivered, including a revamped UI for easier navigation, stronger security, and greater flexibility to run tasks anywhere at any time.

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Key-Range Partitions

Martin Fowler

A Fixed Partition provides a good way to distribute data over many nodes when clients are accessing a single key at a time. If, however, a client wants a range of values, such as all names from "a" to "f", then they'll need to access every node. Unmesh Joshi explains how a Key-Range Partition provides a better alternative for this kind of data access.

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Metaverse: The time for CIOs to experiment is now

CIO

For the past forty years CIOs have labored to retrofit, rearchitect, and ultimately replace underfunded and underappreciated legacy infrastructures in hopes of delivering the full benefits associated with periodically occurring waves of transformative emerging technologies. Debate now rages in IT and digital communities regarding what will be the seismic technological shift of the 2020s.

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Why not all VCs are ready to embrace AI-powered investment tools

TechCrunch

AI’s strength lies in its predictive prowess. Fed enough data, the conventional thinking goes, a machine learning algorithm can predict just about anything — for example, which word will appear next in a sentence. Given that potential, it’s not surprising that enterprising investment firms have looked to leverage AI to inform their decision-making.

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Ulta Beauty launches a fund, showcasing the resilience of corporate venture capital

TechCrunch

Over the past few years, corporate venture capital investors have solidified their stature as a reliable source of VC funding. The number of companies launching investment arms has exploded , and the amount of new funds has continued to rise despite the current market volatility. Ulta Beauty, the largest chain of beauty stores in the U.S., became the latest company to launch a venture arm this week.

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Agent Tooling: Connecting AI to Your Tools, Systems & Data

Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage

There’s a lot of noise surrounding the ability of AI agents to connect to your tools, systems and data. But building an AI application into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. As an engineering leader, it can be challenging to make sense of this evolving landscape, but agent tooling provides such high value that it’s critical we figure out how to move forward.

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Engineering with Empathy – Kelsey Hightower

Agile Alliance

Defining engineering with empathy through a collection of real-world examples followed by a fireside chat to dig into the details. The post Engineering with Empathy – Kelsey Hightower first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Thank YOU for an Awesome Agile2022 Conference!

Agile Alliance

Managing Director Teresa Foster reflects on her experience at Agile2022, highlighting some things that made the conference great, and thanking those that made it all happen. The post Thank YOU for an Awesome Agile2022 Conference! first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Your startup needs someone to be its lead storyteller

TechCrunch

When it all comes down to it, what is a business? You are an organization that has identified a pain point that people are experiencing. In order to remove that pain point, you are offering a product in exchange for money. It sounds so simple. In the startup world, we often talk about painkillers versus vitamins. You wouldn’t pause your favorite TV show, get in your car and drive to the pharmacy to buy vitamins.

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Q3 outlook forecasts cloudy days ahead for fintech M&A

TechCrunch

Welcome to The Interchange! If you received this in your inbox, thank you for signing up and your vote of confidence. If you’re reading this as a post on our site, sign up here so you can receive it directly in the future. Every week, I’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. This will include everything from funding rounds to trends to an analysis of a particular space to hot takes on a particular company or phenomenon.

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Subscription Management in the SaaS World: Challenges and Solutions

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3 ways to optimize SaaS sales in a downturn

TechCrunch

Sahil Mansuri. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Sahil Mansuri is the CEO of Bravado. My first month with a sales quota was September 2008 — not the best month for a 21-year-old to start his career by cold calling strangers and convincing them to buy a $10,000 piece of software. The economy was in free fall, companies were slashing workforces nationwide and all budgets were frozen.

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The new normal AO concepts and patterns of 21-st century agile organizations

Agile Alliance

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Deliver Value: Happy Contributing People, Satisfied Customers, Thriving Business

Agile Alliance

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This freshly funded startup spun out of a student-run Stanford investment club

TechCrunch

In late 2020, a group of Stanford students banded together to create Stanford 2020, a venture fund solely to invest in their fellow classmates’ ventures. Given the school’s past in spinning out successful startup founders, it unsurprisingly had no trouble raising $1.5 million for the debut investment vehicle — waitlist not included. Now, two years later, the leader of that club, Steph Mui, is trying to replicate that playbook in the form of a venture-backed startup, and solo entrepreneursh

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Automation, Evolved: Your New Playbook for Smarter Knowledge Work

Speaker: Frank Taliano

Documents are the backbone of enterprise operations, but they are also a common source of inefficiency. From buried insights to manual handoffs, document-based workflows can quietly stall decision-making and drain resources. For large, complex organizations, legacy systems and siloed processes create friction that AI is uniquely positioned to resolve.

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Social investment platform eToro to acquire fintech startup Gatsby for $50M

TechCrunch

Multi-asset social investment network and Robinhood competitor eToro has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Gatsby — a fintech startup which also aimed to go head to head against Robinhood — for $50 million in a cash and common stock deal. Israel-based eToro told TechCrunch this week that it just received approval from FINRA, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, to move forward with the acquisition.

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Egyptian startup Convertedin raises $3M, caters to e-commerce brands in MENA and Latin America

TechCrunch

Convertedin , an Egyptian startup that operates a marketing operating system for e-commerce brands, has raised $3 million in a seed round led by Saudi Arabia-headquartered Merak Capital. Other participating investors include 500 Global and MSAS. The company, in a statement, said it plans to utilize the funds for strategic hiring and further development of its platform.

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Shopic lands $35M to bring its item-scanning ‘smart cart’ tech to more stores

TechCrunch

Stores face new challenges in a world forever changed by the pandemic. Amazon and other tech giants are encroaching on their business. But perhaps more urgently, supply chain snarls haven’t gone away, presenting retailers with a host of inventory issues. In a March Retail Insights survey , seven in 10 (71%) shoppers said they felt that out-of-stocks — i.e. times when items aren’t available — are worse now compared to the start of the pandemic.

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What will it take to reignite the NFT market?

TechCrunch

With July now behind us, we have a full month of trading data from the NFT market to digest. The numbers are mixed. While there are some positive signals from the non-fungible token market that matter, others are decidedly negative. Trading continues, but at what appears to be a far slower pace. For companies in the NFT space, the news is likely unwelcome.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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John Carmack’s AGI startup raises $20M from Sequoia, Nat Friedman, Patrick Collison and others

TechCrunch

John Carmack, the game developer who co-founded id Software and served as Oculus’s CTO, is working on a new venture — and has already attracted capital from some big names. Carmack said Friday his new artificial general intelligence startup, called Keen Technologies, has raised $20 million in a financing round from former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman and Cue founder Daniel Gross.

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Massive iron batteries could be key to displacing natural gas from the grid

TechCrunch

With the impending passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, renewables are about to get a fresh jolt in the U.S. They’re already some of the cheapest sources of electricity to build and run, but they haven’t taken over because they’re often dependent on the weather. The simple solution is to store any excess power produced, but that raises the overall cost of renewable power.

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As a startup founder, you really need to understand how venture capital works

TechCrunch

Before you raise money as a cash-strapped fledgling startup, it can feel like every problem you are experiencing would go away if you just had some money in the bank. At TechCrunch, it often seems as if every other startup story is about yet another fun company raising satchels full of venture capital. Millions — billions — of dollars are flowing toward upstart tech companies of all stripes, and as the de-facto news hub for the startup ecosystem, we are as guilty as anyone of being a

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