CloudZero
AUGUST 23, 2021
The market for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) continues to grow exponentially. But more SaaS companies are reporting lower margins these days, despite historically enjoying 60-90% margins on average.
CEO Insider
AUGUST 23, 2021
In March of 2020, CEOs faced the reality of shelter in place orders that required most of their employees to work from home. The initial assumption of many was that the situation might last a few weeks. Today, countless companies are in the same place or in some stage of either mandating that employees come […]. The post The Future of Work: You Don’t Need a Plan.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 25, 2021
Meet Taktile , a new startup that is working on a machine learning platform for financial services companies. This isn’t the first company that wants to leverage machine learning for financial products. But Taktile wants to differentiate itself from competitors by making it way easier to get started and switch to AI-powered models. A few years ago, when you could read ‘machine learning’ and ‘artificial intelligence’ in every single pitch deck, some startups chose to focus on the financial indust
Martin Fowler
AUGUST 26, 2021
A couple of months ago I announced that I was stepping back from speaking. A few people wondered whether I would still be writing. I did indicate in that article that I am, but I felt it may be worth saying a bit more about what I’m concentrating on these days.
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Xebia
AUGUST 27, 2021
I am done with the whole shift left storyline. When I started computer science in 1999 the professors stated that a lot of money and failure are spared with a good design. In 2000 the professors told us that starting early with the requirement elicitation would reduce costs. Early was defined as the moment preceding […]. The post The shift left fallacy appeared first on Xebia Blog.
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TechCrunch
AUGUST 26, 2021
Konrad Sanders. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Konrad Sanders is founder, CEO, and content strategist at The Creative Copywriter , a tech-specialist copywriting and content agency. Which terms come to mind when you think about SaaS? “Solutions,” “cutting-edge,” “scalable” and “innovative” are just a sample of the overused jargon lurking around every corner of the techverse, with SaaS marketers the world over seemingly singing from the same hymn boo
CTOvision
AUGUST 25, 2021
Read why Bill Zettler says that data is the future of technology and Palantir Technologies, Inc. is right in the middle of it on Seeking Alpha : Palantir (NYSE:PLTR) is one of the more controversial stocks on Seeking Alpha right now with 25 articles being published just in June. Much of the analysis is concentrated […].
TechBeacon
AUGUST 27, 2021
Digital transformation has taken hold in many enterprises, but many chief information security officers (CISOs) remain concerned about the security implications. The emergence of easy-to-use cloud-native technologies such as containers and Kubernetes made the shift almost unstoppable, and this year, the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated enterprises' digital journeys.
Let's Grow Leaders
AUGUST 27, 2021
The world has changed, and so has everything we know about becoming and remaining an effective leader particularly when it comes to keeping your top talent! The effective leaders of tomorrow will do one thing: keep their top talent. In this episode, Dov Baron lays out the strategies for not only keeping your top talent but how to have them become Fiercely Loyal.
Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin
As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 23, 2021
Chinese-backed and Africa-focused fintech company OPay raised $400 million in new financing led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Bloomberg reported Monday, valuing the company at $2 billion. The round, which marks the Fund’s first investment in an African startup, drew participation from existing investors like Sequoia Capital China, Redpoint China, Source Code Capital, and Softbank Ventures Asia.
CTOvision
AUGUST 25, 2021
55% of those surveyed report that data is often stale or out-of-date by the time it is consumed or analyzed. Lack of automation and data security challenges are root causes of the friction, and unless resolved, organizations will struggle to be successful with DataOps and cloud migration. The report also finds privacy, security, and governance challenges […].
DevOps.com
AUGUST 25, 2021
Delivering a seamless customer experience (CX) has become a top priority for companies undergoing digital transformation initiatives, as 85% of buyers are willing to pay more for a great customer experience. However, customers aren’t only willing to pay more for a positive experience–they’ll go elsewhere if their experience isn’t positive.
Let's Grow Leaders
AUGUST 23, 2021
Calculate ROI For a More Strategic Transition to Remote Teams. Your finance team did a bit of quick math to calculate ROI for making the transition to remote teams permanent based on real-estate savings and reduced communite times. But, you know it’s more complicated than that. So how do you take a more comprehensive approach to measuring the ROI?
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TechCrunch
AUGUST 26, 2021
When companies create digital payments-facing solutions for African countries outside Nigeria and South Africa, building around mobile money is key. It’s literally a no-brainer. The concept is ubiquitous in East Africa, but since mobile money is a telecom operators-led initiative, there are technical complexities in creating a unified infrastructure for businesses that need it.
CTOvision
AUGUST 25, 2021
Nvidia today announced the general availability of AI Enterprise, a software suite of tools and frameworks that enable companies running VMware vSphere to virtualize AI workloads on Nvidia-certified servers. Systems from Atea, Carahsoft, Computacenter, Insight Enterprises, SoftServe, Dell Technologies, and SVA System are now available, featuring a range of Nvidia GPUs including the A100, A30, […].
David Walsh
AUGUST 23, 2021
Hooks are essential for the functional component pattern in React. One frequent logic comparison with class components was comparing a previous prop value with a current prop value via lifecycle methods. So what’s an easy pattern for duplicating previous value comparisons in functional components? The useRef and useEffect hooks allow us manage that same functionality in functional components via a custom hook — usePrevious : import { useEffect, useRef } from 'react'; export function
Let's Grow Leaders
AUGUST 23, 2021
Use This Approach to Gain Respect and the Influence You Need. Of course, leadership is not about being liked. But it sucks to go to work every day when you know your team would rather be working for someone else. Plus, if your team doesn’t respect you, you’re not going to have the influence you need to make an impact. So, how do you gain respect, when your team’s just not there?
Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage
Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 26, 2021
Tuna is on a mission to “fine tune” the payments space in Latin America and has raised two seed rounds totaling $3 million, led by Canary and by Atlantico. Alex Tabor, Paul Ascher and Juan Pascual met each other on the engineering team of Peixe Urbano, a company Tabor co-founded and he referred to as a “Groupon for Brazil.” While there, they came up with a way to use A/B testing to create a way of dealing with payments in different markets.
CTOvision
AUGUST 25, 2021
A vast digital mirror world accessible through virtual reality is just around the corner if you believe the latest pronouncements coming out of Silicon Valley. This so-called metaverse has captured the tech zeitgeist and is attracting billions in investments. Last month, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg even announced plans to turn his trillion-dollar social network into […].
Aqua Security
AUGUST 24, 2021
A key element in building secure containerized applications is to ensure that the base image that you use is well-maintained and secure. A common piece of advice is to use the Docker Official Images for this purpose. However, our research reveals that you need to be careful when using these images, as some are no longer fully maintained.
DevOps.com
AUGUST 23, 2021
Even as technology continues to move into the cloud, a simultaneous shift is already underway in the opposite direction as computing increasingly moves to the edge. One key reason: by 2025, the number of connected devices in use is expected to exceed 56 billion units, according to IDC. Edge computing is not a successor to […]. The post Edge Computing: Tech’s Next Trillion-Dollar Opportunity appeared first on DevOps.com.
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TechCrunch
AUGUST 22, 2021
Servicing one’s car personally is a time-consuming, expensive and painstaking process. It’s a cycle that can lead to more expensive repairs and safety issues down the line, and no car owner likes that. Egypt and Dubai-based auto tech startup Odiggo is a platform addressing this problem. It allows car owners to get the help they need by finding car services and parts suppliers from providers around them.
CTOvision
AUGUST 25, 2021
Read Toin Villar take an elaborate look at The Metaverse and how it will operate on Make Use Of : Although some might have heard the term “metaverse” only recently, it’s been in use for a couple of decades. It was first used in the 1990s in a work of fiction, and it usually describes […].
Confluent
AUGUST 25, 2021
To effectively use ksqlDB, the streaming database for Apache Kafka®, you should of course be familiar with its features and syntax. However, a deeper understanding of what goes on underneath […].
Dzone - DevOps
AUGUST 21, 2021
DevOps has become the latest IT buzzword. Although DevOps has yet to be established, it is transforming the IT industry. The DevOps engineer career path offers a bright future. DevOps can be described as a practice or a philosophy that combines software development and infrastructure operations or at least reduces the difference between them. According to an article on gartner.com, by 2022, Gartner anticipates 75% of DevOps projects to fail to meet expectations, citing organizational lack of kno
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TechCrunch
AUGUST 27, 2021
Ilyes Kacher. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Ilyes Kacher is a data scientist at autoRetouch , an AI-powered platform for bulk-editing product images online. I’m a native French data scientist who cut his teeth as a research engineer in computer vision in Japan and later in my home country. Yet I’m writing from an unlikely computer vision hub: Stuttgart, Germany.
CTOvision
AUGUST 25, 2021
In an effort to help Ethereum scale, The Graph will be providing market-leading indexing and querying services to new developers building on the Optimistic Ethereum Layer 2. This represents another significant integration for The Graph (GRT) project, as it continues to add new chains to its hosted services. In anticipation of the public launch, developers building […].
DevOps.com
AUGUST 27, 2021
As teams develop software, testing for potential security risks and flaws is mission-critical, just as it has always been. Yet, cyberattackers continue to exploit code vulnerabilities as open source code remains the foundation for the majority of commercial applications across all industries. Security firms are churning out solutions at an aggressive rate, and both project […].
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