Tag: Business and emerging tech
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Web3: What is it and what it means for freelancers
Posted on June 1, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length long
It is being said that Web3 is the future of the internet which promises a decentralised, immutable version of the global web -- free of intermediaries and equipped with the same cryptographic verifiability as cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). But what does that really mean? By Stefania Volpe.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure business-and-emerging-tech how-to leadership-and-career
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Stacks vs. Solana vs. Polygon: How do they compare from a developer perspective?
Posted on May 31, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length long
What's the best blockchain for building Web3 applications? It depends on what you want to prioritize across the blockchain trilemma. The trilemma argues that blockchains can only provide two of the three properties of decentralization, security, and scalability, and that no matter where you build, you'll be making a tradeoff. By Joe Bender.
Tags business-and-emerging-tech cloud-and-infrastructure how-to miscellaneous software-engineering
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DuckDuckGo vs. Google: An in-depth search engine comparison
Posted on May 8, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length long
Which search engine is better at finding the information you want, fast? We compare the features of DuckDuckGo and Google. By Sam Hollingsworth.
Tags business-and-emerging-tech how-to miscellaneous data-and-analytics leadership-and-career
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Automation isn't the biggest threat to US factory jobs
Posted on May 4, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
German factories have more robots than their US counterparts - so why are Americans four times more likely to leave their manufacturing jobs? By Anna Waldman-Brown.
Tags business-and-emerging-tech leadership-and-career miscellaneous
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Applying product thinking to slack's internal compute platform
Posted on March 16, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length long
When creating a platform, it's critical to have clearly defined customers and products that will benefit from it rather than building in a vacuum. By Javier Turegano Director, Software Engineering @slack.
Tags product-and-design frontend-and-mobile leadership-and-career business-and-emerging-tech
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Bringing agile to quantum hardware
Posted on March 15, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
We want to build the best, highest-performance quantum computers, all while making processors available to clients so that they can experiment with quantum and find potential benefits to their organizations. Achieving this goal requires a new way of thinking about hardware development methodology. By Markus Brink.
Tags leadership-and-career cloud-and-infrastructure business-and-emerging-tech
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How to become a blockchain developer
Posted on March 14, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
With an average salary of $154k per year and steady job growth, now is the ideal time to learn blockchain development. To create and improve blockchain technologies, blockchain developers exercise various skills, including computer networking, cryptography, algorithms, and data structures. By Prajix.
Tags leadership-and-career product-and-design business-and-emerging-tech how-to
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Build at the Edge with OpenFaaS and GitHub actions
Posted on March 10, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Learn how GitHub Actions and OpenFaaS can be used for simple functions at the edge of your network. If you're running Kubernetes in production then you'll be aware of how difficult it can be to operate. Not only do you need to learn its concepts and API, but if you extend it in any way, then you'll be needing to maintain all your custom changes over time. As the author of several applications and operators targeting Kubernetes, I have to dedicate much of my time to maintenance and migrations. By Alex Ellis.
Tags architecture-and-apis frontend-and-mobile product-and-design business-and-emerging-tech
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Study finds consumers prefer digital banking experiences, but are concerned about security
Posted on March 9, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
A survey from Entrust details preferences of the modern banking customer, with consumers indicating a need for online banking capabilities, secure cards with chips and enhanced payment security. By Fintech News Desk.
Tags leadership-and-career miscellaneous how-to business-and-emerging-tech
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Why mutability is essential for real-time data analytics
Posted on February 24, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Successful data-driven companies like Uber, Facebook and Amazon rely on real-time analytics. Personalizing customer experiences for e-commerce, managing fleets and supply chains, and automating internal operations all require instant insights on the freshest data. By Dhruba Borthakur.
Tags data-and-analytics leadership-and-career business-and-emerging-tech
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Everything you will ever need to know about the IoT ecosystem in one blog post
Posted on February 5, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length long
Speaking about any ecosystem, we speak about a complex system of interconnected components and the environment in which they exist and with which they interact. We can use the term IoT ecosystem instead of IoT system because IoT devices have no value without the environment they exist in. By @sumatosoft.
Tags business-and-emerging-tech miscellaneous leadership-and-career cloud-and-infrastructure
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Securing IoT with Quantum Cryptography
Posted on January 25, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length short
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a growing technology that continues to gain traction year after year. On the one hand, it can be helpful, but on the other hand, it carries many security threats. These threats include scalable remote attacks, side-channel attacks on cryptography, DDoS attacks, data breaches, malware, and others. By Roland Atoui.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure leadership-and-career security-and-privacy business-and-emerging-tech