Month: January 2023

Interviews with 24+ people detail Elon Musk’s destructive Twitter leadership: brutal layoffs, relaunching Blue, losing money, and breaking the company’s culture (The Verge)

The Verge: Interviews with 24+ people detail Elon Musk’s destructive Twitter leadership: brutal layoffs, relaunching Blue, losing money, and breaking the company’s culture  —  Twitter’s staff spent years trying to protect the social media site against impulsive billionaires who wanted to use the reach …

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Google reportedly working on AirTag-like location trackers

Leaks suggest Google is working on its own first-party tracking tags to use alongside its in-development Finder Network. | Illustration: The Verge Google is reportedly working on a location tracking tag to compete with the likes of Apple’s AirTags and Tile trackers, according to developer (and reliable leaker) Kuba Wojciechowski. Wojciechowski discovered references that indicate

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Crypto prices are recovering in January so far: bitcoin is up 26%, including 22% in the past week, to over $20,000, ether is up 29%, and meme coins are rising (Reuters)

Reuters: Crypto prices are recovering in January so far: bitcoin is up 26%, including 22% in the past week, to over $20,000, ether is up 29%, and meme coins are rising  —  Bitcoin is on the charge in 2023, dragging the crypto market off the floor and electrifying bonk, a new meme coin.

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How to become a multicloud developer

For many organizations today, a multicloud strategy is the way to go. Enterprises are using multiple cloud services from different vendors to build infrastructures that support computing, storage, development, and other areas of IT. Industry research indicates the trend toward the multicloud use will continue for some time. A report by Grand View Research predicts that

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Compactor: A hidden engine of database performance

The demand for high volumes of data has increased the need for databases that can handle both data ingestion and querying with the lowest possible latency (aka high performance). To meet this demand, database designs have shifted to prioritize minimal work during ingestion and querying, with other tasks being performed in the background as post-ingestion

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Today’s industry clouds are different

Here’s an observation I’ve made many times in my career: If your business is plateauing, it’s time to go vertical. In other words, when you run out of potential market runway, look for horizontally focused products (cross-industries) such as databases, integration brokers, or development systems. Develop those products to fill a niche, then announce that

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Q&A with ex-Facebook CSO and Stanford Internet Observatory professor Alex Stamos on overestimating mis- and disinformation’s impact, Brazil, Gamergate, and more (Peter Kafka/Vox)

Peter Kafka / Vox: Q&A with ex-Facebook CSO and Stanford Internet Observatory professor Alex Stamos on overestimating mis- and disinformation’s impact, Brazil, Gamergate, and more  —  “Resist trying to make things better”: A conversation with internet security expert Alex Stamos.

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