Why empowering ‘knowledge workers’ is critical to business success

Cultivating a new generation of such knowledge workers is one of the great challenges of the modern era. Today’s knowledge workers are more global, work across more industries and are not always even in the office. Each of them has a different workflow depending on their job, with their own specific ways to leverage their knowledge. 

But what are 'knowledge workers' and why is empowering them with the right tools, training and culture critical to drive business...

19 January 2022 | Databases

Ruby on Rails creator: 7.0 ‘is the version of Rails I’ve been longing for’

David Heinemeier Hansson, the creator of Ruby on Rails, says 7.0 is the version he’s “been longing for”.

Version 7.0 was released last Wednesday and brings with it several major upgrades:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpWFrUwAN88

Hansson says 7.0 is “the one where all the cards are on the table. No more tricks up our sleeves. The culmination of years of progress on five different fronts at once.”

Among the back-end upgrades is the ability for...

20 December 2021 | Databases

Thomas Dohmke will be GitHub’s new CEO

Thomas Dohmke is taking over from Nat Friedman to become GitHub’s new CEO.

Dohmke co-founded HockeyApp – a service to help distribute beta versions of apps and get analytics and crash reports – in 2011, to solve some of his paint points as a developer.

He took this passion for solving pain points to GitHub in 2018 after leading Microsoft’s acquisition of GitHub alongside Friedman.

In a blog post, Dohmke wrote:

“Leading the home for all...

3 November 2021 | Databases

Q&A: Nicolas Hourcard, QuestDB: The advantages of a time-series database

Developers need higher performance databases to unlock the full potential of exciting but ever more data-hungry applications.

IDC forecasts that the global datasphere will grow from 45 zettabytes in 2019 to 175 zettabytes by 2025. Furthermore, the analysts expect that around 30 percent of the world’s data will need real-time processing.

"Today, more than five billion consumers interact with data every day — by 2025, that number will be six billion, or 75 percent of...

3 December 2020 | Databases

A guide on how to choose a database for your mobile apps

(c)iStock.com/jirsak To require an internet connection for mobile applications is to live in the past. If apps rely on a connection, odds are high that the experience will be sluggish and unpredictable. To avoid reliance on the network, providers of databases and cloud services have started to add synchronization and offline capabilities to their mobile offerings. Solutions like Couchbase’s Couchbase Mobile, Microsoft’s Azure Mobile Services, Amazon’s Cognito, and Google’s Firebase...

3 June 2016 | Cloud