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Why empowering ‘knowledge workers’ is critical to business success

Scott Castle — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 11:49:39 +0000

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... Read more »

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

Ryan Daws — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 10:40:40 +0000

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: 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... Read more »

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Thomas Dohmke will be GitHub’s new CEO

Ryan Daws — Wed, 03 Nov 2021 18:21:17 +0000

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... Read more »

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

Ryan Daws — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 15:09:35 +0000

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... Read more »

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

Wayne Carter — Fri, 03 Jun 2016 10:22:52 +0000

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.

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