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How startups can shake up their first idea and still crush the market

TechCrunch

Metapa was in the Akamai space and as the markets cratered in 2001 for funding infrastructure projects, Scott Yara (the company’s founder) and team bought a small company called Didera and turned it into Greenplum, the first petabyte scale data warehouse built on top of open-source technology,” Sim told TechCrunch.

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Attending Oracle’s CodeOne? Here Are 15 Sessions Everyone Will Be Talking About

OverOps

He’s going to be talking about code quality in open source projects and identifying problems in the code. Hiding in Plain Sight: Real Problems Lurking in Open Source Projects [DEV6066]*. Any Advanced Technology Is Indistinguishable from Magic [DEV5689]. Java Related – “Direct from the source”.

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Software Testing and Agile

Coveros

Take a moment to think about where you were in February of 2001—at the inception of the Agile Manifesto. Some were not born yet, others mid-flight in our IT careers, and still others moving toward our mature technology years. Is the art and science of software testing keeping up with the pace of change in technology?

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Enough About Millennials. Are You Ready For Generation Z?

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Born between 1996 to 2001, Gen Z is the demographic cohort succeeding millennials (born between 1981-1995). GitHub: GitHub is an online project-hosting service site where developers share their open-source projects. However, studies suggest that Generation Z (aka Gen Z) will make up 24% of the workforce in 2020. .

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Technology Trends for 2024

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

While we like to talk about how fast technology moves, internet time, and all that, in reality the last major new idea in software architecture was microservices, which dates to roughly 2015. We’re skeptical about things like job displacement, at least in technology. 2023 was one of those rare disruptive years.

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AI Development: Benefits of AI in Business

iTexico

Since the halfway mark of the 20th century, the presence and rise of computer technology has birthed the concept of mechanical intelligence, born from machines. HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey , robotic uprising and independence in R.U.R. , - Alan Turing, (Computing Machinery and Intelligence, 1950). But can they “think?”

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Object Pascal – 26 Things You Didn’t Know About

The Crazy Programmer

Anders Hejlsberg , the architect of Turbo Pascal and Delphi, went on to architect C# and TypeScript, receiving the 2001 Dr. Dobb’s Excellence in Programming Award. HeidiSQL is a very popular, open-source, database management client written in Delphi. That technology was used when Microsoft acquired Skype for $8.5

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