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A year on from Russia’s invasion, Ukrainian startups show astounding resilience

TechCrunch

After 2 months in an underground shelter they have also used their technology to register evidence of war crimes and provide the ability to immerse oneself into Ukraine to experience it, it’s now developing applications for psychological trauma treatment, VR medical trainin, combat surveillance systems and making the de-mining process safer.

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Solving The Von Neumann Bottleneck With FPGAs

Hu's Place - HitachiVantara

Today I will be covering the advances that we have made in the area of hybrid-core architecture and its application to Network Attached Storage. In their core design and functionality, FPGAs are similar to ASICs (Application Specific Integrated Circuits) in that they are programmed to perform specific tasks at high speeds.

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Book Review: Designing Data-Intensive Applications

Henrik Warne

What a great book Designing Data-Intensive Applications is! It covers databases and distributed systems in clear language, great detail and without any fluff. I particularly like that the author Martin Kleppmann knows the theory very well, but also seems to have a lot of practical experience of the types of systems he describes.

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Bringing an AI Product to Market

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

For example, an AI product that helps a clothing manufacturer understand which materials to buy will become stale as fashions change. CTRs are easy to measure, but if you build a system designed to optimize these kinds of metrics, you might find that the system sacrifices actual usefulness and user satisfaction.

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New US CIO appointments, March 2022

CIO

Most recently, he served as CIO at Borden Dairy, and prior to Borden he was VP of Enterprise Applications at Snyder’s-Lance. Altar’d State is a rapidly growing multi-brand women’s fashion retailer with 122 Altar’d State stores, 23 Arula boutiques, and five Vow’d boutiques in 38 U.S. Joergen Scheuer-Larsen joins Altar’d State as CIO.

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Business Analysis Tools: Reviewing Confluence, IBM DOORS, Lucidchart, Gliffy, MS Visio, and more

Altexsoft

For now, there is no end-to-end system to perform all BA tasks in one place. IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next: old-fashioned but reputable software for enterprises. The interface is old-fashioned and non-intuitive. The application has a limited set of screens for mobile app wireframing. Limitations.

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Journey to Event Driven – Part 3: The Affinity Between Events, Streams and Serverless

Confluent

Serverless functions provide a synergistic relationship with event streaming applications; they behave differently with respect to streaming workloads but are both event driven. The key to event-first systems design is understanding that a series of events captures behavior. FaaS for stream processing.