What Happens in your Store at Night?
Beyond B2B
MARCH 6, 2020
Have you ever wondered what happens at your grocery store at night?
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Daily Crunch: Vice Society hackers post 500GB of data stolen from LA school district to dark web
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ConocoPhillips enlists 3D printing for supply efficiencies on Alaska’s North Slope
CIO
DECEMBER 14, 2023
At yet when it is home to many of your company’s assets, as is the case for ConocoPhillips, sometimes the best IT strategy is to bring technologies closer to the edge. Temperatures frequently drop to negative 40 degrees Fahrenheit, and polar nights plunge the area into darkness for weeks at a time.
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Vollebak, which makes ‘clothes for the future,’ is closing its Series A round
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 23, 2021
TC: You started this company with your twin, Nick. So much of its genius seems to be in how your clothing is marketed. How’s your rocket going?” Your clothing is a reflection of the stuff that you think is going to happen to people over the next century, from space travel to sustainability.
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This company makes vodka out of thin air to save the planet
TechCrunch
APRIL 19, 2022
It’s a story as old as time: Pull CO 2 out of the air, wave your magic chemistry stick at it and bottle it as vodka and perfume. The climate catastrophe is something that’s happened for decades,” says Gregory Constantine, CEO and co-founder of Air Company. Well, that and martinis. ” says Constantine.
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Flink, the Berlin-based grocery delivery startup that operates its own ‘dark stores’, raises $52M
TechCrunch
MARCH 2, 2021
The on-demand grocery delivery industry in Europe (and beyond) continues to heat up amidst the pandemic, including a plethora of startups taking a vertical approach by operating their own delivery only — or “dark” — stores. Cristina Stenbeck from Kinnevik also joins the round in a personal capacity. unicorn goPuff.
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Daily Crunch: Samsung’s vice chairman receives presidential pardon for bribery conviction
TechCrunch
AUGUST 12, 2022
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How founders are reacting to Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse
TechCrunch
MARCH 10, 2023
Engineers at Polymath Robotics were working late Wednesday night on multiple projects when co-founder and CEO Stefan Seltz-Axmacher noticed chatter about Silicon Valley Bank in a YC founder WhatsApp group. Seltz-Axmacher, as well as hundreds of other founders, couldn’t have predicted what would transpire over the next 36 hours.
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CodeSOD: Leaky Logs
The Daily WTF
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
That piece of information sent Carla looking at the logging code to see what was happening. This code just adds that to the logging chain, ensuring that every log message gets stored in memory, and thus ensuring the application crashes if you leave it running for too long. addAppender(writerAppender); }. Advertisement].
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Egyptian furniture marketplace Homzmart lands $15M Series A for MENA expansion
TechCrunch
MAY 18, 2021
A typical shopping process would entail looking out for the best price and quality and asking for recommendations and checking offline stores, one after another. And I think it’s a pain all over the world when it comes to having a place that you can shop all your needs when it comes to home products.”
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Extra Crunch roundup: ‘Nightmare’ security breach, Poshmark’s IPO, crypto boom, more
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 18, 2020
“Selling a tenth of your company for north of a quarter-billion may be somewhat common among late-stage software startups with tremendous growth,” he says, but “don’t laugh — the round actually makes pretty OK sense.” ” The stories that follow are an overview of Extra Crunch from the last five days.
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5 Leadership Priorities During Times of Crises #BaltimoreRiots
Let's Grow Leaders
APRIL 29, 2015
What Baltimore needs next is strong leadership. In yesterday’s post, I asked the LGL community to offer their insights on what must happen next in Baltimore. I look forward to continue to collect your comments to take forward to Baltimore leadership to instigate change. Is it good for your brand?”
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Network Troubleshooting in Depth: A Complete Guide
Kentik
JANUARY 13, 2021
Despite your best efforts as a network engineer, network failures happen, and you have to fix them. Hopefully, you’ve implemented a network observability platform in advance, so you should be collecting a wealth of information about your network, making troubleshooting easier. First off, what exactly is network troubleshooting?
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Data architecture vs backend architecture
Erik Bernhardsson
JANUARY 9, 2019
What generally pushes things into the data platform is (generally) that a number of things are. Let’s say you need to import all transactions into your accounting system. You can then serialize the model and use that for predictions in your backend system. Reporting is a decent example. Why bother?
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Smart Hotel Trends for Next Decade: From Robots to Digital Detox
Altexsoft
DECEMBER 20, 2021
What was sci-fi only a few years ago is now around us. What does a smart hotel mean for a guest? Also, don’t be surprised to hear your favorite Spotify playlist gently playing from invisible speakers as you step into your room where the temperature and lights are set up to your liking. Source: App Store.
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Terraformation gets $30M to fight climate change with rapid reforesting
TechCrunch
JUNE 8, 2021
“You can plant any tree at the same time as your planting some other tree. .” “You can plant any tree at the same time as your planting some other tree. Every startup is trying to fix something but Terraformation is tackling the only problem that must matter to all of us: Climate change.
CIOs Deal With A Revolution In Grocery Stores
The Accidental Successful CIO
MAY 20, 2020
CIOs who work for grocery store chains are undergoing some significant changes in their lives. It used to be that being a CIO who worked in the grocery business allowed you to focus on such issues as the delivery of items to stores, current inventory levels, and the tracking of food shipments when a contamination was detected.
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52 Westward Ho!
The Daily WTF
SEPTEMBER 19, 2018
It was only happening with a subset of businesses, and only intermittently. It was only happening with a subset of businesses, and only intermittently. Those longitude and latitude values were stored in a database table of customer data with strict permissions in place. And just what did update() do?
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Data Lake Explained: A Comprehensive Guide to Its Architecture and Use Cases
Altexsoft
AUGUST 29, 2023
The term was coined by James Dixon , Back-End Java, Data, and Business Intelligence Engineer, and it started a new era in how organizations could store, manage, and analyze their data. This article explains what a data lake is, its architecture, and diverse use cases. What is a data lake? Who needs a data lake?
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Native Java Debugging on Alpine Linux: GDB, OpenJDK and the Mysterious Unknown Signal
OverOps
MAY 21, 2019
Not quite what I was expecting. What is this unknown signal? Porting a software project to a new operating system is always interesting and fun, and Alpine Linux with its musl libc brings a unique set of challenges. A while ago, I was tasked with porting OverOps’ native agent to Alpine Linux. Unknown signal. Coping with JVM Signals.
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The Polygraph journey
Lacework
JANUARY 19, 2023
But that strategy depends on companies knowing what to look for. What if a company could spot signs of the attack before it happens? In 1987, one of the world’s most popular puzzle book characters made his literary debut in England. The goal was to find the elusive Wally, who was later renamed Waldo in the United States.
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Agile From Afar: Staying Present When You Can’t Be Present
Gorilla Logic
MARCH 27, 2020
Three weeks ago, I had plans to fly to Costa Rica for meetings—today I am holed up in my home while stores are rationing toilet paper. For Gorilla Logic’s Agile Practice , that means discovering what works in their individual and collective landscapes and with their customers and teams. But, that isn’t what this blog post is about.
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You’re Never Too Big to Serve
Nathan Magnuson
AUGUST 17, 2015
My first job in high school was working at a small grocery store in town. In fact, sometimes when I’d see friends come into the store, I’d find something to do in the back so they didn’t catch me doing such a menial task. How did I get so mixed up about what was really important? Fast forward several years.
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9 Technology Habits That May (or May Not) Improve Your Life in 2019
Altexsoft
DECEMBER 19, 2018
Mind your data. Raise a hand if you use one password for all of your accounts. Also, you lose points for storing passwords in your Notes app or on right on the desktop. We don’t mean to embarrass you for neglecting your data safety. Spend your next Sunday afternoon clicking through those extra checkmarks.
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My #1 Productivity Tip (and 5 Others)
Nathan Magnuson
FEBRUARY 5, 2018
As you continue to grow as a leader, the invariable happens. Whether you’re promoted to a higher position or have your level of responsibilities expanded in your current role, there’s simply more to oversee. But with it can come an uncomfortable anxiety: now what? The same thing can happen with our schedule.
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Hotel Online Payments: How and Why to Transform Your Payment Process
Altexsoft
MARCH 24, 2022
It works and that’s what matters, right? It’s become difficult to view your payment functionality as simply an enabler of transactions. If you ignore the change, you will lose a valuable touchpoint with your guests. If you embrace the evolution, you will elevate your guests’ experience and drive your revenues.
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52 Writing Useful Performance Reviews: Assembling the data
Puppies, Flowers, Rainbows and Kittens
DECEMBER 4, 2021
However, there are some things you can do that will make the process less onerous, no matter what format or schedule your company has. The feedback we give is usually very transactional about what has just occurred. It is also vital to have a history of performance for a new manager if you move on from your role.
CIOs Start To Deal With The Problem Of Big Data Backup
The Accidental Successful CIO
AUGUST 14, 2013
CIOs everywhere are swimming in a sea of data and only now are they starting to get the tools that will allow them to make sense of what they have. What’s The Big Deal Here? The petabytes of content that may consist of video, audio, and images is too large to be moved across your company’s network let alone be backed up.
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Christmas in the World: Christmas Tour Ideas for an Unforgettable Vacation
Altexsoft
DECEMBER 21, 2022
We’re sure that whether you’re a leisure traveler looking for vacation ideas or a travel business expanding your holiday portfolio, you’ll find something noteworthy. But wintertime is an absolute treasure trove of attractions, so here’s what you can include in your Christmas tour. 2022 was… well, something else. Source: twitter.
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Benefits of feature toggles or feature flags
Apiumhub
JANUARY 6, 2020
It has been adopted by leading software companies around the world whose teams are now expected to quickly deliver software that is stable and bug-free to your user base. Feature toggles or feature flags allow you to toggle a feature on or off at any point of time, even after you have deployed your code. Hiding or disabling a feature.
Q&A with John Masserini, Chief Information Security Officer at Millicom
Sailpoint
MAY 7, 2019
Every day we see countless stories of customers who, because they own a cell phone and have access to Tigo’s Internet service, they can run a delivery service or an e-commerce store; and they’re the first person to have a job in four generations of their family. How did you get started with your career in information security?
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Infrastructure Engineer: Key Duties, Skills, and Background
Altexsoft
JULY 4, 2022
And what does this multi-faced IT god exactly do? What is an infrastructure engineer? (80, The competencies of on-premises and cloud infrastructure engineers wouldn’t differ that much: They both build and maintain systems and networks to run business software and store data. How is it possible? Cloud infrastructure engineer.
What customer centric corporate culture really means and why it is so important
Cloudera
APRIL 4, 2019
What people feel, think, and believe in is inherent on how they live their personal and work lives. Efforts to massively change it with something new seldom works as hoped because it normally does not get to the heart and soul of what motivates employees. What we actually do in life matters much more than what we say or believe.
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Changing How We Change Software with GeePaw Hill
Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts
MARCH 4, 2020
What if we could create a trade culture that allowed for change rather than relying on mechanical thinking? GeePaw, what’s your damn problem? And almost overnight, you could have a computer on first, every office desk in America and then in every home, in every car, in your phone, everywhere, everywhere. Episode 39.
Planning for Everything
A List Apart
APRIL 3, 2018
Every night at dinner, mom, dad, and two girls who still believed in Santa played a game. Tell three stories about your day, two true, one false, and see who can detect the fib. Goals and beliefs define what we notice and store. Focal questions include 1) what went well? 2) what went wrong? Figure 7-1.
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How Much Does It Cost To Create A Mobile Health App?
Xicom
FEBRUARY 1, 2021
But, starting as an indie developer, developing an app in your garage, putting it out there and expecting it to become successful is out of the ordinary. What Tomorrow Will Bring For Healthcare Apps? Approximately 2,59,000 healthcare apps were available in 2016 from 59000 mHealth app publishers in the majority of app stores.
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District Medical Group transforms its approach to data management
CIO
JULY 25, 2022
When Kevin Rhode took the role of CIO of Arizona-based District Medical Group (DMG) in May 2020, he faced his share of challenges. Not only was it the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, but the nonprofit integrated medical group practice had just purchased five primary care clinics that had to be integrated into the existing organization.
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How to Not Be a Blockbuster
Next Level Blog
SEPTEMBER 24, 2010
What a great case study in how an organization can go from king of the mountain to yesterday's news. When my family moved to the DC area in 1999, the neighborhood Blockbuster store was a regular destination for the four of us on Friday nights. Netflix is what prompted us to drop the VHS format and flip over to DVDs.
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Dynamic Pricing Explained: Use in Revenue Management and Pricing Optimization
Altexsoft
APRIL 24, 2019
How would you price tickets not only to cover expenses for each route but also to achieve a certain level of revenue to be able to grow and develop your business? Let’s discuss how businesses can improve their performance with dynamic pricing and what are the pitfalls. What you gain: Advantages of dynamic pricing.
The Power Industry Discovers The Importance Of CIOs (a chief information officer needs an IT strategy to create IT alignment)
The Accidental Successful CIO
JUNE 13, 2012
What’s Going On In The Power Industry? The folks who run the coal, natural gas, nuclear, and solar energy plants and who provide millions of consumers and businesses with electricity have been doing things the same way for what seems like forever. The days of the meter reader wandering through your neighborhood are going away.
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Observability: The 5-Year Retrospective
Honeycomb
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
At the time, it’s what was needed to steer conversations away from silly rabbit holes about data types and back to what matters: how we understand our systems. Observability” is starting to be used to mean anything to anyone, just a label you slap on the side of your product to fit in with the zeitgeist. That’s observability!
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Intelligence
The Programmer's Paradox
JULY 26, 2015
I'll start with a long series of statements, then I'll do my best to explain what I think is both right and wrong about them: Life forms are dynamic, driven internally. A cell is a good example, in that it stores up energy and then applies that in a variety of different ways, such as splitting, signalling other cells or repairing itself.
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40 See Yourself in Cybersecurity: How 3 Experts Transitioned into InfoSec | Security Insights Podcast, Episode 27
Ivanti
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
Want to work in cybersecurity, but not sure what you need? How to transition your non-InfoSec “soft skills” into a cybersecurity career [19:26]. Meet your hosts, Chris Goettl and Ashley Stryker. I'm your host, Ashley Stryker. Additional resources: Ashley’s Social Engineering Book List. Join the conversation!
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Drill or hole? What are they buying – and what are you selling?
Strategy Driven
OCTOBER 15, 2012
A guy walks into a hardware store and says to the clerk, “I need a drill.”. If you’re in retail and your customer comes in and says, “I need a drill,” or “I want a drill,” or “Where are the drills?” If you ask, “What kind of drill are you looking for?” This is your opportunity to become an advisor rather than a traffic director.
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