Transforming Information Into Knowledge
Transforming Information Into Knowledge
Is crowdsourced funding supposed to be democratic? Should decentralized economies have equitable governance? In an ideal world, the answers may be yes, but in reality democracy is rare even in the crypto world. Instead, the current state of affairs for token economies is oligarchy. The […]
Beware of blockchain projects that brag about the size of their social media following. In the blink of an eye they might disappear. That’s what happened this week when Twitter removed fake followers from its statistics. Specifically, they removed “locked accounts” that were not bots […]
The blockchain and cryptocurrency world provides quantifiable proof that open source can both help and hurt a project’s likelihood of financial success, according to Early Evidence on the Role of Disclosure in the Unregulated Crypto Market, which quantifies the success of 776 initial coin offerings (ICOs) […]
Once your token or cryptocurrency has launched, your next goal is to get listed on one or more exchanges. But which exchanges? If your reflexive answer is “as many as possible”, think again. Hugo Benedetti of Boston College has data that indicates cross-listing tokens on multiple exchanges can […]
Information about token launches is not regulated, but the professionalization of the ICO process — also know as token generation events (TGEs) — has led to several practices that are predictive of success. Early Evidence on the Role of Disclosure in the Unregulated Crypto Market […]
Almost half of hiring managers that recruit people with open source skills, almost half (48%) say their company decided to financially support or contribute open source projects to help with recruitment.
Data pipelines and messaging are now the top two uses of Kafka, followed by microservices/event processing and stream processing.
Almost nine out of ten 50+ year old respondents to a Dice survey are worried about their age will be a barrier to getting a new job.
That being said, it is notable that Yarn users are much more likely to care about managing packages across multiple environments.
Have you ever read a survey report that claims that a certain percentage of companies use open source? We think those findings are almost always misleading. Practically every company in the world is using an open source component in their software stack. A better approach […]
AWS is widely used by cloud-native practitioners. We expect that as serverless expands and deepens that enterprises will continue to utilize multiple clouds, with AWS usually being part of the mix.
Among those already using microservices in production, 59 percent said each microservice added increased operational challenges like data management.