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Fundrise CTO: New SQL Tools Lead to ‘Wonderfully Seamless Solutions’

The Startup Magazine

For Kenny Shin , the chief technology officer of direct-to-consumer alternative asset management company Fundrise, some of the most exciting technological advancements in recent years have been in structured query language tools. What Is SQL?

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Oppose HB 1192 – The “Software Tax”

VC Adventure

I grew up on a family potato farm in SE Idaho and I have a PhD in Engineering from Stanford (also known as The Farm). I have been in the technology industry for 30+ years. I serve as adjunct faculty at the University of Denver, where I head up a graduate program division in healthcare information technology within University College.

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A framework for categorizing and comparing cloud platforms

bijoor.me

Thanks to Alex Popsecu’s NoSql blog , found a well articulated thesis by Johan den Haan , CTO at Mendix. 1: Software Defined Datacenter Users : Infrastructure Engineers. into Application Containers Examples : Google App Engine , Heroku Buildpacks , CloudFoundry Buildpacks. 4: Model-Driven PaaS Users : Business Engineers.

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Stories of Opportunity from the First Round Capital Key Hire Wire – COO, VP of Business Development, Online Marketing Director

This is going to be BIG.

Correction: Last week's CTO position at Modcloth is actually a San Francisco opportunity, not Pittsburgh. Our team includes 12 top-notch engineers from NVidia, Microsoft, Stanford, Berkeley and Cornell. We have a deep technology stack. Thousands of our users create interesting content every day.

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The cloud landscape described, categorized, and compared

www.theenterprisearchitect.eu

Google App Engine? Layer 4: empowering the business engineer. But basically any big IT player has an offering, like  Microsoft Windows Azure ,  Google Compute Engine , and  IBM SmartCloud , to name a few. There is middleware that focuses on facilitating compute, like application servers, process and rule engines, etc.

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Just Make It Faster

Feld Thoughts

He then dissects a simple SQL query ( DELETE FROM some_table WHERE id = 1234; ) and gives several quick reasons why performance could vary widely when this query is executed. It reminded me of a client situation from my first company, Feld Technologies. One of our software engineers wrote all the code.

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Min.us Wins Babson Student Business Of The Year Award

Campus Entrepreneurship

His work was crucial in building Microsoft SQL Server 2000. Shortly after, he served as Director of Technology at Progress Software. Later he served as CTO at AppZero. He is currently serving as principal engineer at Amazon. . * Carl Hu has over a decade of experience in IT. For more, read: Min.us

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