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

The Startup Magazine

Despite its decades-old roots, SQL is undergoing a renaissance, buoyed by SQL tool advancements in a variety of data-related tools. What Is SQL? SQL is a standardized programming language specifically designed for managing and interacting with relational databases, where information is stored in interrelated tables.

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Framework Benchmarks Round 7

TechEmpower

We also have some SQL Server tests in our i7 environment. Prior to finishing Round 7, that SSD failed, so Round 7 is run with ramdisk-backed databases (excluding SQL Server). As expected, reads are unaffected since the tests are designed to allow the database engine to fit the entire data set into memory. large instances.

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50 Places You Can Learn to Code (for Free) Online

YoungUpstarts

MIT OpenCourseWare : Find more than a hundred online course materials for electrical engineering and computer science in MIT’s OpenCourseWare collection. ArsDigita University : In ArsDigita’s curriculum, you’ll find excellent courses for programming design, computer science, and even artificial intelligence.

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Advice On How To Make Your First Analytics Hire

View from Seed

As the former Head of Product at Blue Apron where I also built and led our Analytics & Data Science team (I know enough SQL to be dangerous), I have an intuitive sense for the “when” and “what” of this role. Analytics is about designing, reporting, and leveraging operating metrics to aid strategic and functional decision-making.

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Do You Have The Data Agility Your Business Needs?

YoungUpstarts

One way to meet a variety of stakeholders’ needs and embrace the latest technology is to plan a multi-cloud environment by design, creating a modern data architecture that is capable of serving the broadest possible range of users.

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ProductCamp Austin 2017 — a few lessons

Austin Startup

David brought this idea home by showing a video of a case study from Nordstrom Innovation Lab while the creative team designed a sunglass app. Twyla’s Design Sprint Journey Douglas Ferguson , Founder and President, Voltage Control Main take-away — Don’t sweat a failure or a failed win. We should be focused on satisfying the customer.

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Acquire New Users by Adding Growth Hacking to your Marketing Strategy

ConversionXL

Analytical capability: Possessing Excel or SQL skills to extract data and gather insights on experiments to make better decisions. Like Slack, Canva launched with two things in its favor: it was different from anything around at the time (a design platform for non-designers), and it had a freemium business model. No short order!

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