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Blockchain is more than memes, wild price fluctuations and my old pal Elon’s tweets

Austin Startup

providing the ability to show without a doubt that data sent from point A was the same data that was received at point B, with all the requisite metadata wrapped around that transaction to prove it. One key here is to write this metadata directly to the blockchain, removing as many intermediary systems as possible.

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Your cloud data needs a reality check: our investment in Cyera

Cracking the Code

One of the benefits of the cloud is that it gives development teams more agility and flexibility, but with increased flexibility comes the downside of a loss of control and visibility. That said, some large sectors like financial services and healthcare only started to migrate their core workloads and data to the cloud more recently.

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Blood, sweat, and tears: How we got from 0 to 500K downloads on a budget

The Next Web

Localization of the AppStore metadata (name, description, keywords, screenshot text) yielded the best instant boost in downloads, while localization of the app’s UI makes for a better user experience and increases engagement. A tip from our dev team: don’t hard-code strings in your app. What a splurge! You get the picture.

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