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The evolution of Information Technology towards hyper-convergence

The Startup Magazine

For these reasons and more, companies realized that certain workloads and data sets were better suited for their data centers , while others required a “web” scale architecture that would reach a global audience without friction or resistance. Intel-AMD x86 / X64 architectures (Second Platform consolidated).

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Why the Gig Economy is Coming for Architects, Engineers

ReadWriteStart

The project to project nature of the gig economy marries perfectly with that of engineering and architecture. Freelancing has already cleared the hurdles in tech — let’s unpack why now is the time for freelancing to reshape architecture and engineering. Why globalization works. Companies can bid on more projects.

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18 Top A/B Testing Tools Reviewed by CRO Experts

ConversionXL

To help you with that, we’ve assembled a list of the most popular a/b testing tools and corresponding reviews from A/B testing experts to help you in your decision making process. You’ll also be able to add dynamic variations and code blocks that support Objective-C, Swift, Java, HTML5, Xamarin, and React Native. Conductrics.

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Does Fintech Disruption Break The Investment Banking Model?

YoungUpstarts

To dig deeper, let’s first review the influence of technology on the core components. Legacy architecture in financial services, by contrast, is comprised of unique centralized databases, requiring the need and added cost of intermediaries to verify transactions between them (e.g. However each component will change dramatically.

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

If engineers want more time to spend making their old code more pretty, they are invited to do so on the weekends. The idea is that once we move to the new system (or coding standard, or API, or.) The current code is spaghetti, but the new code will be elegant. Its become "legacy code" and part of the problem.

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A Guide to Reputation Management: Build an Audience of Superfans

ConversionXL

79% of consumers trust an online review as much as they would a recommendation from a friend. And 94% of shoppers state that just one bad review has convinced them not to buy from a company. You can’t avoid negative reviews, opinions, and comments altogether. Notice that the reviews are about Rand, not about SparkToro.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Disruptors

Hearpreneur

It's difficult not to include Steve Jobs at the top of that list; he established a brand in Apple that altered global habits and elevated the importance of design in our daily lives. He has also been an outspoken advocate for the power of collaboration and open-source software. #8- Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, and Reid Hoffman. 19- Bitcoin.