Life after logistics
You’ll have to forgive me, as this is going to be one of those in-between Actuator weeks. I finally took a couple of days off last week after working through the last few weekends, and today I’ve been rewarded with a throbbing migraine. Isn’t the human body magical? Either way,
Read MoreAndreessen Horowitz creates ‘Perennial’ evergreen fund amid market slowdown
Andreessen Horowitz, the storied venture firm known for being an early investor in some of the biggest tech companies including Airbnb, Coinbase and GitHub, has created a new fund to continue growing its business despite the slowdown in traditional VC funding. The evergreen fund is titled a16z Perennial Venture Capital
Read MoreTikTok’s COO is leaving the company
TikTok’s longstanding COO V Pappas just announced plans to leave their executive role at the company. Pappas, who previously held positions as the global head of creative insights and audience development at YouTube, has been with TikTok for nearly five years. According to LinkedIn, Pappas first joined TikTok parent company
Read MoreCanadian infosec pros wish they’d spent more time on security when migrating to cloud: Survey
Despite storing more than half their data to the cloud, Canadian organizations only allocate 34 per cent of their cybersecurity budgets to cloud security, according to a new survey from Telus. In fact, 99 per cent of respondents admitted that if they could go back and migrate to the cloud
Read MoreAWS weighs in on the potential of AI to fight wildfires
Canada is currently facing its worst wildfire season in recent memory, with blazes burning in nearly all provinces and territories. Last week, we saw the air quality index in Ontario swell to unprecedented levels, blanketing skies in the province and the north-east region of the U.S. with a yellowish haze
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Read MoreMore Than Just Stubs
Creating your stateful sandbox with WireMockPhoto by Markus Spiske on UnsplashWiremock is a great tool to test your application against a real web service with predefined stubs. It allows us to write integration tests that do not stop at a rest client mock but do network communication, simulating different responses with limited effort.But
Read MoreDebugging Frontend Applications With React Profiler
Photo by Joshua Aragon on UnsplashUsually, writing console.log or custom code to trace the root of bugs in React applications can be sufficient. However, when one works with a more extensive unfamiliar codebase, even tiny bugs can become challenging to tackle.In this article, I would like to share my experience working with
Read MoreRobots learn to perform chores by watching YouTube
Learning has been a holy grail in robotics for decades. If these systems are going to thrive in unpredictable environments, they’ll need to do more than just respond to programming — they’ll need to adapt and learn. What’s become clear the more I read and speak with experts is true
Read MoreBuilding Better dapps With Infura’s Polygon WebSocket
See how using WebSockets on Polygon provides a level of user experience on dapps that traditional HTTP API requests just can’t matchWeb3 dapps are often slow and clunky. But WebSockets on Ethereum L2s can help solve this problem by bringing real-time, bidirectional, client-server communications to the world of web3. Third-party offerings
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