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Are Microservices to Ecosystems as Core Competencies were to Conglomerates?

The Agile Manager

The thinking was that by owning the supply chain from raw materials to retail outlets, a firm had direct control over its entire cost structure, making it better able to squeeze efficiencies out of it and being less susceptible to supply shocks. To the HR platform company, there are a lot of good reasons to do this.

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Should You Use ClickHouse as a Main Operational Database?

Percona

However, ClickHouse is super efficient for timeseries and provides “sharding” out of the box (scalability beyond one node). Although such databases can be very efficient with counts and averages, some queries will be slow or simply non existent. Inserts are efficient for bulk inserts only. created_utc?? ?

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Structural Evolutions in Data

O'Reilly

” Web3 has similarly progressed through “basic blockchain and cryptocurrency tokens” to “decentralized finance” to “NFTs as loyalty cards.” ” There’s as much Keras, TensorFlow, and Torch today as there was Hadoop back in 2010-2012. Those algorithms packaged with scikit-learn?