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FlexID gets Algorand funding to offer self-sovereign IDs to Africa’s unbanked

TechCrunch

million in 2016. And that’s what the Zimbabwean government sought to accomplish when it introduced a financial inclusion scheme from 2016 to 2020. Verification is done on-chain through Algorand, which bills itself as a solution to the blockchain trilemma of security, scalability and decentralization. million in 2020.

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Microsoft acquires Fungible, a maker of data processing units, to bolster Azure

TechCrunch

” “Fungible’s technologies help enable high-performance, scalable, disaggregated, scaled-out data center infrastructure with reliability and security,” Girish Bablani, the CVP of Microsoft’s Azure Core division, wrote in a blog post.

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Delivering better business outcomes for CIOs

CIO

Enterprise cloud computing, while enabling fast deployment and scalability, has also introduced rising operational costs and additional challenges in managing diverse cloud services. Market shifts, mergers, geopolitical events, and the pandemic have further driven IT to deploy point solutions, increasing complexity.

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CAIOs are stepping out from the CIO’s shadow

CIO

In 2016, Andrew Ng, one of the best-known researchers in the field of AI,wroteabout the benefits of establishing a chief AI officer role in companies, as well as the characteristics and responsibilities such a role should have. In many companies, they overlap with the functions of the CIO, the CDO, the CTO, and even the CISO.

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History of MongoDB

The Crazy Programmer

All three of them experienced relational database scalability issues when developing web applications at their company. Both realized they were solving horizontal scalability problems again. Kevin Ryan, Dwight Merriman, and Eliot Horowitz were the DoubleClick founders, and also MongoDB developers. MongoDB Inc.

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AccelByte, a backend services platform for game developers, raises $60M led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2

TechCrunch

AccelByte CEO Junaili Lie , who previously led the backend engineering team at Epic Games, founded this startup in 2016. Many of those creators have started building live service games and they simultaneously realize how difficult it is to build a scalable backend platform from scratch.

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The Cake is NOT a Lie: 5 Java Frameworks to Support Your Microservices Architecture

OverOps

Editor’s Note: This post was originally published on May 5, 2016. The microservices trend is becoming impossible to ignore,” I wrote in 2016. They promise to bring greater flexibility and easier scalability. Since 2016, many additional open source projects have been started to support microservices built in JEE.