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How To Build A Highly Responsive Location Service For Restaurant Delivery
Key insight: Designing a driver geo-location tracking service in one month requires critical architectural design trade-offs that balances speed of delivery and performance. Adding an audit trail service to record driver’s locations increases security and offers operations efficiencies, but introduces server load that needs to be effectively managed. Challenge At the height of the pandemic…
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Debug consistently: Easy way to instantly detect and correct rare inconsistencies in distributed systems
Key insight: Designing an integrity tool for transaction failures across a distributed system reduces the time complexity of resolving issues because the tool is designed for consistency. When built, the challenge is in deciding which errors qualify for incorporation into the integrity tool. Challenge As discussed in a previous case study, we built multiple startups…
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How to Efficiently Create Products Across Different Tech Startups: Reusable Components and Strategic Design
Key Insight: Effective systems design can generate substantial value by leveraging reusable components, enabling venture studios to accelerate product development across multiple startups. Challenge Venture studios working on multiple joint ventures face the challenge of reducing development time while maintaining high-quality outcomes. A key strategy involves creating modular, reusable components that can be adapted across…
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How to run, monitor, and enable 100 concurrent $2000 Micro-investments in Emerging Countries in the African Region
Key highlight: Effective data management integrated with internal collaboration tools can identify and measure operational and data bottlenecks while precisely identifying where businesses can focus their resources and energy to scale their operations. Introduction Occular.co has two primary business functions. First, its fractional CFO services business is Occular.co which services North America-based small to medium…
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How to enable DotA 2 coaches to earn without coaching
I’m excited to share the areas where I am practicing my newly acquired project management skills. If this interests you a lot, you should definitely subscribe to the waitlist so we can keep you updated! First off, I want to further introduce myself more carefully so that you can understand my personal goals and direction.…
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How to build trust in honest communications
Today, in Tech4Humans, we talked a lot about communication, conversations, honesty, and truth. I believe these are central topics that enable humans to collaborate with each other, thus giving clarity in the directions that technology enables us to accelerate towards. Today I talk about the highlights of my reflections from this evening’s discussion. Conversational implicature…
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How to secure a WordPress site using WordFence and Cloudflare
Key highlight: Investigative forensic abilities and broad theoretical knowledge on computing and security are critical in securing online resources such as websites. Strategic, methodical progress in the investigation works best with clearly articulated, hypothesized security flaws and small calculated experiments to verify progress. Introduction Recently, my primary blog, https://sapalo.dev had been attacked by malware. This…