AWS Senior Architect Discusses How to Optimize Costs by Preventing Excessive IOPS

Businesses are always looking for ways to optimise storage to enhance the performance of their workloads and applications that are very demanding. Data striping is a technique where data is divided into several stripes which are written on different storage volumes, and it helps to maximize logical capacity as well as improve performance. This method … Read more

Deploying Airflow on Kubernetes Using ArgoCD and Terraform: Modern GitOps approach

Introduction Apache Airflow™ is a widely used platform for organizing data manipulation workflows in directed acyclic graphs (DAGs), which can be used to transform data in Data Warehouses or prepare data for machine learning use. GitOps is a modern approach to continuous delivery and operational management that leverages Git as the single source of truth … Read more

How to Get the Most Out of Your University Life as a Software Engineer

The transition from high school to university can be daunting. You might feel overwhelmed by the sheer number of opportunities and responsibilities. But fear not—I’m here to share some tried-and-true strategies to help you make the most of your college experience. My name is Adib, and I graduated with two Bachelor’s degrees, two minors, completed … Read more

Egypt’s Cartona raises $8.1M even as investors pull back from B2B e-commerce in Africa

When Egyptian B2B e-commerce platform Cartona last raised money in 2022, global and local investors were eager to invest in African startups solving the supply chain and operational challenges for retailers and suppliers in the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) industry. Two years on, investors aren’t as enthused anymore as the business models of such startups, … Read more