Three great articles lead off our day. First, Seth Godin prompts us to raise our standards and to make sure we have a boss that wants the same. In business, complacency can mean death. Fred Wilson at AVC talks about “dumbing things down”. More appropriately, if you really want to win you need to make… Read More Geek Reading April 23, 2015
A Smaller Piece of a Bigger Pie starts our day with a good post on cap-table dilution. Most people don’t understand how this works, so it is definitely worth a look. Otherwise, some security news should be a focus for today. Auth0 talks about vulnerabilities in JSON Web Token libraries. The Next Web reports on… Read More Geek Reading April 2, 2015
As always, the weekend brings us a lot of information. First, Brad Feld talks about CEOs having anxiety attacks. Anxiety, stress and depression are rampant in startups and fairly common in our industry. Brad Feld is one of the few that talks through all of this. Threatpost lets us know that all major browsers fell… Read More Geek Reading March 23, 2015
It was a much slower day, as can be seen by the lead story. Reuters reported on some research that cockroaches have personalities. This is interesting from the “seeing how life evolves” perspective. Google released the Android 5.1 Lollipop SDK, but this is not a huge release like some previous ones. Whenever Avinash Kaushik writes,… Read More Geek Reading March 11, 2015
Today we have Google announcing a Chinese language developer channel on YouTube. This is significant because that is a huge audience and highly mobile. The second top story comes from The Guardian about a new way to boil water, an iron rod. Very cool stuff regardless of how expensive it might be right now. Javalobby… Read More Geek Reading February 18, 2015
Not a large number of articles today, but always quality. First, Brad Feld leads off with an interesting idea of a 40% rule for startups, talking about the mix of growth and profit. MongoDB announced MongoDB 3.0, which is important because there are some really good features in this release. It sounds like they are… Read More Geek Reading February 4, 2015
Yes, it is already September, but I am only a day late for the NoSQL installment of the August job trends. In this update, I am splitting the graphs into two as I include more products. So, for the NoSQL job trends, we will be looking at Cassandra, Redis, Couchbase , SimpleDB, CouchDB, MongoDB, HBase, Riak, Neo4j and MarkLogic. I am including Neo4j for two… Read More NoSQL Job Trends – August 2014
So, it is a few days late but we finally have the NoSQL installment of the February job trends. For the NoSQL job trends, we continue to focus on Cassandra, Redis, Couchbase , SimpleDB, CouchDB, MongoDB, HBase, and Riak. As was stated previously, Voldemort has been replaced by Couchbase and we are looking at other options to include as… Read More NoSQL Job Trends – February 2014
Today is the NoSQL installment of the August job trends. For the NoSQL job trends, I am focusing on Cassandra, Redis, Couchbase , SimpleDB, CouchDB, MongoDB, HBase, and Riak. As was stated previously, Voldemort has been replaced by Couchbase. Hadoop is still the clear leader in demand but it may be included in the next update given how close the others… Read More NoSQL Job Trends – August 2013
Today is the NoSQL installment of the February job trends. For the NoSQL job trends, I am continuing to focus on Cassandra, Redis, Voldemort, SimpleDB, CouchDB, MongoDB, HBase, and Riak. As was stated previously, Hadoop continues to be the clear leader in demand and still flattens the trends of other solutions. However, the gap is steadily shrinking and… Read More NoSQL Job Trends – February 2013
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