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Here’s an Interactive Map That Shows How Climate Change Will Affect Your Town in 60 Years

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If we do nothing to curb greenhouse gas emissions, the weather in New York City will feel like Alabama and Los Angeles will be as hot as the tip of the Baja Peninsula. Continue reading Here’s an Interactive Map That Shows How Climate Change Will Affect Your Town in 60 Years→

HQ2 fight continues as New York City and Seattle officials hold anti-Amazon summit

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The heated debate around Amazon’s recently announced Long Island City “HQ2” is showing no signs of cooling down. On Monday morning, the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) hosted a briefing in which labor officials, economic development analysts, Amazon employees and elected New York State and City representatives further underlined concerns around the HQ2 […] Continue reading HQ2 fight continues as New York City and Seattle officials hold anti-Amazon summit→

NYC Invests to Become Hub for Cybersecurity Professionals

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As part an effort to turn New York City into a hub around which cybersecurity startups will be founded, the New York City Economic Development Corp. (NYCEDC) has allied itself with SOSA, a startup incubator, to create a physical location in lower Manh… Continue reading NYC Invests to Become Hub for Cybersecurity Professionals→

Through luck and grit, Datadog is fusing the culture of developers and operations

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There used to be two cultures in the enterprise around technology. On one side were software engineers, who built out the applications needed by employees to conduct the business of their companies. On the other side were sysadmins, who were territorially protective of their hardware domain — the servers, switches, and storage boxes needed to […] Continue reading Through luck and grit, Datadog is fusing the culture of developers and operations→

Full-Metal Packet is hosting the future of cloud infrastructure

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Cloud computing has been a revolution for the data center. Rather than investing in expensive hardware and managing a data center directly, companies are relying on public cloud providers like AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure to provide general-purpose and high-availability compute, storage, and networking resources in a highly flexible way. Yet as workflows have […] Continue reading Full-Metal Packet is hosting the future of cloud infrastructure→

Timescale is leading the next wave of NYC database tech

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Data is the lifeblood of the modern corporation, yet acquiring, storing, processing, and analyzing it remains a remarkably challenging and expensive project. Every time data infrastructure finally catches up with the streams of information pouring in, another source and more demanding decision-making makes the existing technology obsolete. Few cities rely on data the same way […] Continue reading Timescale is leading the next wave of NYC database tech→