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From Connection to Data Perfection
By: Matej Gregorčič
Tags: Clubbing, Music Business, Monthly, Data Analytics, Business Development

From Connection to Data Perfection

Vacations? Check. Focus? Check. Achievements? Double check. August has been good to us, so we’re proud to talk about a lot of cool new stuff.

🔬 What we focused on:

transforming data into intelligence

The right connections count, especially when talking about connecting data points. In August, that meant delivering insights to TV, media and apps. Talk about an all-around ensemble! 😊

🥋 What we accomplished:

#1 Launched a TV show with Clubbing TV

It’s called “Chart3 by Viberate” and it features three charts with the hottest Electronic acts. We’re super happy and proud to work with Clubbing TV, as quality music TV programs are not easy to come by these days.

Episodes air every first Friday of the month at 4.15 PM (CEST). Watch the first episode here:

#2 Revamped the Venue and Event Pages

Live events are slowly returning, and we’re celebrating the fact with a sleek new look for our Venue and Event Pages.

#3 Delivered a mobile app for Sea Dance Festival

Montenegro’s most popular summer party destination got their own mobile app, providing visitors with a more carefree experience.

The party’s obviously over by now, but you can still check out the app and download it for next year’s edition.

#4 Investigated the current landscape of streaming and airplay

You’ve probably suspected that Spotify listeners prefer “younger” artists. But do you know the differences in numbers and revenues? We crunched the figures.

Read the report on our findings here:

💡 What we learned:

We’ve said it before, we’ll say it again: Knowledge is the most powerful thing you can have. Piecing business intelligence together to forge your own path is a much better motivator than following other people’s ideas. The industry’s evolving into something better, and we’re here for it.

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I kind of like this world
Tags: Motivation, Life, Perception, Hardship

In middle school one day, my homeroom class played this icebreaker wherein we wrote facts about ourselves on sheets of paper threw them around the room, picked one up, and decided who wrote what. What did I write on mine?

I kind of like this world.

The thing is, nobody could quite figure out who’s paper mine was. It was such a weird thing to write during years of social clichés and academic endeavors, but I still wrote it. And I was being honest.

I do kind of like this world. I like how much bigger it is than me. I like how it can be strange and mundane simultaneously. I love how it embodies the epitome of originality: things always change. I like how it’s a whirlwind of confusing matter clashing into dependable fact.

I like how it’s mine. My world is different from your world. I like my world.

When I’m doing the most arduous tasks, I like how my world can shift on its axis and mess-up interpretation. I like how my world is so keen on reminding me that everything I chose to feel is because I have chosen to feel. I like how the world trips me, makes me fall down, so that I can learn to work with gravity to stand up again.

I like how it presents the most beautiful things hidden behind the most intricate puzzles.

I like the world because it’s the most brutally honest force in my life. It’s criticism. It’s a blunt truth. It’s overwhelming. And I have to learn how to manage that.

I like this world because it can be mean. I like how it takes things away and gives something back . I like how it teaches you things in the most unconventional, unfavorable ways. I like how it nudges you until you’re standing in mid-air waiting to freefall and then decides to give you a parachute only to have it ripped to pieces when it is released. I like how it gives you control and also the ability to believe you don’t have it.

Photo by Adnanta Raharja on Unsplash

I love how it’s all in my head.

Because everything is.

I’m writing this because in times of drought you must conjure up the oasis. In times of hardship, I must have a reason to look at the wonderful and not everything wrong about the wonderful. In life, to live, you have to give yourself reason to.

For me, I just kind of like this world. And that’s enough. That is enough fuel to keep on trekking despite the rough landscape and back-aching topography. I can live with it. I can live with it.
Expectations and Perceptions
By: Abhinav Gaurav
Tags: Perception, Human Psychology, Expectations, Serendipity, Thoughts

One of the most underrated skills, missed by all of us, never talked about and never taught to us is “How to set and manage Expectations?”.

This is the one thing which I have personally felt influenced a lot of things in my life ranging from switching jobs and domains to my relationships to shifting cities. Consider “ripple effects” at play.

At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter how much skillful, resourceful, and knowledgeable you are, only the “involuntary signals emitted by us” paves the way ahead for our life and career in general. And those “involuntary signals” are completely in our control with practice and authenticity.

Everyone has their unique and distinct way of doing things, and that unique and distinct methodology are the involuntary signals which creates our perception among the people around us and which ultimately leads to the expectations with them on which they somehow feel that we are accountable. Strange enough right, but the fact is the fact.

To understand it, think about you annual KRA performance evaluations and your quarterly OKRs. Your reporting person, think something about you based on his/her interaction with you and set up the expectations for you and then you are accountable for meeting them and depending on how you met those expectations, their perception of you keeps evolving and that’s how the society works.

Is it right? No.

Is it wrong? No.

It is just the bittersweet way of the world. Because of this we move forward in our life. And it’s not always the same experience for everyone.

People are built differently and that influences their first impressions. And first impressions are usually the very bad first step for perception building. First impressions should always be taken with a grain of salt as they are very misleading.

Some people takes time to develop and bloom in various aspects of life.

Introverts and Extraverts and Ambiverts.

No one is good and no one is bad. It’s just the way they are built and evolved over time.

It’s just about the infinite cycle of Perceptions and Expections.
Why Every Professional Woman Needs a Signature Look
By: Moxbox Style
Tags: Perception, Signature Look, Fashion, Personal Style, Professional Women

What does every style icon have in common?

Think Anna Wintour, Frida Kahlo, Sophia Coppola, Iris Apfel, Michelle Obama, Dita Von Teese, Grace Coddington.

Michelle Obama’s Signature: Bold Sophistication

They have a strong signature look.

One that emphasises their personality and expresses their aesthetic ideals.

Having a Signature Look isn’t about being ‘fashionable’ — it’s about having clarity and confidence.

Here are the three reasons why every professional woman needs her own signature look.

It will do wonders for your personal brand

What you wear is the most immediate and strongest visual representation of your personal brand. And like with all things personal brand, you need authenticity and consistency.

Having a well developed signature look tells the world that you know yourself: you know your body, you know your tastes, you know your purchasing values and you know what suits you. This confidence and authenticity enhances what you are trying to express, making it all the more powerful.

2. It is the ultimate wardrobe efficiency hack

Once you have a defined signature look that you really love, you can focus on optimising it and creating a versatile mix-and-match system with different colours, prints, textures and silhouettes that bring it to life.

This means you can go into auto-pilot during hectic mornings and when packing for business trips.

3. It is the perfect base to experiment and evolve from

Having a signature look doesn’t mean having a really bold statement look. Nor does it mean wearing the same exact outfit over and over again. (Honestly, if I read another article about Steve Jobs and his turtleneck…🙄)

If your style personality is experimental and expressive, then your signature look will likely be a loose formula that you implement with different items and selective trends for greater variety.

If your style personality is more understated and minimalist, you might create your signature look around a specific set of items that you wear a lot with minor variations.

The trick is in learning what levers to pull (colour, textures, proportions and styling details) to keep your signature look fresh and authentic.
Wondering
By: Jim Van Den Bos
Tags: Recognizing, Poetry, Perception, Amsterdam

I wonder how other people live

I wonder what moments they stop

I wonder what demands their awareness

I wonder if it’s ever me

I see how people are

I see how people act

I see how people behave

I see how people pretend in front of me

I witness fake familiarity

I witness fake curiosity

I witness fake anonymity

I witness fairness in front of me

I recognize the safety of fake popularity

I recognize, so much

My tongue disguises too much

the plain faces tell me too much

I’ve never been taught too much

so where do I stand.

and where do you

no certainty tells me

what I am now supposed to do now

I wonder and worry

I see but I don’t know

I witness you being

I recognize we’re the same

So now what

I want to scream I know

I want to scream I see

I want to scream I think

I try not to scream

I’m scared for judgement

I’m scared seeing that judgement

I’m scared to be judged about seeing

I’m scared to be judged

stuck in my position

stuck in between thoughts

stuck between knowing

stuck where I am

I think too much

I feel too much

I perceive too much

I wonder how other people live
The design psychology
By: Aravind Kumar M
Tags: Spacing, Elements, Design, Perception

Have you ever jumped screaming for help while seeing a rope in the night thinking it was a snake?

Our brains try to organize and interpret the data which we put into context and the perception can vary from one to another based on the environment and our experiences.

Perception is the process that allows us to make a meaning based on our senses

To understand how people perceive things around In the 1920s a group of german physiologists developed a set of theories and called it the gestalt principle.

the gestalt principles help us to understand the spacing and elements how they are perceived

The Gestalt Principle

Closure proximity similarity figure-ground common fate focal point continuity

Closure

When we place a complex arrangement of visuals our brain tends to look for a single recognizable pattern.

Look at the image above what did you see? Scattered lines or a tiger

Proximity

The proximity principle states that things that are close together appear to be more related than the further space one

Prakash Singh via Getty images

similarity

Based on similarity we tend to group them and think they have a similar function

Looking upon the above image did your brain try to group them based the similar color dress?

Figure-Ground

Our brain perceive object based on which we see as foreground and background

Which one did you saw first? is it bottle of wines or a fork

Common Fate

When Multiple objects share the same trend or direction they are perceived as related or belong to the same group

Credit: Phillipe Desmazes via pri.org

Do you see cars moving in similar directions are more related while compared to the others

Focal point

Things which is different from the rest of the group visually will get Focused

Credit: Movie Valimai

Did Ajith kumar grasped your eyes?

continuity

The elements that are placed in continuous patterns are perceived by our brain as objects uninterrupted.

via google images

Did you percived those dots as lines

To understand how spacing works and how we perceive I have explored creating more than 100’s of frames in paper and Figma using simple shapes

Overall shot of my exploration

I started creating compositions on paper to understand how spacing works and our brains perceive and I shared a few below which I thought were interesting

1. Oink Oink

My composition

The curious Pig

Principle: Closure

The Rainfall

My composition

Drop it

Principle: similarity and proximity

The Monkey Gossip

My composition

I see two people gossiping under a tree while I switch my foreground I see a mandrill monkey “ The Lion King Monkey”.

Principle: Figure-Ground

The Dancing Joy

My composition

Principle: Focal Point

Track and Ladder

My composition

Principle: similarity, common fate, Figure Ground
Finding Connection in a Morning Ritual
By: Kp Hartman
Tags: Coffee, Relationships, Love, Morning Routines, Lifestyle

In the days leading up to this, Jem had told me about Inconvenient Coffee, the adventures he had gone on with peers over the summer, the longing he had for more mornings like this. A stoic man, it was rare for him to express such emotion. I promised we would go.

Jem had fallen asleep on the couch the night before. A studious man. A man with too many priorities. His textbook and papers littered the ground around him, probably tossed there in a fit of sleep. I almost didn’t wake him — contemplated letting him sleep just a little bit longer. Exam week was approaching. He looked peaceful. Sleep was a rare commodity in the lives we led. We took it where we could get it.

I woke him anyway.

Not in the gentle way that Jem wakes somebody. Jem will wake you tenderly. He’ll make the coffee, place it by your face, press a hand firmly into your back while whisper-hissing your name. He doesn’t want to startle you. He’s considerate that way.

I’m a little more assertive in the way I wake someone. Coffee made, placed by their face, I lay my own body over theirs, mouth pressed close to their ear, and pull them from their sleep.

‘Time to go,’ I announced, maybe louder than I needed to given my proximity to his ear. ‘The sun waits for no one.’

He groaned and tried to roll onto his back, stopped by the weight of my own body.

‘No,’ he moaned, pushed against my face.

I got up and brought the coffee a little closer and pressed his back firmly, attempting a less graceful version of Jem’s method of waking someone.

He groaned again, took a deep breath, and sat up. Weary circles danced beneath his eyes. Pressing them with one hand, he took the coffee with the other.

‘We go,’ he said. ‘Just let me brush my teeth.’

The couch and Jem’s body creaked and groaned as he sat up, allowing the snaps, crackles, and pops that came in the night to release from his neck, spine, and knees as he stood.

‘Say nothing,’ he mumbled.

‘Nothing,’ I said, grinning.

It wasn’t so funny. My own body sounds like that in the morning. The kind of sounds that lead me to wonder if the cartoon Rice Krispie elves take up residency in my body each night and need ejecting each morning with the snap, crackle, and pop of joints.

Five minutes later, teeth brushed, packs ready, and helmets on, we clipped in and began the ride to the docks. With each stroke and pull of his peddles, Jem woke a little more. He was a beast and a beauty on a bike. A fierce competitor, held in confidence for his love of the sport. He made each ride, each terrible winding competition of speed and endurance, seem graceful, elegant, easy. A ballerina for the cycling world.

We rode on in steady silence until we reached the docks, leaving our bikes leaning against the railing, and taking a seat with our feet hanging over the edge. Waiting, watching, absorbing the early morning sky. He pulled the thermos and two cups from his saddle packs. We drank slowly.

There was nothing to do. There was nowhere to be.
The morning routine that made me a mom boss today.
By: Lovlina Fernandes
Tags: Coaching, Morning Routines, Lifestyle Blog

I was never a part of this am club willingly, but now it drives me to some real productivity.

From a child to a teenager I was forced to wake up early without a choice given. My folks kept drilling this one thing in my head that ”early to bed, early to rise keeps the man healthy, wealthy wise”. It definitely didn’t make sense then to me cause I love to sleep. The day I finished college, I slept till late noon, I was a night person, kept awake the whole night. And I never found success then.

Now all of that makes complete meaning. The day I started with a choice to wake up early, I have seemed productive, I get more creative with my work-related ideas. I get a lot of time to finish up my work. I have seen a different change in me. Of course, I won’t deny that these last few days in Quarantine I have been sleeping late and waking up at odd hours, but I don’t like this at all. So I m going back to my routine from today.

Now as a Mum you tend to have few sleepless nights and that’s absolutely understood. Nevertheless to build a routine for my child and myself I implement the following routine and this routine has kept me sane.

Waking up at 5 am is the best habit I have got into. No matter the day this morning 5 am routine helps me conquer my world. Have you read Robin Sharma’s book *the 5 am club*? It completely justifies why 5 am is the best time to start your day. After waking up I never touch my phone immediately. I walk up to the window first and say thank you for a new morning and then to the mirror telling myself how beautiful I am. How happy I am and how successful I am. This builds my confidence and somehow peps my mood. I meditate on soft music and keep saying the prayer H’oponopono and I visualize that I’m on stage celebrating my success. Yes visualization really helps to keep the thoughts at bay. I still don’t check the messages. Freshening up, and then wearing some nice clothes on boosts my confidence more and I feel like I am the boss babe in action. Straight to make some breakfast and attend to my daughter, make her thank God too for a beautiful day is an everyday routine without fail and we sit together to have breakfast. After that, she sits with her activities and I sit first with my gratitude journal and manifestations. Simple manifestations yet super powerful ones like

I am a Happy, successful and a millionaire mum”

Then I start checking my messages, and I reply to everyone and immediately sit to plan my day. This helps me to coordinate with my clients well and I maintain a good productive relationship with my work.

That’s all about my morning routine and doing all this I have seen bites of success and still going strong. I have managed to keep a very healthy mind and a lifestyle doing the same and as a person I have evolved. At first, it wasn’t easy but practicing it daily and has now helped me be more productive and I can see myself soon celebrating milestones of my success.

Try this and let me know if it helps you. On that note wishing you all the peace and harmony.
Wake up at 6:00 am. Or at least before everyone else.
By: Matic Uzmah
Tags: Morning Routines, Marcus Aurelius

Waking up before others, including family, friends and colleagues, is a powerful routine. Basically, I don’t touch my phone for the first 30–60 minutes of every day. Period. The reason for this was that the first few moments I wanted to either walk, read or just be present without scrolling through social media and emails.

After a few weeks I started checking my phone while I was still in bed and nothing really changed (no angry customers, emails, texts and so on…) until I started reading emails where people complained about something, about the business not going as planned, customer complaint, partner cancelled the deal or even just what Trump tweeted while I was asleep :)

At that point, I saw the real value in being able to wake up earlier. You can’t let other people set the tone for the day! Period.

The Stoic Morning Routine by Marcus Aurelius: “When you first rise in the morning tell yourself: I will encounter busybodies, ingrates, egomaniacs, liars, the jealous and cranks.”

Morning routines will set the tone for the day.
How Successful Millionaires Build their Morning Routines? Follow these 8 Steps
By: Ahmad Aloun
Tags: Millionaire Mindset, Morning Rituals, 5amclub, Morning Routines, Best Practices

Mornings are the best time for many people to do productive work. Some people enjoy working at night or after midnight — which can’t be called morning work. When I say morning person, it refers to the people starting their day before sunrise — from 4 to 6 am in most countries. If you are a morning person, then this article is for you.

Most successful millionaires, including the author of “The 5 Am Club,” Robin Sharma who discussed in his book the three important spaces that need to be taken care of in the morning to have a great day ahead.

People have a morning routine that they follow each morning. These routines keep us relaxed while enjoying our morning with the activities and time set for each. Imagine just waking up each day not knowing what to do. Most of the time, our mind is not yet at its full peak, and we can’t make decisions at this stage. Therefore a morning routine is a great way to lift off that pressure and keep us relaxed.

Some people enjoy going for a walk or run; others enjoy writing, some prefer reading, many go to work out before breakfast, and so on. These routines have many advantages as they keep us from procrastinating and wasting time. I shared my morning routine in this article if you care to check it out.
Tim Ferriss doesn’t wake at 5 am, and you don’t have to either
By: Liz Smith
Tags: Self Improvement, Productivity, Stress Management, Life Lessons, Morning Routines

Tim Ferriss doesn’t wake at 5 am, and you don’t have to either

Photo by Kinga Cichewicz on Unsplash

A solid morning routine has long been the backbone of self-care practice. A morning routine is said to boost happiness, increase productivity, and reduce stress.

The way our morning begins sets the mood for the whole day. Think back to a rushed morning. Maybe you spilled coffee on your top after yelling at a loved one, then hunted high and low for the car keys only to then find yourself stuck in traffic. A handful of morning misadventures can take its toll on your mindset and productivity for the rest of the day.

Start wrong, and the rest of the day will follow suit.

Contrary to popular advice, you don’t need to wake at 5 am to start the day right. Tim Ferriss (popular American entrepreneur, investor, author, and lifestyle guru) has written before that he often wakes at 9 or 10 am but does follow a morning routine.

By following these five simple rituals each morning, you can set yourself up for better days ahead.

1. Breathe

Before getting out of bed, take the time to breathe, wake up early to avoid being rushed. Dedicate time to your well-being. Breathe. Inhale. Exhale. Bring your mind to the center and be grounded.

2. Stay off your Phone

Starting your day by checking social media or emails can immediately put you into a state of stress. Avoid the temptation of picking up your phone first thing in the morning.

3. Drink Water

Drink a large glass of filtered water in the morning to re-hydrate yourself and help yourself feel more awake and energized.

4. Meditation & Movement

Allow 10 minutes in the morning to sit in a quiet spot to meditate by self or guided meditation. Morning meditation can help center yourself for the rest of the day and has many proven mental health benefits. Stretch your body. Move your body. Morning movement can wake up the body and improve circulation.

5. Gratitude

With a pen, write down five things you are grateful for this day. “Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance” — Eckhart Tolle.
Using Rook On A K3s Cluster
By: Luc Juggery
Tags: Kubernetes, DevOps, Rook, Storage

Setup of the k3s cluster

For the purpose of this article, we will use local VM provisioned on VirtualBox using Vagrant. The Vagrantfile below defines:

the configuration of the VM that will be created: the Linux distribution used, its IP address (192.168.33.10), the amount of RAM (2G), the addition of a disk with a capacity of 10G

setting up K3s and recovering the associated kubeconfig file

🔥 The important thing is to attach an unformatted disk (raw device) to the VM that will be created. In the following we will tell Rook to use this disk to persist the data of a Ceph cluster.

# -*- mode: ruby -*-

# vi: set ft=ruby :



Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|

config.vm.box = "hashicorp/bionic64"

config.vm.network "private_network", ip: "192.168.33.10"

config.vm.disk :disk, size: "10GB", name: "osd"

config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vb|

vb.memory = "2048"

end

config.vm.provision "shell", inline: <<-SHELL

curl https://get.k3s.io | sh

sudo cp /etc/rancher/k3s/k3s.yaml /vagrant/kubeconfig.k3s

sed -i "s/127.0.0.1/192.168.33.10/" /vagrant/kubeconfig.k3s

SHELL

end

🔥 the config.vm.disk instruction is an experimental feature of Vagrant, it is necessary to launch the creation of this VM with the environment variable VAGRANT_EXPERIMENTAL:

$ VAGRANT_EXPERIMENTAL="disks" vagrant up

Once the VMs is created and the cluster is setup, we can configure our local kubectl binary using the kubeconfig.k3s file that has been created in the local folder:

$ export KUBECONFIG=$PWD/kubeconfig.k3s

We can then communicate with the cluster and list its nodes (only one in this example):

$ kubectl get nodes

NAME STATUS ROLES AGE VERSION

vagrant Ready control-plane,master 31s v1.20.4+k3s1

At the same time, we make sure the 10G disk has been attached to the VM. This disk should appear as the device /dev/sdb as illustrated with the following command:
NYU Sends Student His Belongings Broken, Wet, and Misshapen
By: El Yurman
Tags: Students, Storage, Housing, Covid 19, NYU

As an RA, he had the privilege of direct communication with his building leadership team, but Rosenwinkel said he feels bad for everyone in residential life in similar situations who don’t have that level of access. He emphasized that he didn’t want his position to reflect too poorly on building staff, and that he was more upset that he “was never notified and that the boxes arrived the way that they did.”

The condition of his stuff upset Rosenwinkel enough that he waited several days to even tell anyone about his situation. On Monday April 27, he tweeted out pictures of his ruined stuff, tagging NYU’s Twitter in hope of a response.

He also called NYU Housing and was told “that most students would not receive a tracking number or shipping updates (contrary to the email sent by the housing office),” and that “insurance claims have to go through UPS and not NYU” — a followup call to the Office of Residential Life and Housing Services confirmed this. Local was told that in order to file an insurance claim, students would have to find the package number on each box and follow up with UPS directly. The next day, April 28, Rosenwinkel was contacted by his building staff, who offered via email to assist with the insurance claim process.

Rosenwinkel did not appear surprised by his circumstances, however. “I get that they had a short period of time to turn the dorms over,” he said. “But to remove someone’s belongings, provide no information and not make the insurance information accessible feels…well, typical.”

On April 30, junior Alex Him received a notification from UPS informing him that his package had been damaged, and all “merchandise has been discarded.” This was one of sixteen emails he received that morning, each correlating with its own package — all but one of the shipments arrived safely to his home. Him had previously received a shipping email on April 23 which included tracking information, so he had been expecting his belongings.

Him reached out to NYU Housing, who responded via email that they were “very sorry to hear” he had “experienced any difficulty with the condition of [his] belongings upon receipt of your boxes,” and advised him, like they did Rosenwinkel, to file an insurance claim through UPS. They explained that while normally UPS recommends the shipper initiate any claim, this is because typically, the shipper owned the items prior to shipment. Because Him owned his own items, “the University cannot initiate a claim on [his] behalf.”

Him said that he has no idea which of his belongings got destroyed, due to the rushed nature of his packing. “I’m very lucky that my most expensive stuff made it safe,” he said to Local via direct message. “It’s probably hella clothes and a lamp or something that they lost.”

Update: April 30, 2020

This article has been updated to include another student’s experience with UPS discarding their belongings.
Migrate Dropbox to Google Drive
By: Jayden Bartram
Tags: Storage, Cloud Migration, Cloud, Google Drive, Cloud Storage

Moving from Dropbox to Google Drive can be frustrating, slow and a costly process — both time and money. Most applications and providers obviously don’t like people leaving, and make it incredibly infuriating when you try and simply get out, especially Dropbox.

Dropbox was the first and is fairly common with individuals and has some presence in workplaces. Recently, Dropbox increased their prices and gave their individuals an extra TB of data. 2TB for most individuals is excessive which made the value of the prince increase invalid. Due to this, it is seen that a lot of users are moving off Dropbox and onto Google Drive who offers a more competitive package, G Suite, that resides in an ecosystem that most feel familiar with.

So you want to transfer your files and make the move from Dropbox to Google Drive? What is the best way to make the leap…

Option 1. — Movebot

A screenshot of Movebot

Movebot is a third party, however compared to others out there it is affordable, easy and it just works — you can find a blog demonstrating how to migrate from Dropbox to Google Drive here. It’s responsive and keeps you updated during your migration. Some files didn’t make it across? Movebot will let you know what didn’t make the jump.

Movebot offers pay as you go pricing and there are no monthly subscriptions. It’s affordable and you only pay for what you use, there is no need to talk to sales or install any software. It is fully cloud, sign up and go. Once your migration is done, that is it. No ongoing payments or emails filling up your inbox.

Additionally if you are looking to migrate your business teams and users Movebot can easily help with automatic user and drive mapping, as well handle any errors that occur during the migration.

See below how to migrate to either Google Drive or Dropbox and save your time and frustrations to do something you’ rather be doing.

Take the leap now and move your files to Google Drive from Dropbox.
The Cost of Wasted Storage Capacity
By: Jennifer Brown
Tags: Storage, Storage Companies, Cloud, Storage Solutions, Cloud Storage

Background

According to a large, very well-known and widely respected (but very difficult to quote in blog posts) analyst organization, data center storage utilization has decreased sharply over the last eight years; from a high of just under 70%, data storage utilization rates have now fallen to under 60%. For those keeping score at home, that’s a heck of a drop in average storage utilization. And more to the point, that represents a lot of storage that isn’t earning its keep.

Another well-known and widely respected analyst (IDC), has publicly stated that in Q4 of 2018, enterprise storage vendors shipped 92.5 exabytes for approximately $14.5B. Some quick math (mostly eliminating an enormous number of zeros), tells us a few things:

The Q4 2018 price of enterprise storage, averaged over all types of storage and all

supplier/customer combinations, was a little under $0.16/GB

supplier/customer combinations, was a little under $0.16/GB The result of the reported decreased utilization, just for storage sold in Q4 2018, is an

additional exabyte of wasted storage

additional exabyte of wasted storage All of which boils down to an incremental a cool $160M in wasted spend. In Q4 2018

alone

$160M per quarter here, $160M per quarter there, pretty soon someone’s going to want to change something. And that not-aforementioned consulting firm is telling their clients to “Stop Wasting Money,” pointing out that moving utilization back to the 70% range can be worth tens-

to-hundreds of thousands of dollars.

At Zadara, we couldn’t agree more.

In fact, the only issue we have with that recommendation is that it lacks ambition.

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New advanced DeNet Storage!
By: Denis Shelestov
Tags: Farming, Storage, Testnet, Cloud, Crypto

Already today, an updated version of our exclusive storage is available for our private community! Denet is working on creating demand from users, implementing products forming an attractive demand for file storages.

What has become available in update?

Improved work stability

Now the application works much more stable — fixed unexpected interface bugs and departures.

Improved interface

Improved some elements, including the display of uploading and downloading files — now you can monitor the current status (preparation, node searching, uploading, downloading) and uploading/downloading history.

Loading files with unlimited size

In the last version there was a load limit — you could only upload up to 500 megabytes. Now this restriction is removed and you can upload files with any size.

Updated Proof of Storage algorithm

Commission for sending Proofs to Smart Contract in Etherumer’s network has become less. Fixed minor errors in which Mainer sometimes can’t send proof.

Stable RAM consumption

In the previous version uploading and downloading files has used more RAM than necessary. Now RAM is almost not used at all, it means that you can even run on the old computer.

Improving security during authorization

We have connected two-factor authentication. Now, when you enter additionally, you need to enter the secret code that appears in a separate window. This is done so that we are confident that this is exactly you are trying to log in.

How to install?
The last step before MAINNET! Get DFILE for DeNet Storage test!
By: Denis Shelestov
Tags: Denet, Storage, Testnet, Invest, Crypto

We’ve improved our storage and we invite every member of our private community to test it. You will understand where the data on the nodes comes from, and how the ecosystem works in principle. It will be very useful for every potential miner. For each stage of testing, you will be issued a certain number of DFILE tokens.

Bug bounty rules:

Register in DeNet Storage and upload 1 file — 6.2 DFILE

Fill in the checklist — 6.2 DFILE

Upload 20 files — 6.2 DFILE

Upload and download at least 50 MB daily during the week — 6.2 DFILE

Upload and download at least 50 MB daily during two weeks — 6.2 DFILE + early access to the node

To achieve the required number of participants and stress test our network, you can invite friends, for which you will receive 3 months of a premium DeNet Storage account and an additional 6.2 DFILE.

After a successful testnet, the mainnet will be launched. The testnet will run from 10 to 30 September.

Note: after accrual, DFILE will be displayed as GB, which is required to participate in the bug bounty

Useful links:
Launching Wave I of the EpiK Protocol Foundation Grants Program
By: Epik Protocol
Tags: Grants, Storage, AI, Blockchain, Epik

Call for Proposals — Applications due October 15, 2021

We’re excited to announce the Wave I of the EpiK Protocol Foundation Grants Program. Since the main-net launch on August 15, 2021, the EpiK Protocol community has been building a vibrant ecosystem. We’re proud of the community and what we’ve built and achieved together.

Today, we invite developers, designers, dreamers, and doers across the world to work on some of the key priorities for the EpiK Protocol ecosystem. If you have an idea that is not represented below, feel free to submit it or email grants@epik-protocol.io for feedback.

Please submit your application here by October 15, 2021.

What are our priorities?

Development

Lowering barriers to setting up knowledge nodes.

Lowering barriers to lend/borrow EPK in a decentralized manner.

Increasing total liquidity of EPK in decentralized exchanges.

Making Knowledge Mainland more fun.

Community

Lowering barriers to understand the value of EpiK Protocol.

Increasing awareness of the EpiK Protocol network.

University student clubs.

Timeline and Key Dates

Application deadline: October 15, 2021

October 15, 2021 Announcement: Sep 6, 2021

Getting Started

Join us to be an EPKer

Read about the latest updates

Review passed grants here

What are you waiting for… ?

Submit your application here. If you have any questions, feel free to email grants@epik-protocol.io. We can’t wait to see what you build and how people use it!
Port Finance Integrates Aleph.im decentralized indexing solution
Tags: Storage, Blockchain Indexing, Computing, Cryptocurrency, Decentralization

Aleph.im, a cross-blockchain decentralized storage and computing network, is proud to announce its second decentralized indexing partner Port Finance.

Projects like Port Finance, a baseline lending protocol on the high-performance Proof of Stake blockchain Solana, need data to be instantly accessible and highly available for their users. Aleph.im’s indexing solution will provide just that in a decentralized way.

Datasets that will be instantly available are TVL, Total Borrowed, Loan to Value Ratio, Total Borrow Fees, Total Flash Loan Fees and many more. This adds immense value to the end-users by enabling them to make more informed decisions about their trades, while Port Finance gets access to essential insights into their platform activities.

“We’re excited to work with Aleph.im. We’ve been looking for the right partner to provide analytics for our users and platform. Aleph is the perfect solution.” — Co-Founder of Port Finance

High availability

Our network of microVMs will spawn on-demand and index this data to create a rich data history while ensuring the datasets stay available. Our network will detect high demand and spawn additional instances of the indexer where needed and auto-sync.

“Indexing on a high throughput blockchain like Solana is tricky. There is an immense amount of data, finding what to index is a lot like looking for a needle in a haystack. Working on lending protocols is another challenge that we are really excited to start tackling, and I am delighted to work with the talented team that runs Port Finance.” — Jonathan Schemoul, aleph.im Founder

Many projects on Solana have to rely on their own centralized indexing solutions or no indexing at all, due to the high costs for physical hardware, unfeasibly fast internet connections, and computing power. Aleph.im helps Solana-based applications to cut costs and enjoy better data retrieval and easy data query for their users. And unlike solutions like the Graph which index the entire blockchain, Aleph.im indexes new data first before working backwards in time, providing a more robust and user-centric solution.

Want to work with us?

In an effort to help projects accelerate toward full decentralization, Aleph.im is offering for a limited time development and implementation of GraphQL endpoints (aka subgraphs) for free to all projects in the Solana ecosystem. Projects looking to work with Aleph.im indexing can get in touch with our team here.
Documenting the almighty button
By: Teisanu Tudor
Tags: Design, UX, Documentation, History, UI

Artists, whether they’re experienced or amateurs can then use any of these mediums to jump back hundreds of years in history and thousands of miles across the globe to see what’s out there. They can then be inspired by illustration techniques used in ancient Malaysian manuscripts while also walking into an open exhibition in their neighbourhood later that day.

Compared to artists, how do we, as designers of products broaden our perspectives and look back in our field? I’m specifically intrigued by digital products for now. Sure, we have a bunch of books around brand identity, typography, and visual design in general. We also have books about products and processes, using examples from their time which simply got older. There’s also the Way Back Machine, keeping track of some parts of the Internet. However, digital design evolved beyond the Internet and beyond a few big brands: there are apps, IOT systems, open-source software, wearable devices, operating systems, phones, panels, and more. All of them require digital interfaces to be created, still by humans.

How do we get to creating these interfaces? Well, we’ve got several processes, principles, and methods to make sure that the interfaces we create will make sense for the people using them. We look at existing designs in the form of market or competitor analysis, mainly to ensure that we are adopting successes while avoiding mistakes. These analyses, however, rarely get to look back more than a couple of years; most of the time ending up focusing on the same famous products. We fail to realise the amount and variety of solutions different designers came up with, somewhere else across the World 5, 10 or even 20 years ago. We tend to look at our nearby comfortable vicinity only, enclosing our imagination right from the start.
Maintaining REST API Documentation with Node.js — Part I
By: Nelson Gomes
Tags: Open Api, Nodejs, Documentation, Node, Typescript

Image taken from kinsta.com

Creating and maintaining APIs is no easy task — we create methods, test them, and then update them several times. Over this span of time, it’s easy to forget to update the documentation which thus makes it stale and irrelevant.

Also, many APIs are composed by an assortment of different services that have their own definition, methods, and paths. All of this combined makes the complexity of keeping a full set of documentation up-to-date extremely complex and difficult.

In this two-part series, we plan to detail how to maintain your API documentation and keep it up-to-date in Node. We will also introduce a new component recently created to assist you in this task. Throughout we’ll be using OpenAPI specification to maintain documentation in an easy way.

To achieve our goals we’ll use swagger-ui-express as a UI client and ts-openapi , a newly created Node component that allows us to declare our API schemas in Node.

As you will likely notice when getting into the code, the schemas are based on Joi types. Types.* are just wrappers to assist you, which means you can create a schema for your request parameters and use it in a validation middleware to keep your security in sync with your APIs with only minimal changes. To ensure these schemas don’t waste your time, they can also be used to validate and document your APIs.

Developers tend to use Joi to validate data schemas in node, but Joi is more powerful than just that. This makes it a good match to use Joi to describe an API and also to harden it, combining both worlds — specially because there is no good options out there for this purpose. This allows us to keep our APIs documented and secure.

This article (and the next) will assume you have at least some knowledge in Node and Typescript (which the examples are written in).

Part I:

Creating and setting up your REST server

Giving a UI to APIs

Advanced examples

Applying security schemes

Part II:

Creating a validation middleware to make your APIs rock solid

Automating documentation generation

Fetching different service schemas

Combining multiple OpenAPI schemas to keep your full API spec up to date

We hope we caught your attention by this point, so, let’s get started!
Engaging an Independent Contractor
By: Adrienne B. Haynes
Tags: Entrepreneurship, Hiring, Independent Contractor, Documentation, Growth

HR & Employment Law for Entrepreneurs Series

By Adrienne B. Haynes, Esq.

Managing Partner, SEED Law

Congratulations! You’ve made the decision to engage an independent contractor or review and update your consultant onboarding practices.

Engaging independent contractors is often a signal that your business is growing enough to engage partners and experts. Each independent contractor relationship is different and should be carefully developed from beginning to end. As a company, this requires a diligent review of the distinctions between employees and independent contractors and assurance that the consultants you engage have done what’s necessary to have a foundation for a successful relationship.

The checklist below should help to remain in compliance with federal regulations:

· Make the distinction between independent contractor and employee one more time just to be sure. If you’re not, you can ask the IRS for their opinion in advance.

· Set up a system or process to communicate with contractors, share documentation, progress, needs, or other feedback.

· Update your independent contractor agreement and make sure it accurately reflects the relationship you want.

· Review the contractors set responsibilities and deliverables to outline clear metrics for success

· Set up any access codes, materials, or information the contractor will need from your business to meet their objectives

· Schedule a meeting to get a signed contract and the necessary IRS documentation BEFORE the relationship begins.

· Calendar check in dates to make sure that contract terms are still in place and that metrics will be met

· Work with an external financial professional to review your record keeping and documentation and make any necessary updates

· Calendar an annual review of your department’s documentation and recordkeeping and any changes in the law that may impact the way you do business

This article is an overview of legal considerations and does not cover every legal right or obligation, consideration, exception, or restriction. Every business decision should be well researched and discussed with a professional before being made.

To schedule a consultation with a SEED Law attorney, you can give us at call at (816)945–4249 or schedule your consultation today here.

Additional Resources:

Forms and Associated Taxes for Independent Contractors, https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employed/forms-and-associated-taxes-for-independent-contractors (last visited April 10, 2020)

Independent Contractor (Self-Employed) or Employee?, https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employed/independent-contractor-self-employed-or-employee (last visited Apr 12, 2020).

PRESENT LAW AND BACKGROUND RELATING TO WORKER CLASSIFICATION FOR FEDERAL TAX PURPOSES, https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-utl/x-26-07.pdf (last visited Apr 12, 2020).
Remote Notarization in Missouri
By: Adrienne B. Haynes
Tags: Notary, Electronic Signatures, Entrepreneurship, Transactional Law, Documentation

Business Continuity Series

By Adrienne B. Haynes, Esq.

Managing Partner, SEED Law

Doing business in the midst of a global pandemic takes courage, honesty, and grace. And sometimes, it takes a notary to complete the transaction!

For those businesses who are still able to proceed with scheduled transactions, until April 6th, finding a notary in Missouri was a tough task if your bank lobby was closed and you didn’t have an existing relationship with another notary. On April 6, 2020, Missouri Governor Mike Parson signed Executive Order 20–08 which suspended the statutory requirement of personal appearance before a notary.

To complete the transaction in accordance with the Order, audio-video technology must be used, and specific requirements must be met. This order is in place until at least May 15, 2020.

SEED Law has relationships with notaries that are still available to help finalize documents. This article is an overview of business continuity options, and does not cover every legal right or obligation, consideration, exception, or restriction. Every business decision should be well researched and discussed with a professional before being made.

To schedule a consultation with a SEED Law attorney, you can give us a call at (816)945–4249 or schedule your consultation today here.