Day: September 22, 2022

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Introduction

In 2006, mathematician and entrepreneur Clive Humby coined the phrase, "Data is the new oil." The primary point of this comparison is to highlight that, while extremely useful, data must be extracted, processed, and refined before its full value can be realized. Now over fifteen years later, it is easier than ever to accumulate data, but many businesses still face challenges ensuring that the data captured is both complete and correct.

Nowadays, apps use device locations to provide a wide variety of services. You may want to see a user's location to show services around them, learn the habits of users in different areas, or perform location-based actions, like a ride-hailing app calculating travel distance and trip fare.

In order to protect user privacy, however, most apps request device location only when they run in the foreground. Once switched to the background, or even with the device screen turned off, apps are usually not allowed to request device location. As a result, they cannot record the GPS track of a device, which negatively affects the user experience of core functions of many apps, such as ride-hailing, trip-sharing, and exercise, all of which need to track location in real time.

In the last decade there have been enormous advances in infrastructure and ops, so why does it suck to build stuff?

That’s the question Tanmai Gopal kept asking himself before founding his company, Hasura. Now, as Hasura’s CEO he’s channeling his chaotic energy in order to solve this problem.

During the last few years, I talked to many retailers and other large tech companies dealing with Data.

I've observed the same pattern repeatedly so far: these organizations are in the middle of three steps process, which usually takes more than 5 years.