A Personal Journey into Self-Rewriting Code I vividly remember the excitement I felt around fifteen years ago when I first encountered the concept of self-rewriting code in Chapter 27, titled “Polymorphic Viruses,” of The Giant Black Book of Computer Viruses by Mark Ludwig. This chapter opened my eyes to the ingenious ways that software could dynamically alter […]
From Traditional Data Centers to the Cloud—A New Era for Financial Resilience The banking sector stands at the crossroads of a digital revolution. Once reliant on monolithic, on-premises data centers and rigid core banking platforms, the industry is now moving rapidly toward cloud-native architectures characterized by microservices, containerization, and continuous deployment. This transition represents more
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My research on outsourcing revealed that unfortunately there are specialized (or not) labor service providers that engage in unethical billing practices by charging their clients for ghost workers. These are workers who, in reality, do not contribute any labor or value to the project at hand. This behavior not only inflates the operational costs for
Alibaba Alibaba Group Holding Limited was founded on June 28, 1999 in the Cayman Islands as an exempted company with limited liability. It is listed in both the NYSE as “BABA” and the Hong Kong Stock Exchange as “9988.” Alibaba’s mission is to make it easy to do business anywhere and they intend to help
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Double taxation is a highly relevant issue for both entrepreneurs and established companies. In essence, it consists of paying taxes in two different countries, each with its respective rates. It all begins when an entrepreneur, or a group of entrepreneurs, wants to start and operate a company in a country other than that of his
Parniangtong (2016) defined strategic sourcing as “the process of developing channels of supply at the lowest total cost, not just the lowest purchase price” and suggested to: Focus on the total delivered value, not the purchase price; Choose a collaborative approach to dealing with suppliers, rather than oversight; and Focus on enhancing profitability, rather than cost savings.
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Throughout the years, I’ve had the pleasure to meet people from all over the world and with different backgrounds. Usually, one of the first topics we talk about is what we do for a living. Unfortunately, there are several interpretations of my profession (Systems Engineering), which commonly lead to entangled faces when I briefly explain the actual
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This is the foundational document of the non-profit organization that would later become Atenea NFP, registered in the USA. See our website for more information: atenea.com.ve Introduction Venezuela is in agony and it is necessary to intervene urgently, in an innovative and decisive manner, generating favorable results in a short time, but with a vision
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Last update: February 18th, 2024 Abstract The result of this research is a proposal with the purpose of helping overcome the current Venezuelan crisis via the creation of new companies with a localized model of co-determination, based on the German dual co-determination approach. Its feasibility was corroborated by analyzing the relevant laws and a law
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