Ep. 6: Nick Patrick, CEO of Radar On today’s episode we have Nick Patrick, the CEO of API-first location platform company Radar. Nick cut his teeth in PM roles at Microsoft, Foursquare and Handy, before starting Radar in 2016. As cofounder and leader of Radar, Nick shares his experience on how to fuel growth, choose your partners, ship products faster & with confidence, and many more invaluable perspectives for professionals in the API platform ecosystem.

The realm of computing is endlessly vast, and programmers can utilize numerous programming languages that facilitate logging. Novice programmers often wonder, why is Python considered the ideal language to learn logging?

During data analysis in SQL, one will often need to look at multiple tables and join them to get the desired results. Joining tables for analyzing data is a required skill for a data scientist or data engineer. Selecting the right join will optimize query performance.

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Cross-browser compatibility testing is the most important testing for someone whose business is completely dependent on a website. Take for example an online service provider company. It may have gone through rough testing phases but is there a point in exhausting all your energy when the end-user is not able to communicate with the website properly? Cross-browser compatibility testing is extremely important for a successful running website where you have one less thing to worry about.

A memory leak in an application deployed on the cloud can affect the availability and reliability of the application. Therefore, it is highly important to identify and ultimately resolve it quickly. However, in the production environment running on the cloud, memory leak detection is a challenge without the knowledge of the application or its internal object allocation details.

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