Next to the healthcare system, COVID-19’s biggest infrastructural burden fell upon the supply chain. Fluctuations in supply and demand of essential goods, along with the oil surplus, led to a freight cliff in mid-April. Outbound tender volume and spot rates bottomed out, which highlighted a massive drop in demand. As the market rebounds, technological investments are key to the industry’s recovery.

Our CTO, Andrew Stevenson was interviewed by Alan Shimel for TechStrong TV. The discussion was all about hot data topics such as DataOps, DevOps and practices to successfully enable Kafka. Andrew narrates his journey from civil engineering to starting Lenses.io with Antonios, our CEO, to help organizations succeed with real-time data.

Apache Kafka has gained traction as one of the most widely adopted technologies for building streaming applications - but introducing it (and scaling it) into your business can be a struggle. The problem isn’t with Kafka itself so much as the different components you need to learn and different tools required to operate it. For those motivated enough, you can invest money, effort and long Friday nights into learning, fixing and streamlining Kafka - and you’ll get there.

Data Engineers are forever flying the flag for open-source technology. But now that we’re safely locked away in our homes - potentially for the rest of the year - a new danger looms: That we get distracted by our new data tools and lose touch with delivering value to the business. Today most Data Engineers around the world are working from home, and at first glance it may seem like this works. After all, a solid internet connection is all we need to carry on doing what we were doing...

Remote working can be a blessing for every parent. In that way, you don’t have to face tough dilemmas like “staying at the office to finish fixing that bug” versus “returning home early to do some karaoke with your children”. Being a working parent used to be all about making tough calls in terms of career or childcare.