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FIRST IN PLAYBOOK: GIG ECONOMY BATTLE SHIFTS INTO GEAR A coalition that counts Uber, Lyft and other major gig economy players among its members is pushing Beacon Hill to weigh in on how to classify app-based drivers. The group is boosting allies in the legislature, just commissioned a new poll and is laying the groundwork for a possible ballot question campaign.
Looking for the way ahead? Follow the Yellowbrick Summit
David Gordon Mon 19 Apr 2021 // 18:00 UTC Share
Promo The cloud is changing, and how you think about data needs to change too.
Edge applications, 5G, and IoT are just some of the ways that data is flowing beyond traditional data centres and out to the edge. This means the “cloud” you use is as likely to a mesh of interconnected resources forming a “logical cloud” as something that lives in a given provider or enterprise’s datacentre.
This approach can solve a myriad of problems around security, data gravity and latency. But it also poses a challenge to the way we think about data and how applications are built. Throw in the impact of cloud native approaches and Kubernetes and this means a dramatic rethink is needed in how you approach data lakes and warehouses.
With the House expected to debate next yearâs budget the week of April 26, public education funding is shaping up to be one of the most prominent topics of discussion.
Lawmakers and educators are concerned over the enrollment numbers budget writers used to implement the Student Opportunity Act, which was intended to pump $1.5 billion into K-12 districts over seven years when it was passed in 2019.
House leaders, in their annual budget recommendation released Wednesday, proposed a $219.6 million increase in aid to districts as they seek to implement that law. But the use of October 2020 enrollment numbers, which counted 37,396 fewer students than in October 2019, means districts would miss out on $130 million that they could have received under 2019 numbers, critics say.
Yellowbrick ventures into the cloud with Kubernetes support, distributed data warehouse manager
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Data analytics startup Yellowbrick Data Inc. today announced a major expansion of its data warehousing platform along with a consolidated management dashboard and a new version of its multiprocessor-based data warehouse appliance.
The enhancements for the first time separate the Yellowbrick software from the underlying hardware and permit multiple instances to be installed on customer-owned hardware, cloud platforms and edge devices.
Specifically, Yellowbrick has recast its platform to run in software containers, which are portable operating environments that can be managed with the popular Kubernetes orchestration platform. “This is the first stage toward a distributed cloud strategy,” said Chief Technology Officer Mark Cusack. “It will take into next year to get there.”
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A traffic signal will be installed at the intersection of Route 37 and South Street in Braintree, town officials announced Wednesday. (Shutterstock)
BRAINTREE, MA A traffic signal will be installed at the intersection of Route 37 and South Street in Braintree, town officials announced Wednesday.
The construction will be completed by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation and is still in the design phase, Mayor Charles Kokoros said. Construction is slated for the end of summer 2021. The installation of this traffic signal is personal to me, and I am grateful to the MassDOT and
Representative Mark Cusack for helping this come to fruition, Kokoros said in a statement. This