Vijay Albuquerque

How can financial institutions stay ahead in Australia’s ever-changing market? Atlas provides trusted, always-on intelligence, powered by insights from 80,000+ consumers and businesses annually. It delivers actionable insights to help you, uncover market trends and new opportunities and confidently drive growth. Get an unrivalled understanding of:  🔍 Market trends and new opportunities  📊 Your customers’ needs  🏆 Brand perceptions over time- yours and your competitors’  💡 Product usage across all categories With Atlas, you’ll have the insights you need to drive growth and stay ahead of the competition confidently. Learn more here: https://rfi.global/atlas/ #FinancialServices #Strategy #Data 

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5 moments you might have missed from Google Cloud Next ‘24. 1. Expanded access to the best models. 2. Enhancements to our AI Hypercomputer architecture and more custom chips 3. Better data and better coding for better AI 4. More creativity and collaboration 5. RAGaaS with AlloyDB #Prompt #Design #in #Vertex #AI #GenAI #ML #Google #Cloud #googlecloud #gcp

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📊 NZ Finance Leaders Face Data & AI Hurdles 📊 A recent study by ActiveOps reveals that 94% of financial operations leaders in New Zealand struggle to gain meaningful insights from their data. 🚧 With 40% working with outdated data, and 84% lacking trust in their data, the journey to AI adoption in the finance sector is facing significant challenges. 🔑 Key Insights: 40% rely on data that's over two weeks old 🕒 84% believe that trusted data could improve decision-making ✅ 4 in 5 think real-time data could enhance cost control & risk mitigation 💡 Despite these setbacks, 66% of NZ financial institutions are pushing forward with AI, but success hinges on cleaning, classifying, and securing their data for maximum impact. 🔗 For more insights on tech and AI, visit: www.techonwheels.co.nz #AI #DataChallenges #FinanceSector #DigitalTransformation #NZFinance #AIAdoption #DataTrust #TechInnovation #RealTimeData #ActiveO

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Just read an insightful article on weak pointers in Go by Phuong Le at VictoriaMetrics. Here are the key takeaways: - Weak pointers are a way to reference memory without locking it down, allowing the garbage collector to clean it up if no one else is holding onto it. - They're safe and can automatically become nil if the memory they point to gets cleaned up. - Weak pointers can be used for canonicalization maps, managing memory for specific scenarios, and more. Check out the article for a deeper dive into how weak pointers work and their benefits. https://lnkd.in/dXQf2CaB

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Next Melbourne Compose meeting is 6pm Thurs Oct 17. In-person@Kathleen Syme Centre, Carlton https://lnkd.in/gJazYCz3 john walker - Tooling around with Haskell: "So you've learned the Haskell basics and now you want to build something. You'll need to find and install dependencies, resolve versioning issues, type check, navigate, build and run your code, but how? Haskell tooling has come a long way over recent years, but there are still multiple paths to achieving the above. Stack, Stackage, Cabal, cabal-build, hpack, ghci, ghcid, ghcup, HLS and recent newcomers Static-ls and ghciwatch can seem like an alphabet soup of complementary and competing tools to the uninitiated. This discussion will be part history lesson, part experience report and part demo. I'll give an outline of the development timeline for some of these tools, describe how and why I've landed on the tool set I have and give a brief demo. To the Haskell curious, you'll come away with an understanding of the capabilities of these tools and how to use them. For experienced Haskellers, please come and fill us in on how your setup works. For Nix users, please be outraged to the point of volunteering to take a future session." Hope to see you there, Ben

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Senior Software Engineer – TypeScript, Golang, GraphQL, gRPC, GCP - $150-180k + super + options – Hybrid three days a week from the office in Sydney.   We have new roles for a lean, high-performance engineering team of 20 for a global digital healthcare product business with over 100,000 active customers.   They run at such a pace, so expectations are high. The engineering team is senior-heavy, and we want to continue that trend, so there’s no time for hand-holding.   Their GraphQL layer is in TypeScript. Front End is TypeScript/React, and microservices can be either TypeScript (Node) or Golang. They have circa 40-50 microservices in production. The bulk of the backend is in Node, but a big trend is moving to Golang. When a new microservice needs to be built, engineers can choose between Golang or TypeScript. For this reason, if you’re an engineer who doesn’t know typescript or Golang, it will be hard to get a job here. We’re happy to speak to specialists, so if you’re more inclined towards the backend or front end, there will be a place for you on the team.   They are in the process of migrating some of the old monoliths to the new platform, which will require a significant amount of work over the next couple of years. Some other technical challenges are related to launching into new markets and ensuring that their platform can support increased traffic as they scale and grow. Sounds interesting? Drop me a line at sam@tekfinder.com.au

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Struggling to manage your digital assets? Get insights on AI-powered automation, scalability, and compliance designed for businesses in Australia and New Zealand. Our free eBook simplifies it with key insights into AI-driven automation, security, and integrations for 2025. Tailored for ANZ businesses. Download your free guide here 👉 https://hubs.la/Q02YGfsh0

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What are your early career advice? I had a good time chatting with Sam on this. Check out the video below. You can also post your advice in my comments to share. =) https://lnkd.in/g7ZfE8y3

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This is why you always need to have data backup, a disaster recovery system. Bank normally have another data center which is just with the same configuration, but with some delay in data backup. Another reason where you many need to go with dual cloud provider just to be safe.

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Innovation at scale with Azure! See how Coles transformed operations with Azure Adaptive Cloud and Azure Arc—boosting speed, efficiency, and innovation for seamless customer experiences. Watch the video to learn more!

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Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is a game changer. Pay for only the licenses and services you use and scale as you grow — it’s a no brainer upgrade. But as the Google Cloud and Unisuper mishap shows us, relying only on your SaaS provider to handle your data is the wrong move. Data security in the SaaS environment is a shared responsibility. Think of it this way: — Your SaaS provider is your landlord who's been tasked with ensuring the building (infrastructure) is safe and up to code — You’re the tenant who has control of how you decorate the space (your data) and keep it secure by locking the doors and storing a backup key (permissions, encryption, backups, etc.) As an IT service provider, we’re here to help our clients lessen the burden of responsibility. We’ll figure out a plan to manage your data before it even gets uploaded to the cloud. #MSP #cloud #backups #saas #smallbusiness

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🕊️ Peace is my long standing software automation project where I've engineered my heart into code. Video: https://lnkd.in/ggfs3amK (45 mins) - watch at 1.5x speed, will not disappoint 😊 Features (surprisingly good): 1. 🖼️ See a diagram of the environment that would be created, before it exists. 2. 👁️ See a diagram of the environment that actually exists. 3. 🎨 See what would happen at every step of the process before you press go. 4. 🖌️ See what's actually going on as it is happening. 5. ⚡ Interrupt and resume automation safely. 6. 💻 Beautiful command line and web interfaces generated for you. 7. 📄 "Like git status, diff, commit, and push, but for servers" Links: * Slides: https://lnkd.in/gxetkv-T * Website: https://peace.mk/ * Code: https://lnkd.in/g8DM2UN2 * Diagram: https://lnkd.in/gZQWVK5y To engineer with empathy, whether verbal, visual, or vocal, refine your voice, connect, and communicate with clarity. Let it reach you.

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