This describes my current situation so precisely. The only thing keeping me on is the engineers I brought in and the initiatives I'd like to finish. I'll probably "retire" early in a few months and work on passion projects.
GCP still has domain management via Cloud DNS. That isn't going away. This is just domain registration. I say this as someone who uses Google Domains and GCP and is upset at this decision.
We do video transfers and workflows. Our team is small and selective. We're looking for a meticulous and methodical engineer to develop a custom video codec. FFMPEG and GPU expertise is a huge plus. Comp is top of market.
IPFS is decentralized storage and is a big part of what web3 is. Many NFTs use IPFS urls and many dapps are hosted on it. Browsers can resolve them today via centralized gateways like ipfs.io and some browsers (like Brave) support IPFS natively.
That one seems to be called IC4210, it was discovered on 13th March 1785 by William Herschel, and so it has a german wikipedia page but not an English one: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/IC_4210
It is a "starburst galaxy" which means it is undergoing a lot of intense star formation, I think that's why it has pretty colours from all the gas clouds and activity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starburst_galaxy
It's like AirTable/Lists/etc but for big organizations.
So the focus is on a more useful permission system, handling lots of data, dead simple data entry for tech-phobic employees, and getting the information you need quickly (as opposed to spending time fiddling around with how data is displayed, this isn't an "app builder").
The intent is to replace the hundreds of untracked, out of sync, insecure Excel files being used as a database in most large orgs.
Cool tech note - people learn to use a graph database with Cloudternal, even if they never know what a graph is.
> Let's be honest. The whole blockhain / cryptocurrency was never about that ever.
I'm not sure why you think this. "Banking the unbanked" was a huge Bitcoin mantra back in the day. If anything, it's disappeared more recently as speculation has taken over and the narrative has moved from "p2p cash" to "store of value".
Which is a bigger driver of decentralization? Running a node or adoption? I would think a universally adopted blockchain in the multi-TB would turn out more decentralized than a narrowly adopted multi-GB blockchain. # of potential business/research/government nodes >> hobby nodes.
Wasn't that a large part of Microsoft's strategy? I remember taking an "IT" class in high school in the early 00's that was 100% focused on learning MS Office. People bring what they know into the workplace.
