Distribution and production networks face many challenges when it comes to transporting large numbers of products. With the rise of shipping and direct delivery, they are in greater need of new ways to optimize the logistics of transport and storage. In the past couple of years, many businesses have been trying to utilize big data to overcome these challenges. This is slowly … [Read more...] about How to Optimize Distribution Logistics using Big Data
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8 Benefits of Being an AI-Enabled Organization
Artificial Intelligence is an optimal way to streamline operations for organizations in different industries and adopting AI is slowly picking up in the business world. Digital transformation is not a walk in the park, which explains why many businesses take the process slowly or hesitate to adopt it. Adopting AI-enabled processes may be difficult in the beginning, but in the … [Read more...] about 8 Benefits of Being an AI-Enabled Organization
How AI Is Assisting With Waste Management
Over the past few years, waste management companies have seen a massive jump in the popularity of recycling ” good news for the environment, but a lot of pressure on employees. In some cases, landfills and recycling plants struggle to sort the massive volume of incoming materials. At the same time, artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming just about every industry ” from … [Read more...] about How AI Is Assisting With Waste Management
The Increasing Problem of Monopolies in the Technology Sector
Mainstream media coverage has focused on the issue of monopolies in the technology sector ever since there was the talk of splitting up Microsoft into more than one company. Few organizations, however, have ever actually pressed for any real action that would solve the problem. One of the biggest reasons for this is the fact that when tech companies make outlandish statements, … [Read more...] about The Increasing Problem of Monopolies in the Technology Sector
Re-Slaving a Crashed MySQL Master Server in Semisynchronous Replication Setup
In a MySQL 5.7 master-slave setup that uses the default semisynchronous replication setting for rpl_semi_sync_master_wait_point, a crash of the master and failover to the slave is considered to be lossless. However, when the crashed master comes back, you may find that it has transactions that are not present in the current master (which was previously a slave). This behavior … [Read more...] about Re-Slaving a Crashed MySQL Master Server in Semisynchronous Replication Setup
