Podcasts about ekata

EKATA is a London based DJ/Producer + Natural Selection Resident who's productions are characterised by their dark and atmospheric soundscapes, driven by pulsating rhythms and intricate synth work. Determined to create music that is unearthly, idiosyncratic and exuding futurism of that of a sci-fi film, she has a vision and always ensures a story is to be told in each track she produces. She mainly sticks to the dark and eerie side of Electro/Techno in her productions & gigs, where she will take you on a dark and twisted journey through incredibly dystopian, ominous grooves and obvious sci-fi fixations which embody her carefully picked selections. She has had an unstoppable start to her production journey, releasing on some of the best Electro labels out there; Burial Soil . CHP Recordings . Censor . Cybersoul . Furatena . Mars Frequency Records . Native Boundaries + Urban Connections with more releases scheduled for 2024. Her latest track "KILONOVA" will be out on Avoidant on 1st March 2024 Tracklist via -Spotify: http://bit.ly/SRonSpotify -Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/Slam_Radio/ -Facebook: bit.ly/SlamRadioGroup Archive on Mixcloud: www.mixcloud.com/slam/ Subscribe to our podcast on -iTunes: apple.co/2RQ1xdh -Amazon Music: amzn.to/2RPYnX3 -Google Podcasts: bit.ly/SRGooglePodcasts -Deezer: bit.ly/SlamRadioDeezer Keep up with SLAM: fanlink.to/Slam Keep up with Soma Records: fanlink.to/SomaRecords For syndication or radio queries: harry@somarecords.com & conor@glowcast.co.uk Slam Radio is produced at www.glowcast.co.uk

ona:v is a Polish-born DJ, producer and promoter with an ear for textural techno and dark electro. A scientist by day and a DJ by night, the Edinburgh-based artist is an integral figure in her locale, both as a standalone name and through event curation. Having built an extensive track collection for several years, ona:v debuted on Edinburgh's club circuit in 2019, with bookings across the UK making up her diary since. On home turf, ona:v plays regular gigs in Scotland's biggest venues, having supported Ben Klock, Isabel Soto, Clouds, Paige, EKATA and many others. Outside of Scotland, she closed for Clouds and Randomer at The Cause, played at London's Risen Festival and in Berlin's Mensch-Meier and About Blank. 2022 saw her Polish debut, and in 2021/22 she streamed from Berlin's HÖR Radio. More recently, for two years in a row, she headlined the basement stage curated by Sisu at Hidden Door — a prolific visual art and music festival in Edinburgh, and performed at Scotland's biggest festival – Terminal V. In 2020, ona:v founded EPiKA, and started promoting EPiKA's bi-monthly party called CiRCLE in Edinburgh. Here, she creates a nurturing environment for beginner female and non-binary DJs playing more underground flavours of electronics, with focus on techno. She also garners a radio residency on London's Threads Radio and is an internal member and a resident DJ with the Sisu crew. Production-wise, she has released tracks on multiple UK compilations and released her debut EP, Response to the Techno Crisis, on Diffuse Reality in 2022. Tracklist via -Spotify: http://bit.ly/SRonSpotify -Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/Slam_Radio/ -Facebook: bit.ly/SlamRadioGroup Archive on Mixcloud: www.mixcloud.com/slam/ Subscribe to our podcast on -iTunes: apple.co/2RQ1xdh -Amazon Music: amzn.to/2RPYnX3 -Google Podcasts: bit.ly/SRGooglePodcasts -Deezer: bit.ly/SlamRadioDeezer Keep up with SLAM: fanlink.to/Slam Keep up with Soma Records: fanlink.to/SomaRecords For syndication or radio queries: harry@somarecords.com & conor@glowcast.co.uk Slam Radio is produced at www.glowcast.co.uk

MUSICINTHEAIR @Villahangar #PodcastShow THIS WEEK presents >> @andreasvural [EPISODE 300-05] #TRACKLIST 01. Matt Sawyer - Rendering / Villahangar 02. Ekata feat. Toshi - The Advocate / MoBlack Records 03. Drush (FR) - Yolo / Amine Edge & DANCE 04. Kaz James, Nick Morgan - I'm Not In Love / Glasgow Underground 05. The Mamas & The Papas - California Dreamin' (Mita Gami Edit) / Metanoia 06. Joris Voorn, Mees Salomé, Celine Cairo - Fool's Paradise (Joris Voorn Remix) / Spectrum (NL) 07. Darmon, Eran Hersh, BLOND:ISH, Madonna - Sorry (with Madonna) / Ultra 08. Demayä & ARKADYAN - Esperanza (feat. Yana Mann) / Pipe & Pochet 09. Sezer Uysal - A Day In Africa (Marius Drescher Remix) / Nie Wieder Schlafen 10. IDQ - Borderline (KeeQ Remix) / Ton Töpferei 11. Andreas Vural - Uyazi feat. Nomvula SA (Leo Guardo Remix) / Kemet Soul Records Site -> www.villahangar.com FB -> www.facebook.com/villahangar TT -> www.twitter.com/Villahangar

What is a synthetic identity and who is doing it? On this State of Identity podcast, host Cameron D'Ambrosi and Kurt Weiss, Vice President of Enterprise Sales at Ekata discuss synthetic identity and the levels of sophistication. Can it be solved, and what are the keys to solving the problem? 

"Are you telling me that I'm partially responsible for unleashing the kraken?" - Tom Donlea   One of the most well known OGs in the fraud industry, Tom Donlea talks about how he got involved and how he became the very first CEO of the MRC which we all know and love to this day. He takes us through his time at Ekata and what he is up to know.  Tom is a partner at Alliyz and they are changing the way our industry functions for future fraud and payments professionals. Come listen to exactly how they are doing it! We talk about how to get more involved and get more out of your fraud journey and what we think the future looks like both in 2023 and beyond!  ------------------- https://www.allyiz.com "Allyiz (pronounced allies) is the “go-to” company for payments experts for businesses who want to source knowledge, time or people. The strong relationship we build with our clients inspired us to use this name." Tom Donlea, a man who needs no introduction, was the first CEO of the MRC and Board Emeritus, a VP and GM at Ekata for over 9 years, and is now a partner at Allyiz.   Tom Donlea - tom@allyiz.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/tdonlea/

This recording is from Fintech Nexus USA (formerly known as LendIt Fintech USA) held at the Javits Center in New York City on May 25-26, 2022. It is from the track: Fintech in 2027 - Sponsored by Mastercard and is titled: Innovations in Lending Tech: Preparing for the Future in a Constantly Evolving Lending Ecosystem. Speaking at this session are Amyn Dhala, Mastercard, Lisa Kimball, Finicity, Kurt Weiss, Ekata,  with Moderator: Raymond Pucci, IDC Financial Insight.

Nich Weinheimer is the General Manager of Strategy and Commerce at Skai, an enterprise marketing intelligence platform. The platform includes a myriad of data-driven products for market intelligence, omnichannel media activation, testing, and measurement that are based on 15 years of experience building within Google and Facebook. Skai enables brands to make predictions, improve strategic planning, and drive growth on essential customer channels. In his current role, Nich delivers innovative software and data solutions to the rapidly-evolving landscape of retailers and brands. With over a decade of experience in digital advertising, Nich has held leadership roles, including Head of Advertising for Buy Box Experts, Co-founder and Managing Partner of WNW International, Data Consulting and Enterprise Sales at Ekata, and Director of Sales Operations at Commerce Hub. In this episode… The continued advancements in retail media present a new set of challenges for brands and retailers who must transition from traditional to digital media. So, how can your business stay ahead of this shift to drive performance and growth? Driving growth in digital retail media requires understanding and managing your brand's data to leverage upper funnel media. AI programs such as digital signal processing (DSP) simplify this process by deciphering all your data to help you anticipate trends. DSPs translate digital signals so you can determine when to market your brand to the consumer based on user intent and competition.  In today's episode of The Digital Deep Dive, Aaron Conant sits down with Nich Weinheimer, General Manager of Strategy and Commerce at Skai, to discuss navigating the shift in retail media. Nich covers some of the top challenges brands and retailers face across the eCommerce continuum, the benefits of investing in DSP, and how retailers can scale their businesses using display media.

Emma Ekata, the visionary behind Mama Luna, herbalist and bad-ass womxnist! Who started Mama Luna out of her desire to reconnect to her true self. She wanted to lead an authentic life full of passion and purpose and be her own kind of woman. Unfortunately, her story began with a traumatic event, however, it was the catalyst she needed to set her on the path that she walks with pride.Since 2016 she has worked as a Yoni steam facilitator, herbalist, women's/womxn's circle holder. With a focus on helping women to have healthier relationships with their menstrual cycles. She creates her range of products, with a customized yoni blend for her clients. Her deepest desire is that all women rediscover, reclaim, reconnect to and redefine their feminine power.She is currently hosting her Sacred Cycles four-week course starting on the 18th of May taking you through understanding the various seasons of your cycles and how it impacts you.Connect with her viawww.mamaluna.onlinewww.instagram.com/mama_lunayonisteam

Met de stormachtige groei van online winkelen, is het domein van de e-commerce uitgegroeid tot een aantrekkelijk doelwit voor cybercriminelen. In de Finance Innovation Podcast bespreekt Sacha de Boer samen met Jan-Frans Schultink, Senior Account Manager EMEA van securitybedrijf Ekata en Jan-Willem van der Schoot, Country Manager van Mastercard Nederland, wat je daar tegen kunt doen. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

About JasonJason Frazier is a Software Engineering Manager at Ekata, a Mastercard Company. Jason's team is responsible for developing and maintaining Ekata's product APIs. Previously, as a developer, Jason led the investigation and migration of Ekata's Identity Graph from AWS Elasticache to Redis Enterprise Redis on Flash, which brought an average savings of $300,000/yr.Links: Ekata: https://ekata.com/ Email: jason.frazier@ekata.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonfrazier56 TranscriptAnnouncer: Hello, and welcome to Screaming in the Cloud with your host, Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group, Corey Quinn. This weekly show features conversations with people doing interesting work in the world of cloud, thoughtful commentary on the state of the technical world, and ridiculous titles for which Corey refuses to apologize. This is Screaming in the Cloud.Corey: This episode is sponsored in part by our friends at Sysdig. Sysdig is the solution for securing DevOps. They have a blog post that went up recently about how an insecure AWS Lambda function could be used as a pivot point to get access into your environment. They've also gone deep in-depth with a bunch of other approaches to how DevOps and security are inextricably linked. To learn more, visit sysdig.com and tell them I sent you. That's S-Y-S-D-I-G dot com. My thanks to them for their continued support of this ridiculous nonsense.Corey: Today's episode is brought to you in part by our friends at MinIO the high-performance Kubernetes native object store that's built for the multi-cloud, creating a consistent data storage layer for your public cloud instances, your private cloud instances, and even your edge instances, depending upon what the heck you're defining those as, which depends probably on where you work. It's getting that unified is one of the greatest challenges facing developers and architects today. It requires S3 compatibility, enterprise-grade security and resiliency, the speed to run any workload, and the footprint to run anywhere, and that's exactly what MinIO offers. With superb read speeds in excess of 360 gigs and 100 megabyte binary that doesn't eat all the data you've gotten on the system, it's exactly what you've been looking for. Check it out today at min.io/download, and see for yourself. That's min.io/download, and be sure to tell them that I sent you.Corey: Welcome to Screaming in the Cloud. I'm Corey Quinn. This one is a bit fun because it's a promoted episode sponsored by our friends at Redis, but my guest does not work at Redis, nor has he ever. Jason Frazier is a Software Engineering Manager at Ekata, a Mastercard company, which I feel, like, that should have some sort of, like, music backstopping into it just because, you know, large companies always have that magic sheen on it. Jason, thank you for taking the time to speak with me today.Jason: Yeah. Thanks for inviting me. Happy to be here.Corey: So, other than the obvious assumption, based upon the fact that Redis is kind enough to be sponsoring this episode, I'm going to assume that you're a Redis customer at this point. But I'm sure we'll get there. Before we do, what is Ekata? What do you folks do?Jason: So, the whole idea behind Ekata is—I mean, if you go to our website, our mission statement is, “We want to be the global leader in online identity verification.” What that really means is, in more increasingly digital world, when anyone can put anything they want into any text field they want, especially when purchasing anything online—Corey: You really think people do that? Just go on the internet and tell lies?Jason: I know. It's shocking to think that someone could lie about who they are online. But that's sort of what we're trying to solve specifically in the payment space. Like, I want to buy a new pair of shoes online, and I enter in some information. Am I really the person that I say I am when I'm trying to buy those shoes? To prevent fraudulent transactions. That's really one of the basis that our company goes on is trying to reduce fraud globally.Corey: That's fascinating just from the perspective of you take a look at cloud vendors at the space that I tend to hang out with, and a lot of their identity verification of, is this person who they claim to be, in fact, is put back onto the payment providers. Take Oracle Cloud, which I periodically beat up but also really enjoy aspects of their platform on, where you get to their always free tier, you have to provide a credit card. Now, they'll never charge you anything until you affirmatively upgrade the account, but—“So, what do you do need my card for?” “Ah, identity and fraud verification.” So, it feels like the way that everyone else handles this is, “Ah, we'll make it the payment networks' problem.” Well, you're now owned by Mastercard, so I sort of assume you are what the payment networks, in turn, use to solve that problem.Jason: Yeah, so basically, one of our flagship products and things that we return is sort of like a score, from 0 to 400, on how confident we are that this person is who they are. And it's really about helping merchants help determine whether they should either approve, or deny, or forward on a transaction to, like, a manual review agent. As well as there's also another use case that's even more popular, which is just, like, account creation. As you can imagine, there's lots of bots on everyone's [laugh] favorite app or website and things like that, or customers offer a promotion, like, “Sign up and get $10.”Well, I could probably get $10,000 if I make a thousand random accounts, and then I'll sign up with them. But, like, make sure that those accounts are legitimate accounts, that'll prevent, like, that sort of promo abuse and things like that. So, it's also not just transactions. It's also, like, account openings and stuff, make sure that you actually have real people on your platform.Corey: The thing that always annoyed me was the way that companies decide, oh, we're going to go ahead and solve that problem with a CAPTCHA on it. It's, “No, no, I don't want to solve machine learning puzzles for Google for free in order to sign up for something. I am the customer here; you're getting it wrong somewhere.” So, I assume, given the fact that I buy an awful lot of stuff online, but I don't recall ever seeing anything branded with Ekata that you do this behind the scenes; it is not something that requires human interaction, by which I mean, friction.Jason: Yeah, for sure. Yeah, yeah. It's behind the scenes. That's exactly what I was about to segue to is friction, is trying to provide a frictionless experience for users. In the US, it's not as common, but when you go into Europe or anything like that, it's fairly common to get confirmations on transactions and things like that.You may have to, I don't know text—or get a code text or enter that online to basically say, like, “Yes, I actually received this.” But, like, helping—and the reason companies do that is for that, like, extra bit of security and assurance that that's actually legitimate. And obviously, companies would like to prefer not to have to do that because, I don't know, if I'm trying to buy something, this website makes me do something extra, the site doesn't make me do anything extra, I'm probably going to go with that one because it's just more convenient for me because there's less friction there.Corey: You're obviously limited in how much you can say about this, just because it's here's a list of all the things we care about means that great, you've given me a roadmap, too, of things to wind up looking at. But you have an example or two of the sort of the data that you wind up analyzing to figure out the likelihood that I'm a human versus a robot.Jason: Yeah, for sure. I mean, it's fairly common across most payment forms. So, things like you enter in your first name, your last name, your address, your phone number, your email address. Those are all identity elements that we look at. We have two data stores: We have our Identity Graph and our Identity Network.The Identity Graph is what you would probably think of it, if you think of a web of a person and their identity, like, you have a name that's linked to a telephone, and that name is also linked to an address. But that address used to have previous people living there, so on and so forth. So, the various what we just call identity elements are the various things we look at. It's fairly common on any payment form, I'm sure, like, if you buy something on Amazon versus eBay or whatever, you're probably going to be asked, what's your name? What's your address? What's your email address? What's your telephone?Corey: It's one of the most obnoxious parts of buying things online from websites I haven't been to before. It's one of the genius ideas behind Apple Pay and the other centralized payment systems. Oh, yeah. They already know who you are. Just click the button, it's done.Jason: Yeah, even something as small as that. I mean, it gets a little bit easier with, like, form autocompletes and stuff like, oh, just type J and it'll just autocomplete everything for me. That's not the worst of the world, but it is still some amount of annoyance and friction. [laugh].Corey: So, as I look through all this, it seems like one of the key things you're trying to do since it's in line with someone waiting while something is spinning in their browser, that this needs to be quick. It also strikes me that this is likely not something that you're going to hit the same people trying to identify all the time—if so, that is its own sign of fraud—so it doesn't really seem like something can be heavily cached. Yet you're using Redis, which tells me that your conception of how you're using it might be different than the mental space that I put Redis into what I'm thinking about where this ridiculous architecture diagram is the Redis part going to go?Jason: Yeah, I mean, like, whenever anyone says Redis, thinks of Redis, I mean, even before we went down this path, you always think of, oh, I need a cache, I'll just stuff in Redis. Just use Redis as a cache here and there. I don't know, some small—I don't know, a few tens, hundreds gigabytes, maybe—cache, spin that up, and you're good. But we actually use Redis as our primary data store for our Identity Graph, specifically for the speed that we can get. Because if you're trying to look for a person, like, let's say you're buying something for your brother, how do we know if that's true or not? Because you have this name, you're trying to send it to a different address, like, how does that make sense? But how do we get from Corey to an address? Like, oh, maybe used to live with your brother?Corey: It's funny, you pick that as your example; my brother just moved to Dublin, so it's the whole problem of how do I get this from me to someone, different country, different names, et cetera? And yeah, how do you wind up mapping that to figure out the likelihood that it is either credit card fraud, or somebody actually trying to be, you know, a decent brother for once in my life?Jason: [laugh]. So, I mean, how it works is how you imagine you start at some entry point, which would probably be your name, start there and say, “Can we match this to this person's address that you believe you're sending to?” And we can say, “Oh, you have a person-person relationship, like he's your brother.” So, it maps to him, which we can then get his address and say, “Oh, here's that address. That matches what you're trying to send it to. Hey, this makes sense because you have a legitimate reason to be sending something there. You're not just sending it to some random address out in the middle of nowhere, for no reason.”Corey: Or the drop-shipping scams, or brushing scams, or one of—that's the thing is every time you think you've seen it all, all you have to do is look at fraud. That's where the real innovation seems to be happening, [laugh] no matter how you slice it.Jason: Yeah, it's quite an interesting space. I always like to say it's one of those things where if you had the human element in it, it's not super easy, but it's like, generally easy to tell, like, okay, that makes sense, or, oh, no, that's just complete garbage. But trying to do it at scale very fast in, like, a general case becomes an actual substantially harder problem. [laugh]. It's one of those things that people can probably do fairly well—I mean, that's why we still have manual reviews and things like that—but trying to do it automatically or just with computers is much more difficult. [laugh].Corey: Yeah, “Hee hee, I scammed a company out of 20 bucks is not the problem you're trying to avoid for.” It's the, “Okay, I just did that ten million times and now we have a different problem.”Jason: Yeah, exactly. I mean, one of the biggest losses for a lot of companies is, like, fraudulent transactions and chargebacks. Usually, in the case on, like, e-commerce companies—or even especially like nowadays where, as you can imagine, more people are moving to a more online world and doing shopping online and things like that, so as more people move to online shopping, some companies are always going to get some amount of chargebacks on fraudulent transactions. But when it happens at scale, that's when you start seeing many losses because not only are you issuing a chargeback, you probably sent out some products, that you're now out some physical product as well. So, it's almost kind of like a double-whammy. [laugh].Corey: So, as I look through all this, I tended to always view Redis in terms of, more or less, a key-value store. Is that still accurate? Is that how you wind up working with it? Or has it evolved significantly past them to the point where you can now do relational queries against it?Jason: Yeah, so we do use Redis as a key-value store because, like, Redis is just a traditional key-value store, very fast lookups. When we first started building out Identity Graph, as you can imagine, you're trying to model people to telephones to addresses; your first thought is, “Hey, this sounds a whole lot like a graph.” That's sort of what we did quite a few years ago is, let's just put it in some graph database. But as time went on and as it became much more important to have lower and lower latency, we really started thinking about, like, we don't really need all the nice and shiny things that, like, a graph database or some sort of graph technology really offers you. All we really need to do is I need to get from point A to point B, and that's it.Corey: Yeah, [unintelligible 00:10:35] graph database, what's the first thing I need to do? Well, spend six weeks in school trying to figure out exactly what the hell of graph database is because they're challenging to wrap your head around at the best of times. Then it just always seemed overpowered for a lot of—I don't want to say simple use cases; what you're doing is not simple, but it doesn't seem to be leveraging the higher-order advantages that graph database tends to offer.Jason: Yeah, it added a lot of complexity in the system, and [laugh] me and one of our senior principal engineers who's been here for a long time, we always have a joke: If you search our GitHub repository for… we'll say kindly-worded commit messages, you can see a very large correlation of those types of commit messages to all the commits to try and use a graph database from multiple years ago. It was not fun to work with, just added too much complexity, and we just didn't need all that shiny stuff. So, that's how we really just took a step back. Like, we really need to do it this way. We ended up effectively flattening the entire graph into an adjacency list.So, a key is basically some UUID to an entity. So, Corey, you'd have some UUID associated with you and the value would be whatever your information would be, as well as other UUIDs to links to the other entities. So, from that first retrieval, I can now unpack it, and, “Oh, now I have a whole bunch of other UUIDs I can then query on to get that information, which will then have more IDs associated with it,” is more or less sort of how we do our graph traversal and query this in our graph queries.Corey: One of the fun things about doing this sort of interview dance on the podcast as long as I have is you start to pick up what people are saying by virtue of what they don't say. Earlier, you wound up mentioning that we often use Redis for things like tens, or hundreds of gigabytes, which sort of leaves in my mind the strong implication that you're talking about something significantly larger than that. Can you disclose the scale of data we're talking about her?Jason: Yeah. So, we use Redis as our primary data store for our Identity Graph, and also for—soon to be for our Identity Network, which is our other database. But specifically for our Identity Graph, scale we're talking about, we do have some compression added on there, but if you say uncompressed, it's about 12 terabytes of data that's compressed, with replication into about four.Corey: That's a relatively decent compression factor, given that I imagine we're not talking about huge datasets.Jason: Yeah, so this is actually basically driven directly by cost: If you need to store less data, then you need less memory, therefore, you need to pay for less.Corey: So, our users once again have shored up my longtime argument that when it comes to cloud, cost and architecture are in fact the same thing. Please, continue by all means.Jason: I would be lying if I said that we didn't do weekly slash monthly reviews of costs. Where are we spending costs in AWS? How can we improve costs? How can we cut down on costs? How can you store less—Corey: You are singing my song.Jason: It is a [laugh] it is a constant discussion. But yeah, so we use Zstandard compression, which was developed at Facebook, and it's a dictionary-based compression. And the reason we went for this is—I mean like if I say I want to compress, like, a Word document down, like, you can get very, very, very high level of compression. It exists. It's not that interesting, everyone does it all the time.But with this we're talking about—so in that, basically, four or so terabytes of compressed data that we have, it's something around four to four-and-a-half billion keys and values, and so in that we're talking about each key-value only really having anywhere between 50 and 100 bytes. So, we're not compressing very large pieces of information. We're compressing very small 50 to 100 byte JSON values that we have give UUID keys and JSON strings stored as values. So, we're compressing these 50 to 100 byte JSON strings with around 70, 80% compression. I mean, that's using Zstandard with a custom dictionary, which probably gave us the biggest cost savings of all, if you can [unintelligible 00:14:32] your dataset size by 60, 70%, that's huge. [laugh].Corey: Did you start off doing this on top of Redis, or was this an evolution that eventually got you there?Jason: It was an evolution over time. We were formally Whitepages. I mean, Whitepages started back in the late-90s. It really just started off as a—we just—Corey: You were a very early adopter of Redis [laugh]. Yeah, at that point, like, “We got a time machine and started using it before it existed.” Always a fun story. Recruiters seem to want that all the time.Jason: Yeah. So, when we first started, I mean, we didn't have that much data. It was basically just one provider that gave us some amount of data, so it was kind of just a—we just need to start something quick, get something going. And so, I mean, we just did what most people do just do the simplest thing: Just stuff it all in a Postgres database and call it good. Yeah, it was slow, but hey, it was back a long time ago, people were kind of okay with a little bit—Corey: The world moved a bit slower back then.Jason: Everything was a bit slower, no one really minded too much, the scale wasn't that large. But business requirements always change over time and they evolve, and so to meet those ever-evolving business requirements, we move from Postgres, and where a lot of the fun commit messages that I mentioned earlier can be found is when we started working with Cassandra and Titan. That was before my time before I had started, but from what I understand, that was a very fun time. But then from there, that's when we really kind of just took a step back and just said, like, “There's so much stuff that we just don't need here. Let's really think about this, and let's try to optimize a bit more.”Like, we know our use case, why not optimize for our use case? And that's how we ended up with the flattened graph storage stuffing into Redis. Because everyone thought of Redis as a cache, but everyone also knows that—why is it a cache? Because it's fast. [laugh]. We need something that's very fast.Corey: I still conceptualize it as an in-memory data store, just because when I turned on disk persistence model back in 2011, give or take, it suddenly started slamming the entire data store to a halt for about three seconds every time it did it. It was, “What's this piece of crap here?” And it was, “Oh, yeah. Turns out there was a regression on Zen, which is what AWS is used as a hypervisor back then.” And, “Oh, yeah.”So, fork became an expensive call, it took forever to wind up running. So oh, the obvious lesson we take from this is, oh, yeah, Redis is not designed to be used with disk persistence. Wrong lesson to take from the behavior, but did cement, in my mind at least, the idea that this is something that we tend to use only as an in-memory store. It's clear that the technology has evolved, and in fact, I'm super glad that Redis threw you my direction to talk to you about this stuff because until talking to you, I was still—I got to admit—sort of in the position of thinking of it still as an in-memory data store because the fact that Redis says otherwise because they're envisioning it being something else, well okay, marketers going to market. You're a customer; it's a lot harder for me to talk smack about your approach to this thing, when I see you doing it for, let's be serious here, what is a very important use case. If identity verification starts failing open and everyone claims to be who they say they are, that's something is visible from orbit when it comes to the macroeconomic effect.Jason: Yeah, exactly. It's actually funny because before we move to primarily just using Redis, before going to fully Redis, we did still use Redis. But we used ElastiCache, we had it loaded into ElastiCache, but we also had it loaded into DynamoDB as sort of a, I don't want this to fail because we weren't comfortable with actually using Redis as a primary database. So, we used to use ElastiCache with a fallback to DynamoDB, just in that off chance, which, you know, sometimes it happens, sometimes it didn't. But that's when we basically just went searching for new technologies, and that's actually how we landed on Redis on Flash, which is a kind of breaks the whole idea of Redis as an in-memory database to where it's Redis, but it's not just an in-memory database, you also have flashback storage.Corey: So, you'll forgive me if I combine my day job with this side project of mine, where I fixed the horrifying AWS bills for large companies. My bias, as a result, is to look at infrastructure environments primarily through the lens of AWS bill. And oh, great, go ahead and use an enterprise offering that someone else runs because, sure, it might cost more money, but it's not showing up on the AWS bill, therefore, my job is done. Yeah, it turns out that doesn't actually work or the answer to every AWS billing problem is to migrate to Azure to GCP. Turns out that doesn't actually solve the problem that you would expect.But you're obviously an enterprise customer of Redis. Does that data live in your AWS account? Is it something using as their managed service and throwing over the wall so it shows up as data transfer on your side? How is that implemented? I know they've got a few different models.Jason: There's a couple of aspects onto how we're actually bill. I mean, so like, when you have ElastiCache, you're just billed for your, I don't know, whatever nodes using, cache dot, like, r5 or whatever they are… [unintelligible 00:19:12]Corey: I wish most people were using things that modern. But please, continue.Jason: But yeah, so you basically just build for whatever last cache nodes you have, you have your hourly rate, I don't know, maybe you might reserve them. But with Redis Enterprise, the way that we're billed is there's two aspects. One is, well, the contract that we signed that basically allows us to use their technology [unintelligible 00:19:31] with a managed service, a managed solution. So, there's some amount that we pay them directly within some contract, as well as the actual nodes themselves that exist in the cluster. And so basically the way that this is set up, is we effectively have a sub-account within our AWS account that Redis Labs has—or not Redis Labs; Redis Enterprise—has access to, which they deploy directly into, and effectively using VPC peering; that's how we allow our applications to talk directly to it.So, we're built directly—or so the actual nodes of the cluster, which are i3.8x, I believe, on they basically just run EC2 instances. All of those instances, those exist on our bill. Like, we get billed for them; we pay for them. It's just basically some sub-account that they have access to that they can deploy into. So, we get billed for the instances of the cluster as well as whatever we pay for our enterprise contract. So, there's sort of two aspects to the actual billing of it.Corey: This episode is sponsored in part by our friends at Vultr. Spelled V-U-L-T-R because they're all about helping save money, including on things like, you know, vowels. So, what they do is they are a cloud provider that provides surprisingly high performance cloud compute at a price that—while sure they claim its better than AWS pricing—and when they say that they mean it is less money. Sure, I don't dispute that but what I find interesting is that it's predictable. They tell you in advance on a monthly basis what it's going to going to cost. They have a bunch of advanced networking features. They have nineteen global locations and scale things elastically. Not to be confused with openly, because apparently elastic and open can mean the same thing sometimes. They have had over a million users. Deployments take less that sixty seconds across twelve pre-selected operating systems. Or, if you're one of those nutters like me, you can bring your own ISO and install basically any operating system you want. Starting with pricing as low as $2.50 a month for Vultr cloud compute they have plans for developers and businesses of all sizes, except maybe Amazon, who stubbornly insists on having something to scale all on their own. Try Vultr today for free by visiting: vultr.com/screaming, and you'll receive a $100 in credit. Thats V-U-L-T-R.com slash screaming.Corey: So, it's easy to sit here as an engineer—and believe me, having been one for most of my career, I fall subject to this bias all the time—where it's, “Oh, you're going to charge me a management fee to run this thing? Oh, that's ridiculous. I can do it myself instead,” because, at least when I was learning in my dorm room, it was always a “Well, my time is free, but money is hard to come by.” And shaking off that perspective as my career continued to evolve was always a bit of a challenge for me. Do you ever find yourself or your team drifting toward the direction of, “Well, what we're paying for Redis Enterprise for? We could just run it ourselves with the open-source version and save whatever it is that they're charging on top of that?”Jason: Before we landed on Redis on Flash, we had that same thought, like, “Why don't we just run our own Redis?” And the decision to that is, well, managing such a large cluster that's so important to the function of our business, like, you effectively would have needed to hire someone full time to just sit there and stare at the cluster the whole time just to operate it, maintain it, make sure things are running smoothly. And it's something that we made a decision that, no, we're going to go with a managed solution. It's not easy to manage and maintain clusters of that size, especially when they're so important to business continuity. [laugh]. From our eyes, it was just not worth the investment for us to try and manage it ourselves and go with the fully managed solution.Corey: But even when we talk about it, it's one of those well—it's—everyone talks about, like, the wrong side of it first, the oh, it's easier if things are down if we wind up being able to say, “Oh, we have a ticket open,” rather than, “I'm on the support forum and waiting for people to get back to me.” Like, there's a defensibility perspective. We all just sort of, like sidestep past the real truth of it of, yeah, the people who are best in the world running and building these things are right now working on the problem when there is one.Jason: Yeah, they're the best in the world at trying to solve what's going on. [laugh].Corey: Yeah, because that is what we're paying them to do. Oh, right. People don't always volunteer for for-profit entities. I keep forgetting that part of it.Jason: Yeah, I mean, we've had some very, very fun production outages that just randomly happened because to our knowledge, we would just like—I would, like… “I have no idea what's going on.” And, you know, working with their support team, their DevOps team, honestly, it was a good, like, one-week troubleshooting. When we were validating the technology, we accidentally halted the database for seemingly no reason, and we couldn't possibly figure out what's going on. We kept talking to—we were talking to their DevOps team. They're saying, “Oh, we see all these writes going on for some reason.” We're like, “We're not sending any writes. Why is there writes?”And that was the whole back and forth for almost a week, trying to figure out what the heck was going on, and it happened to be, like, a very subtle case, in terms of, like, the how the keys and values are actually stored between RAM and flash and how it might swap in and out of flash. And like, all the way down to that level where I want to say we probably talked to their DevOps team at least two to three times, like, “Could you just explain this to me?” Like, “Sure,” like, “Why does this happen? I didn't know this was a thing.” So, on and so forth. Like, there's definitely some things that are fairly difficult to try and debug, which definitely helps having that enterprise-level solution.Corey: Well, that's the most valuable thing in any sort of operational experience where, okay, I can read the documentation and all the other things, and it tells me how it works. Great. The real value of whether I trust something in production is whether or not I know how it breaks where it's—Jason: Yeah.Corey: —okay—because the one thing you want to hear when you're calling someone up is, “Oh, yeah. We've seen this before. This is what you do to fix it.” The worst thing in the world is, “Oh, that's interesting. We've never seen that before.” Because then oh, dear Lord, we're off in the mists of trying to figure out what's going on here, while production is down.Jason: Yeah kind of like, “What is this database do, like, in terms of what do we do?” Like, I mean, this is what we store our Identity Graph in. This has the graph of people's information. If we're trying to do identity verification for transactions or anything, for any of our products, I mean, we need to be able to query this database. It needs to be up.We have a certain requirement in terms of uptime, where we want it at least, like, four nines of uptime. So, we also want a solution that, hey, even if it wants to break, don't break that bad. [laugh]. There's a difference between, “Oh, a node failed and okay, like, we're good in 10, 20 seconds,” versus, “Oh, node failed. You lost data. You need to start reloading your dataset, or you can't query this anymore.” [laugh]. There's a very large difference between those two.Corey: A little bit, yeah. That's also a great story to drive things across. Like, “Really? What is this going to cost us if we pay for the enterprise version? Great. Is it going to be more than some extortionately large number because if we're down for three hours in the course of a year, that's we owe our customers back for not being able to deliver, so it seems to me this is kind of a no-brainer for things like that.”Jason: Yeah, exactly. And, like, that's part of the reason—I mean, a lot of the things we do at Ekata, we usually go with enterprise-level for a lot of things we do. And it's really for that support factor in helping reduce any potential downtime for what we have because, well, if we don't consider ourselves comfortable or expert-level in that subject, I mean, then yeah, if it goes down, that's terrible for our customers. I mean, it's needed for literally every single query that comes through us.Corey: I did want to ask you, but you keep talking about, “The database” and, “The cluster.” That seems like you have a single database or a single cluster that winds up being responsible for all of this. That feels like the blast radius of that thing going down must be enormous. Have you done any research into breaking that out into smaller databases? What is it that's driven you toward this architectural pattern?Jason: Yeah, so for right now, so we have actually three regions were deployed into. We have a copy of it in us-west in AWS, we have one an eu-central-1, and we also have one, an ap-southeast-1. So, we have a complete copy of this database in three separate regions, as well as we're spread across all the available availability zones for that region. So, we try and be as multi-AZ as we can within a specific region. So, we have thought about breaking it down, but having high availability, having multiple replication factors, having also, you know, it stored in multiple data centers, provides us at least a good level of comfortability.Specifically, in our US cluster, we actually have two. We literally also—with a lot of the cost savings that we got, we actually have two. We have one that literally sits idle 24/7 that we just call our backup and our standby where it's ready to go at a moment's notice. Thankfully, we haven't had to use it since I want to say its creation about a year-and-a-half ago, but it sits there in that doomsday scenario: “Oh, my gosh, this cluster literally cannot function anymore. Something crazy catastrophic happened,” and we can basically hot swap back into another production-ready cluster as needed, if needed.Because the really important thing is that if we broke it up into two separate databases if one of them goes down, that could still fail your entire query. Because what if that's the database that held your address? We can still query you, but we're going to try and get your address and well, there, your traversal just died because you can no longer get that. So, even trying to break it up doesn't really help us too much. We can still fail the entire traversal query.Corey: Yeah, which makes an awful lot of sense. Again, to be clear, you've obviously put thought into this goes way beyond the me hearing something in passing and saying, “Hey, you considered this thing?” Let's be very clear here. That is the sign of a terrible junior consultant. “Well, it sounds like what you built sucked. Did you consider building something that didn't suck?” “Oh, thanks, Professor. Really appreciate your pointing that out.” It's one of those useful things.Jason: It's like, “Oh, wow, we've been doing this for, I don't know, many, many years.” It's like, “Oh, wow, yeah. I haven't thought about that one yet.” [laugh].Corey: So, it sounds like you're relatively happy with how Redis has worked out for you as the primary data store. If you were doing it all again from scratch, would you make the same technology selection there or would you go in a different direction?Jason: Yeah, I think I'd make the same decision. I mean, we've been using Redis on Flash for at this point three, maybe coming up to four years at this point. There's a reason we keep renewing our contract and just keep continuing with them is because, to us, it just fits our use case so well, and we very much choose to continue going with this direction in this technology.Corey: What would you have them change as far as feature enhancements and new options being enabled there? Because remember, asking them right now in front of an audience like this puts them in a situation where they cannot possibly refuse. Please, how would you improve Redis from where it is now?Jason: I like how you think. That's [laugh] a [fair way to 00:28:42] to describe it. There's a couple of things for optimizations that can always be done. And, like, specifically with, like, Redis on Flash, there's some issue we had with storing as binary keys that to my knowledge hasn't necessarily been completed yet that basically prevents us from storing as binary, which has some amount of benefit because well, binary keys require less memory to store. When you're talking about 4 billion keys, even if you're just saving 20 bytes of key, like you're talking about potentially hundreds of gigabytes of savings once you—Corey: It adds up with the [crosstalk 00:29:13].Jason: Yeah, it adds up pretty quick. [laugh]. So, that's probably one of the big things that we've been in contact with them about fixing that hasn't gotten there yet. The other thing is, like, there's a couple of, like, random… gotchas that we had to learn along the way. It does add a little bit of complexity in our loading process.Effectively, when you first write a value into the database it'll write to RAM, but then once it gets flushed to flash, the database effectively asks itself, “Does this value already exist in flash?” Because once it's first written, it's just written to RAM, it isn't written to backing flash. And if it says, “No it's not,” the database then does a write to write it into Flash and then evict it out of RAM. That sounds pretty innocent, but if it already exists in flash when you read it, it says, “Hey, I need to evict this does it already exist in Flash?” “Yep.” “Okay, just chuck it away. It already exists, we're good.”It sounds pretty nice, but this is where we accidentally halted our database is once we started putting a huge amount of load on the cluster, our general throughput on peak day is somewhere in the order of 160 to 200,000 Redis operations per second. So, you're starting to think of, hey, you might be evicting 100,000 values per second into Flash, you're talking about added 100,000 operate or write operations per second into your cluster, and that accidentally halted our database. So, the way we actually go around this is once we write our data store, we actually basically read the whole thing once because if you read every single key, you pretty much guarantee to cycle everything into Flash, so it doesn't have to do any of those writes. For right now, there is no option to basically say that, if I write—for our use case, we do very little writes except for upfront, so it'd be super nice for our use case, if we can say, “Hey, our write operations, no, I want you to actually do a full write-through to flash.” Because, you know, that would effectively cut our entire database prep in half. We no longer had to do that read to cycle everything through. Those are probably the two big things, and one of the biggest gotchas that we ran into [laugh] that maybe it isn't, so known.Corey: I really want to thank you for taking the time to speak with me today. If people want to learn more, where can they find you? And I will also theorize wildly, that if you're like basically every other company out there right now, you're probably hiring on your team, too.Jason: Yeah, I very much am hiring; I'm actually hiring quite a lot right now. [laugh]. So, they can reach me, my email is simply jason.frazier@ekata.com. I unfortunately, don't have a Twitter handle. Or you can find me on LinkedIn. I'm pretty sure most people have LinkedIn nowadays.But yeah, and also feel free to reach out if you're also interested in learning more or opportunities, like I said, I'm hiring quite extensively. I'm specifically the team that builds our actual product APIs that we offer to customers, so a lot of the sort of latency optimizations that we do usually are kind of through my team, in coordination with all the other teams, since we need to build a new API with this requirement. How do we get that requirement? [laugh]. Like, let's go start exploring.Corey: Excellent. I will, of course, throw a link to that in the [show notes 00:32:10] as well. I want to thank you for spending the time to speak with me today. I really do appreciate it.Jason: Yeah. I appreciate you having me on. It's been a good chat.Corey: Likewise. I'm sure we will cross paths in the future, especially as we stumble through the wide world of, you know, data stores in AWS, and this ecosystem keeps getting bigger, but somehow feels smaller all the time.Jason: Yeah, exactly. You know, we'll still be where we are hopefully, approving all of your transactions as they go through, make sure that you don't run into any friction.Corey: Thank you once again, for speaking to me, I really appreciate it.Jason: No problem. Thanks again for having me.Corey: Jason Frazier, Software Engineering Manager at Ekata. This has been a promoted episode brought to us by our friends at Redis. I'm Cloud Economist Corey Quinn and this is Screaming in the Cloud. If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave a five-star review on your podcast platform of choice whereas if you've hated this podcast, please leave a five-star review on your podcast platform of choice along with an angry, insulting comment telling me that Enterprise Redis is ridiculous because you could build it yourself on a Raspberry Pi in only eight short months.Corey: If your AWS bill keeps rising and your blood pressure is doing the same, then you need The Duckbill Group. We help companies fix their AWS bill by making it smaller and less horrifying. The Duckbill Group works for you, not AWS. We tailor recommendations to your business and we get to the point. Visit duckbillgroup.com to get started.Announcer: This has been a HumblePod production. Stay humble.

Part 1 - Martin Matiske aka Blackploid interview & selections* iNFO & 4th Genome - Bass Agenda Intro Martin Matiske - Mujina Blackploid - Interstellar Space Blackploid - The Race Martin Matiske - Acting Faces Blackploid - Night Drive Martin Matiske - Computer Dance Blackploid - The Unseen Dave Clarke - Wisdom to the Wise Giorgio Moroder - Chase Sven Vath - Schubduse (Anthony Rother mix) Kraftwerk - It's More Fun to Compute Stephan - Wir Wollen Tanzen Gehn Serge Vella - Airport Martin Matiske - Manifesto Nashi Martin Matiske - Loving Me Part 2 - EKATA guest mix DJ Frankie - Nuclear Threat ADJ - Welcome To The Future 2012 N.A.M - Ring of Saturn Carlos Native - P-374E Vertical Invader - Sunrise On Mars Gravitational Effect - Astrodynamics Amper Clap - Sinthesizer Fleck E.S.C - Coffin Riders Bytecon - Attack of The Clones Vadim SVD - The Mystery of The Solar System N-Ter - Sophisticated Operator Sonar Base - The Deadly Storms of Uranus Atix - Revolutions BPMF - Divide The Slide The Hidden Persuader - There's No Respect DPCLD - Robotronic Reality Mind_unit - Evil Identity Part 3 - New music round-up CYRK - Technique Silicon Scally - Amino The Hidden Persuader - Trust Issues Sentient State - Model 5000 Mezer - Dystopia Arnaud is Dancing - Complex Storage QNTM CTRL - Random Value *Loop in background of some interview parts taken from Martin Matiske - Kanpeki Ni Kunren Sa Reta

Bienvenid@s al último episodio del 2021. Y me hace muy feliz celebrarlo con una charla muy muy especial. Hoy me vuelvo a encontrar con Ved y Ekata de EL MANTRA UN CAMINO DE LUZ Ekata y Ved son una unión energías: por un lado la Astrología, la cual conciben como la ciencia que desnuda el inconsciente de la persona que tienen presente, y por otro lado, la Psicología, trabajando con la parte consciente de esa persona, poniendo entre ambos orden y practicidad a esos procesos mentales.En sus encuentros grupales de mantras con su proyecto @elmantrauncaminodeluz han viajado de gira por numerosas localidades, donde logran ahondar en el alma de los asistentes y en la conciencia humana, aportando luz y vibras muy, muy sanadoras. En sus sesiones privadas continúan ayudando a cada persona que acude a ellos a esclarecer sus dudas más existenciales… y las más mundanas también, mediante muchísimas herramientas, según las necesidades que vean en cada persona: Par Biomagnético, técnicas de Programación neuro lingüística, Flores de Bach… el poder de los mantras, la carta astral, psicología…Y lo se de buena tinta. He participado en varios encuentros de mantras con ellos y trabajado con Ekata y con Ved a nivel individual. Es un trabajo profundo, amable, de escucha y de muchas respuestas.Al final del episodio Ekata nos ofrece, un mantra que podremos recitar el dia 31 (o cuando se quiera... tienen un poder inmenso) + un ritual que podemos hacer esas horas antes de entrar en 2022.Es un placer reencontrarme con Ved y Ekata de El Mantra un camino de Luz.Gracias por estar ahí.A continuación os dejo sus contactos y los textos de los mantras para recitar el 31 de diciembre.SUSCRÍBETE, VALORA ESTE PODCAST (y deja un comentario): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/existo-radio/id1537382269?uo=4NOTAS DEL PODCAST:COMPRA TU CAMISETA CONSCIENTE EXISTO 100% ORGANICA, VEGANA, SOSTENIBLE:https://onstage.es/exi-s-to/1266-5696-camiseta-existo.html#/3-color-beige/84-talla-xsCONECTA CON EKATA DE "EL MANTRA UN CAMINO DE LUZ":INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/elmantrauncaminodeluz/FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/vedyekataMANTRAS:1) 9 x OMEs el sonido del Universo, el de la Unidad.2) 9 x Dhan Dhan Ram Das Guru3) Al final Ekata recitará el mantra completo 11 veces apra que podais reproducirlo al terminar y al empezar el año.******CONECTA CONMIGO, TU HOST DEL PODCAST, ALEX PIÑEIRO***********:Escucha todos los episodios aquí: https://www.existoradio.com/podcastexistoradioInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/exi_s_to/Twitter: https://twitter.com/exi_s_toFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/existoenexitoPinterest: https://www.pinterest.es/pin/712624341033391213/Web: existoradio.comWorkshops Magnéticos, Talleres, sesiones privadas de Coaching Creativo, Pranayama y Meditación en: https://www.existoradio.com/eventosCURSO ONLINE: Nuevo curso online sobre MENTE, MINIMALISMO, IDENTIDAD, ESTILO Y ÉXITO - (MMIEE).https://hotmart.com/product/mmiee-mente-minimalismo-identidad-estilo-exito/I45979838XCódigo descuento: MEUNOAMMIEE20COMPRA TU CAMISETA CONSCIENTE EXISTO 100% ORGANICA, VEGANA, SOSTENIBLE:https://onstage.es/exi-s-to/1266-5696-camiseta-existo.html#/3-color-beige/84-talla-xs¡GRACIAS POR COMPARTIR ESTO POR DONDE QUIERAS!

Riten Gohil, partner and co-founder at compliance and risk technology firm Sphonic joins us on this latest episode of the What the Fintech? podcast. We cover a ranger of topics, including Mastercard acquiring Ekata in a $850 million deal, Robinhood's take on "elitist" regulators, and Santander's migration of its IT infrastructure to the cloud. In our discussion section, we talk about whether fintech has grown "too cool for school" in its own opinion, and whether regulators need more support in terms of talent to better control a sector that can sometimes leave retail users behind. Stay tuned for the end of the show, where we discover what buzzword Riten wants to lock away in our Fintech Jail! Subscribe to the FinTech Futures newsletter: www.bit.ly/ffpodnewsletter What the Fintech is brought to you by the team behind www.fintechfutures.com and the Banking Technology Magazine.

This week's top story: How a business benefits when implementing multi-factor authentication, with Mindle Hastings, product manager at Kount. Also this week, Kount discusses: Mastercard's agreement to buy digital ID verification startup Ekata, how China's decision to allow the use of digital Yuan at the 2022 Olympics will open up the opportunity for fraud, why Domino's Pizza testing of delivery via self-driving cars is making fraudsters hungry, and why Twitch is banning 7 million bots to cut back inflated view counts. #Kount5in5

Ouça nosso compilado semanal das principais notícias que aconteceram no cenário fintech no Brasil e no mundo! O Boletim conta com o patrocínio da Conductor, plataforma líder na América Latina em meios de pagamento e Banking as a Service. A Conductor atende as principais fintechs, bancos, varejistas e diferentes empresas, permitindo que ofereçam soluções de pagamento inovadoras a seus clientes. Acesse www.conductor.com.br e entenda melhor como transformar o seu negócio! Nesta edição: - Fintech Warren recebe aporte de R$ 300 milhões liderado pelo GIC; - A Ame Digital, fintech da B2W, adquire a plataforma de empréstimos Nexoos; - A plataforma de cashback Méliuz adquire o Grupo Acesso, especializado em soluções de pagamento; - A operadora Vivo lança a Vivo Pay, sua conta digital gratuita; - Omie, empresa de ERP para PMEs, e o Mercado Pago avançam em suas ofertas financeiras; - A Brex, fintech que provê soluções financeiras para empresas, levanta US$ 425 milhões e atinge valuation de US$ 7,4 bilhões; - A Mastercard adquire a Ekata, empresa focada em verificação de identidade, por US$ 850 milhões.; - A fintech Paxos, focada em infraestrutura para o mercado cripto, levanta $300 milhões e atinge valuation de US$ 2,4 bilhões; - Mercado Livre passa a aceitar bitcoins como pagamentos de imóveis na Argentina; - A instituição financeira norte-america US Bancorp passa a ofertar serviços de custódia de criptoativos; - A corretora de criptoativos Binance revela planos de lançar marketplace de NFTs; - Pesquisa realizada pelo site AltFi aponta que 22% das fintechs que passaram pelo sandbox regulatório britânico fecharam as portas; - Na China, reguladores seguem implementando duras medidas em relação às empresas de tecnologia atuando em serviços financeiros. Estamos também no Instagram, Facebook, Youtube, LinkedIn e Spotify! Siga-nos em: https://www.instagram.com/fintechtalksbr https://www.facebook.com/fintechtalksbr/ https://www.youtube.com/fintechtalks https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/fintech-talks/ https://open.spotify.com/show/2AVngeMgLIO7r8cqwGYBPY

Mehrere US-Banken haben damit begonnen, Kamerasoftware einzusetzen, mit der Kundenpräferenzen analysiert, Mitarbeiter überwacht und Personen entdeckt werden können, die in der Nähe von Geldautomaten schlafen, auch wenn sie sich weiterhin über mögliche Rückschläge bei der verstärkten Überwachung im Klaren sind, teilten mehr als ein Dutzend Banken- und Technologiequellen Reuters mit. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/insight-u-banks-deploy-ai-123931469.html Da das Online-Identitätsmanagement immer wichtiger wird, stürzte Mastercard heute Morgen und kaufte das Identitätsprüfungsunternehmen Ekata für 850 Millionen US-Dollar. https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/19/mastercard-is-acquiring-identity-verification-company-ekata-for-850m Studenten, die künstliche Intelligenz entweder im Grundstudium oder im Hochschulstudium studieren, könnten einen Teil ihrer Ausbildung bezahlen, indem sie sich bereit erklären, nach dem Abschluss für eine Bundesbehörde zu arbeiten. https://www.federaltimes.com/management/hr/2021/04/21/ai-scholarships-to-be-offered-for-federal-service-under-proposed-bill/ Das FBI sagt, es habe Gesichtserkennungstechnologie eingesetzt, um eine Person aufzuspüren und zu verhaften, die verdächtigt wird, Anfang dieses Jahres an den Unruhen im US-Kapitol teilgenommen zu haben. https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/21/22395323/fbi-facial-recognition-us-capital-riots-tracked-down-suspect Arbeiter haben lange befürchtet, dass die Automatisierung ihre Arbeit übernehmen würde, und COVID-19 verschärfte diese Sorgen. https://zapier.com/blog/state-of-business-automation-2021/ Visit www.integratedaisolutions.com

Podcast jest dostępny także w formie newslettera: https://ainewsletter.integratedaisolutions.com/ Kilka amerykańskich banków zaczęło wdrażać oprogramowanie do kamer, które może analizować preferencje klientów, monitorować pracowników i dostrzegać osoby śpiące w pobliżu bankomatów, nawet jeśli zachowują ostrożność co do możliwej reakcji na zwiększony nadzór, powiedział Reuterowi kilkanaście źródeł bankowych i technologicznych. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/insight-u-banks-deploy-ai-123931469.html Wraz ze wzrostem znaczenia zarządzania tożsamością online, Mastercard wkroczył dziś rano i kupił firmę weryfikującą tożsamość Ekata za 850 milionów dolarów. https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/19/mastercard-is-acquiring-identity-verification-company-ekata-for-850m Studenci studiujący sztuczną inteligencję na poziomie licencjackim lub magisterskim mogą opłacić część swojej edukacji, wyrażając zgodę na pracę w agencji federalnej po ukończeniu studiów, zgodnie z przepisami wprowadzonymi przez Sens. https://www.federaltimes.com/management/hr/2021/04/21/ai-scholarships-to-be-offered-for-federal-service-under-proposed-bill/ FBI twierdzi, że wykorzystało technologię rozpoznawania twarzy do wyśledzenia i aresztowania osoby podejrzanej o udział w zamieszkach w Kapitolu w USA na początku tego roku. https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/21/22395323/fbi-facial-recognition-us-capital-riots-tracked-down-suspect Pracownicy od dawna obawiali się, że automatyzacja zabierze im pracę, a COVID-19 nasilił te obawy. https://zapier.com/blog/state-of-business-automation-2021/ Odwiedź www.integratedaisolutions.com

Several U.S. banks have begun deploying camera software that can analyze customer preferences, monitor employees, and detect people sleeping near ATMs, even if they remain aware of possible setbacks in increased surveillance, shared more than a dozen banking and technology sources using Reuters. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/insight-u-banks-deploy-ai-123931469.html With online identity management becoming increasingly important, Mastercard plunged this morning and bought identity verification company Ekata for $ 850 million. https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/19/mastercard-is-acquiring-identity-verification-company-ekata-for-850m Students studying Artificial Intelligence in either undergraduate or graduate degrees could pay for part of their education by agreeing to work for a federal agency after graduation. https://www.federaltimes.com/management/hr/2021/04/21/ai-scholarships-to-be-offered-for-federal-service-under-proposed-bill/ The FBI says it used facial recognition technology to track down and arrest a person suspected of participating in the riot in the U.S. Capitol earlier this year. https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/21/22395323/fbi-facial-recognition-us-capital-riots-tracked-down-suspect Workers have long feared automation would take over, and COVID-19 exacerbated those worries. https://zapier.com/blog/state-of-business-automation-2021/ Visit www.integratedaisolutions.com

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Software-as-a-service (SaaS) startup Whatfix is in active talks to raise $80-90 million as a part of its Series D round, led by SoftBank Vision Fund II, at a valuation of $500-550 million.The talks with US-based Whatfix come a year after the startup raised $32 million as a part of its Series C round led by Sequoia Capital India. Existing investors, including Sequoia India, are expected to participate in the round, said the people mentioned above.Druva, a data-protection startup that counts US space agency NASA and drugmaker Pfizer among its customers, has received $147 million investment as it rapidly scales in response to accelerated demand for its platform. The fundraise was led by Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), a global investment group, The round has increased the Pune and California-based company's valuation above $2 billion. The financing round also included participation from existing investors Viking Global Investors and Atreides Management.Virdee, an Austin, Texas-based SaaS company delivering digital check-in and virtual concierge services to the hospitality and commercial real estate industries, received a strategic financing from SaaS investors, bringing total seed funding to $4M. Backers included Silverton Partners, LiveOak Venture Partners, and DJR Advisors.As online identity management grows in importance, Mastercard swooped in and bought identity verification company Ekata for $850 million. Mastercard certainly sees the rapid digital transformation that is happening in online commerce, a move that was accelerated by COVID. It's a transformation that once started isn't likely to change back to the old ways of doing business, even when we get past the pandemic.Atlassian today announced that it has acquired Brisbane, Australia-based ThinkTilt, the company behind the popular Jira-centric no-code/low-code form builder ProForma. The two companies did not disclose the price of the acquisition. The acquisition is meant to help strengthen Jira Service Management, Atlassian's version of Jira that focuses on IT service management (ITSM). 

US stocks fell Monday. Plus, Mastercard buys Ekata, Harley-Davidson's sales climb, and the UK government may launch a digital currency.

US stocks fell Monday. Plus, Mastercard buys Ekata, Harley-Davidson’s sales climb, and the UK government may launch a digital currency.

Bienvenid@s al ultimo episodio del 2020. Y me hace muy feliz celebrarlo con una charla muy muy especial. La historia de Ekata, Psicóloga y co fundadora de EL MANTRA UN CAMINO DE LUZ No se puede definir sin anticiparos que es una gran buscadora de la verdad.Desde niña se hacia preguntas del tipo “para que vivimos”, “que es la vida”, “que somos”, “donde estamos”, “que es el universo”En esta búsqueda siempre ha habido un acercamiento a la Iglesia. Desde pequeña ha estado muy implicada en la ella. Tanto es asi que a los 16 años le confesó a su madre que quería ser monja. En ese momento, la respuesta de su madre fue tajante: No. Por respeto al "no" de su madre, Ekata decide llevar la espiritualidad por dentro, a nivel personal, y continuar sus estudios “normales” de Bachillerato.Decide estudiar la carrera Psicologia, como manera de encontrar respuestas a todas esas preguntas que le seguían apareciendo.A lo largo de 5 años de carrera encontró respuestas, pero no todas las que buscaba.A mitad de sus estudios sufre dos derrames cerebrales, pasando 40 días y 40 noches ingresada en un hospital, parte en la UVI. Pese a ser una situación límite así, dice Ekata que es una experiencia enriquecedora que le acerca mas a la divinidad.Tras dos operaciones que fueron milagrosamente todo un éxito, continua sus estudios y termina su carrera de Psicología sacando sobresalientes y matriculas de honor. Interesada siempre en ayudar al otro, tanto individual como a nivel social, se especializa en adicciones, relajación y sugestión y de dirección de centros sociales.Su larga trayectoria como psicóloga le llevó a hacer terapias de grupo como voluntaria para la sociedad de ostomizados de Madrid.Cada vez que ha vivido una crisis, se ha sentido mas cerca de la divinidad. Al fallecer su madre comienza a formarse en terapias alternativas como Reiki, Ho oponopono, Louise Hay, El Poder de la Palabra, Meditación Budista… y llega hasta Amma en India. En uno de sus muchos viajes a India conoce el poder de los Mantras. A través de la práctica de estas palabras en Sánscrito que ella ni siquiera entendía, se dio cuenta de que se sentía feliz y desapegada de todo… lo que le llevó a practicar el canto de mantras a diario. Su vida personal ahí dio un giro. Se dio cuenta que necesitaba AMOR y ESTAR EN SU ESENCIA.En este proceso conoce a Ved, a quien habéis conocido ya en nuestro episodio anterior (009) de Existo Radio.Ahí es cuando unen sus fuerzas, La Psicología de Ekata y la Astrología de Ved.En esta unión de energías está por un lado la Astrología, la cual conciben como la ciencia que desnuda el inconsciente de la persona que tienen presente, y por otro lado, la Psicología, trabajando con la parte consciente de esa persona, poniendo entre ambos orden y practicidad a esos procesos mentales.En sus encuentros grupales de mantras con su proyecto @elmantrauncaminodeluz han viajado de gira por numerosas localidades, donde logran ahondar en el alma de los asistentes y en la conciencia humana, aportando luz y vibras muy, muy sanadoras. En sus sesiones privadas continúan ayudando a cada persona que acude a ellos a esclarecer sus dudas más existenciales… y las más mundanas también, mediante muchísimas herramientas, según las necesidades que vean en cada persona: Par Biomagnético, técnicas de Programación neuro lingüística, Flores de Bach… el poder de los mantras, la carta astral, psicología…Y lo se de buena tinta. He participado en varios encuentros de mantras con ellos y trabajado con Ekata y con Ved a nivel individual. Es un trabajo profundo, amable, de escucha y de muchas respuestas.Al final del episodio Elata nos ofrece, junto a otro angel de El Mantra un Camino de Luz, Chidananda, una secuencia de mantras que podremos recitar el dia 31 (o cuando se quiera... tienen un poder inmenso) + un ritual que podemos hacer esas horas antes de entrar en 2021.Es un placer presentaros a Ekata de El Mantra un camino de Luz.Gracias por estar ahí.A continuación os dejo sus contactos y los textos de los mantras para recitar el 31 de diciembre.SUSCRÍBETE, VALORA ESTE PODCAST (y deja un comentario): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/existo-radio/id1537382269?uo=4NOTAS DEL PODCAST:COMPRA TU CAMISETA CONSCIENTE EXISTO 100% ORGANICA, VEGANA, SOSTENIBLE:https://onstage.es/exi-s-to/1266-5696-camiseta-existo.html#/3-color-beige/84-talla-xsCONECTA CON EKATA DE "EL MANTRA UN CAMINO DE LUZ":INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/elmantrauncaminodeluz/FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/vedyekataMANTRAS:1) 9 x OMEs el sonido del Universo, el de la Unidad.2) 9 x OM GAM GANAPATAYE NAMAHA"Invoco al señor de la inteligencia que elimina los obstáculos y nos trae fortuna"Ganesha representa el perfecto equilibrio entre las energías supremas masculina y femenina (shiva y shakti), entre la fuerza y bondad.Trae buena suerte, otorga prosperidad y fortuna en todos los ámbitos de nuestra vida. De ahí que se le invoque antes de realizar una actividad mundana o espiritual, pues elimina cualquier obstáculo y nos protege de todo.3) OM SRIM MAHALAKSMYAI NAMAHA"Saludamos a la Diosa de la FORTUNA".Nos trae abundancia, buena suerte y todo tipo de riquezas materiales y espirituales a nuestra vida.CONECTA CONMIGO: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/exi_s_to/Twitter: https://twitter.com/exi_s_toFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/existoenexitoPinterest: https://www.pinterest.es/pin/712624341033391213/Web: existoradio.comCOMPRA TU CAMISETA CONSCIENTE EXISTO 100% ORGANICA, VEGANA, SOSTENIBLE:https://onstage.es/exi-s-to/1266-5696-camiseta-existo.html#/3-color-beige/84-talla-xs¡GRACIAS POR COMPARTIR ESTO POR DONDE QUIERAS!¡MUCHO AMOR!

Ved Toll es Astrólogo y co-fundador de El Mantra Un Camino De Luz.Durante gran parte de su infancia y juventud Ved se rodeó de personas influyentes a nivel espiritual, lo cual le ayudó a emprender su propio camino hacia adentro.Tras una cadena de accidentes de trafico que ocurrieron en su vida, Ved se planteaba el por qué se repetían las mismas situaciones o pruebas en su camino. Así apareció la herramienta de la Astrología en su vida, integrándola con sus diferentes profesiones en su profunda búsqueda espiritual. Una severa crisis interna y externa le llevó a continuar su camino espiritual de una forma mucho más profunda.Sus viajes a India le llevaron a estudiar la Astrología desde un lugar diferente, más que ver con la espiritualidad, con el alma, que sería la Astrología Védica, mas relacionada con los trabajos del alma.En 2008 fue cuando Ved y Ekata, psicóloga (que conoceréis en una próxima charla de Existo Radio y co fundadora con Ved de El Mantra un Camino de Luz) entran en contacto, durante su colaboración en una ONG.Por el 2011 comienzan a colaborar trabajando la Astrología de un modo terapéutico para ayudar en procesos emocionales y psicológicos a las personas a las que ponen luz en sus sesiones privadas y grupales.Ahora integran Astrología, Psicología, Par Biomagnético, Flores de Bach, Mantras y mucho más en el acercamiento a la luz a las personas que llaman a su puerta o aparezcan en su camino.Os recomiendo que os quedéis hasta el final de esta charla… más que nada porque todos sabemos que vivimos momentos extremos, históricos…. Y se que las palabras de Ved pueden ayudarnos a discernir, aligerar y tomar acción frente a situaciones "desafiantes" en estos días… y, además, son enseñanzas para toda la vida.Espero que. Lo disfrutéis.SUSCRÍBETE, VALORA ESTE PODCAST (y deja un comentario): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/existo-radio/id1537382269?uo=4NOTAS DEL PODCAST:COMPRA TU CAMISETA CONSCIENTE EXISTO 100% ORGANICA, VEGANA, SOSTENIBLE:https://onstage.es/exi-s-to/1266-5696-camiseta-existo.html#/3-color-beige/84-talla-xsCONECTA CON VED TOLL:INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/elmantrauncaminodeluz/FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/vedyekataCONECTA CONMIGO: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/exi_s_to/Twitter: https://twitter.com/exi_s_toFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/existoenexitoPinterest: https://www.pinterest.es/pin/712624341033391213/Web: existoradio.com¡GRACIAS POR COMPARTIR ESTO POR DONDE QUIERAS!¡MUCHO AMOR!

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Nice guy Community, how important is trust to you….as a customer, it drives your decisions. As a seller it's a key component of what gets your customers in the door and more importantly, it's what keeps them coming back for more of you. Now, I just met him and already I trust him, today's Nice Guys guest is Rob Eleveld, he's the CEO of Ekata, Inc.(Eeee-Caught-Uh), where he brings his 20+ years of hands-on B2B executive strategy, market-driven product development, and operational experience to lead the charge in Ekata's global expansion. A proud veteran, Rob spent 5 years on active duty as an officer in the United States Navy, serving a 3 year tour aboard the USS Batfish, a fast attack nuclear submarine.   Connect with Dr. Rob Eleveld: Website: https://ekata.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robeleveld     Nice Sponsors: Get your free E-Book 5 Ways to Make Money Podcasting at www.Turnkeypodcast.com/gift Check out the "Entrepreneur's Toolkit" Giveaway   Check out Headliner to create social media posts with video easily- make.headliner.app   Simplecast is the easiest way to set up your podcast hosting- Simplecast.com   Zoom is the easiest way to schedule meetings and record your podcast interviews- Zoom.us   Acuity is the easiest way to schedule your podcast interviews, meetings, and life. Acuityscheduling.com   See how The Nice Guys want to make your life easier? You can thank us later.   Reach The Nice Guys Here:  Doug- @DJDoug  Strickland- @NiceGuyonBiz    Nice Important Links:   Subscribe to the Podcast  website: Niceguysonbusiness.com  Book Doug and/or Strick as a speaker at your upcoming event.  Doug's Amazon #1 Best selling book Nice Guys Finish First.     Partner Links:  Amazon.com: Click before buying anything. Help support the podcast.  Acuity Scheduling: Stop wasting time going back and forth scheduling appointments Simply the best VO guy in the business- https://steveobrienvo.com/   TurnKey Podcast Productions Important Links: The Ultimate Podcast Launch Formula  www.turnkeypodcast.com/ultimatelaunchformula  FREE workshop on how to "Be A Great Guest." Free E-Book 5 Ways to Make Money Podcasting at www.Turnkeypodcast.com/gift     No time to get to this, but you can read the blog here: 12 worries that every entrepreneur has   Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it. 

Nice guy Community, how important is trust to you….as a customer, it drives your decisions. As a seller it's a key component of what gets your customers in the door and more importantly, it's what keeps them coming back for more of you. Now, I just met him and already I trust him, today's Nice Guys guest is Rob Eleveld, he's the CEO of Ekata, Inc.(Eeee-Caught-Uh), where he brings his 20+ years of hands-on B2B executive strategy, market-driven product development, and operational experience to lead the charge in Ekata's global expansion. A proud veteran, Rob spent 5 years on active duty as an officer in the United States Navy, serving a 3 year tour aboard the USS Batfish, a fast attack nuclear submarine.   Connect with Dr. Rob Eleveld: Website: https://ekata.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robeleveld     Nice Sponsors: Get your free E-Book 5 Ways to Make Money Podcasting at www.Turnkeypodcast.com/gift Check out the "Entrepreneur's Toolkit" Giveaway   Check out Headliner to create social media posts with video easily- make.headliner.app   Simplecast is the easiest way to set up your podcast hosting- Simplecast.com   Zoom is the easiest way to schedule meetings and record your podcast interviews- Zoom.us   Acuity is the easiest way to schedule your podcast interviews, meetings, and life. Acuityscheduling.com   See how The Nice Guys want to make your life easier? You can thank us later.   Reach The Nice Guys Here:  Doug- @DJDoug  Strickland- @NiceGuyonBiz    Nice Important Links:   Subscribe to the Podcast  website: Niceguysonbusiness.com  Book Doug and/or Strick as a speaker at your upcoming event.  Doug's Amazon #1 Best selling book Nice Guys Finish First.     Partner Links:  Amazon.com: Click before buying anything. Help support the podcast.  Acuity Scheduling: Stop wasting time going back and forth scheduling appointments Simply the best VO guy in the business- https://steveobrienvo.com/   TurnKey Podcast Productions Important Links: The Ultimate Podcast Launch Formula  www.turnkeypodcast.com/ultimatelaunchformula  FREE workshop on how to "Be A Great Guest." Free E-Book 5 Ways to Make Money Podcasting at www.Turnkeypodcast.com/gift     No time to get to this, but you can read the blog here: 12 worries that every entrepreneur has   Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it. 

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