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Hey Hackers! I'm and I'm currently working as an Assistant Manager - Content Strategist at Valasys Media. I am glad to announce that I have been nominated for the 2022 Noonies Award. Priya Kumari A huge thanks to the HackerNoon community and staff for considering me worthy of this opportunity. I've been nominated in the following 9 (by the way, the number 9 in spirituality represents the completion of a cycle; also my destiny number 😊😊😊) categories and if you like my writing, please do check out these award pages and proud the vote button against my name by clicking: HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- AMAZON HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- CICD HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- CLOUD-COMPUTING HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- CODING-SKILLS HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- DEVOPS HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- KUBERNETES HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- MICROSERVICES HackerNoon Contributor of the Year- AWS Cheeky Genius of the Year As a tech writer, I believe that the most exciting technology of the present is AIOps (Artificial Intelligence in IT Operations) because it adds more insight and automation to enable seamless operationalization of the traditional DevOps tasks, largely by evolving effective use of cloud and cloud-native ecosystem for sources and operationalizing IT resources. The cloud-native ecosystem directed at simplifying IT Operations and Management (O&M) brings into play AIOps which has revolutionalized the IT world by better-allowing organizations to run scalable applications. Parallelly, AIOps has also fueled the proliferation of analogous technologies such as containerization and container orchestration and monitoring tools such as Kubernetes and Prometheus. AIOps coupled with container adoption and the orchestration tools, Kubernetes primarily, allows enterprises to streamline, orchestrate and optimize data flow, and provides greater flexibility in helping the organizations deploy their services. A consistent flow of pipeline operationalization is maintained wherein everything is monitored and resolved almost in real-time. As the human intervention is minimal this saves enterprises thousands of hours manually seeking the hidden sources of errors and trying to fix them. Also, AIOps enables organizations to anticipate and reciprocate potential future threats well in time by risk assessment and mitigation. Learn more about my thoughts and opinions on AIOps and my journey in the tech industry via the interview below. 1. Tell us about your journey. What do you do and what do you love about it? I started my career in Life Sciences and was a hard-core research scholar for two years post the completion of my post-graduation. I had a flair for writing and was doing well in the projects (primarily Cytology and Cytogenetics) that I laid my hands on. After dedicating two years to Life Science research, I switched to the role of a Business Analyst. Having a statistical background, I was able to solve real-time business problems quickly. I think the thing that I love the best about my journey is that I am able to amalgamate the power of emotional, empathetic, and compassionate storytelling with the power of data. As a technology writer, you still need to speak to the audience in an impactful way that involves appealing to both the emotional and logical sides of the spectrum. I love the fact that creating thought leadership content has immense power and how it can play a pivotal role in inspiring positive transformations in the lives of people around us. 2. Tell us more about your work. What do you make/write/manage/build? I operate with a philosophy of choosing corporations and collaborations over the competition. I am blessed and grateful for the fact that pretty early in my career I learned the power of teamwork. At the end of the day, it's all about people and teams; individual contributions matter and should be highly acclaimed but the fact is ultimately the teams win remains undisputed. Though I also believe that individual contributions deserve all the honor in the world. I work within a fast-paced and agile setup. Currently, I am working with a B2B Media Publisher company Valasys Media and head a really small but dynamic team of 4 content writers that report directly to me. We are all ‘CreativeOps Crusaders,’ as I lovingly and elatedly call my team, who work closely with each other and cross-departmentally to create high-quality technical content. I along with my team am working on several new home-grown and client side of ventures. Some pivotal ones include assimilating intent data into creating highly convertible content pieces including all kinds of lead magnets, landing pages, white papers, and case studies, and working closely with a team of instructional designers to infuse that visual magic to enhance the appeal of the content and working on designing and orchestrating a seamless and invincible multichannel marketing to accentuate ROI for our clients. I am also working to educate myself about how we can infuse the latest technological innovations into our MarTech stack. The practice of designing a well-thought-of PR Strategy for the in-house and client side of things is something I specialize in. I have worked with some reputable journalists from Thrive Global, and the CIO Group of Magazines and have recently interviewed the . PR Man - Maxim Behar When it comes to exploring and bringing technical innovations in marketing and advertising endeavors, I follow the trends but I also learn a lot by experimenting and innovating my own unique hacks experientially. And, that's important because that's what makes us who we are instead of just being clones or replicas of each other. In the former case, the downside of blindly following the trends is that you never realize when your passion for work takes the shape of monotony or all sorts of mid-career crises, whatever way you want to put it across as. 3. How did you start writing? What made you choose HackerNoon for publishing your work? I come from a family where writing runs in the blood and also inherit this logical approach to problem-solving from my late grandfather who was a renowned scientist. I had a knack for writing since my childhood days. Though professionally I embraced writing only after my post-graduation. I initially chose Hackernoon for guest blogging as it is a highly credible website with very high domain authority. Soon after, before I could realize it, I was smitten and awestruck by the amazing community at Hackernoon – ranging from editors to individual contributors all of them are amazing. Before I could realize it I had become a regular contributor to the platform. I love being visible and having a voice amongst several like-minded people on the platform. Hackernoon has become a part of my habit, my daily ritual, and somehow every noon I have a few minutes to devote to Hackernoon. I am enjoying publishing my work here and getting immense respect and exposure as a writer. I think being on the platform has been among the most fulfilling career experiences. 4. What excites you in tech? Tell us about your favorite technology and why you are passionate about it. The most interesting thing about technology is its dynamism and impact. So what's trending today may very well become obsolete 10 years down the line. However, if someone is able to precognitive analyze the impact of any emerging tech even before it becomes a trend and amalgamate it into solving business problems; that's when he/she can make the most of it. So, even if that technology is merely ephemeral, you'll be able to make the hay while the sun shines. So three things are important here: a) being someone who can develop a futuristic vision for technology to harness its complete potential (a great community helps in that) and b) being someone who can think of bringing an emerging technology as an integral part of initiating crucial business innovation and c) being someone who can develop a community around that technology to pave the way for the evolution of the technology to solve real-time business problems (which will make that technology thrive and prevent it from being obsolete sooner). At this point, my favorite technology is AIOps and allied cloud-native technologies such as Kubernetes. AIOps is the practice of bringing artificial intelligence into IT operations to help enterprises optimize their IT footprint and to help them simplify the ever-increasing complexities of their infrastructure, services, and applications. AIOps is an evolving field and according to Gartner, its global market share is expected to grow at an annual rate of 43.7% and reach 3.12 billion by 2025. Another crucial report from IDC titled 'Worldwide Future of Digital Infrastructure Predictions' published in 2022 affirms that almost 90% of the Global 2000 CIOs by the end of the year 2026 will employ AIOps solutions to optimize their SDLC processes for cost and performance and key performance metrics. AIOps will also aid them to develop a more resilient and automated business remediation process for improved business resiliency and agility. The increasing adoption of AIOps catalyzes and is almost synchronous with proliferation in the adoption of cloud-native operationalization and maintenance technologies (such as increasing adoption of open source platforms primarily Docker for containerization, and the increase in the adoption of container orchestration tools Kubernetes in particular and in turn the tools for Kubernetes ecosystem monitoring such as Prometheus). Gartner predicts that by the year 2022, more than 75% of global organizations will be running leveraging containerized applications in production & the worldwide container management revenue will surge from $465.8 million in 2020 to reach $944 million in 2024. As AIOps keeps on addressing crucial O&M challenges, it leads to the proliferation of cloud and cloud-native ecosystems to solve the most obvious problems of business operationalization such as distribution, and risk perceptions. 5. What were some of the challenges you faced being a tech writer and how did you overcome them? I've been a writer for over 8 years and one of the challenges I face as a technical journalist is late or last-minute changes to the product or services that need to be addressed in the technical documents. These changes are typically made after I have tried to extract all the relevant information from a subject matter expert. This means that I am often left without a final deadline until the next day when new information becomes available. The lack of time has caused many delays in my work and therefore, for an increase in productivity proactivity is required more than anything else. It's absolutely paramount if one wants results within time frames. At times, I was faced with tight deadlines. The job is not always glamorous. Nonetheless, I saw it as a chance to grow as a professional and improve my skills. Wrapping up a project was not always fun for me because of the time pressures and lack of information about my audience. Working under pressure helped me become more efficient in completing tasks within limited time frames. If you want to make technical writing your profession, you have to know how difficult it will be at times but how rewarding the end result can be. 6. What are you learning/reading currently? Any recommendations for our readers? I am currently training myself on MLOps. MLOps presents the opportunity to learn about Machine Learning, deploying code and software in production. The core concepts are based on the focus on building applications that support the business. This can be easily achieved by learning about the technical aspects of machine learning and how it enhances your existing processes. My advice to readers is technology has several interdisciplinary aspects, such as Big Data, Cloud Computing, and Machine Learning. Try to look at why you need technology in the first place and understand the business use case before you delve deeper into getting a hands-on experience on the core technology and its interdisciplinary "essential complementary technologies." Also, focus on being a part of flourishing open source communities and share your knowledge as much as you can. Hackernoon is also an impeccable community that amplifies the power of a technology writer 100x because of an awesome community that it's built around and thrives on. 7. What is your biggest achievement so far? This question can be answered in multiple ways. To start with the question has both personal & professional significance, and importantly so. I think being a good daughter to my parents is an achievement, and so is being a trustworthy employee. I think my biggest achievement is that I have been able to transform myself and turn into who I wanted to be. My parents have always pushed me to aim high and achieve great heights, this has also helped me become a better person overall. I have always believed that more than seeking a work-life balance, integrating work-life is more essential. Personal accomplishments are important because they have ripple effects on the professional side too. The biggest achievement though remains the ability to impact and influence people's lives positively. Tangibly, having been featured in Noonies 2022 nominations and having interviewed for this platform remains amongst the biggest achievements as it has accentuated my professional branding quotient multifold, establishing me as a multi-facet technology writer, after being nominated in so many categories for 2022. 8. If we gave you 10 million dollars to invest in something today, what would you invest in and why? I would love to invest in democratizing technology for a large community. Technology can be a great enabler and create the space for training and sensitizing community members to educate many other people to initiate a technological revolution.  I would also spend it on sensitizing people on why they need it. As we are currently living in the first Information Age (the next phase of evolution), digital learning and education should be a top priority. A digital revolution will empower more people to gain access to knowledge and skills, through high-tech equipment like iPods, laptops, and online resources; it will also allow students to access learning when and where they want it. The benefits of sharing your thoughts and the ability to engage with other community members are the ultimate keys to inspiring a technological revolution. Investing in human resources means that you're in turn creating the space and scope for the trained and sensitize community members to educate many other people. The ability to create more dialogue, encourage more participation and help create a public sphere would be awesome for us all. I would also try to work on ideas to develop an open-source community around my idea wherein a technological renaissance can be initiated and some enterprise prototypes can ultimately be designed and monetized (which would be analogous to monetizing a small portion of value being generated by the community). This would keep the community thriving, evolving, and profitable post the initial investment, and the community will include, indulge and inspire many. 9. What advice would you give to someone just starting in this field? Don't be scared to ask the most difficult questions first and work through questions to figure your way out to the concepts. Always focus on the 360-degree sight of the business landscape before you jump into devising a solution for the business problems. Be "Outcome" focused instead of being "Output" focused. Stay focused on what you are doing and not just what you are trying to achieve. Listen and stick to the most popular and reliable industrial practices but don't forget to invent your own unique hack or style of problem-solving. Train yourself on interdisciplinary aspects of concepts rather than blindly and ardently following one single concept or solution without even fully understanding why. You should always know the answer to – "Why you're doing what you're doing?" Great solution engineers are good at finding multiple solutions for one problem, so it would be great if you try to match those ratios in your selection of lessons. 10. What’s the best advice you’ve ever received? There're many but here's one that really changed my life. This in fact is from my higher self to me. Before you can succeed, you have to discover new ways of failing at things, the faster the better. This means that fear and procrastination have to be taken out of the mind. You have to stay highly positive and high-vibe even when you're failing. Keep trying and keep screwing things up miserably unless you figure out the hack to do it correctly. The crux is to do a thing awesomely well, you first have to learn to screw up with it in new ways every time you try; without feeling ashamed, despite all the peer pressure, and despite what the popular public opinion might say. Stay resilient and patient and develop a personal support system around you; a community that may comprise your personal coach, freelancers, coaches, and mentors to get you through the tough times. This can help you when you are feeling stuck in life and find it hard to get over the fear barrier. A reliable community is your actual superpower that inspires audacity and innovation. Constructive community support will uplift you and help you trailblaze your path to heights you would have never thought of. If the read inspires you, please like, share, and comment. Also, vote for me using the links above; voting lines open on 15th August 2022. Below is my sign to vote for; all you amazing nominees vote for me 😉! About HackerNoon’s 2022 Noonies Awards The annual Noonies Awards celebrate the best and brightest of the tech industry, bringing together all who are making the Internet and the world of tech what it is today. Please be sure to , nominate, and vote for the people and companies who you think are making the biggest impact on the tech industry today. check out our award categories The 2022 Noonies are sponsored by: , and . Thank you so much to these sponsors who are helping us celebrate the accomplishments of all our nominees. BingX .tech domains

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The Evolution of Modern Medicine: Chapter V — THE RISE AND DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN MEDICINE

Having just moved to the Tampa Bay region from Dayton, Ohio as the COVID-19 pandemic continued to worsen, I of course had to immerse myself in the ever-growing tech hub that is the Tampa Bay area of Florida. Over the course of the eight months, I’ve had a chance to look at a number of health tech/med tech companies that are really making an impact for our community, beginning with the Federal Drug Administration's (FDA) recent approval of Morphogenesis continued expansion of its cancer immunotherapy program. #1 - Morphogenesis, Tampa Bay Under the oversight of the Federal Drug Administration (FDA), Tampa-based immunotherapy company, Morphogenesis, continues to expand its human clinical trials into two more types of cancer. The Company has already completed its first-in-human trial for late-stage melanoma. Known for developing personalized immunotherapies for cancer treatment through novel cell and gene therapies, the Company is taking its ImmuneFx immunotherapy to the next level, looking for new ways to destroy tumor cells in advanced and . Merkel cell carcinoma cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma Morphogenesis was created by wife and husband, Drs. Patricia and Michael Lawman, who have taken the Company from conception to being a fully-fledged clinical stage biotechnology company. From its origins in a University of Florida incubator to its current 12,000-square-foot headquarters located less than a mile from the University of South Florida and the Moffitt Cancer Center, the Company has continued to focus on driving its innovative approach to treating cancer from laboratory models, to companion animals with naturally occurring cancers, and now to humans. Despite the many challenges all companies have faced in 2020, Morphogenesis has managed to apply for, and receive, multiple patents for its technologies. These include patents in the U.S., Europe, Japan, and Australia. The Company was also , a plasmid DNA form of ImmuneFx, to treat stage IIB to stage IV melanoma. granted orphan-drug designation from the FDA for IFx-Hu2.0 The FDA’s approval comes after a successful human trial by the Company on cutaneous melanoma completed earlier this year at the Moffitt Cancer Center. It would only make sense that Moffitt will again serve as a testing site for the next trial on Merkel cell carcinoma and cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma. Luckily, and to the Company’s benefit, Moffitt has remained open during the COVID-19 pandemic. “We were glad that Moffitt was able to maintain ongoing clinical operations. If someone has a terminal disease, the last thing you want to do is to deny them treatment,'' says Morphogenesis CEO Dr. Patricia Lawman. "At Morphogenesis, we felt if the patients needed therapy and were willing to come in, and the doctors were willing to do it, we would keep our trials open.'' In addition to Moffitt, the Merkel/squamous trial is enrolling at the University of Southern California, and preparations are in the works to open three more sites by the end of the year. As for the future, Morphogenesis is planning to commence additional trials for skin cancers and beyond. The Company has targeted Q1 in 2021 to open its Phase 2 trial for late-stage melanoma. This trial will test IFx-Hu2.0 as a monotherapy and in combination with a checkpoint inhibitor in patients that have previously progressed on checkpoint blockade. The design for this trial is based on the results seen in the Phase 1 melanoma trial and the ability of ImmuneFx to deploy new armies of T and B cells that are specifically educated to the nuances of each patient’s tumors. #2 - Iovance Biotherapeutics, San Carlos Iovance Biotherapeutics ( ), based out in San Carlos, California, operates with 16 full-time employees at the University of South Florida Research Park. It aims to improve patient care by making T cell-based immunotherapies broadly accessible for the treatment of patients with solid tumors and blood cancers. NASDAQ: IOVA What is worth keeping a close eye on is IOVA’s (BLA), which was supposed to be approved sometime this year. However, the FDA has pushed that timeline out as both Iovance and the federal agency are currently in ongoing discussions. The BLA filing concerns the company’s TIL therapy, or , which continues to show promising results in advanced melanoma patients. Biologics License Application tumour-infiltrating lymphocyte therapy TIL therapy uses altered tumor cells to destroy the tumor itself. In this case, a patient’s own infected immune cells. TIL cells are extracted from a patient’s own tumor tissue, expanded through a proprietary process, and infused back into the patient. Upon infusion, TIL reaches tumor tissue, where they attack cancer cells. Among a number of studies the company is conducting, . The first completed study looked at patients with metastatic melanoma. The company is currently conducting another pivotal study in patients with advanced cervical cancer. two are worth mentioning In addition, TIL therapy is being investigated for the treatment of patients with locally, advanced, recurrent, or metastatic cancers, including head and neck and non-small cell lung cancer. Yet, the difficulty with its BLA filing, isn’t all that surprising, given the complexity of the therapy. However, with ongoing discussions with the FDA, the company believes what it considers to be “first-in-class therapy” to be on track for potential FDA approval as early as 2022. Iovance recently hosted its Earnings Call, where it discussed the company’s earnings results in its . 2020 Third Quarter #3 - Vycellix, Tampa Based out of Tampa, Florida, is a private, immuno-centric discovery life science company, which focuses on the NK-cell, or natural killer cell-based therapeutics. Vycellix Back in October, its Chairman and CEO, Evren Alici, M.D., Ph.D., presented at the , which focused on the clinical and commercial development of engineered allogeneic cell therapies with improved manufacturing and commercialization to benefit patients in need. Allogeneic Cell Therapies Summit Dr. Alici’s presentation included a discussion reporting on the company’s VY-UC platform, a proof-of-concept designed to generate immune-privileged universal cells without altering the components that control self-recognition (HLA). Cells modified by VY-UC avoid immune recognition of grafted cells without impacting HLA while conserving viability, functionality, and persistence. The Company claims it has achieved this proof-of-concept in a “range of effector cell-based immunotherapies including T cells, CAR-T, and NK cells.” In March, Vycellix announced its , a biotech company that partners with cell and gene therapy companies to address engineering cell delivery challenges, specifically cell modifications and engineering fragile or limited cells. collaboration with Avectas It is also the developer of , a patented, non-viral cell engineering technology for transfection in cell and gene therapy applications. Earlier this month, Avectas became a (JLABS), a 40,000-square foot life science innovation center in Toronto, Canada. Solupore resident at Johnson & Johnson Innovation Avectas’ interest in Vycellix is for the use of Vycellix’s RNA immunomodulator VY-M for immunodiscovery cell and gene therapy with Avectas’ Solupore cell engineering platform to address the current limitations of cell-based therapies. According to , the two companies are also collaborating with NextGenNK, a newly established competence center in Sweden for the development of next-generation natural killer (NK) cell-based cancer immunotherapies. The Science Advisory Board | The Morphogenesis Laboratory Image courtesy of Morphogenesis

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A Look At The Role of Academia In Fostering Entrepreneurship School is not a prerequisite — Charlie Munger ) Many successful billionaires are school dropouts (As per Fortune, about three out of 10 billionaires — 29.9% — around the world did not have at least a bachelors degree in 2015 . Many experts think entrepreneurship cannot be taught in school. Yet, many schools do a great job of producing entrepreneurs. This article looks at the ingredients required to create successful startups and attempts to reframe the question by asking whether the debate should be about going to school or not but rather where are you more likely to find the ingredients needed to launch a successful startup? Education, at a minimum, is an insurance policy for those in the middle of the distribution which could literally mean most of us. Outliers, on the other hand made it successful despite the lack of education. But, what if all stars had not aligned the way these outliers dreamt of? In a world filled with uncertainty, there are no easy answers just like there are no one size fits all solutions. Perhaps, only the paranoid survive an entrepreneurs’ journey. No Substitute For Real Life Experience Late one night, I was at the dinner table with my cousin. He was laughing at corporate employees not being able to transition to entrepreneurship as if a 9 to 5 job was somehow below that of an entrepreneur. He firmly believed that people who spend too much time in books or thinking inside the box in a desk job may not be cut out for entrepreneurship. According to him, entrepreneurs just plunge into business without spending too much time on books. I did not take his laughter lightly because I do believe that nothing can beat real life experience. However, if you are an astute student, being part of a business in the corporate world can teach you the ropes until you decide to take the plunge. Getting into a job that allows you to manage a profit and loss account often requires a formal education. However, the close confines of a familiar setting (business school) may not tell you much more about the value of your product than the actual sale of a few units. Client is King There were many critics of the Apple touch screen, the Apple iPad and the Apple AirPods. In fact, Apple bashing was a full time endeavor for some. Despite all the criticism, Apple’s innovations succeeded. Maybe, if a business school student would have done a focus group or survey to figure a product market fit, most respondents would have adverse reactions to these innovations. The other side of the argument is that Apple can afford to take such risks, a startup cannot. However, Apple was once a startup and Steve Jobs did lose his way once. For any entrepreneur today, failing small and fast is key. An entrepreneurs’ immediate network may be a good way to understand if someone would pay for his/her product or service. An inherent danger in academia can be homogeneity of thought and lack of out of box thinking. For instance, companies like Amazon and Tesla, which do not fit the traditional mould of companies reporting quarterly profits, would be considered bad investments by traditional investing principles which business schools often rely on as a time tested framework. Yet, Amazon and Tesla enjoy outsized market capitalizations defying metrics such as PE ratio or EPS. In a rapidly changing world, some case studies may have already become obsolete and the drivers of success could have changed. Thus, unconditioning the mind may be harder than just plunging into a venture headlong. Having said that, the most scalable companies can explain the value of their products or services using plain English. Therefore, one of the first questions to ask is: how is your product adding value to the client while being different from the competition? In other words, what is the products Unique Selling Point (USP). Therefore, irrespective of how you become an entrepreneur, the fundamental questions remain the same. Being Part of An Ecosystem Seattle, Silicon Valley, Singapore, Israel and Estonia are all icons of a great ecosystem. Israel became a startup hub due a large part to the compulsory military service that teaches survival despite all odds and instills discipline. Savlilla World Research Most of the cities featured in the Savilla World Research report also have vibrant educational institutions. All of these cities offer a vibrant ecosystem that fosters collaboration. Having said that, not all of the success can be replicated. Estonia emerged as a phoenix from the ashes and become a completely digital country from the ground up. Not all of the same lessons can be applied to a country like India where different levels of development and democracy may slow down the reform process. Rome Was Not Built In A Day It takes time for cities to become a breeding ground for entrepreneurs. Austin and St. Louis are great examples. St. Louis has become a startup hub for biotech and life science startups. A mid-western city which has a strong university presence, several incubators and venture capital funds. Similarly, university programs in Entrepreneurship evolve over time. Strong Alumni connections encourage giving back. Much of this donation is in terms of mentoring young entrepreneurs. Attracting talent is key but without the absence of an ecosystem, it is hard to do so. Startups need government policy support to blossom and to create jobs which will lead to a virtuous cycle of attracting other entrepreneurs. Feedback from this virtuous cycle can be captured by universities in the form of frameworks that can guide the thinking of a future generation of entrepreneurs. Research, by its very nature, may take decades to provide returns. Parting Thoughts As per Fortune magazine: “The vast majority of billionaires however did make it to a bachelors degree, and many went farther. Twenty-two percent went on the nab a Master’s degree, while 13.1% of all billionaires earned an MBA” The reason I titled this article Alchemy of Business is because business is truly an alchemy with some secret ingredient thrown in to turn an idea into pure gold. If you ask entrepreneurs, a lot of them will honestly credit their luck, great partners, timely funding, an idea whose time had come etc. A successful business is a potpourri of various ingredients. It is only when these elements come together in perfect harmony that a business blooms. The value of universities or formal education may lie in providing access to capital (intellectual and monetary), great founding partners, a relatively less risky way to test ideas, teachers and a cohort that may willingly become test subjects or sounding boards. Unless alternate educational systems are devised that can outmatch today’s institutions, the biggest value an educational institution can provide is its brand. A brand that has stood the test of time. CNBC.com However, there is one ingredient that truly pushes people to be the best and it is their inner drive. There are many motivators of inner drive namely poverty, pain, a desire to be the best. Call it what you will but the drive to excel and a drive to do good by society cannot be taught in any institution. That is the precise reason why entrepreneurship cannot be boiled down to a science. It is an art that can be mastered by practice but never completely. For most of us, a formal education may serve as the difference between destitution and resilience. For the rest, the stars may align. The strongest argument today in favor of formal education is that it provides an established base to unlock the potential of women entrepreneurs around the world. It begins by making women financially independent and increasing their appetite for risks. Educational institutions can therefore provide a framework and some of the ingredients but inner drive is a matter of subjectivity. For now, we live in interesting times where the value of academia to an entrepreneur cannot be dismissed.

The Alchemy of Business

Event-driven architecture (EDA) is a software design pattern that emphasizes the production, detection, consumption, and reaction to events that occur within a system or across multiple systems. It is a style of architecture where the flow of data and the triggering of actions are driven by events. offers several benefits like higher scalability, modularity, and resilience due to the loosely coupled services compared to Request-Driven Architecture. Event-driven architecture However, it introduces some unique testing and monitoring challenges compared to traditional architectures: Events in an event-driven architecture may be processed asynchronously and can arrive out of order, and might be lost or duplicated. Testing and monitoring should include scenarios to validate how the system handles these situations. Event Ordering and Consistency: In event-driven systems, workflows are often driven by events. Coordinating the behavior of different services, validating event propagation, and ensuring correct data transformation across different workflows make End-to-End and Integration Testing much harder. Event-driven Workflow Validation: Events may evolve over time, with changes to their payload structure or schema, making it hard to ensure the compatibility of events across different versions. Event Payload and Schema Evolution: Event-driven architectures often involve services that are triggered by specific events. Generating and managing event simulations can be challenging, especially when dealing with a large number of events and complex workflows. Testing Event-Triggered Services: A great way to test these Event-driven systems is to use a record-replay strategy. Recording and replaying events allows you to capture real or simulated events and later replay them during testing to verify the behavior and correctness of the system. Here’s an overview of the steps involved in recording and replaying events: : Identify the events that need to be recorded for testing purposes. These can be actual events from a live system or simulated events generated specifically for testing and involves setting up a mechanism to capture and store the events in a suitable format for retrieval. This can be achieved by creating a dummy consumer for the topic we want to replay, which can store events in persistent storage like DB. Event Recording import kafka

# yield events from start_time to end_time

def record_events(self, start_time, end_time):
  consumer = kafka.KafkaConsumer(**(self._configs))
  
  #find offset for each partition which is just after start time
  
  seek_points = find_seek_points(start_time)
     
        try:
            # Set up a the consumer to fetch all desired partitions from their seek points
            
            for tp, offset in six.iteritems(seek_points):
                consumer.seek(tp, offset)
            
            while len(partitions) > 0:
                record = next(consumer)
                if not record:
                    partitions = set()
                else:
                    last_timestamp = record.timestamp
                    if last_timestamp > end_time:
                        partitions.discard(record.partition)
                        tp = kafka.TopicPartition(topic=record.topic, partition=record.partition)
                        if tp not in consumer.paused():
                            consumer.pause(tp)
                    elif (record.partition in partitions and last_timestamp >= start_time
                          and last_timestamp <= end_time):
                        # Send the record to the client if it's within the specified time range
                        yield record Source: https://github.com/SiftScience/python-kafka-replayer : Set up the test environment with a message queue and services configured. Add a dummy producer which reads the events from DB and adds them to the queue. Event Replaying from kafka import KafkaProducer

#read events from DB
events = recordedEvents.stream()

#send next event 
def generate_message():
    return events.next()

# Kafka Producer
producer = KafkaProducer(
    bootstrap_servers=['localhost:9092']
)
if __name__ == '__main__':
    # Infinite loop - runs until you kill the program
    while True:
        recorded_event = generate_message()     
        producer.send('messages', dummy_message) You can extend this simple setup by — adding delays, event duplication, and data corruption to analyze the system’s performance, resilience, and behavior under different event scenarios. By recording and replaying events, you can simulate real-world scenarios, edge cases, or failure conditions, providing a comprehensive testing approach for event-driven architecture. It helps uncover bugs, validate event processing, and ensure the system functions as intended when exposed to various event sequences and scenarios. Also published here.

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Resilient Lifescience

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1-10 employees

Since 2022

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