What you shouldn’t outsource?

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These days it’s quite common for big enterprises whose core business isn’t IT to outsource their work to third-party providers. Here lies their main mistake - misunderstanding of competencies that are “outsourceable”. The enterprise’s managers frequently forget that any modern business is an IT business. Consequently, you have to keep core IT competencies on the company side. Otherwise, the huge dependency on a third-party provider will be created.

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How SMEs can leverage public data to make business decisions?

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Recently, a friend of mine was complaining to me that his business has reached a saturation point in Singapore, and he simply doesn’t have a space to expand his venture. I decided to conduct a small amount of research to find out if his business has exhausted all available growth points.

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Bookshelf Q1 2022

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This post is about books that I read in the first quarter of 2022.

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Why majority of cloud certificates are useless?

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Last year I managed to pass three professional certifications: “AWS Certified Solution Architect - Professional”, “Certified Kubernetes Administrator” (CKA), and “Terraform Associate”. I realized that the majority of exams test your knowledge via multiple-choice questions (MCQs). This is fundamentally wrong and below I’ll explain why.

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How to build and host a static website in one weekend?

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Is it possible to build a personal website in one weekend? Short answer: yes. As my first post to kick it all off, I thought it would be great to deep dive on this topic. There are a lot of related posts out there, but most were vague at best and overlooked the less popular but important bits. Let’s firstly discuss on why should you build your website.

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