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Episode 144: "Making Modularity" w/Starjump_GRIM & DigitalMaster

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Intel® just launched its 4th Generation Xeon® Scalable processor, which is geared towards its Enterprise customer base. To learn more about how Intel solves sustainability challenges, I had a conversation with Stephanie Schmidt, who is the Senior Director, Data Center Product Sustainability with Intel.

The key takeaways of the conversation are as follows:
• Sustainability is a key issue: With the increasing demand for compute, data center energy consumption, waste, and water use are also growing, making sustainability a critical consideration for enterprises. Inefficient infrastructure can emit increasing amounts of carbon, especially as compute demand increases, creating a big challenge for enterprises.
• Sustainability can drive business growth: Sustainability can be a differentiator for businesses and lead to new monetization opportunities. It reduces costs, drives value, and is a huge driver for innovation, making it a selling point for sustainable products and solutions.
• Energy efficiency is driving tech innovation: Sustainability is driving tech innovation and new solutions. For example, AI-based telemetry and immersion cooling can reduce electricity consumption, and modularity can reduce carbon footprint. Intel offers software that autonomously and continuously optimizes applications in the cloud, reducing CPU utilization while still meeting performance and latency goals.


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INTERVIEW HIGHLIGHTS:

[00:31] One of the topics on everyone’s minds is sustainability. As you know, there are many public initiatives focused on it. We have the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, as well as many individual government initiatives that are focused on the health of our planet. With that on our minds, what are some of the challenges enterprises face when considering options for refreshing their aging infrastructure?

[03:53] What are some of the ways businesses go about attaining their sustainability goals, while still keeping their CFO happy because at the end of the day, it’s the economics that will drive the growth of their business?

[08:17] Can you share some case studies on how the 4th generation Intel scalable processor addresses sustainability?

[11:32] How can people connect with you to learn more about the 4th generation Xeon scalable processor?

[12:33] Do you have any parting words of wisdom to share with the audience?  


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Sustainable Computing: Challenges and Opportunities for Enterprises

Stephanie Woerner reads MIT CISR's July 2023 research briefing, which she co-authored with Peter Weill. See the text version and related content at https://cisr.mit.edu/publication/2023_0701_UnlockingValue_WeillWoerner.

Abstract:The top-performing companies on growth in our MIT CISR study used four distinct organizational levers to unlock value. We found that the companies in the top quartile of effectiveness at performing organizational surgery using these four levers were also top financial performers, growing 12 percentage points above their industry average; and leaders in innovation, with 45 percent of their annual revenue coming from new products introduced in the last three years. In this briefing we describe the four levers and illustrate them with examples from financial services companies ANZ and Standard Bank Group.

Unlocking New Digital Value

The Modularity of Mind: An Essay on Faculty Psychology | Read book : soeruya-sundkloth69.blogspot.com/?book=0262560259 This study synthesizes current information from the various fields of cognitive science in support of a new and exciting theory of mind Most psychologists study horizontal processes like memory and information flow Fodor postulates a vertical and modular psychological organization underlying biologically coherent behaviors This view of mental architecture is consistent with the

⚡Read🔥Book The Modularity of Mind: An Essay on Faculty Psychology

An independent tech consultant with over 20 years, Susanne Kaiser joins the podcast and shares her insights on what makes a robust socio-technical system.

Integrating takeaways from different approaches like Wardley Mapping, Domain Driven Design, and Team topologies, she helps the listeners understand how to mold systems into ones that are adaptable to change, how to invest in the right things, and how to avoid wasting resources on things that do not make a competitive advantage. 

We further touch upon topics like building in bounded contexts and unbundling the right way. This episode has an ocean of information, which can help listeners achieve better strategic awareness of their company, products, and initiatives. Grab a coffee cup and a notebook and listen. 
In this episode, Susanne takes us through what it means to operate a business with a strategic perspective. 

An organization’s evolutionary journey goes through high levels of change and uncertainty. With insights on bounded contexts and evolution, Susanne takes us through how you can enforce modularity and cohesion among the different parts of the system, to deal with such a journey.

With significant experience working as a consultant in the software development world, Susanne shares real-world examples of how organizations can create architecture and team structures that are dynamic and play to an organization's competitive advantage.

Key Highlights

👉 A holistic approach to building adaptive socio-technical systems optimized for rapid change
👉 Integration of business strategy, software design, and team organization methodologies such as Wardley mapping, Domain-Driven Design, and Team Topologies.
👉 Organizing strategic investment in core domains to maintain competitive advantage while leveraging off-the-shelf solutions for generic/peripheral subdomains.
👉 Identify bounded contexts for enabling modularity and cohesion in software systems, supporting faster adaptation to change.
👉 Insights on cultural shifts within organizations, promoting autonomy, trust, and a micro-entrepreneurial mindset.


Topics /chapters

(00:00)  Intro - Susanne Kaiser on Building the Right Things (& Building Things Right)
(01:22) Bridging three methodologies for Holistic Socio-Technical Systems
(16:19) Looking into Domain Driven Design
(24:32) What are Bounded Contexts? How do they play out for products and portfolios?
(35:35) Unbundling for a functional model/ Unbundling the right way
(41:20)  Integrators & Competitive Advantages
(49:12) Closing Breadcrumbs and Suggestions


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Episode recorded on December 29, 2023

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#94 - Susanne Kaiser on Building the Right Things (& Building Things Right)

In 2017, Vitalik Buterin defined the ‘Scalability Trilemma’ which consisted of 3 attributes that every blockchain had to balance depending on its intended use cases: decentralisation, scalability and security. While Ethereum sacrificed scalability in favour of security and decentralisation, others prioritised throughput over the other two. However, a solution was proposed, inspired from Web2 computer science - sharding. Despite the fact that Ethereum’s ossification and significant progress in zero knowledge research led to a shift in Ethereum’s roadmap away from execution sharding towards L2 rollups, there were other L1s that were designed from the get-go as sharded blockchains. One such example was Elrond, who implemented the beacon chain PoS consensus alongside a sharded execution layer. Their recent rebranding to MultiversX alludes to a multi-chain, interoperable ecosystem, in which sovereign chains can communicate in a similar manner to cross-shard transaction routing.

Topics discussed in this episode:
- Lucian’s background and founding Elrond (MultiversX)
- Elrond’s validator & shard architecture
- Cross-shard composability
- VMs, smart contracts and transaction routing
- Self sovereignty and modularity
- MultiversX vision
- Roadmap

Links mentioned in this episode: 
- Lucian Mincu on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3LQwCK0
- MultiversX on Twitter: https://bit.ly/4fwJkuQ
- xPortal on Twitter: https://bit.ly/4dpqBj8

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#559 Lucian Mincu: MultiversX – Blockchain Sharding 101

As Ethereum’s roadmap shifted to a rollup-centric approach, a plethora of rollups have been launched, to the point where L3s have been conceptualized. Celestia sits at the forefront of modularity as it aims to replace the monolithic blockchain architecture with specialized layers that are more suited for scalability and customization. As a result, Celestia strictly focuses on data availability to accommodate the recent rollup expansion, as data storage represents the largest portion of fees on L2s. The Lemongrass upgrade lays the foundation for further use cases being enabled through Celestia, mainly revolving around interoperability and zk proof enabled ‘lazy bridging’.

Topics discussed in this episode:
- The vision behind Celestia
- Rollup architecture
- Centralised sequencers and the role of fraud proofs
- Celestia’s market share
- Rollkit & sovereign rollups
- Governance & light clients
- The importance of decentralisation: L1s vs. rollups
- Celestia’s data availability capacity
- Latency & Celestia block times
- Interoperability & ‘lazy bridging’
- The Lemongrass upgrade
- On-chain economics & value accrual
- Interchain accounts on Celestia
- Crypto’s mainstream adoption
- Future roadmap

Links mentioned in this episode: 
- Mustafa Al-Bassam on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3ZKjGxu
- Ismail Khoffi on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3TLSjza
- Celestia on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3TJUzXx

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- Chorus1: Chorus One is one of the largest node operators worldwide, supporting more than 100,000 delegators, across 45 networks. The recently launched OPUS allows staking up to 8,000 ETH in a single transaction. Enjoy the highest yields and institutional grade security at chorus.one - 
- Gnosis: Gnosis builds decentralized infrastructure for the Ethereum ecosystem, since 2015. This year marks the launch of Gnosis Pay— the world's first Decentralized Payment Network. Get started today at gnosis.io -

This episode is hosted by Brian Fabian Crain. Show notes and listening options: https://epicenter.tv/567

#567 Celestia – From 1Gb Blocks of Data Availability to Interoperability and 'Lazy Bridging'

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