Tag: Afford

The Dark Side of Sharding: Mistakes You Can’t Afford to Make

Sharding. It’s a word that’s been echoing throughout meeting rooms, tech forums, and developer communities for some time now. With 2.5 quintillion bytes of data created every day, the pressure to manage and retrieve data efficiently is real. Sharding, for many, has become the shining kni...

The Cost of Living in Dubai: Can You Afford It?

The cost of living in Dubai varies depending on your lifestyle, family situation, and how you choose to spend your money. However, as a general rule of thumb, you can expect to spend around AED 6,000 per month for a single person living in a modest apartment, eating out occasionally, and taking publ...

From Not Being Able to Afford an Egg to Having $8 Million

It sounds like an impossible dream, but for 23-year-old YouTuber RackaRacka, it’s reality. The Australian-based brothers, Danny and Michael Phillips, rose to internet fame with their action-packed, special-effect-filled videos that have generated millions of views and landed them branded comme...

An Illusion None of Us Can Afford, an Opportunity All of Us Can Embrace

We humans have many biases, but one that often asserts itself is the negativity bias, or a propensity to select, or attend to negative instead of positive information. We often expect the worst. We do this so the worst won’t happen, or so we can take steps to avoid it. But often, the b...