Asaf Zamir – Chief Technology Officer and Cloud Consultant

On August 20th, 2011, Marc Andreessen of Andreessen Horowitz published an article titled “Why Software Is Eating the World”. Today, over 12 years later, it’s clear that any venture that seeks to innovate needs a highly skilled Chief Technology Officer to drive their technical roadmap forward. But what if hiring a full-time CTO is out of reach? Enter the Fractional CTO – a flexible, efficient, and budget-friendly solution. Here’s why a Fractional CTO could be just what your company needs:

Transitioning to the latest technologies is essential for maintaining robust and efficient serverless applications. With AWS deprecating the older Lambda Golang (go1.x) runtime, it’s critical to move to the more advanced Amazon Linux 2 (provided.al2) runtime. This migration promises enhanced performance, potential cost savings due to the support for the arm64 architecture, and a longer-term support strategy.

I initially turned to CMUS because every other music player struggled with my external hard drive. However, I stayed for its efficient and robust command-line interface. One feature I found myself missing, a nostalgic memory from my Rockbox days, was the ability to shuffle music by entire albums rather than individual tracks. Today, I’m excited to share a Bash script that fills this gap. It organizes your songs into albums, shuffles those albums, and seamlessly integrates this new playlist back into CMUS.

For many years, I’ve been heavily involved in the world of FinTech, leading teams to integrate global payment solutions. We’ve developed integrations for clients to seamlessly transfer funds across a massive number of platforms.

For several weeks now, my laptop has been experiencing significant slowdowns. After several performance tests and checks I’ve discovered that it is largely due to Firefox’s heavy demand for memory. This is likely due to the fact that I have an average of 45 tabs per session.