For Uber, however, the rapid growth of our business made it difficult to scale reliably without slowing down data analysis for our thousands of users making millions of Hive or Presto queries each week.
In the first half of 2022, the prices of building materials such as steel, cement, asphalt, sand, and stones skyrocketed, slowing down the disbursement of public investment and worrying many investors and contractors involved in large-scale infrastructure projects in Vietnam.
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A report last month by Leopoldina, the German National Academy of Sciences, found that Germany could survive the next winter without Russian energy (see go.nature.com/3jdtes1; in German), but only with extreme efforts to replace Russian gas with imports while ramping up coal-fired power plants and promoting large-scale conservation and energy efficiency. It also depends on higher prices causing a slowdown in heavy industry in the country.
New grads and less experienced software engineers will be hit hardest. With Big Tech slowing hiring, there will be a buildup of people who want to get into Big Tech, but will find no openings. The build up of these people is not just less experienced engineers, but also experienced developers. Experienced software engineers who want to move companies will likely choose the next best opportunity, for example at scaleups still recruiting, or more traditional companies which want to become more tech-first.
Americans deserve infrastructure they can trust: infrastructure that is resilient to floods, fires, and other climate threats, not fragile in the face of these increasing risks. We need infrastructure that supports healthy, safe communities, rather than locking in the cumulative impacts of polluted air and poisonous water. And we need infrastructure, like universal broadband, that unleashes innovation and shared economic progress and educational opportunity to every community, rather than slowing it down.
While developing countries may not have the public funds to build sufficient new infrastructure, well-crafted, larger-scale renewable power projects can, and do, attract the private investment needed to get plants up and running.
In an electrical grid without energy storage, generation that relies on energy stored within fuels (coal, biomass, natural gas, nuclear) must be scaled up and down to match the rise and fall of electrical production from intermittent sources (see load following power plant). While hydroelectric and natural gas plants can be quickly scaled up or down to follow the wind, coal and nuclear plants take considerable time to respond to load. Utilities with less natural gas or hydroelectric generation are thus more reliant on demand management, grid interconnections or costly pumped storage. 2ff7e9595c
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