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In a distributed system we have a group of nodes that need to collaborate and send messages to each other. To achieve that they need to first answer a simple question: Who are my peers? That’s what membership protocols do. They help each node i...

Unless you’ve been living under a rock the last few years, you’ve probably heard a lot about data science, machine learning, AI, etc. There are many roles under the data science umbrella — data analyst, machine learning engineer, research scientis...

Deciding which professional path to take is like validating a product except that your career is the product. We should be thinking about our careers as an iterative process in which we use our current roles to learn, grow, and help shape the de...

Consensus is one of the fundamental problems in distributed systems. We want clients to perceive our system as a single coherent unit, but at the same time we don’t want to have a single point of failure. We need to have several machines collabora...

The summer before senior year is known to be stressful. Pressure’s on to land an awesome internship and secure that coveted offer before heading back to school for one last hurrah. I struggled a lot to figure out what I wanted to do. Growing up, I...

Though there have been countless, unprecedented challenges across the world over the past few months, one positive outcome is that we've all had more time this summer to slow down and learn new things. We caught up with a few of our leaders at Alp...

Up until my final year of college, I believed I would follow my father’s footsteps as an Engineer. I would work for a large, industrial company, follow a linear career trajectory and, through hard work, I would end up in a management position in a...

Cold sweat turning fear into panic, terrifying thoughts arising about your future, and all your work for nothing—a heart-wrenching truth indicated by a red mark on your test or paper reading “B+.” Secluded from society, school tends to condition s...

While many Associates join AlphaSights directly after graduating college, I was fortunate enough to have a bit of work experience before joining the team here in New York. In my previous role, I was helping both high-growth and established compani...

"Entrepreneurs right now are like the rock stars of the '80s." This analogy was recently posed to me by the founder of a successful wine and spirits delivery startup based in New York City. He continued, "In the '80s, everyone wanted to be a ro...

The most successful people I know are about 16 years old. One of them has failed multiple grades, the other is three grades below reading level. Both of them are growing up in circumstances that would make the best of us give up. Both of them, at ...

We often lose sight of our future vision and long-term goals in the daily grind of everyday life. Recently, however, I read an article which helped me take some time to reflect on the work I do at AlphaSights. I am fortunate to have worked with co...

As many twenty-somethings can attest, the path from college to an entry-level role isn't always a simple move from Point A to Point B. In my own search, I sent over 200 applications, met with over 75 interviewers, and logged upwards of 2,000 miles...

Clock in at 9:30am, receive an assignment, execute what’s been asked of you, clock out. Certainty. Or in other words, my life before AlphaSights. After college I took a job at one of the largest, most established corporate law firms in the coun...

At AlphaSights, the core of our business grew from our desire to serve as the world’s knowledge partner. Our co-founders, Andrew and Max, recognized that the most valuable information lies within people’s heads, despite the fact that we have acces...

Replicating a database can make our applications faster and increase our tolerance to failures, but there are a lot of different options available and each one comes with a price tag. It’s hard to make the right choice if we do not understand how ...

RabbitMQ is a core piece of our event-driven architecture at AlphaSights. It makes our services decoupled from each other and extremely easy for a new application to start consuming the events it needs. Sometimes, though, things go wrong and co...