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Back in Nov 2021 when I started building Bounty’s backend architecture I chose to use UUIDs for all of our primary keys in our postgres database that powers the majority of the current application and the benefits have been remarkable. As recently as earlier in 2021 I had worked on large system dealing with money …

July 15 (Reuters) – UnitedHealth Group Inc (UNH.N) on Friday raised its annual profit forecast for a second straight quarter, as a slow recovery in non-urgent medical procedures and lower COVID-care costs help it rein in medical expenses. Shares of the largest U.S. healthcare company by market value rose 4.5% in morning trade, providing the …

Beijing-backed technology funds with almost $900bn under management are struggling to hit their profit targets, according to executives who say their capital is stuck in companies that cannot launch initial public offerings and are unattractive to investors. “Traditional exit strategies for private equity funds do not work well for us,” an executive at Zhongyuan Science …

Philadelphia Area Unions for Medicare for All picket Congresswoman Madeleine Dean for opposing Medicare for All. Tweet this As the pandemic crisis continued the group followed up with Congresswoman Dean’s office six months later, in March of this year, to again push for a meeting on the health care question. She again failed to respond. …

By Kosaku Narioka HCL Technologies Ltd.’s fourth-quarter net profit dropped 24% from a year earlier due partly to higher tax expenses. The Indian information-technology services provider said late Friday that its net profit for the quarter ended March fell to 23.87 billion rupees ($318.8 million) from INR31.54 billion a year earlier. That missed the estimate …

A worker at an oil processing facility of Saudi Aramco, a Saudi Arabian state-owned oil and gas company, at the Abqaiq oil field. Stanislav Krasilnikov | TASS | Getty Images Oil giant Saudi Aramco reported a 44% slump in full-year 2020 results, but maintained its $75 billion dollar dividend payout, with CEO Amin Nasser describing …

Italian anti-riot policemen clash with demonstrators over measures to fight the spread of COVID-19 in the center of Naples, southern Italy, on October, 24, 2020. carlo hermann/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images European stocks traded lower Monday on a combination of worries, including a profit warning from business software giant SAP, new restrictions on activity in response to …

The airline reported a 2.7 billion Australian dollars ($1.9 billion) loss for the financial year that ended in June, and a 91% drop in profit from the prior year. The company said it saw a revenue drop of 4 billion Australian dollars ($2.9 billion) in the second half of the financial year due to the …

Masayoshi Son, chairman and chief executive officer of SoftBank Group at the SoftBank World 2018 event in Tokyo, Japan. Kiyoshi Ota | Bloomberg | Getty Images SoftBank Group posted a $12 billion quarterly profit on Tuesday after reporting historic losses of $13 billion for its last fiscal year.  The recovery is largely down to rising …

An offshore drilling platform stands in shallow waters at the Manifa offshore oilfield, operated by Saudi Aramco, in Manifa, Saudi Arabia. Simon Dawson | Bloomberg | Getty Images Oil giant Saudi Aramco has reported a 50% fall in net income for the first half of its financial year, reflecting a devastating year for oil markets …