ALGERIATECH Editorial

Policy & Regulation
The Environmental Regulation of Big Tech: Carbon Reporting, Scope 3 Emissions
The Inconvenient Numbers The tech industry has cultivated a green image — paperless offices, video calls replacing flights, efficient cloud computing replacing energy-hungry on-premises servers. The reality is more complicated, and getting worse.

Skills & Careers
The Engineering Manager’s Dilemma: Career Path, Compensation
The Fork in the Road That Defines Tech Careers At some point between the third and seventh year of a software engineering career, a question arrives that shapes everything that follows: should I move into management? It appears innocent — a promotion, a new challenge, a

Cybersecurity & Risk
Election Cybersecurity in the Age of AI: How Democracies Are Defending the Vote
The Largest Democratic Exercise in History Met Its Largest Cyber Threat The 2024 election cycle was unprecedented in scale and in threat. More than 70 countries with a combined population of roughly four billion people held national elections, from the world's largest democracy

Cybersecurity & Risk
Attacking the Internet’s Backbone: DNS Hijacking, BGP Attacks
The Trust Problem at the Internet's Core The internet's two most fundamental protocols — BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) and DNS (Domain Name System) — were designed in an era when the network was a small, trusted community of researchers. BGP, which determines how traffic is

Policy & Regulation
Digital Trade Agreements: The Invisible Rules Shaping How Data and Services Cross Borders
The Quiet Architecture of the Digital Economy The rules governing how data crosses borders are not being written by technologists or privacy advocates. They are being written by trade negotiators, embedded in agreements that most people never read, and they will determine

Policy & Regulation
The Taxation of Digital Giants: Digital Services Taxes, OECD Pillar One
The Problem: Where Value Is Created vs. Where Profits Are Booked The international corporate tax system was designed in the 1920s for an economy of factories, mines, and shipping routes.

Cybersecurity & Risk
Digital Forensics and Incident Response: Inside the Teams That Investigate Cyberattacks
When the Breach Alarm Sounds The moment an organization confirms it has been breached — ransomware encrypting production servers, a threat actor detected in the network, customer data appearing on a dark web forum — a clock starts. The first 48 hours are critical.

Infrastructure & Cloud
The Data Lakehouse Revolution: How Apache Iceberg and Delta Lake Are Reshaping Data
The Architecture That Ate Both Worlds For two decades, enterprise data lived in one of two places. Structured data — transactions, customer records, financial reports — went into data warehouses: Teradata, Oracle, and later Snowflake and BigQuery.

Skills & Careers
Data Engineering: The Most In-Demand Infrastructure Role Nobody Talks About
The Role Behind the AI Revolution Every headline about AI mentions models, algorithms, and billion-parameter architectures. Almost none mention the infrastructure that makes AI work: the data pipelines that collect, clean, transform, and deliver the terabytes of training and

Skills & Careers
Developer Relations in 2026: The Career That Bridges Code, Community, and Business
From Tech Evangelism to Strategic Growth Function Developer Relations has undergone a fundamental transformation over the past decade. What began as "tech evangelism" -- charismatic engineers giving conference talks and handing out stickers -- has evolved into a strategic

Cybersecurity & Risk
Cybersecurity in Space: Satellite Hacking, GPS Spoofing
The Viasat Wake-Up Call On February 24, 2022 -- exactly four years ago today -- as Russian forces began their invasion of Ukraine, a sophisticated cyberattack disabled Viasat's KA-SAT satellite broadband network across Europe. The attackers exploited a misconfigured VPN

