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Blockchain and bitcoin for business

Tech News Gather

Blockchain and bitcoin offer a way of tracking and securing these relationships cost-effectively. Blockchain is a payment system supported by a distributed database or ledger that records all transactions across a peer-to-peer network. Transactions made on the blockchain depend on the cryptocurrency being exchanged.

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Fine-grained, secure and efficient data provenance on blockchain systems

The Morning Paper

Fine-grained, secure and efficient data provenance on blockchain systems Ruan et al., We haven’t covered a blockchain paper on The Morning Paper for a while, and today’s choice won the best paper award at VLDB’19. ” In other words, smart contracts cannot access historical blockchain states in a tamper-evident manner. .

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Top 9 web development trends to expect in 2022

Enprowess

Blockchain Technology. Increased efficiency and productivity: Resource utilization can be raised, and we can monitor natural resources by identifying the functionality and working of each device. So, by cutting down the repetitive and time-consuming tasks, businesses can improve companies’ efficiency and productivity.

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Web Development Trends 2019

KeyCDN

It can be used to decouple your frontend from your backend and improve server efficiency. Customer Service Chatbots Speaking of which, artificial intelligence has evolved to the point that bots can answer customers’ questions and solve problems more efficiently than humans.

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Should You Use ClickHouse as a Main Operational Database?

Percona

What if we use ClickHouse (which is a columnar analytical database) as our main datastore? Well, typically, an analytical database is not a replacement for a transactional or key/value datastore. However, ClickHouse is super efficient for timeseries and provides “sharding” out of the box (scalability beyond one node).

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Monitoring Distributed Systems

Dotcom-Montior

Do you have a database? Was the database running? The last item to check was if the web server was able to talk to the database? The last item to check was if the web server was able to talk to the database? Blockchain is a good example of this. The recipe was straightforward. Do you have a web server? Three-Tier.

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Even more amazing papers at VLDB 2019 (that I didn’t have space to cover yet)

The Morning Paper

MongoDB is an important database, and this paper explains the tunable (per-operation) consistency models that MongoDB provides and how they are implemented under the covers. Microsoft have a paper describing their new recovery mechanism in Azure SQL Database , the key feature being that it can recovery in constant time.