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Byzantine Fault Tolerance

cdemi

On July 5th 1982, Leslie Lamport (initial LaTeX developer, Microsoft Researcher and winner of the 2013 Turing Award), Robert Shostak and Marshall Pease published a paper named The Byzantine Generals' Problem. Bitcoin, the peer-to-peer cryptocurrency that's based on a blockchain , is Byzantine Fault Tolerant.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For September 28th, 2018

High Scalability

They sent me long email listing reasons why I shouldn't get a second monitor, including (numbers are approximate, employee count from 2013 or so) "If every googler gets an extra monitor, in a year it would be equivalent to driving Toyota Camry for 18000 miles.". After all, nobody gets fired from creating a hierarchy. JavaScript benchmark.

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Should You Use ClickHouse as a Main Operational Database?

Percona

Public API as -a-service has become a good business model: examples include social networks like Facebook/Twitter, messaging as a service like Twilio, and even credit card authorization platforms like Marqeta. So can we use it as our main datastore? Let’s imagine we are running a webservice and provide a public API. voting','maven'] ?