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How social forces could drive blockchain demand

O'Reilly

That is why it’s critical to examine broader social forces when trying to understand how quickly a new technology will be adopted—and to understand why blockchain technology is building momentum at this particularly potent time. Enter blockchains. In this moment of increasing discontent, we’re entering the dawn of the blockchain era.

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Expanding the Cloud: Introducing the AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region

All Things Distributed

Advanced problem solving that connects big data with machine learning. At-scale computing and visual analysis. deploys its customers’ genomic pipelines on Amazon EC2 for highly complex and sensitive DNA research activities. We are at the cusp of a dramatic age of technology. We want you to start using it today.

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Structural Evolutions in Data

O'Reilly

” Web3 has similarly progressed through “basic blockchain and cryptocurrency tokens” to “decentralized finance” to “NFTs as loyalty cards.” Each time, the underlying implementation changed a bit while still staying true to the larger phenomenon of “Analyzing Data for Fun and Profit.”

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

The Morning Paper

Hyper Dimension Shuffle describes how Microsoft improved the cost of data shuffling, one of the most costly operations, in their petabyte-scale internal big data analytics platform, SCOPE. BlockchainDB – it’s a blockchain underneath, and a database on top.

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Should You Use ClickHouse as a Main Operational Database?

Percona

Currently, an issue has been opened to make the “tailing” based on the primary key much faster: slow order by primary key with small limit on big data. Text analysis. database: reddit table: rc_2017 mutation_id: mutation_858.txt ClickHouse does not offer full text search, however we can use some text functions.