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Monitoring Distributed Systems

Dotcom-Montior

Gone are the days of monolithic architecture. When we think of a system’s architecture, the first thing that may pop into your mind is the traditional client-server system, where a server was the shared resource among many different devices and machines, like printers, computes, clients, etc. Blockchain is a good example of this.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For August 3rd, 2018

High Scalability

ARPA funded the demo at a cost of $1 million. David Gerard : Companies are shocked to realise that blockchain — an expensive and useless idea that has soaked up millions of dollars for zero return — may not be a good technology. “Many companies will halt their blockchain tests this year. Most importantly?

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