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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. Our world is now 30 years into its internet-driven, digital-centric life. Enter blockchains.

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AnyLog: a grand unification of the Internet of things

The Morning Paper

AnyLog: a grand unification of the Internet of Things , Abadi et al., Micropayments require an environment of trust, and in a decentralised context that leads us to blockchains. Despite the "Internet of Things" featuring prominently in the title, there’s nothing particular to IoT in the technical solution at all.

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Top 9 web development trends to expect in 2022

Enprowess

Internet of Things (IoT). Serverless Architecture. Blockchain Technology. Besides that, these apps do well in areas with a slow internet connection. So it is convenient for all to use irrespective of internet speed and it works offline using cached data. Internet of Things (IoT). AI-powered Chatbots.

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Washed Up

Alex Russell

Jonty Wareing @jonty Short version: The NFT token you bought either points to a URL on the internet, or an IPFS hash. In most circumstances it references an IPFS gateway on the internet run by the startup you bought the NFT from. Blockchain protocols. Oh, and that URL is not the media. Cryptocurrencies. That could change.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For March 1st, 2019

High Scalability

It's HighScalability time: 10 years of AWS architecture increasing simplicity or increasing complexity? Ivan Ivanitskiy : Even though blockchain does not allow for modification of data, it cannot ensure such data is correct. Michael Wittig ). Do you like this sort of Stuff? I'd greatly appreciate your support on Patreon. So much more.

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

All Things Distributed

On a more playful note, for those that are inclined to look at our serverless compute architecture, I would love to reacquaint you with Dubsmash ’s innovative use of AWS Lambda. deploys its customers’ genomic pipelines on Amazon EC2 for highly complex and sensitive DNA research activities. A workflow engine to drive business decisions.

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