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5 industries that demonstrate how blockchains go beyond finance

O'Reilly

Although blockchain technology is still in its early days, momentum has been building in the enterprise. While there has been much focus on blockchains in banking and payments, its impact has already extended far beyond finance. When a land title changes hands, it would be verified via the blockchain, and recorded again.

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AnyLog: a grand unification of the Internet of things

The Morning Paper

Micropayments require an environment of trust, and in a decentralised context that leads us to blockchains. There are five different types of member in an AnyLog system, and any network node can join without restriction as any type of member. Publishers are the producers of the actual data to be served by the network.

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

All Things Distributed

Today, I’m happy to announce that the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region is generally available for use by customers worldwide. We are excited to offer a complete portfolio of services from our foundational service stack for compute, storage, and networking to our more advanced solutions and applications. The opportunity to revolutionize.

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Top 9 web development trends to expect in 2022

Enprowess

Blockchain Technology. 24*7 Availability : Chatbots are available 24×7 and can respond to your customer’s queries as fast as possible. A Directory of 24000 APIs is available on Programmableweb.com to integrate into any business application. Blockchain Technology. Single Page Applications (SPAs). Image Source.

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Monitoring Distributed Systems

Dotcom-Montior

There was a time when standing up a website or application was simple and straightforward and not the complex networks they are today. These systems can include physical servers, containers, virtual machines, or even a device, or node, that connects and communicates with the network. Blockchain is a good example of this.

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

The Morning Paper

I don’t think so in this case, but this paper will take you down into the nitty-gritty of getting the best out of modern processors and networks, with up to two orders of magnitude single node throughput gains to be had. What if the network was no longer the bottleneck? Maybe we should be switching to active-memory replication ?

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Software Testing Trends 2021 – What can we expect?

Testsigma

The growing demand for IoT-testing is the government’s gradual acceptance of smart cities’ concept, which is why businesses are keen to incorporate IoT into their networks. million Apple App Store applications in the 3rd quarter of 2020, are available. Blockchain Tests. Autonomous Test Automation. billion in 2020.