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Digesting 2022

O'Reilly

And while I haven’t mentioned Google and Facebook, they have demoed equivalents to most of these applications. And there isn’t a blockchain or a token in sight. Which does lead us to blockchains and crypto. I’m not going to engage in Schadenfreude here, but I’ve long wondered what can be built with blockchains.

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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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Monitoring Distributed Systems

Dotcom-Montior

Blockchain is a good example of this. Of if you prefer a one-on-one walk-through of the platform and individual solutions, contact our team for a live demo. For example, you can think of a cell phone network as a type of distributed system, consisting of a network of internet-connected devices that share resources workload.

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