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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. The slow shift from monolithic systems to distributed systems has changed the way organizations and teams think about monitoring their infrastructure, websites, applications, APIs, etc. Peer-to-Peer. There is no single server or machine that takes care of the workload. Three-Tier.

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