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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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Digesting 2022

O'Reilly

And while I haven’t mentioned Google and Facebook, they have demoed equivalents to most of these applications. Mastodon is a federated network of communities that are (mostly) pleasant, friendly, and populated by smart people. And there isn’t a blockchain or a token in sight. Which does lead us to blockchains and crypto.