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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

Could it be Analyzing efficient stream processing on modern hardware ? 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’s their secret???

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Structural Evolutions in Data

O'Reilly

” Web3 has similarly progressed through “basic blockchain and cryptocurrency tokens” to “decentralized finance” to “NFTs as loyalty cards.” Doubly so as hardware improved, eating away at the lower end of Hadoop-worthy work. Not that you’ll even need GPU access all that often.

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