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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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Monitoring Distributed Systems

Dotcom-Montior

Blockchain is a good example of this. Software and hardware components are autonomous and execute tasks concurrently. A distributed system comprises of a variety of hardware and software components with different operating systems and technologies, meaning the processors are separate and independent of each other. Peer-to-Peer.

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