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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For November 9th, 2018

High Scalability

This is the key problem with every musical blockchain initiative I've ever seen. Proposals whose "blockchain" would need to add 1GB/hour, that sort of thing. In a two socket server, that equates to 128 physical cores and 256 threads in a single box. This industrializes and 10x existing processes and creates new ones.

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AnyLog: a grand unification of the Internet of things

The Morning Paper

AnyLog: a grand unification of the Internet of Things , Abadi et al., Micropayments require an environment of trust, and in a decentralised context that leads us to blockchains. Despite the "Internet of Things" featuring prominently in the title, there’s nothing particular to IoT in the technical solution at all.

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Washed Up

Alex Russell

Jonty Wareing @jonty Short version: The NFT token you bought either points to a URL on the internet, or an IPFS hash. In most circumstances it references an IPFS gateway on the internet run by the startup you bought the NFT from. Which in this case is hosted via a @cloudinary CDN, served by Nifty's servers again.

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Top 9 web development trends to expect in 2022

Enprowess

Internet of Things (IoT). Blockchain Technology. Besides that, these apps do well in areas with a slow internet connection. So it is convenient for all to use irrespective of internet speed and it works offline using cached data. Internet of Things (IoT). List of Top Web Development Trends to Track in 2022.

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Web Development Trends 2019

KeyCDN

It can be used to decouple your frontend from your backend and improve server efficiency. Serverless Applications Managing your own server is so 2018. Blockchain Technology Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin rely on blockchains, but web developers are just realizing the full potential of this technology.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For November 30th, 2018

High Scalability

8 : successful Mars landings; $250,000 : proposed price for Facebook Graph API; 33 : countries where mobile internet is faster than WiFi; 1000s : Facebook cache poisoning; 8.2 ” @emileifrem : Adobe used 125 MongoDB servers to run their activity feed. It was replaced by 48 Cassandra servers. servers of Neo4j.

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Monitoring Distributed Systems

Dotcom-Montior

Do you have a web server? Is the web server running? The last item to check was if the web server was able to talk to the database? 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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