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Fit and value: The business case for blockchain

O'Reilly

Blockchains have a uniquely tumultuous early history for an enterprise technology—from a mysterious origin story, to a sensational first application in bitcoin, to a swift fall from a particularly frothy hype cycle. Blockchain technology provides the encrypted distributed ledger that made the first cryptocurrency, bitcoin, possible.

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Call for Code asks developers worldwide to collaborate on solutions to save lives

O'Reilly Software

They discussed how developers across industries can participate in the Call for Code initiative, the benefits of the program, support from its charitable partners—United Nations Human Rights and the American Red Cross—and the positive impacts IBM hopes to achieve by investing in Call for Code.

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AI’s Opaque Box Is Actually a Supply Chain

O'Reilly

Some of the steps in AI’s type of supply chain can be tricky to follow, with special gotchas like technology company trade secrets, closed code, and program synthesis—which is the process of AI writing its own code to improve itself. When you dissect AI’s supply chain, at the root, you will find algorithms.

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Web Development Trends 2019

KeyCDN

The miracle of machine learning allows programs to collect and synthesize new information to improve the user experience. Blockchain Technology Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin rely on blockchains, but web developers are just realizing the full potential of this technology.

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Monitoring Distributed Systems

Dotcom-Montior

With the rapid advancements in web application technologies, programming languages, cloud computing services, microservices, hybrid environments, etc., This complexity is “hidden” to the end user, like how an API (Application Programming Interface) operates, whether that is an actual user or another computer. Peer-to-Peer. Three-Tier.

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Should You Use ClickHouse as a Main Operational Database?

Percona

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