Mon.Sep 23, 2019

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Servlet 3.0 Async Support in Spring and Performance Misconceptions

DZone

It is possible to improve the performance of application servers using Servlet 3.0 async, but is it necessary? Before We Start. Spring makes it easy to write Java applications. With Spring Boot, it became even easier. Spring Boot allows us to quickly create Spring applications: build and run a Java application server with embedded Tomcat and your own controller in less than 5 minutes.

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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. Over the last decade, entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs around the world have taken that initial spark and reimagined blockchain by applying the technology broadly acr

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Evolving Regional Evacuation

The Netflix TechBlog

Niosha Behnam | Demand Engineering @ Netflix At Netflix we prioritize innovation and velocity in pursuit of the best experience for our 150+ million global customers. This means that our microservices constantly evolve and change, but what doesn’t change is our responsibility to provide a highly available service that delivers 100+ million hours of daily streaming to our subscribers.

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