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Increasing access to blockchain and ledger databases

All Things Distributed

Last year, I spent some time in Jakarta visiting HARA , an AWS customer. A major component to the system that HARA created is blockchain. HARA has had to develop additional technologies to make their application work on Ethereum, a popular, open source, blockchain framework.

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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. The R5a, M5a and T3a instances purportedly will offer a 10% price-to-performance advantage over AWS's other cloud instances.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For March 1st, 2019

High Scalability

It's HighScalability time: 10 years of AWS architecture increasing simplicity or increasing complexity? Ivan Ivanitskiy : Even though blockchain does not allow for modification of data, it cannot ensure such data is correct. Michael Wittig ). Do you like this sort of Stuff? I'd greatly appreciate your support on Patreon.

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Storage Autoscaling With Percona Operator for MongoDB

Percona

ViewBlock , a blockchain explorer, uses the Percona Operator for MongoDB to store critical data. In our lab we will use AWS EKS with a standard storage class. For example, AWS EBS volumes cannot be downsized and you’d need to delete the volumes before creating new ones with a smaller size. Note : If you use version 1.14.0

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Digesting 2022

O'Reilly

And there isn’t a blockchain or a token in sight. Which does lead us to blockchains and crypto. I’m not going to engage in Schadenfreude here, but I’ve long wondered what can be built with blockchains. At one time, I thought that supply chain management would be the poster child for the Enterprise Blockchain.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For December 7th, 2018

High Scalability

photons ever emitted in the universe; 0.00% : blockchain success rate; Quotable Quotes: @math_rachel : About half of > 200 people seeking visas for @black_in_ai #NeurIPS2018 were denied. . $181.5M : top 10 YouTube star earnings; 153 million/1.2

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For June 29th, 2018

High Scalability

kellabyte : LOL at racking up an AWS bill of $140,000 in 4 hours of compute time. kellabyte : Recently I got to work on a project that really stressed Amazon AWS scalability. We spun up a cluster of 100,000 AWS instances multiple times. Google applies bulk discounts after the fact, AWS makes you ask for them ahead of time.

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