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Digesting 2022

O'Reilly

Nobody owns it; nobody controls it, though individuals control specific servers. 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.

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Washed Up

Alex Russell

This artwork is by Beeple and sold via Nifty: niftygateway.com/itemdetail/primary/0x12f28e2106ce8fd8464885b80ea865e98b465149/1 The NFT token is for this JSON file hosted directly on Nifty's servers: api.niftygateway.com/beeple/100010001/ 3330 12:40 PM · Mar 17, 2021. Blockchain protocols. It refers to nothing. Cryptocurrencies.

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

High Scalability

million : US Nintendo Switch sales; 40+% : Rust users feel productive; 15 terabytes : monthly measurements of third-party web transparency tracking data; $133.20 : total music sales by Imogen Heap on blockchain; 8.3 ” @emileifrem : Adobe used 125 MongoDB servers to run their activity feed. It was replaced by 48 Cassandra servers.

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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. Assuming a simple 3-node Percona Server for MongoDB cluster without sharding and nothing else in your current namespace, you should be able to run the following commands to allow for automatic storage resizing of all the PVCs.

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AnyLog: a grand unification of the Internet of things

The Morning Paper

Micropayments require an environment of trust, and in a decentralised context that leads us to blockchains. Coordinators are servers that receive queries and return results (search engines). Groups can be centralised or decentralised, with decentralised groups managed by smart contracts on the AnyLog blockchain. Periods (e.g.

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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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Mastering Distributed SQL™ Databases in 2025

Scalegrid

By spreading data across several servers, they support growing applications without sacrificing speed or functionality. Microsoft SQL Server is a go-to choice in the enterprise sphere, offering high performance and integration with other Microsoft products. Horizontal scaling, or scaling out, is the essence of distributed databases.

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