Think back to the last time you worked in a distributed system, did you consider using something other than RESTful HTTP calls as the method of communication between components in this system?…
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The Crypto Critic Has Arrived
This is the first of a series of commentaries on the world of crypto, blockchains and distributed ledgers. My intention is to take a primarily critical look at the…
A Brief Overview of Blockchain Testing and Benchmarking Tools
Testing solutions for distributed systems today are usually built for a specific type of blockchain or its forks. Some of them are open source projects, others are SaaS, but…
How to run asynchronous web requests in parallel with Python 3.5 (without aiohttp)
Recently at my workplace our IT team finally upgraded our distributed Python versions to 3.5.0. While this is a huge upgrade from 2.6, this still came with some growing…
The Cacophonies of Distributed Systems
If you have never heard about Deutsch + Gosling’s fallacies of distributed computing, you are missing out big time! I encourage you to check them out here. Those delusions are…
TRON (TRX) is Overrun With DApp Bots, Research Shows
The TRON network showed statistics out of the ballpark in comparison to Ethereum and EOS. Multiple accounts, new distributed apps and activity picking up – those seemed to be…
Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Growing To Reach ‘Billions of Users’ Study Finds – Bitcoinist.com
The latest decentralized finance (DeFi) aims at creating new business solutions built on distributed, permissionless networks. A Binance Research study shows that DeFi has grown spectacularly in less than…
How to build a basic 2 nodes Jenkins architecture on AWS
…or how to start dealing with distributed builds mode… A single instance of Jenkins may not be sufficient when dealing with several projects where different builds are performed by different…
Tether, Trust, and Why Crypto Needs Trusted Banks
Who do you trust more? Banks, or digital assets built on distributed ledgers? It’s a timely question for some in the cryptocurrency community as Tether, the most widely used…
Working Effectively with Distributed Teams
Working with distributed or remote teams is hard. Here are some ways to make it less hard. Photo by rawpixel.com from Pexels The problem with distributed teams Nowadays, the concept of…