Best of ComputingNovember 2022

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    Introduction to Blockchain

    Bitcoin is decentralized and trustless, meaning there is no trusted authority which controls updates. If any node could make updates to the database at any time, there would be conflicts, fake transactions, inconsistencies between different nodes’s copies of the database.

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    Message Queue and NoSQL with 10x Performance Boost

    When Apache Cassandra came out around the late 2000s, AWS EC2 instances with a few physical cores and 64GB of RAM were considered high end. In order to take full advantage of these advances, high performance software requires new designs.

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    EP31: Super High-performance NoSQL and MQ

    The data platform ingests, processes, analyzes and presents data generated by different data sources. No JVM, No GC Kafka and Cassandra are written in JVM-compatible languages and usually suffer from high tail latency. Redpanda and ScyllaDB are rewritten from scratch using C++ and leverages some new frameworks.

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    Deploy an API tool in 10 minutes

    The core idea of Serverless is to make the server as a computing resource no longer need the attention of users. FaaS (Functions as a Service) functions as a service. Later, we will use the serverless API to implement a service that uses Node to help clients send API requests and get responses.

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    Five Reasons Why You Should Learn Rust

    Rust's ownership model is genuinely a new and refreshing concept for me, says Idan Zalzberg. Rust guarantees memory safety without garbage collectors or automatic reference counting. Rust expands that idea into thread safety. It's a new mental model and can take some time to learn.

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    How we reduce our Streaming cost by 90% using Benthos

    Benthos is a brand new open-source data streaming service that is written in GO. It's based on GO instead of JVM, which gives it outstanding performance, native support for K8S, and all the connectors/sinks you can think of. The deployment is fully scalable and will scale up & down.