Technologists have been promoting blockchain technology as a sort of panacea that could save the financial sector and protect everyday banking customers from fraud. Economists and journalists have painted a different picture. They've claimed that distributed ledgers are an easy way of obscuring illegal transactions and point to several high-profile cases where criminals used … [Read more...] about Will Blockchain Deliver a Decisive Blow to Financial Fraud or Fall Flat on its Face?
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Improving MySQL by Replicating to the In-Memory Database Tarantool
Replicating MySQL is one of the in-memory-database Tarantool's killer functions. It allows you to keep your existing MySQL database while at the same time accelerating it and scaling it out horizontally. Even if you aren't interested in extensive expansion, simply replacing existing replicas with Tarantool can save you money, because Tarantool is more efficient per core than … [Read more...] about Improving MySQL by Replicating to the In-Memory Database Tarantool
3 Reasons Not to Use Blockchain Within Your Organisation
For the past years, blockchain has been a huge buzzword. Especially after the crypto hype of 2017, organisations were convinced that they had to do something with blockchain. If only it was changing your company name to include blockchain in it. Although we have are in a bear crypto market, blockchain remains a buzzword. It reminds me of 5 or 6 years ago, when big data was the … [Read more...] about 3 Reasons Not to Use Blockchain Within Your Organisation
How to Correctly Analyze Your Data to Ensure Company Efficiency
The science of data research holds more weight over your company's effectiveness than one might generally expect. In fact, comprehensive sets of data and analytic information directly measure the performance of a business, and, therefore, future success depends heavily on a business's analytic metrics. Today, data is measured differently than it formerly had been within the … [Read more...] about How to Correctly Analyze Your Data to Ensure Company Efficiency
Slow MySQL Start Time in GTID? Binary Log File Size May Be The Issue
Have you been experiencing slow MySQL startup times in GTID mode? We recently ran into this issue on one of our MySQL hosting deployments and set out to solve the problem. In this blog, we break down the issue that could be slowing down your MySQL restart times, how to debug for your deployment, and what you can do to decrease your start time and improve your understanding … [Read more...] about Slow MySQL Start Time in GTID? Binary Log File Size May Be The Issue
