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Article: Forensic Monitoring of Blockchains Is Key for Broader Industry Adoption

InfoQ Articles

This article presents a new blockchain consensus mechanism, XinFin Delegated Proof-of-Stake Consensus Protocol 2.0, that provides a higher level of trust by creating an efficient judiciary system. It has been designed to keep all verifying nodes accountable and allow for bad actors to be identified and effectively neutralized.

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Reliable, Fast Access to On-Chain Data Insights

Confluent

At TokenAnalyst , we are building the core infrastructure to integrate, clean, and analyze blockchain data. Data on a blockchain is also known as on-chain data. We offer both historical and low-latency data streams of on-chain data across multiple blockchains. How we use Apache Kafka and the Confluent Platform. Figure 1.

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The Crypto Mining Threat: The Security Risk Posed By Bitcoin and What You Can Do About It

CATO Networks

This can be done by disrupting the process of joining and communicating with the crypto mining pool either by blocking the underlying communication protocol or by blocking crypto mining pool addresses and domains. Instead, organizations should block access to the IP addresses and domains used by public blockchain pools.

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Internet of Things (IoT) and Event Streaming at Scale with Apache Kafka and MQTT

Confluent

Machines provide a large number of usually closed and incompatible protocols in a proprietary format. OPC UA: this is an open and cross-platform, machine-to-machine communication protocol for industrial automation. In the IoT environment, for example, a large number of protocols for data exchange have developed in recent years.

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My Take on Web3 and THAT Letter

Software Architecture Zen

Some of the less inflammatory comments include: Their professional work has nothing to do with cryptocurrencies, blockchain or finance so so Im not seeing why theyre a signatory. I also agree with the statement that a blockchain based Web3 is very much a solution in search of a problem .

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Microservices, Apache Kafka, and Domain-Driven Design

Confluent

From a technology perspective, this could include different APIs, frameworks, communication protocols, and datastores. This pattern is implementation agnostic, meaning it can be used regardless of whether your services communicate through events or with a request-response protocol. How to build systems like this.

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Key Advantages of Working as an Engineer in the Mobile Gaming Industry

Zynga

For example, real-time games like racing need a real-time tech stack built on top of UDP protocols, whereas strategy games need to be heavily server authoritative to prevent cheating in social features such as leaderboards. Some of the deep learning tech also has direct applications in the gaming domain.