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Daily Crunch: $8.5B Amazon-MGM merger will bring thousands of titles to Prime Video

TechCrunch

Paradigm backs Ethereum scaler Optimism : The Ethereum blockchain has a lot to like about it. Upstash, an early-stage startup, is building a serverless data platform for developers of data-intensive applications using a consumption-based pricing model, which should help drive down prices,” he reported. Upstash just closed $1.9

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9 ways IT leaders can impact sustainability initiatives

CIO

That has the potential to increase dramatically as organizations embrace AI, the internet of things, blockchain, and other resource-intensive emerging technologies. Muehlberger is also investing in a serverless environment whereby cloud providers allocate resources on demand to further eliminate computing waste.

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Radar trends to watch: March 2022

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Serverless” development is declining. Is serverless just a halfway step towards event-driven programming, which is the real destination? No blockchain required. Blockchains and NFTs. It has some superficial similarities to blockchains, and could be considered a “distributed ledger technology,” but it isn’t.

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The Paradigm Shift to Cloudless Computing

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Imagine application storage and compute as unstoppable as blockchain, but faster and cheaper than the cloud.) Serverless APIs are the culmination of the cloud commoditizing the old hardware-based paradigm. TLDR: Cloudless apps use protocols instead of centralized services, making them easily portable.

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Radar trends to watch: May 2022

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Or will it lead to a Wikipedia that’s distorted by economic incentives (like past attempts to build a blockchain-based encyclopedia)? Web Assembly is making inroads; here’s a list of startups using wasm for everything from client-side media editing to building serverless platforms, smart data pipelines, and other server-side infrastructure.

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Making Sense of IoT Platforms: AWS vs Azure vs Google vs IBM vs Cisco

Altexsoft

Namely, these layers are: perception layer (hardware components such as sensors, actuators, and devices; transport layer (networks and gateway); processing layer (middleware or IoT platforms); application layer (software solutions for end users). Perception layer: IoT hardware. How an IoT system works.

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Cloud Computing Trends and Innovations

Apiumhub

Serverless Computing: Event-Driven Efficiency Serverless computing, often referred to as Function as a Service (FaaS), allows developers to execute code in response to specific events without managing the underlying infrastructure. This event-driven model enhances efficiency, scalability, and cost-effectiveness.

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