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While cryptocurrencies in general and Bitcoin in particular are the primary application that brought blockchain into the limelight, the potential of blockchain in the enterprise extends far beyond cryptocurrencies. As we’ll see in subsequent blogs, companies in financial, energy, medical, supply chain management, logistics, cloud computing, etc. are now investing in and launching proof of …
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Blockchains are comprised of single blocks chained together to form a single chain or single main chain and multiple side chains. Single (Main) Chain As the name implies is a single on the main chain in the blockchain. Here, the main chain validates and processes all blocks and transactions. Multi (Side) Chain Because all transaction …
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Blockchain is an append-only electronic distributed ledger database technology. The protocol ensures that each block of data is tamper proof, secure, decentralized, verified and fingerprinted (or hashed) before it is appended to the chain. For example: Currently, most enterprise companies like Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft run a data monopoly, meaning that all user data that …
Edit: Interesting how much has changed in just 3 short months Bitcoin is trading today 08/06/2018 at $7,632 ($3,941.67 11/25/2018) compared to August 16th, 2010, when it was trading at $0.07 per coin. Bitcoin actually went up to $15,825 per coin on December 2017. The meteoric rise in Bitcoin value and other cryptocurrencies has led …
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Historically I have been a Microsoft C# guy but the more I work with non-Microsoft shops with Hybrid environments and Java guys running around everywhere the more curious I have become about open source tool chains for Agile and DevOps. We use Team Foundation Services for Work Item Tracking, Planning, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Deployment …
If you database has no Time or Date table you can use the Dimension Wizard in SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) to generate your Time Dimension. You can have the tool generate a Time Table either in the data source (if you have permissions) or on the Server. When creating your Time Table using the …
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Looking for the best open source tools for running agile projects. The goal of this little experiment is to create a CI / CD pipeline including planning, task management, source control / versioning, triggered build and test and deployment to the cloud. Today I’m experimenting with Taiga an open source planning and task management tool. …
I have a few smart speakers scattered around my place from both Amazon and Google and both have their strengths and weaknesses. However when it comes to usefulness as a nightstand alarm clock devices from both companies fall short. First the Google home and Google Mini do not have screens to view the current time …
Thinking of using this cake image in future discussions of vertical slicing of user stories. What do you think? https://www.reddit.com/r/creepy/comments/9oidi7/cockroach_cake/?utm_source=reddit-android