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What is an NFT?

This year, non-fungible tokens (NFT) have seemed to explode from out of nowhere. These digital assets, which include art and music as well as tacos and toilet papers, are being sold like 17th-century exotic Dutch Tulips — some for millions of dollars. Are NFTs worth the hype or the money? The opinions differ: some compare...

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The New Net Delusion

In June 2009, large protests broke out in Iran in the wake of a disputed election result. The unrest did not differ all that much from comparable episodes that had occurred elsewhere in the world over the preceding decades, but many Western observers became convinced that new digital platforms like Twitter and Facebook were propelling...

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The complete Guide to Serverless vs Containers

As with many of the cloud app development trends, Serverless Computing as well as Containers are widely discussed and talked about by developers. Serverless was created to be an alternative to containerization. Others feel serverless can be used in conjunction with containers for application deployment. Serverless and Containerization are not only different in terms of...

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The Mythical Man-Month

Fred Brooks was a manager at IBM. He wrote The Mythical Man-Month in 1975 after being assigned to manage the development of OS/360, the company’s first operating system, in March of 1969. The book has sold over 1.2 million copies. The Mythical Man-Month is based on his experiences managing the OS/360 project. The book was...

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