As opposed to the decentralized control logic underpinning the devising of the Internet as a
complex bundle of box-centric protocols and vertically integrated solutions, the software …

Recent demands for storing and querying big data have revealed various shortcomings of
traditional relational database systems. This, in turn, has led to the emergence of a new kind …

A blockchain is a distributed ledger for recording transactions, maintained by many nodes
without central authority through a distributed cryptographic protocol. All nodes validate the …

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) platforms and" serverless" cloud computing are becoming
increasingly popular. Current FaaS offerings are targeted at stateless functions that do …

Blockchain is a distributed and decentralized ledger for recording transactions. It is
maintained and shared among the participating nodes by utilizing cryptographic primitives …

Bitcoin cryptocurrency demonstrated the utility of global consensus across thousands of
nodes, changing the world of digital transactions forever. In the early days of Bitcoin, the …

Abstract Software Defined Networking simplifies design, monitoring and management of
next generation networks by segregating a legacy network into a centralized control plane …

Tendermint is a new protocol for ordering events in a distributed network under adversarial
conditions. More commonly known as consensus or atomic broadcast, the problem has …

Raft is a consensus algorithm for managing a replicated log. It produces a result equivalent
to (multi-) Paxos, and it is as efficient as Paxos, but its structure is different from Paxos; this …

A blockchain is a decentralised linked data structure that is characterised by its inherent
resistance to data modification, but it is deficient in search queries primarily due to its inferior …