The concept of database sharding has gained popularity over the past several years due to the enormous growth in transaction volume and size of business-application databases. This is particularly ...

As you may have noticed yesterday, Foursquare was down. Very down. In fact, that service says that total downtime was around 11 hours all told. That’s not good. And they know it. So they wrote a post ...

Welcome to Hard Fork Basics, a collection of tips, tricks, guides, and advice to keep you up to date in the cryptocurrency and blockchain world. Scaling blockchain is becoming one of the technology’s ...