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Looking Back On Tech, Startups, And VC In 2018

Haystack

companies, more sensitivity around technology IP and security. And will society demand to have more of the algorithmic black box that feeds it information exposed in public? In the meantime, we have what we have today. Governments blocking acquisitions, the curtailment of company expansion, more scrutiny on overseas operations of U.S.

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Special: 72 Israeli Companies Exhibit at the 2010 Mobile World Congress

VC Cafe

4G/ LTE (Long Term Evolution) -the fourth generation of networks, enabling faster downloading in 4G phones (100 megabit per second compared to today’s 21 megabit/sec in 3G phones). Our unique and patented algorithms are a breakthrough in the present state of the art. private networks, in nearly 100 countries.

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Benchmarking Cassandra Scalability on AWS - Over a million writes per second

techblog.netflix.com

If a node fails, its replacement has a different IP address, but we want it to have the same token, and the original Cassandra replacement mechanisms had to be extended to handle this case cleanly. instance is half the available filesystem space, because Cassandras current compaction algorithm needs space to compact into.

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