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News Bitcoin Blockchain (database) Cryptocurrency decentralized platforms Ethereum marketplacesNearly two years ago, we published our first ebook, A Guide to Marketplaces. Towards the end, we touched briefly on emerging marketplace types and included decentralized marketplaces in the mix. At the time, OpenBazaar was still in beta. MORE
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Google today announced the general availability of Cloud SQL , which, as its name implies, is a MySQL database that lives in Google’s cloud. percent uptime Service Level Agreement (SLA), and support for databases up to 500GB in size. MORE
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