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Distributed processing and blockchain solutions

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Distributed processing and blockchain solutions

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- To better understand how important blockchain technology is, let's take a quick look at how we got here. What kind of problems blockchain technology can solve for us? First off, blockchain technology is based on the concept of solving distributed processing issues. So what is distributed processing? Distributed processing is taking the original approach to applications like a host-based system. You had one big mainframe and just connect with terminals. And what if we split that off into different entities? So the first generation was client server. Client server distributed processing basically says that the client does most of the work, but the server stores and manages the shared data. So the idea was to split things across, to make it more efficient. Sometimes that works, sometimes it doesn't. Then we moved to three-tier architecture where the client connects to a server to get content. The server gets the data from a…

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