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Why Mantle’s Developer Focus Could Position It for Institutional Adoption

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What Makes Institutions Finally Move On-Chain? The gap between institutional interest and institutional participation in crypto has persisted for years. Banks, asset managers, and traditional finance firms have explored blockchain technology through pilot programs, partnerships, and research divisions, but meaningful capital deployment remains limited. The barrier isn’t skepticism about the technology anymore, it’s the absence … Read more

Meet ScyllaDB: HackerNoon Company of the Week

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Welcome one, welcome all to another HackerNoon Company of the Week feature. Every week, we highlight a standout company from our Tech Company Database that’s making waves in the global tech ecosystem and positively impacting the lives of its users. Our database features everything from S&P giants to rising stars in the Startup scene. Ever used Discord, ordered Starbucks … Read more

Real-Time Write Heavy Database Workloads: Considerations & Tips

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Real-time, write-heavy database workloads present a unique set of performance challenges that differ significantly from read-heavy systems. These workloads are characterized by extremely high ingestion rates (often exceeding 50,000 operations per second), a greater volume of writes than reads, and strict latency requirements—frequently demanding single-digit millisecond P99 performance. Such conditions are common in modern systems … Read more

Racks of AI chips are too damn heavy

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An aerial view of a 33 megawatt data center (LOWER L) with closed-loop cooling system, amid warehouses on October 20, 2025 in Vernon, California. | Image: Mario Tama/Getty Images In the span of a decade and a half, from 2010 to the end of 2024, the number of data centers in the US quadrupled. The … Read more