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On February 4, 2004, Mark Zuckerberg and his fellow students from Harvard University launched a project which is now one of the greatest players of BigTech. Initially, Facebook was created in pure vanilla PHP. On its long way to the modern giant position (about 2 billion people currently use this social media every day), Facebook needed…
On September 7 this year, El Salvador introduced the Chivo bitcoin wallet for its citizens to provide commission-free payment service for remittances. In 2020, El Salvador got about $6 billion in remittances. The money transfer commission can reach up to 33%. So, if all Salvadorians turn to Chivo, it may cost Western Union and other…
Application migration or more generally – Software migration – is a pretty common term nowadays. Actually, the first thing that comes to mind when people talk about application migration is cloud migration. Everyone’s moving their legacy systems to the cloud nowadays in pursuit of scalability, cost reduction, security and more. However, application migration is far…
If you’re planning to start some new project with high performance and scalability demands, this article is a must-read for you. Why? Here we talk about the language that allows high performance, impressive scalability and perfectly meets other demands of the modern distributed systems. Find out why use the Go language for your project and…
Modern technologies allow people to make financial transactions without leaving their homes. According to the statistics, 58% of people in the United States prefer to use non-cash payment methods and transfer money to their friends and families through applications on their smartphones. The global remittance and money transfer software market size stood at $16.28 billion…