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Infrastructure markets, built in the open

Current notes on protocol design, verifiable identity, provider operations, and settlement—together with the complete early VirtEngine blog archive.

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Field notes from building an infrastructure market.

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The protocol in practice

New articles from the VirtEngine Foundation about the system being built today.

Project history

The original VirtEngine blog, preserved

All 64 articles from 2015–2016 have been migrated with their original titles, dates, and article text. They are retained as a historical record, not current technical guidance. Known migration links are repaired where possible; unavailable items are labelled.

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Historic archive

Meet VirtEngine at HostingCon India 2016!

Introduction VirtEngine will be exhibiting in HostingCon India 2016! Make sure to visit our Booth @ G1 if you’re paying a visit. About HostingCon HostingCon is the premiere industry confe…

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Installing VirtEngine on CentOS

Introduction Before we begin, lets install OpenJDK8 and cassandra. This tutorial will help you set up VirtEngine. Prerequisites OpenJDK8 su -c “yum install java-1.8.0-openjdk” Cassandra 3…

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Cassandra Replication - HA

Introduction Cassandra stores replicas on multiple nodes to ensure reliability and fault tolerance. A replication strategy determines the nodes where replicas are placed. The total number…

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