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There is a strong trend toward public cloud solutions, not only for development and testing but also for mission-critical workloads in production. AI elements in self-learning, self-deciding, and self-repairing systems, such as Chatbots and Roboadvisor, are increasingly finding their way into businesses. There is also a trend toward protocols other than pure blockchains such as IOTA, a digital payment system, or the Lightning Network, which pioneered off-chain transactions in the bitcoin environment.