What is a distributed system? A distributed system is a collection of independent computers that appear to the user as a single coherent system. To accomplish a common objective, the computers in a ...

Many organizations in the healthcare and life sciences industries are just now exploring the opportunities surrounding the dominant entries in the distributed processing architectures, Hadoop and ...

If your “microservices” still deploy like a monolith, maybe it’s time to break free with a truly composable AWS architecture.

What’s the big IT story of 2016 going to be? All fingers seem to be pointing at Bitcoin, along with the blockchain architecture that empowers its distributed nature. There are two reasons why Bitcoin ...

A technical paper titled “Muchisim: A Simulation Framework for Design Exploration of Multi-Chip Manycore Systems” was published by researchers at Princeton University. “Current design-space ...

When systems require complex customizations and integrations (think ERP, CRM, or CMS), these flexible architecture choices enable greater security and scale. What ...

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