Akamai Technologies Inc. today announced Akamai Application Platform, described as a packaged platform for deploying, managing and scaling highly distributed applications. Akamai Application Platform ...

The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. Dapr (distributed application runtime) is a self-hosted, open-source project that offers extra functionality to ...

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Folks often get confused about the difference between centralized (a.k.a., asymmetrical or single ended) and distributed (a.k.a., symmetrical or dual-ended) application performance solutions.

As promised, Docker Inc. is unveiling some orchestration software aimed at running applications that are distributed among many Docker containers. The announcement, being made Thursday on the heels of ...

Distributed applications enable heterogeneous environments with different systems and architectures. The advantages are platform independence, availability and scalability. The article shows the ...

In this video from FOSDEM 2020, Felix Abecassis and Jonathan Calmels from NVIDIA present: Distributed HPC Applications with Unprivileged Containers. We will present the challenges in doing distributed ...

Actors make it easier to build and manage scalable, distributed cloud applications. Each actor can send and receive messages and taking certain actions based on message contents Building for the cloud ...

Thick and thin clients each have major strengths and weaknesses when compared to each other. Often, the strength of one is the weakness of the other. In general, thick clients are functionally rich ...