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 ...

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

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 ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Vivek Yadav, an engineering manager from ...

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 ...

There is a seismic shift that is about to reshape enterprise IT. Due to key trends like AI and IoT, applications and data as encapsulated in their supporting infrastructure are increasingly being ...

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 ...

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 ...