Software is called "multi-tenanted" if a single instance can serve multiple tenants, and multi-tenancy is often referred to as an application "architecture." Cloud-native technology is challenging ...

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 ...

This ebook, based on the latest ZDNet / TechRepublic special feature, examines the returns and efficiencies businesses are seeing with serverless computing, how to create a serverless architecture, ...

Often without even realizing it, many organizations operate with a major inefficiency: duplicate applications within their systems. To be clear, organizations don’t intentionally create these ...

Real-time operating systems (RTOSs) are finding their way into nearly every IoT device. The capability of an RTOS to manage low-level resources and complex timing requirements make them well suited ...

Virtual appliances for load balancing inherit the challenges of legacy solutions. What’s needed is an architecture based on software-defined principles This vendor-written tech primer has been edited ...

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A Spark application contains several components, all of which exist whether you’re running Spark on a single machine or across a cluster of hundreds or thousands of nodes. Each component has a ...

Last week I wrote about the impact cloud computing will have on IT operations. I noted that the increasing scale of data dramatically changes the expectations of how data centers are operated. This ...

Microservices break up monolithic code into discrete chunks that are easier to maintain. Here's an overview and a look at the pros and cons of migrating to a microservices architecture. Nearly every ...