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.

Microsoft and Docker this week launched a new specification called Cloud Native Application Bundles (CNAB) to address the needs of organizations that build and maintain distributed applications. CNAB ...

Digital finance technology company IntellectEU Inc. today announced that the DAML programming language for distributed applications has been launched for R3’s enterprise-grade distributed ledger ...

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 ...

Microsoft and Docker on Tuesday announced a new specification and a new tool for organizations and developers managing distributed applications. The new specification is called Cloud Native ...

A startup called Heliosphere Ltd. is hoping to make life easier for developers by simplifying troubleshooting during application development, after closing on a $5 million seed funding round. Today’s ...

Orchestrating data management across distributed apps is no easy feat. Just ask former Aruba and Juniper Networks veterans Ankur Singla and Harshad Nakil, the cofounders of Volterra, a startup ...

The difference between distributed computing and concurrent programming is a common area of confusion as there is a significant amount of overlap between the two when you set out to accomplish ...

XML and Web services are emitting a singsong chime these days, humming the letters S-O-A. Service-oriented architecture is in the air. SOA is the latest name for an applications architecture for ...

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 ...

These distributed apps are resilient and enable everything from asset tracking to identity verification — oh, and some pretty cool role-playing games, too. Imagine an application that doesn’t run on ...