Imagine a world without a global notion of time. Now try to find out the flight direction of an airplane with the following information: There's an e-mail from Alice that she saw the plane about two ...

In contrast to centralized systems, distributed software systems add an entire new layer of complexity to the already difficult problem of software design. In spite of that, for a variety of reasons, ...

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As modern software systems become more and more complex, gaining observability into how applications perform and what makes them fail is quickly climbing up the priority list. As enterprise technology ...

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Software failures wreak havoc on businesses. Type those words into a search engine and you will get around 93 million results in the blink of an eye. Some of those failures can even be described as ...

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 ...

As demands in the access and enterprise networking markets increase, communication equipment designers are faced with the challenge of delivering advanced functionality in network equipment that can ...

Observability is an increasingly vital consideration for software engineers looking to build better, more stable applications. Here is everything you need to know about observability. The term ...

Global energy spending has reached record levels, and with a significant focus on renewables. But renewable power is yet to meet demand in key areas, prolonging the world's reliance on fossil fuels.