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A Brief History of Microservices

The history and origins of microservices are a continuing effort to provide better communication between different platforms, greater simplicity, and more user-friendly systems. Microservices are typically thought of as a software development technique which organizes an application as a group of loosely coupled services. It is, however, any kind of small service which interacts with […]

Serverless Computing Use Cases

The uniqueness of serverless computing is its ability to survive without the presence of physical machines and systems software. In the serverless computing world, the client subscribes to a set of services including special “APIs and web services” that software developers can use to quickly build useful and scalable architectures for on-demand computing services. Serverless […]

Smart Data Governance: Ensuring Regulatory Compliance with Smart Availability

Click to learn more about author Don Boxley. Traditionally, high availability (HA) concerns revolved around performance. HA offered various redundancy and failover options to ensure business continuity in the event of workload spikes, planned maintenance, and unplanned downtime. Today, HA methods have been superseded by Smart Availability’s intelligent workload routing automation, in which data and […]

Tech Primer: Microservices

Click to learn more about author Kong Yang. Enterprise applications are focusing more on giving customers the best possible end-user experience. As such, lightweight, scalable, and cost-effective technologies, like Functions as a Service (FaaS), microservices, and containers have stepped in to help. In this tech primer, I’ll discuss the role that microservices play in helping […]