Imagine you're a credit card company and a charge comes in. All you know is that this charge is larger than the customer's previous charge. Is it fraud or not? …

Databases are where real-time data streams go to die. They are a dam in the stream, preventing vital, real-time information from getting to the people who need to make critical …

Latency is an issue that would upset a gamer playing online or frustrate a movie-watcher choosing between films. Unfortunately, it has become a normalized part of modern user interfaces in …

We’re living in an open core universe. These days it can be difficult to differentiate technology capabilities available via open source compared with commercial licensed versions of various software projects …

It’s 2020 and we’re still beholden to application patterns established in the era of mainframe computing. The Web was originally created to exchange static resources between user agents. The Hypertext …

In my most recent post, I made four recommendations about planning for an intelligent edge application. My primary takeaway was that building real-time applications requires a different mindset than building …

Learning a new technology takes time and effort, so it’s important to make sure you’ve identified a good fit before you invest precious brain cycles. To help you determine whether …

As modern enterprises plan for Robotics and other IoT tools, they are forced to rethink their platforms to ensure that data flows smoothly from devices to edge to cloud. The …

Yesterday, Google Cloud’s SVP of Technical Infrastructure, Urs Hölzle announced that they’d “removed the remaining [MapReduce] internal codebase for good.” He went on to elaborate that GCP was ditching MapReduce …

The world of enterprise IT infrastructure is undergoing a paradigm shift and becoming more distributed with IT losing their tight hold on the infrastructure. With containers, microservices architectures and serverless …