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Distributed applications enable heterogeneous environments with different systems and architectures. The advantages are platform independence, availability and scalability. The article shows the ...

Failures are no longer exceptions in modern software architectures. They’re a constant reality. Today’s distributed systems span microservices, queues, third-party APIs, AI agents, and human approvals ...

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 ...

Learn why, when, and how to use conflict-free replicated data types to bring strong eventual consistency to your geo-distributed applications Roshan Kumar is a senior product manager at Redis Labs.

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 ...

Distributed PostgreSQL is a formidable force in the realm of deploying globally distributed applications that are always on, always available, and always fast. Combining flexibility, familiarity, and ...

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.