In the beginning, there were forking servers and then came threaded servers. Although they manage a few concurrent connections well, when network sessions reach into the hundreds or even thousands, ...

What myths surround event-driven architectures, and the truth behind the valuable solution that can provide agility and scalability for software engineers If you think an event-driven architecture isn ...

What is an event-driven application? An event-driven application is a computer program written to respond to actions generated by a user or system. In a computing context, an Event is any identifiable ...

“Asynchrony” is a scary word. It means taking events as they come, managing somehow to avoid being overtaken by them. Event-driven asynchrony is the foundation of serverless computing, which, as a ...

Custom and business applications running on enterprise mobile devices should be able to maximize efficiency and productivity on the back end while maintaining quality UX. To achieve these goals, IT ...

The advent of traditional cloud computing services -- like Amazon EC2-- presented a business case for offloading maintenance of physical servers onto a third party, eliminating upfront costs of ...