For organizations focused on digital transformation, existing monolithic application architectures present a major obstacle to modernization initiatives that have become a top priority for CIOs and ...

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Around the turn of the century, there was really just one choice for building business applications: using a server that you owned and that sat in your own data center. Then came the cloud and with it ...

Imagine one huge, monolithic relational database—say, a MySQL or Oracle installation—squatting in the middle of an organization's business like Jabba the Hut. The big blob is kind of comforting. Its ...

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All over the world, massive numbers of applications are humming along, performing crucial tasks for the business processes of enterprises even though they were built with technology that comes from ...

Until recently, businesses were run on monolithic applications developed as a single yet autonomous unit. A slight tweak to the monolithic application affects the whole process and slows it down. For ...

The age of the monolithic application is all but dead. Old-school notions of software structures built around a single tier, inside which is housed application logic, requisite analytics functions, ...

One of the coolest things serverless offerings do is allow you to "mix and match programming languages and frameworks like never before," as Gartner research director Raj Bala has said. This means, as ...

Cloud-native architectures built upon Docker- and Kubernetes-based deployments are all the rage today. Teams that adopt microservices can enjoy some clear advantages, such as the following: ...