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 ...

In a world being overrun by cloud and demand for more cloud, it's easy to forget that the world has actually already been long overrun by monolithic applications. They're never installed as monoliths, ...

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 ...

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 ...

We are fast-forwarding to an always-on, digitally revolutionized, mobile-first world. And any organisation that fails to adapt to newer ways of working is certain to be left behind as others take a ...

Microservices break up monolithic code into discrete chunks that are easier to maintain. Here's an overview and a look at the pros and cons of migrating to a microservices architecture. Nearly every ...

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: ...