Cloud computing promises new ways to build and deploy distributed applications. So why are we so hung up on the old ones? James Urquhart is a field technologist with almost 20 years of experience in ...

From streaming videos to cloud storage solutions, cloud computing has become an integral part of our everyday lives. Netflix uses cloud computing to provide streaming services to millions of users ...

What is a distributed system? A distributed system is a collection of independent computers that appear to the user as a single coherent system. To accomplish a common objective, the computers in a ...