A survey from BMC found organizations continue to invest in mainframe applications alongside distributed computing environments.
You’re Already a Distributed Developer
For many coders, the idea of distributed systems development might seem like a dark art. They think of high-performance computing wizards crafting mysterious spells with job schedulers to work magic with hundreds of connected nodes in massively-parallel systems. Or large, distributed content delivery networks that balance resources to deliver content across the world no matter […]
Deploying a Service Mesh: Challenges and Solutions
A service mesh is a dedicated infrastructure layer that enables communication between microservices in a distributed application. It helps to abstract the underlying communication infrastructure, such as network protocols and load balancing and provides a consistent interface for microservices to communicate with each other. In a service mesh, each microservice in the application is represented […]
Cosmonic Previews Deployment Platform for Distributed Wasm Apps
Cosmonic has made available a preview of a platform for deploying applications built using the portable WebAssembly (Wasm) binary format that enables applications to be deployed on any platform. Cosmonic CEO Liam Randall said the company is providing early access to the Cosmonic Platform Developer Preview platform to enable developers to experiment with a new […]
Not Totally Buying Web3? You’re Not Alone
The interest in Web3 is heating up. We’ve seen major excitement around blockchain and new Web3 protocols that are poised to reinvent the web as we know it. But it’s hard to hide the skepticism and the suspicion that there are ulterior motives behind large cryptocurrency coin fundraisers. There’s no doubt that there are benefits […]
Credit Karma Looks to Open Source Distributed App Platform
Credit Karma has launched an application platform, dubbed Talon Polly, that makes it simpler to deploy microservices across multiple runtime environments. Richard Pounder, principal software engineer at Credit Karma, said the consumer financial services provider expects to make Talon Polly available as an open source project next year. Written in the Rust programming language, Pounder […]
When to Use API Management and Service Mesh Together
Though sometimes described as competing architectures, API management and service mesh have slightly different use cases and can actually work well together. Whereas API management provides the business logic for outside-facing traffic, a service mesh excels at handling intercommunication between microservices. An organization could certainly adopt both simultaneously across their projects. So, when does it […]
Cortex Expands Microservices Catalog to Improve Collaboration
Cortex, a provider of a catalog for tracking the ownership of microservices, today announced it has added a service creation capability that enables developers to use templates to scaffold new services in five minutes. In addition, the company has added a Cortex Teams offering that improves collaboration across teams of developers working on interdependent microservices. […]
Using Rust to Build Distributed Applications
Rust is an open source programming language that was initially developed at Mozilla Research and became increasingly popular for building distributed applications. It has been referred to in the Stack Overflow Survey as “the most-loved programming language” by software developers for five consecutive years. Moreover, companies like Amazon and Microsoft have recently revealed that they […]
Serverless Computing Brings New Security Risks
Attracted by lower costs and less operational overhead, serverless computing is an unmistakable undercurrent in the world of DevOps. Developers are drawn to the innovation because it requires no architecture to manage while offering continuous scaling for anything from a few requests per day to hundreds of thousands of requests per second. More than 50% […]
