Maya is VP Product at Helios, a dev-first observability platform that helps dev and ops teams improve the reliability of distributed apps. Distributed tracing, a technique used to identify performance ...

A startup called Heliosphere Ltd. is hoping to make life easier for developers by simplifying troubleshooting during application development, after closing on a $5 million seed funding round. Today’s ...

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XML and Web services are emitting a singsong chime these days, humming the letters S-O-A. Service-oriented architecture is in the air. SOA is the latest name for an applications architecture for ...

The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. Dapr (distributed application runtime) is a self-hosted, open-source project that offers extra functionality to ...

High-performance database startup Yugabyte Inc. is updating its namesake platform YugabyteDB, targeting developers who prefer to run their applications on the open-source PostgreSQL database. With ...

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 ...

As a Gen-Xer who just turned 40, I never thought that I would sound like my ?wisdom?-sharing Baby Boomer seniors, much less feel compelled to point out to the Gen Yers and Millennials that they are ...