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Blockchain – The Next Big Thing for Middleware

Blockchain, most well known as the technology behind Bitcoin, has uses far beyond cryptocurrencies. This article explains the use cases and technical concepts behind blockchain, gives an overview about available services, and points out why middleware is a key success factor in this space.

Kai Wähner
on Dec 12, 2016
Cloud

Article Series: Cloud and "Lock-in"

With the fast-pace of cloud changes (new services, providers entering and exiting), cloud lock-in remains a popular refrain. But what does it mean, and how can you ensure you're maximizing your cloud investment while keeping portability in mind?

Richard Seroter
on Jul 01, 2016
Cloud

Virtual Panel on (Cloud) Lock-In

There's no shortage of opinions on the topic of technology lock-in. InfoQ reached out to four software industry leaders to participate in a lively virtual panel on this topic: Joe Beda, Simon Crosby, Krish Subramanian, and Cloud Opinion.

Richard Seroter
on Jun 17, 2016
Cloud

Everything Is “Lock-In”: Focus on Switching Costs

Coding in Java, buying SAP, deploying OpenStack, and using Amazon Web Services: each one introduces a type of lock-in. However, it makes no difference how hard you try- some form of lock-in is unavoidable. What matters most is understanding the layers of lock-in, and how to assess and reduce your switching costs.

Richard Seroter
on Jun 08, 2016
DevOps

Article Series: Containers in the Real World - Stepping Off the Hype Curve

This article series explains how containers are actually being used within the enterprise. It dives into the core technology behind containers and how this is currently being used by developers, examines core challenges with deploying containers in the enterprise and the future of containerisation, and discusses the role unikernels are currently playing within leading-edge organisations.

Daniel Bryant
on Apr 17, 2016
DevOps

Lessons Learned from Scheduling One Million Containers with HashiCorp Nomad

HashiCorp's Million Container Challenge is a test for how efficiently its scheduler, Nomad, can schedule one million containers across 5,000 hosts. The goal of the challenge is to observe and optimize the behavior of Nomad at exceptional scale. Ultimately Nomad was able to schedule one million containers across 5,000 hosts in under five minutes. This post outlines the lessons learned.

Kevin Fishner
on Apr 08, 2016
Cloud

Is HyperContainer the Answer for Cloud Native Applications?

Xu Wang introduces HyperContainer, a runtime for running Docker images on any hypervisor, providing hardware-enforced isolation for multi-tenant environments.

Xu Wang
on Mar 31, 2016
Packet Inspection for Unauthorized OS Detection in Enterprises

The authors discuss an approach that uses TCP SYN packets for OS ﬁngerprinting to detect the presence of unauthorized OSs in an enterprise.

B. Thanudas Rohit Tyagi B.S. Manoj Tuhin Paul
on Oct 10, 2015
Mobile

A Glimpse of Latest Mobile App Development Trends

Even though mobile apps are nothing special anymore, there is still quite some movement in this area. In this article, Katie Stanfield highlights some of the trends we might encounter in the near future if we think about developing mobile applications: App developers and companies will have to keep in mind topics like Big Data and app analytics, Internet of Things or enterprise app stores.

Katie Stanfield
on Sep 29, 2015
Self-service Delivery Platform at Tuenti

Óscar San José, technical lead at Tuenti (largest Spanish social network) explains how and why their in-house Flow deployment system allowed developer teams to be more independent and deliver faster.

Óscar San José
on Jul 31, 2015
Infrastructure as a Service and Cloud Technologies

In this article, authors examine the enterprise cloud market and technologies and provide guidance for choosing the right cloud solution. They also discuss the cloud computing best practices such as elastic architecture, design for failure, high availability, performance, security, and monitoring.

Nicolas Serrano Josune Hernantes Gorka Gallardo
on Jul 12, 2015
Highly Distributed Computations Without Synchronization

Synchronization of data across systems is expensive and impractical when running systems at scale. Traditional approaches for performing computations or information dissemination are not viable. In this article Basho Sr. Software Engineer Chris Meiklejohn explores the basic building blocks for crafting deterministic applications that guarantee convergence of data without synchronization.

Christopher Meiklejohn
on Feb 17, 2015