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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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Fitbit put its users first when it decided to shift its entire application to Google Cloud Platform. We learn how the healthcare data and wearables company did it. Google announced its intention to ...

The age of the monolithic application is all but dead. Old-school notions of software structures built around a single tier, inside which is housed application logic, requisite analytics functions, ...

Amazon made headlines in early 2023 when its Prime Video service abandoned microservices in favor of a monolithic application. The company credited the move with a 90% cost savings. This is just one ...

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: ...

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 ...

One of the coolest things serverless offerings do is allow you to "mix and match programming languages and frameworks like never before," as Gartner research director Raj Bala has said. This means, as ...