When I worked for an aerospace company, a running joke was that we were a data storage company that happened to take satellite images. The amount of data we had stored in that prior life was measured ...

This article defines the three most common causes of application data bottlenecks and offers a proactive approach for eliminating them. It also illustrates the architecture using a real-world J2EE ...

Expanding its data center presence worldwide, Cloudant has announced a global data layer as a service, which is intended to provide high performance, scalability, and availability to developers of big ...

Many subsystems of web application development are now mature. I can't think of a way to significantly improve on the database, build system, HTTP server, or client-side rendering framework. But, in ...

J2EE application servers provide scalable performance for a wide range of applications. However, the general-purpose nature of J2EE, which aims to address the needs of every enterprise, also limits ...