What are the key features of distributed systems? Distributed systems are used in many applications, including social networking platforms, cloud computing and online retail. The distinctive ...

The basics of distributed computing Any time a workload is distributed between two or more computing devices or machines connected by some type of network, that’s distributed computing. There are a ...

Building a distributed architecture involves many different components and many different strategies, from client server computing, to managing big data and content. Here we look at some basic ...

Several researchers have previ­ously addressed access control issues for cloud computing. Daniel Nurmi and his colleagues provided an au­thorization system to control the ex­ecution of virtual ...

Distributed computing and systems software form the critical backbone of modern digital infrastructures by enabling a network of autonomous computers to work collaboratively. This paradigm ...

In a recent article on Ably Blog, Alex Diaconu reviewed the eight fallacies of distributed computing and provided a number of hints at how to handle them. InfoQ has taken the chance to talk with ...

Learn about Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), the decentralized network architecture that enhances data security and ...

The world of distributed computing took on a new profile this year when Folding@home, a 20-year-old distributed computing project, found itself picking up ...