Spurred by cloud adoption, many monolithic IT systems have morphed into distributed solutions based on service-based architectures, but as with all such IT transformations, the backlash has begun and ...

Businesses operate in real time—unlike many of their applications. In nearly all major industries and verticals, there has been an explosion of interest in microservices. Their promise to enable the ...

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In the red corner, weighing in with independent scalability and distributed complexity: microservices! In the blue corner, the reigning legacy champion, with its infamous deployment challenges: the ...

In technology, history has a habit of repeating itself. Think back to the early microservices boom. What was supposed to deliver agility and scalability often resulted in the opposite: brittle, ...