DevOps practitioners take heed: Cloud-native computing will be the overarching trend for enterprise application development in the 2020s. Cloud-native computing is a paradigm shift in…
When I heard what Camunda, the scrappy open-source vendor of business process management software (BPMS), was up to, I had to head to its hometown of Berlin to…
“Zero-trust” is a security model that requires strict access controls, not trusting anything by default for any person, application, or service—even if it resides inside a…
When people talk about the Internet of Things (IoT), their focus inevitably falls on the “things,” because we all take the Internet itself for granted. But…
If you haven’t been paying attention to the world of enterprise IT infrastructure, you may have missed the sudden rise of Kubernetes to a position…
When I first wrote about OpenStack in 2015, I described the open-source, private-cloud software effort as “the mother of all learning opportunities.” At that time,…
Cloud computing. Containers. RESTful APIs. To IT pros, these are the sexy parts of enterprise IT. Middleware, however, has never been sexy. But it has…
Data temperature is a metaphor for how close to the CPU your data is. Data on tape is perhaps the coldest, while data in volatile memory—the…
Bad actors have always had the edge in cybersecurity. After all, the good guys have to secure everything, while the bad guys need find only…
