The modern workforce is no longer bound by location, time zone, or corporate networks. Data engineers, analysts, and business users now access critical systems from home offices, shared workspaces, ...

Neel Somani, a researcher and technologist from the University of California, Berkeley, has seen firsthand how big traffic spikes can trip up even top tech companies. They use distributed systems, ...

What is a distributed system? A distributed system is a collection of independent computers that appear to the user as a single coherent system. To accomplish a common objective, the computers in a ...