Software is called "multi-tenanted" if a single instance can serve multiple tenants, and multi-tenancy is often referred to as an application "architecture." Cloud-native technology is challenging ...

Event sourcing is an architectural software pattern that's useful to design complex and distributed systems, particularly those that run many processes concurrently. The pattern captures and stores ...

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A Spark application contains several components, all of which exist whether you’re running Spark on a single machine or across a cluster of hundreds or thousands of nodes. Each component has a ...

When the Agile Manifesto came out in 2001, it stated that one of the 12 principles of agile software is that “the best architectures, requirements and designs emerge from self-organizing teams.” At ...

Microsoft has published an Azure Application Architecture Guide to help cloud developers keep pace with new styles, approaches and industry trends while planning their projects. The company said the ...

Architecting modern applications is a tough job, and architecting a solid data model for modern applications is one of the toughest, yet most important, parts of a modern application architecture.

Structured software is based on a plan that considers the specific requirements of a system and translates them into loosely coupled components. In collaborative software development, development ...

An efficient cloud will only sustain its value if your applications can share and scale in an elastic and reliable manner. It’s essential to employ a staggered approach and prioritize applications to ...