Client/Server distribution and the nature of the client (end user device) itself are important factors in understanding distributed architecture. If the client just features a UI, the server is doing ...

Traditional technical debt metaphors suggest something that can be paid down incrementally. Over-engineering does not behave ...

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Research published in Advances in Computer and Communication establishes frameworks for integrating Role-Based Access Control and Attribute-Based Access Control within large-scale distributed ...

What’s the big IT story of 2016 going to be? All fingers seem to be pointing at Bitcoin, along with the blockchain architecture that empowers its distributed nature. There are two reasons why Bitcoin ...

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 ...

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Collaborative development environment (CDE) was first coined in 2002 to describe a space where the needs of entire software teams that are frequently dispersed could be handled, marking an evolution ...