In the future, Duffy expects to see a return of distributed programming with increasingly fine-grained distributed systems that will make systems look more and more like classic concurrent systems.

All distributed systems must, by their very nature, make use of some form of concurrent programming – otherwise they wouldn’t be able to get anything done. At a very simple level, you could say that ...

Caitie McCaffrey is a Backend Brat and Distributed Systems Diva at Twitter. Before that she spent most of her career building services and systems that power the entertainment industry at 343 ...

My Ph.D. degree is from the Georgia Institute of Technology, where my doctoral thesis topic was “Programming Methodologies for Resilience and Availability.” While a grad student at Georgia Tech, I ...

“It’s hard to imagine what today’s programming and distributed systems would be like without Barbara’s many seminal contributions,” John Guttag, a professor of computer science and ...

The DHPCC++19 conference has issued its Call for Papers. Held in conjunction with the IWOCL event, the Distributed & Heterogeneous Programming in C/C++ event takes place May 13, 2019 in Boston. "This ...

Developers using the Moleculer framework will now be able to perform CRUD actions, parsing, event notifications and more in a globally distributed database rather than a standalone non-relational ...

The commoditization revolution in compute ("x86 everywhere"), combined with the commercialization of distributed systems programming models, has taken huge advantage of this economic situation.