For organizations focused on digital transformation, existing monolithic application architectures present a major obstacle to modernization initiatives that have become a top priority for CIOs and ...

Around the turn of the century, there was really just one choice for building business applications: using a server that you owned and that sat in your own data center. Then came the cloud and with it ...

The age of the monolithic application is all but dead. Old-school notions of software structures built around a single tier, inside which is housed application logic, requisite analytics functions, ...

All over the world, massive numbers of applications are humming along, performing crucial tasks for the business processes of enterprises even though they were built with technology that comes from ...

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Imagine one huge, monolithic relational database—say, a MySQL or Oracle installation—squatting in the middle of an organization's business like Jabba the Hut. The big blob is kind of comforting. Its ...

Cloud-native architectures built upon Docker- and Kubernetes-based deployments are all the rage today. Teams that adopt microservices can enjoy some clear advantages, such as the following: ...

A minor irritant we’ve discovered in implementing applications for Jboss AS is that that the logging configuration for applications has to go through their monolithic jboss-log4j.xml file. So we’ve ...

Monolithic refractories are used in numerous applications and industries. This article covers these applications and the types of refractories that are used in particular parts of the operation. But ...