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Protocol Buffers vs. JSON
Protocol buffers, also known as Protobuf, is a protocol that Google developed internally to enable serialization and … [Read More...]
Gradle vs. Maven vs. Ant
In this post, we will run a high-level comparison between three Java ‘build’ tools: Gradle, Maven and Ant. A build tool … [Read More...]
Google Project Stream vs. Microsoft xCloud vs. EA Project Atlas – the next generation of video game streaming
Over the last couple of months, Google and Microsoft have each officially launched new game streaming services. Each is still … [Read More...]
Fiber Optics Impact on Future of Internet
Last week, Nature Communications published a paper on a new device that promises to effectively utilize fiber optics in … [Read More...]
Database Wars – CockRoachDB Takes On Google Spanner and AWS Aurora
Cockroach Labs, the company behind CockroachDB, the global SQL database for building worldwide cloud services, yesterday … [Read More...]
TensorFlow vs. Caffe
TensorFlow and Caffe are each deep learning frameworks that deliver high-performance multi-GPU accelerated training. Deep … [Read More...]
Virtual Reality is a Growing Up
There have been many new developments in extended reality (XR) over the last year. XR refers to all real-and-virtual combined … [Read More...]
Apache Pulsar Stream Processing System Becomes Top-Level Project
The Apache Software Foundation has announced that Pulsar has graduated to become its latest Top Level Project. Apache … [Read More...]
Spinnaker vs. Jenkins
Continuous delivery (CD) platforms help DevOps teams manage software releases in short cycles, ensuring they are delivered … [Read More...]
Limelight Launches Real Time Streaming With Sub-Second Response
Limelight Networks recently launched Limelight Realtime Video Streaming, an industry-first sub-second, globally scalable live … [Read More...]
Unicorn in the Making: Ecommerce Cloud Startup Webscale Networks Growing at an Unprecedented Pace
Webscale Networks is an eCommerce cloud startup that is growing rapidly. We recently spoke to CEO Sonal Puri and Shehzad … [Read More...]
Inrupt, The Startup that Aims To Decentralize The Web
Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the internet, is in the process of launching a startup called Inrupt, whose aim is to … [Read More...]
VDMS Introduces Managed Security Services
As part of its new suite of security services, Verizon Digital Media Services has recently announced a new set of managed … [Read More...]
Raft Distributed Consensus Overview
This post offers an overview of the Raft algorithm used for implementing distributed consensus. Within the post, we'll look … [Read More...]