In the beginning, there were forking servers and then came threaded servers. Although they manage a few concurrent connections well, when network sessions reach into the hundreds or even thousands, ...

The Microsoft Azure Incubations team recently unveiled Drasi, an innovative event-driven, open-source data processing system that takes a novel approach to tracking and processing rapidly changing ...

Microsoft’s open-source data change processing platform promises a whole new way of building and managing cloud applications that generate a constant flow of events. The Microsoft Azure Incubations ...

The advent of traditional cloud computing services -- like Amazon EC2-- presented a business case for offloading maintenance of physical servers onto a third party, eliminating upfront costs of ...