The difference between distributed computing and concurrent programming is a common area of confusion as there is a significant amount of overlap between the two when you set out to accomplish ...

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Since the mid-1990s, the costs of compute, storage, and memory have been steadily plummeting. The commoditization revolution in compute ("x86 everywhere"), combined with the commercialization of ...

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Gaurav Bansal is a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Uber with 12+ years of experience in scalable, high-performance distributed systems. Every new tech business today builds distributed systems and ...

A distributed system is comprised of multiple computing devices interconnected with one another via a loosely-connected network. Almost all computing systems and applications today are distributed in ...

My name is Charles Thomas Wilkes (my preferred name is “Tom”). I am very fortunate to have rejoined the faculty of the UMass Lowell Miner School of Computer & Information Sciences in 2017, after being ...

Pilotfish, a prototype Sui extension, was able to grow smart contract execution throughput in direct proportion to the number of machines used. Mysten Labs, a team of leading distributed systems, ...