The concept of database sharding has gained popularity over the past several years due to the enormous growth in transaction volume and size of business-application databases. This is particularly ...

To help differentiate themselves in today's highly competitive marketplace, service carriers are adding multiple levels of service. To better support this expansion, more systems are implementing ...

Most applications need some form of persistence—a way to store the data outside the application for safekeeping. The most basic way is to write data to the file system, but that can quickly become a ...

REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. – Senior leaders from the Army’s major commands will convene to prioritize funding for future construction and renovation projects during the Army’s annual Facility Investment ...

If you’ve worked with relational database systems for any length of time, you’ve probably participated in a discussion (argument?) about the topic of this month’s column, surrogate keys. A great ...

At the stroke of midnight on this year’s Singles’ Day, online shoppers in China and across Asia started placing orders on Alibaba’s e-commerce sites that saw peak orders hit a whopping 583,000 per ...

Uber is trying to force GitHub to disclose the IP address of every person that accessed a webpage connected to a database intrusion that exposed sensitive personal data for 50,000 drivers. The court ...