software architecture

EMS architecture: when local control beats the cloud round trip

An EMS that round-trips every decision through the cloud is going to disappoint someone, eventually, in a way that costs real money. The right split between edge and cloud is a latency budget question, and once you frame it that way the architecture writes itself.

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Dockerize all the things!

What Docker is and what is it not. Docker is a software provided by Docker Inc - it's a technology

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Microservices - where and when?

What is it? Many people have probably seen the terms "services oriented architecture" (SOA) and microservices. If you're

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