Things move fast in technology. Yesterday’s buzz word was cloud. It seems we have a new buzz word floating about in enterprise technology. That buzz word is converged infrastructure.
On the theme of buzz words. Here’s another one that’s been around for a little while. No one seems to be able to explain what the hell this is. This is becoming almost as bad as “Agile”, lost of people are using this term but little seem to be able to explain what the heck it is.
Up till now we’ve looked solely at distributed server technology to host business applications. The is another type used within larger organisations and financial institutions, Mainframe technology. What’s the difference bet ween distributed Server technology and Mainframe? Let’s dive in.
In previous posts such as Linux vs Unix and Types of computer architecture (part 1) we’ve looked at operating systems and types of computer architecture. If you haven’t read these previous posts you may want to.
“Computer architecture” could refer to any number of different things in the world of enterprise technology and computer engineering.
In the enterprise “computer architecture” is usually used to mean Instruction Set Architecture. Still…
You may want to brush up on the post about N-Tier Architecture if you don’t know what that is.
Today we’re going to look at a very basic resiliency pattern. In fact three of them. One for each tier of our classic three-tier architecture.
