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Wondering if you need an integration platform? Below is a list of 6 questions you should consider before making a decision: Do you need to integrate more than three applications? When you are dealing with more than three applications, the number of point-to-point connections between them starts to increase exponentially. Do you already have a […]

Last May 18th, AWS (Amazon Web Services), pioneer and leading provider of cloud services, held the AWSome Day event in Lisbon, a full day tour of its services. Since Polarising is keeping a close watch on the cloud space, I was very interested to hear what they had to say and the maturity of AWS’ […]

In the Lambda Architecture website we have a brief history and description of the architecture. “Nathan Marz came up with the term Lambda Architecture (LA) for generic, scalable and fault-tolerant data processing architecture, based on his experience working on distributed data processing systems at Backtype and Twitter. The LA aims to satisfy the needs for […]

The definition of Cloud computing provided by the National Institute of Standard and Technologies says: ‘‘Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing re-sources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service […]

From smart cities to new product releases and an entirely new series of IoT blog posts, Polarising presents our Evangelist’s suggestions of April. Welcome! *Integration & API’s powered by António Queiroz* <The Era of Real Time Data: Looking at TIBCO Streambase. Read more… <Microsoft REST API Guidelines. Read more… *DevOps & Cloud powered by Bruno Neto* <How can DevOps […]

The first time someone used the term “Internet of Things” was in 1999 by Kevin Ashton in a presentation at Procter & Gamble [1]. Since then, the steady progress of technology has produced an array of low-cost sensors and the growth of computer processing power sustained by Moore’s Law. That led to a reality where […]