REST is one of the most influential ideas in distributed architecture. Here's why it matters and how to understand RESTful services in theory and practice. REST, or Representational State Transfer, is ...

Flash back to just over a decade ago when the fieldbus wars raged between vendors, inflicting casualties on early adopters and leaving automation engineers unsure of where to make their technology ...

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Many organizations have not one but two IT departments - one runs core back-office systems such as SAP and Oracle, while the other runs cloud-based productivity and customer-facing apps such as ...

Oracle has unveiled the architecture for its next-generation middleware, which will support customers' requirements related to modern application development and deployment. Oracle has unveiled the ...