Whenever you use an ATM to check your balance or withdraw some money, you are actually participating in a client-server interaction with a computer on your bank's network. A client-server network ...

I had a front row seat at Microsoft to watch the first two application model transitions. Early mainframe and minicomputer systems were monolithic, with data storage, application code, and terminal ...

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The AI company Anthropic, which was founded in 2021 by former OpenAI employees, has developed the Model Context Protocol (MCP) with the aim of standardizing communication between Large Language Models ...

Explaining the ongoing evolution from client-server to cloud-native, source of much confusion and misdirection when comparing SaaS offerings There are many definitions of software as a service (SaaS).

Developers will be able to use the Serverless MCP Server by prompting their AI-driven coding agents to design, deploy, and troubleshoot serverless applications. Amazon Web Services (AWS) has released ...

In the previous two articles, I described the hardware and software required to build an IoT device. These devices (the “Things” in the Internet of Things) are an essential part of an IoT system.

The technology provides secure remote access to a broad spectrum of applications and network resources Application-layer VPNs are generating lots of attention these days. Proponents cite the ...