Ask any programmer who has ever had to deal with timekeeping on a computer, and they’re likely to go on at length about how it can be a surprisingly difficult thing to keep track of. Time zones, leap ...

Complex, computational work with huge sets of data is now common practice in fields such as genomics, economics, and astrophysics. Researchers in these and similarly data intensive fields depend on ...

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When building a web app in previous years, it was common to have a server in a centralised datacentre that would be able to run your application. As usage grew, you would address scalability ...