Tag: 2000s-present

Seven researchers helped define cloudlets, fog computing, edge systems, and the distributed computing continuum between devices and centralized clouds.

Seven architects and educators helped transform REST from a description of Web architecture into a practical vocabulary for designing interoperable Web APIs.

Seven architects and practitioners helped define, prove, and teach the microservice style of independently deployable services.

Seven systems researchers helped create the fault-tolerant storage architectures behind GFS, Dynamo, Bigtable, and large-scale cloud data platforms.

Seven infrastructure and product leaders helped turn warehouse-scale data centers, web-service APIs, and elastic compute into modern cloud computing.

Seven contributors helped turn Git from a Linux-kernel emergency tool into the dominant distributed version-control system.