article thumbnail

MSMQ is dead

Particular Software

It is preceded in death by Windows Communication Foundation and Windows Workflow Foundation, and survived by Azure Queues and Azure Service Bus. Microsoft would of course prefer you use MSMQ's younger sibling, Azure Service Bus , but there are a lot of other options out there. It was born in May 1997 and through 6.3

article thumbnail

Is MongoDB Open Source? Is Planet Earth Flat?

Percona

MongoDB started out in 2007 as 10gen, a New York-based company looking to create a Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution. They came up with a horizontally scalable NoSQL database. Is MongoDB an open source NoSQL database? Here are other key developments in company history: 2013: 10gen changes its name to MongoDB, Inc.

article thumbnail

Egnyte Architecture: Lessons learned in building and scaling a multi petabyte content platform

High Scalability

Egnyte is a secure Content Collaboration and Data Governance platform, founded in 2007 when Google drive wasn't born and AWS S3 was cost-prohibitive. Tens of petabytes of data stored in our servers and other object stores such as GCS, S3 and Azure Blobstore. Egnyte was founded in 2007. Level of concurrent reads. Cloud Platform.