For years, cloud computing was synonymous with centralization. That era is over. Enter: the distributed cloud.

In the centralized-playout model, a central location houses most of the equipment and functions (see Figure 1). The central facility handles all network program reception, syndicated program ingest, ...

Git, the open source distributed software version control system pioneered by Linux founder Linus Torvalds in 2005, is now gaining real momentum with developers. But don’t count out rivals like ...

We’ve watched many of our favorite open source libraries migrate from Google Code hosting to BitBucket and GitHub lately. The main reason is that most of the projects wanted to move from ...

Git, the open source distributed version control system created by Linus Torvalds to handle Linux's decentralized development model, is being used for a rather surprising project: Windows ...

git and Mercurial, two open source distributed version control systems (DVCS), had the highest approval rates, over 95%. Subversion , an open source centralized VCS, also had a very good approval ...

Microsoft is backing Git rather than attempting to recreate the distributed version-control wheel. Here's the roadmap detailing how Git support is coming to Visual Studio and TFS.