Abstract: A technique for executing a containerized stateful application that is deployed on a stateless computing platform is disclosed. The technique involves deploying a containerized stateful application on a stateless computing platform and executing the stateful application on the stateless computing platform. The technique also involves during execution of the stateful application, evaluating, in an application virtualization layer, events that are generated during execution of the stateful application to identify events that may trigger a change in state of the stateful application and during execution of the stateful application, updating a set of storage objects in response to the evaluations, and during execution of the stateful application, comparing events that are generated by the stateful application to the set of storage objects and redirecting a storage object that corresponds to an event to a persistent data store if the storage object matches a storage object in the set of storage objects.

Abstract: A method for running an application via an operating system executing on a computing device is disclosed. In an embodiment, the method involves subjecting an API call to a complimentary application virtualization layer, after the API call is subjected to the complimentary application virtualization layer, subjecting the API call to a primary application virtualization layer, and after the API call has been subjected to the complimentary application virtualization layer and to the primary application virtualization layer, forwarding the API call to the operating system for processing in the kernel-space.

Abstract: The invention is a method of optimizing the interaction between (i) a client, being an application such as database software, implemented on a computing device, and (ii) database server software implemented on a computing device. Query data is routed from the client to the database server software through an optimisation system implemented on a computing device and then response data provided by the database server software is routed to the optimisation system. The optimisation system analyses that (or later) query data and, based on that analysis, applies rules to response data provided by the database server software, in order to generate optimised response data to thereby speed up the interaction between the client and the database server software.

Abstract: The invention is a method of optimizing the interaction between (i) a client, being an application such as database software, implemented on a computing device, and (ii) database server software implemented on a computing device. Query data is routed from the client to the database server software through an optimisation system implemented on a computing device and then response data provided by the database server software is routed to the optimisation system. The optimisation system analyses that (or later) query data and, based on that analysis, applies rules to response data provided by the database server software, in order to generate optimised response data to thereby speed up the interaction between the client and the database server software.

Abstract: A method of optimizing the interaction between an application or database and a database server, comprising the steps of: (a) routing data between the application or database and the database server through an optimisation system; (b) the optimisation system analysing the data and applying rules to the data to speed up the interaction between the application or database and the database server.