First there was House of Cards on Netflix. Then came a landslide of other new, original shows and movies across a growing number of streaming video services. From Succession to The Marvelous Mrs.

Microsoft released a CoreWCF service library and a WCF client library with the bindings for Azure Storage Queue. The new bindings allow developers to use Azure Service Queues for reliable and scalable ...

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Nobody likes waiting in line. In today's fast-paced world, an inefficient queue can be the difference between a loyal customer and a lost sale. Service Systems does not just understand this; the ...

Recently, EE in the UK introduced a new feature, called Priority Answer, that allows its customers to pay £0.50 ($0.81) to jump the queue on customer service calls. EE is one of the largest telecoms ...

Amazon’s hosted Simple Queue Service (SQS) has encountered performance problems this month that have prompted users to question its overall stability and its viability for commercial applications. The ...