Edgecomputing: extending enterprise applications to the edge of the internet

Content delivery networks have evolved beyond traditional distributed caching. With services such as Akamai's EdgeComputing it is now possible to deploy and run enterprise business Web applications on a globally distributed computing platform, to provide subsecond response time to end users anywhere in the world. Additionally, this distributed application platform provides high levels of fault-tolerance and scalability on-demand to meet virtually any need. Application resources can be provisioned dynamically in seconds to respond automatically to changes in load on a given application. In some cases, an application can be deployed completely on the global platform without any central enterprise infrastructure. Other applications can require centralizing core business logic and transactional databases at the enterprise data center while the presentation layer and some business logic and database functionality move onto the edge platform. Implementing a distributed application serv...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: WWW
• Authors: Andy Davis, Jay Parikh, William E. Weihl
• Keywords: Distributed Application Platform, Globally Distributed Computing, Internet Technology, Traditional Distributed Caching, WWW 2004