A J2EE application server is composed of multi-tiers: a web frontend, a servlet server, optionally an EJB server and a database. Clusters allow the replication of each tier instan...
As the use of the Internet continues to grow explosively, edge computing has emerged as an important technique for delivering Web content over the Internet. Edge computing moves d...
“Mobile Internet” arguably means more than just a new technique for communication; many analysts believe that it will revolutionize the business world and innovate the way ind...
Scale-out approach, in contrast to scale-up approach (exploring increasing performance by utilizing more powerful shared-memory servers), refers to deployment of applications on a...
Recently renewed interest in scalable database systems for shared nothing clusters has been supported by replication protocols based on group communication that are aimed at seaml...