The increase of the web traffic has created the need for web switches that are able to balance the traffic to the server farms based on their contents (e.g. layer 7 switching). In...
The performance of Web servers and application servers is a crucial factor for the success of the underlying business activity. Current commercial servers (such as Apache and Micr...
Mohammad Shadi Al Hakeem, Jan Richling, Gero M&uum...
Large web or e-commerce sites are frequently hosted on clusters. Successful open-source tools exist for clustering the front tiers of such sites (web servers and application serve...
Web caching is a technology for improving network traffic on the internet. It is a temporary storage of Web objects (such as HTML documents) for later retrieval. There are three s...
Network servers often need to process a large amount of network events asynchronously. They usually use select() or poll() to retrieve events from file descriptors. However, previ...