Replication and caching mechanisms are often employed to enhance the performance of Web applications. In this article, we present a qualitative and quantitative analysis of state-...
The benefits of virtualized IT environments, such as compute clouds, have drawn interested enterprises to migrate their applications onto new platforms to gain the advantages of ...
Xiaoning Ding, Hai Huang, Yaoping Ruan, Anees Shai...
The user experience for networked applications is becoming a key benchmark for customers and network providers. Perceived user experience is largely determined by the frequency, d...
Facebook recently deployed Facebook Messages, its first ever user-facing application built on the Apache Hadoop platform. Apache HBase is a database-like layer built on Hadoop des...
Dhruba Borthakur, Jonathan Gray, Joydeep Sen Sarma...
The Internet no longer meets the world’s requirements. Recognition of the Internet architecture’s inherent flaws has opened a window of opportunity for fresh thinking: granti...