Scalability and Performance Hints
Based on our discussion about general Web application architecture, thin and fat clients, multithreading, and component granularity, let's now consider some relevant scalability and performance hints.
Don't Always Starve Thin Clients
For maximum portability, you may think it is wise to take the thin-client approach when designing your application. After all, this allows you not only to reach out to clients with limited resources (i.e., memory and CPU) but also to avoid developing a Java client (which may be slow to download) or designing some other kind of custom client. Even better, putting all of the application ...
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