Chapter 1: An Introduction to Distributed Applications
In today's world of digital platforms, all applications are expected to be highly scalable, available, and reliable with world-class performance. Many IT companies use the term ARP, which stands for availability, reliability, performance, and have a guaranteed service-level agreement (SLA) for each. Any SLA below 99.99% (four nines) is not acceptable for an application given the challenging and highly competitive world we are in. Some mission-critical applications guarantee a higher SLA of >=99.999% (five nines). To meet increasing user demands and requirements, an application needs to be highly scalable and distributed.
Distributed applications are applications/programs that run on multiple ...
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