Hands-On RESTful API Design Patterns and Best Practices

Centralized and distributed applications

There has been a swing between centralized and distributed computing models. Clouds typically are centralized, consolidated, and converged environments that host applications. Recently, clouds have been federated in order to host and run distributed applications. Considering the exponential growth of data and the complexity of applications, the onset of distributed computing can't be stopped. With the cloud paradigm, leveraging commodity servers for large-scale application and data processing is gaining momentum. Horizontal scalability is preferred over vertical scalability and, hence, distributed systems are enjoying a surge in popularity. Applications are also being methodically partitioned to be ...