Challenges of Distributed Application Development
Developing distributed applications is challenging—there’s no doubt about it. Although this section focuses on the challenges that a distributed application technology must meet, it also presents some of the challenges that a distributed application developer must overcome.
Performance
A number of factors can affect the performance of a distributed application. Some examples are factors outside the software system, such as network speed, network traffic, and other hardware issues local to specific machines, such as CPUs, I/O subsystems, and memory size and speed.
Given the current state of distributed application technologies, performance and interoperability are mutually exclusive goals. If ...
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