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Web as a Platform Patterns and Practices

By Vishal Agrawal, Manish Pande & Pradeep Kumar M

Web as a platform offers new ways to build and integrate applications and includes newer options for deployment infrastructure and execution run time. The evolution of Web as a Platform is led by various technology adoption trends and developments over the past few years including Web 2.0, cloud computing, increasing proliferation of mobile computing devices and SaaS based delivery model. However there are challenges in technology adoption due to the hype surrounding some of the underlying technologies that are not clearly understood by both business and IT.

In this paper, we will highlight the key technology drivers and challenges which have become ...

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