Raspberry Pi Retail Applications: Transform Your Business with a Low-Cost Single-Board Computer

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E. Wu, D. MaslovRaspberry Pi Retail Applicationshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7951-9_8

8. Cluster for a Web Application Hosting

Elaine Wu¹   and Dmitry Maslov¹

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Shenzhen, China

 

Problem Overview

Modern businesses need to store and process large amounts of data: customer orders, inventory items, internal and external email correspondence, business website traffic, and so on. There are multiple ways to handle the IT operations associated with these activities and loosely they can be divided into the following:

• Using SaaS offerings from third parties

• Renting IT infrastructure from a public cloud company

• Creating and maintaining on-premises IT infrastructure ...