4.3 Cascading Failures
The standard system architecture for enterprise systems, including websites and web services, comprises a collection of functionally distinct farms or clusters that are interconnected through some form of load balancing. We usually refer to the individual farms as layersâfor example, as in Figure 8, âLayers Often Found in Commerce Systemsââeven though they might not really be a single stack.
Figure 8. Layers Often Found in Commerce Systems
In a service-oriented architecture, these look even less like traditional layers ...
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