September 2010
Intermediate to advanced
446 pages
13h 23m
English
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Chapter 1. The Web As a Platform for Building Distributed Systems
THE WEB HAS RADICALLY TRANSFORMED THE WAY we produce and share information. Its international ecosystem of applications and services allows us to search, aggregate, combine, transform, replicate, cache, and archive the information that underpins today’s digital society. Successful despite its chaotic growth, it is the largest, least formal integration project ever attempted—all of this, despite having barely entered its teenage years.
Today’s Web is in large part the human Web: human users are the direct consumers of the services offered by the majority of today’s web applications. Given its success in managing our digital needs at such phenomenal scale, we’re now starting to ask how we might apply the Web’s underlying architectural principles to building other kinds of distributed systems, particularly the kinds of distributed systems typically implemented by “enterprise application” developers.
Why is the Web such a successful application platform? What are its guiding principles, and how should we apply them when building distributed systems? What technologies can and should we use? Why does the Web model feel familiar, but still different from previous platforms? Conversely, is the Web always the solution to the challenges we face as enterprise application developers?
These are the questions we’ll answer in the rest of this book. Our goal throughout is to describe how to build distributed systems based on the Web’s ...
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