In this architecture, we have two levels of load balancing, and we can achieve high scalability and availability for our bookstore-type application. In Figure B, the Web tiers run on every server ...

Web services standardize the format (XML) and the protocol (SOAP) for application-to-application communication. Such standardization spurs software vendors to create quality applications with ...

Coupon giant Groupon transitioned from monolithic architecture to microservices architecture back in late 2012. They migrated their U.S. web traffic from a monolithic Ruby on Rails application to ...

Web services and their associated services-oriented architecture (SOA) are tools use entirely as a software strategy, or more correctly, an enterprise application strategy. This strategy assumes that ...

Every working web developer today is required to understand both the basic principles of REST (the theory) and how they are widely applied in RESTful applications and interfaces (the practice).

Mobile clients could set a trend towards adoption of a new 2-tier application architecture that talks directly to a cloud-hosted database-as-a-service such as Database.com, cutting out the need ...

Cloud application architecture does bear some resemblance to SDN, where a centralized intelligent element (a cloud service) often plays the role of analyzing data from across numerous end nodes ...

The MVC architecture lets you integrate Web services at several useful points in your Web application development. First, you must understand the components of an MVC implementation. MVC components ...

We finally show how Web-enabled smart things can be used in lightweight ad-hoc applications called “physical mashups”. We position the Web of Things as a refinement of the Internet of Things by ...

It's a task that is relatively simple when using desktop APIs or native mobile APIs, but it's not at all intuitive over the Web. Of course, there's more to the speedy and adept manner in which mobile ...