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 ...

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 ...

First, there was SOA. Then Web 2.0. And most recently, SOA 2.0. Now, Gartner is promoting a concept it has dubbed Web-oriented architecture. “What we’re trying to do at Gartner is, if at all ...

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).

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 ...

These improvements add value to Microsoft Outlook and Exchange, Web browsers and many other applications, Ennis adds. The same is true of the local area network, but LAN latency is low as it is ...

The framework has been divided into seven lots; Technical Architecture, Application & Web Development, Geographic Information Systems, Data Warehousing & Business Intelligence, Testing, Deployment ...