Internet services and architectures: A performance perspective

摘要

The explosive growth of the Internet has triggered a rapid demand of scalable and secure services and architectures. This book provides readers with an overview of popular Internet services and architectures and in-depth analysis of a key number of key scaling technologies on the horizon. It stresses the underlying principles of the technologies and the role of these principles in practice with a great balanced coverage of concepts and engineering trade-offs. It nicely features a balanced coverage in breadth and depth of advanced scaling technologies in support of media streaming, e-commerce, grid and cluster computing, peer-to-peer services, distributed file sharing, network management, mobile computing and other timely Internet applications.