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Volume 6 , Issue 6 (October 2008) table of contents
Scalable Web Services

FEATURE: Q focus: Scalable Web Services table of contents

Pages 20-29

Year of Publication: 2008

ISSN:1542-7730

Author

Tom Leighton

Akamai Technologies

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

When it comes to achieving performance, reliability, and scalability for commercial-grade Web applications, where is the biggest bottleneck? In many cases today, we see that the limiting bottleneck is the middle mile, or the time data spends traveling back and forth across the Internet, between origin server and end user

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