Abstract

To meet the service demands created by the Internet's exponential growth, operators are scrambling to deploy application-level services, including Web caches, commerce servers, and intelligent transformation proxies for mobile "thin clients." On the one hand, the Internet's growth rate places unprecedented scalability and robustness demands on these services; on the other hand, that same growth rate demands that new services be developed, deployed, and evolved at a pace that is precipitous even by the standards of today's desktop software development cycles. We demonstrate that for a certain class of applications, these apparently conflicting goals can be reconciled by completely separating the application logic from the runtime support for scalability and high ...

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