While the importance of multi-tier architectures for enterprise information systems is widely accepted and their benefits are well published, the systematic migration from monolit...
Wilhelm Hasselbring, Ralf Reussner, Holger Jaekel,...
Connectors and connector wrappers explicitly specify the protocol of interaction among components and afford the reusable application of extra-functional behaviors, such as reliabi...
When building scalable systems that involve general-purpose computation and persistent data, object-oriented languages and relational databases are often essential components. Yet...
Abstract. In this chapter we discuss the susceptibility of critical information infrastructures to computer-borne attacks and faults, mainly due to their largely computerized natur...
The backends of today’s Internet services rely heavily on caching at various layers both to provide faster service to common requests and to reduce load on back-end components. ...
Alexander Rasmussen, Emre Kiciman, V. Benjamin Liv...