Chapter 7. Looking at the “Abilities”
IN THIS CHAPTER
When you deploy a Web Service, there are a number of things you can do to make it successful. A lot of those items have to do with designing for a set of specific targets referred to as the “abilities.”
Availability— The goal of availability design is avoiding a single point of failure. We will look at how to build your Web Service so that another box could easily take over if another one failed.
Scalability— You want your Web Service to handle more concurrent users as it gains popularity. One of the worst things that can happen to a Web Service is for it to fail because it became too popular and could not handle all the users.
Manageability— When ...
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