10.2. Infrastructure and Platform Technologies

Over the past few years our understanding of how to design enterprise-scale solutions has matured significantly. Early successes with client/server architectures were quickly followed with a recognition that such an approach in some scenarios suffers from severe limitations. Recently, these limitations have become all too apparent, with support required for large numbers of browser-based clients, the need to target different web-based infrastructure technologies, and the struggle to integrate with a wide variety of back-end servers and application systems.

In response to this, a new set of ideas concerning the appropriate design of enterprise-scale solutions in the Internet age has begun to emerge. ...

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