Preface

The World Wide Web, or what we generally refer to as the Web, has become a vital part of our everyday lives. The usage of the Web, ranging from a simple webmail to a complex and sensitive banking web application, has made our lives easier. The Web was initially designed as a means of sharing information among users of the Internet using a combination of web pages and a browser. The era has passed now, and it's no longer a place limited to sharing information. Instead, our day-to-day work is getting automated and put into web applications; this has definitely revolutionized communication and empowered us. The mere idea of your or my banking application being offline is a nightmare; the same is the case with cloud services, such as like ...

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