4.7. Summary

As the demand on Web services grows, the infrastructure of websites and the Internet should have enough capacity to handle changes in demand and maintain the quality of service. In this chapter, we analyzed many issues related to the infrastructure to support electronic businesses. A summary of the main issues follows.

  • The design of the infrastructure for electronic business and services should focus not only on performance, but also on other key issues that are essential to the quality of information services, such as availability, scalability, and maintainability.

  • A series of typical questions, whose answers can help explain the infrastructure requirements of an electronic business, were presented.

  • The architecture of an electronic ...

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