Opera has just released Opera Unite web server in the browser technology. Here is analysis by Mashable. Opera Unite is an enabling technology for tier agnostic Request Based Distributed Computing (RBDC). Key issues directly addressed by Opera Unite include:
Drivers
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Provide programmers with a unified programming model (i.e. not deal with a separate...
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Opera Unite and Tier Agnostic Computing
Tier-agnostic Requests and Microsoft Volta
Recently my attention has been directed to Microsoft’s Volta split-tier technology. Volta is addressing the same set of issues as Request Based Distributed Computing (RBDC). Key issues directly addressed by both Volta and RBDC include:
Drivers
Build Distributed Applications
Provide programmers with a unified programming model (i.e. not deal with a separate programming model on the...
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RBDC Illustrated
The purpose of this post is to illustrate the behaviour of Request Based Distributed Computing (RBDC). This is how I summarised RBDC in a recent post:
Request Based Distributed Computing is a small extension of the http protocol and notion of server, proxy and client. Rich Internet Applications, SOA architected applications and SETI@home type...
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