The emergence of hardware and software IP load-balancers in the late 1990s catalyzed the development of server-farms by transparently distributing incoming client requests among the servers of a farm.
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Java and Flash are two examples that have extended this concept into client and server side development.
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We began by looking for the unintended consequences of a successful mobile app, expecting to find some best practices in experience design, middleware APIs, server deployments, app development, and organizational alignment.
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While Intel has an edge in process technology, building chips with features just 45 nanometers wide, John Fruehe, worldwide business development manager at AMD asserted that AMD's server processors performed better, despite the gap.
It will include server and client APIs, API libraries and development tools, according to consultant Jon Reed.
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These new tools feature the capability to drag and drop reusable server components into new applications, which shortens development time, according to Microsoft.
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One London-based computer expert said the development should help light-based data transmission go mainstream in server farms.
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Mr Behlendorf was a pioneer in the development of the well-known Apache open-source web server, so his views come as little surprise.
Open-source programs across the board - the Apache Web server, the Perl programming language and the GNU development tool set, to name a few - are gaining legitimacy as a business platform.
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