WebFund 2015W Lecture 23
Notes
Two topics for last two lectures:
- What are the fundamentals of web applications?
- Web applications everywhere
Distributed Applications
Applications that run on multiple computers
- separate memory, CPU, storage, communication (I/O)
- can apply this processes, virtual hosts, or physical hosts
Localhost is useful when you want a distributed app on one computer
- GET and POST can go essentially anywhere on the Internet
- allows for flexible combination of code and data
- web applications are the premier form of distributed applications today
- with distributed applications, you don't control all the computers "your" code runs on