Exploiting Data Locality in Dynamic Web Applications

<p>The Internet has grown from a static document retrieval system to a dynamic medium where users are both consumers and producers of information. Users may experience above-average website latencies due to the physical distances information must travel. Because user satisfaction is related to a website's responsiveness, e-commerce may be hindered and prevent online businesses from reaching their full potential.</p> <p>This dissertation analyzes how temporal and relational dependencies in web applications limit their ability to become distributed. Two contributions are made, the first showing the location of data inside a datacenter influences the web system's performance, and secondly, that relaxing strict consistency inside the web application at a fine- grained level can greatly lower latencies for geographically diverse users. Experiments are used to show when and how much these optimizations can benefit a dynamic web application.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Year

2012

Author dc:creator

• Talaga, Paul

Contributors dc:contributor

• Steve Chapin

• Consistency Relaxation
• Data Locality
• Distributed Applications
• Latency Reduction
• Scalable Architectures
• Web Applications
• Electrical and Computer Engineering

Repository record dc:identifier

https://surface.syr.edu/eecs_etd/323

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:surface.syr.edu:eecs_etd-1327