The Web As an Application Platform

The key points of Web success:

  • Technology Support
  • Scalability and Performance
  • Loose Coupling
  • Business Processes
  • Consistency and Uniformity
  • Simplicity, Architectural Pervasiveness, and Reach
  • Web Friendliness and the Richardson Maturity Model

As developers ourselves, we understand how we can believe that asynchronous message-centric solutions are the most scalable and highest-performing options. However, existing high-performance and highly available services on the Web are proof that a synchronous, text-based request-response protocol can provide good performance and massive scalability when used correctly.

Standards