Title

Exploiting Data Locality in Dynamic Web Applications

Author

Paul Talaga, Syracuse UniversityFollow

Date of Award

8-2012

Degree Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Department

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Advisor(s)

Steve Chapin

Keywords

Consistency Relaxation, Data Locality, Distributed Applications, Latency Reduction, Scalable Architectures, Web Applications

Subject Categories

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Abstract

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.

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.

Access

Open Access

Recommended Citation

Talaga, Paul, "Exploiting Data Locality in Dynamic Web Applications" (2012). Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - Dissertations. 323.
https://surface.syr.edu/eecs_etd/323