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DevCentral > Weblogs > Lori MacVittie - Two Different Socks

ADC

There are 3 entries for the tag ADC

I CAN HAS DEFINISHUN of SoftADC and vADC?

In the networking side of the world, vendors often seek to differentiate their solutions not just based on features and functionality, but on form-factor, as well. Using a descriptor to impart an understanding of the deployment form-factor of a particular solution has always been quite common: appliance, hardware, platform, etc… Sometimes these terms come from analysts, other times they come from vendors themselves. Regardless of where they originate, they quickly propagate and unfortunately often do so without the benefit of a clear definition. A reader recently asked a question that reminded me that we’ve done just that...


posted @ Thursday, March 11, 2010 3:31 AM | Feedback (1)

AJAX and Network-Side Scripting

AJAX enables the use of network-side scripting enabled application delivery solutions to offload client-side functionality and improve capacity and performance of dynamic (Web 2.0/AJAX) applications. In the last couple of weeks I’ve embarked on a home project to rewrite – from scratch – a couple of web applications that Don and I and friends use on a regular basis. Consider it a very restricted (in terms of users) social networking application, because that’s basically what it is. I made heavy use of AJAX for one component in the past version but have been really leveraging it a lot more...


posted @ Wednesday, September 16, 2009 5:02 AM | Feedback (13)

IE8: Robbing Peter to pay Paul

For those of you unfamiliar with the idiom, it should be taken to mean "benefiting one at the expense of another." In this case, Paul is the end-user and Peter is the server administrator. Or better yet, Paul is the browser and Peter is the server. All web browsers, including IE (Internet Explorer), impose a per-server connection limit was imposed to reduce overload on servers. This was introduced back when the web was exploding and browsers opened up connections willy-nilly and made server operators cry. Often. The limitation imposed by IE (two connections per host) was harsher...


posted @ Friday, September 05, 2008 4:19 AM | Feedback (5)