Chapter 9: Enhancing the Performance of Networked Applications
You will be very hard pressed when you turn your computer on to not have a single application using some kind of network application. Your operating system connects to a network to download and install Windows updates. Installed applications will poll (check at regular intervals) application servers over the internet to see if there are newer versions available for download.
Browsers download audio and visual data over the internet, and websites allow you to upload and download files. Business applications communicate with database servers. Communication applications send large volumes of textual, audio, and visual data over networks – often with multiple people from various parts of the world involved in online video meetings and training sessions. Your fintech applications communicate with your financial providers over the internet. This is only just scratching the surface.
Our world is very interconnected...
