Maturity Model for Liquid Web Architectures

Gallidabino, Andrea; Pautasso, Cesare

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-60131-1_12

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“…In continuation to our previous papers (e.g., [3,4,5]), we claim that the evolution of the Web browser has been driven by new features introduced on a pragmatic basis (often purely for commercial needs) instead of being based on a justified long-term design rationale 2 . This has resulted in redundant features, including multiple architecture and rendering models, communication primitives and protocols, local storage mechanisms and programming language constructs.…”

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confidence: 54%

“…This brings us to the current Web platform, featuring a continuously evolving, evergreen Web browser, with support -at the time of writing -for two hundred and one HTML5-related specifications published by the W3C and the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG). Out of these 59 have been abandoned or are already superseded 4 . These specifications define a myriad of APIs, formats and browser features for building progressive Web applications [14] that can run in a standards-compatible Web browser.…”

Section: Evolution Of the Web As A Software Platformmentioning

confidence: 99%

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On the Web Platform Cornucopia

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Systä

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Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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The evolution of the Web browser has been organic, with new features introduced on a pragmatic basis rather than following a clear rational design. This evolution has resulted in a cornucopia of overlapping features and redundant choices for developing Web applications. These choices include multiple architecture and rendering models, different communication primitives and protocols, and a variety of local storage mechanisms. In this position paper we examine the underlying reasons for this historic evolution. We argue that without a sound engineering approach and some fundamental rethinking there will be a growing risk that the Web may no longer be a viable, open software platform in the long run.

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Section: Evolution Of the Web As A Software Platformmentioning

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On the Web Platform Cornucopia

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Pautasso

Systä

et al. 2019

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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“…[5]). Further applicable targets are level 5 peer-to-peer Web applications in the context of liquid Web applications [4]. Today's Web videos are often streamed with an adaptive bitrate streaming technology, which downloads sections of the same video in different bitrate versions depending on the network conditions of the client.…”

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OakStreaming: A Peer-to-PeerVideo Streaming Library

Koren

Klamma

2019

JWE

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Multimedia platforms dealing with movie streaming and video-based short messages have increased the global Internet video traffic substantially in the last couple of years. Over the same period, multimedia on the Web has been standardized in terms of codecs and browserbased JavaScript APIs. However, today the technological challenges concerning the distribution of large video files are mainly tackled by scaling up capacities in cloud data centers, or relying on content delivery networks. Both approaches favor financially strong, large companies, while independent video providers with highly demanded videos are disadvantaged. Peer-to-peer streaming provides an alternative by shifting the data streams to the clients. In this article, we conceptualize different methods to move video delivery from centralized cloud infrastructures to end user devices. We discuss their strengths & weaknesses and present design considerations. To exemplify a particular approach, we showcase the implementation and evaluation of OakStreaming, our system that streams videos peer-to-peer via WebTorrent in HTML5.

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“…Web technologies have been evolving towards increased support for reliable mobile decentralized and distributed systems [12]. In the past decade an effort has been made to improve and create new HTML5 standards [43] that can help with the creation of complex mobile distributed systems able to reliably maintain data synchronized between devices [30].…”

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The LiquidWebWorker API for Horizontal Offloading of Stateless Computations

Gallidabino

Pautasso

2019

JWE

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As most users access the Web from multiple devices with different characteristics, ranging from powerful desktops or laptops to tablets, mobile phones or watches and cars, liquid Web applications seamlessly flow across multiple Web-enabled devices and adapt their distributed user interface to the set of devices simultaneously accessing the application. In this paper we focus on the business logic layer of rich Web applications and explore the opportunity to reduce the execution time of CPU-intensive tasks or limit their energy consumption by offloading them among nearby devices running the same liquid Web application. We extend the standard HTML5 WebWorker API with the concept of liquid WebWorkers, so that developers can transparently offload parallel execution of stateless tasks by managing the necessary device selection and direct peer-to-peer data transfer. By introducing the liquid WebWorker API into our Liquid.js framework, we present how to create a pool of devices sharing their CPU processing capabilities according to different policies.

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Maturity Model for Liquid Web Architectures

Cited by 11 publications

References 24 publications

On the Web Platform Cornucopia

On the Web Platform Cornucopia

OakStreaming: A Peer-to-PeerVideo Streaming Library

The LiquidWebWorker API for Horizontal Offloading of Stateless Computations

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