Moving social networking applications into the cloud

Description

Social networking applications that are developed using traditional software and architecture have scalability issues. One way to overcome the high cost of scaling social applications is to use Cloud Computing (CC). There are various cloud computing platforms available. One very interesting CC platform is Google App Engine (GAE). This research focuses on using the free GAE as a way to re-implement existing social networking applications.<p>
The research focuses on how to move social applications into the cloud and on the evaluation of their performance. The thesis investigates the GAE platform, and its features. The study shows how to re-implement a social networking application using GAE cloud with limited code approximately 600 lines and evaluates the scalability of the applications.

Tags

Platform as a Service

Social Networking Applications

Cloud computing

Google App Engine

Software as a Service

Infrastructure as a Service

Additional Fields

Identifer	oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:SSU.etd-09172010-152833
Date	21 September 2010
Creators	Ramasahayam, Radhika
Contributors	Rangacharyulu, C., Vassileva, J., Cooke, J, Deters, R, Eramian, M
Publisher	University of Saskatchewan
Source Sets	Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada
Language	English
Detected Language	English
Type	text
Format	application/pdf
Source	http://library.usask.ca/theses/available/etd-09172010-152833/
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