Globule: A Platform for Self-Replicating Web Documents [chapter]

Guillaume Pierre, Maarten van Steen
2001 Lecture Notes in Computer Science  
Replicating Web documents at a worldwide scale can help reducing user-perceived latency and wide-area network traffic. This paper presents the preliminary design of Globule, a platform which automates all aspects of such replication: serverto-server peering negotiation, creation and destruction of replicas, selection of the most appropriate replication strategies on a per-document basis, consistency management and transparent redirection of clients to replicas. To facilitate the transition from
more » ... a non-replicated server to a replicated one, we designed Globule as a module for the Apache Web server. Therefore, converting normal Web documents should require no more than compiling a new module into Apache and editing a configuration file. vrije Universiteit
doi:10.1007/3-540-45481-0_1 fatcat:traa5y5yb5hpdekalpl5iidi6q