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From page 84...
... 84 Application An application is a computer program designed to perform a group of coordinated tasks for the benefit of its user. Architecture Computer architecture is a specification detailing how a set of software and hardware technology standards interact to form a computer system or platform.
From page 85...
... Glossary 85 Container (application containerization) Application containerization is an operating system virtualization method for deploying and running distributed applications without launching an entire virtual machine for each application.
From page 86...
... 86 Guidance for Development and Management of Sustainable Enterprise Information Portals Maintainability Maintainability is defined as the probability of performing a successful repair action within a given time. In other words, maintainability measures the ease and speed with which a system can be restored to operational status after a failure occurs.
From page 87...
... Glossary 87 is currently used to develop or augment web and cloud applications as diverse as web applications, web services, GIS applications, 3-D graphical applications, big data, and data analysis applications. Replaceability Replaceability is the ability of a system to substitute some components to accommodate change with reasonable effort.
From page 88...
... 88 Guidance for Development and Management of Sustainable Enterprise Information Portals by an abstract measure of the resources required to satisfy the request, rather than per virtual machine, per hour. Service The term service refers to a software functionality or a set of software functionalities (such as the retrieval of specified information or the execution of a set of operations)
From page 89...
... Glossary 89 Transactionless databases, unlike relational databases, do not perform ACID- (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability) compliant transactions to ensure that a database task is completed correctly and in a timely manner, instead transactionless databases rely on the client applications to perform the necessary checks and operations to ensure similar compliance.

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