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Introduces caching solutions for improving availability and predictability of distributed services. Cascade (caching service for CORBA distributed objects) facilitates scalable application design by building cache hierarchies for the objects it manages.

Load balancing helps improve system scalability by ensuring that client application requests are distributed and processed equitably across a group of servers. Likewise, it helps improve system dependability by adapting dynamically to system configura...

Focuses on the specifications for middleware-based load balancing mechanisms developed using standard CORBA, and discusses the specific load balancing service we designed using TAO.

To avoid problems with shared state working with multiple threads, Vinoski recommends a programming language like Erlang rather than C++ or Java.