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About the Book
The Grid Vision describes the vision behind "The Grid". The grid vision consists of a set of ideas and technologies which form an alternative to "The Web".
The Grid is designed for a wider set of use cases than the web. Examples of potential use cases are digital radio, file backup, remote procedure calls, video streaming, message queue subscriptions,Internet of things etc. In short, the grid vision is targeting the Internet of Everything (IoE).
We know a lot more about designing high performance, scalable, robust distributed systems today than we did 30+ years ago when the web technologies were first conceived. We do our best to take as much of this knowledge into consideration in the design of the core grid technologies.
About the Author
Jakob Jenkov is a technopreneur, software architect, veteran developer, Java Champion and writer / publisher focused on the big ideas in the software and tech industry. Jakob feels most at home in the nexus between business and technology.
Jakob pursues his interests via his company Jenkov Aps (jenkov.com). Jakob has published more than 800 technical articles which attact millions of readers every year, and produced a few videos which attract hundreds of thousands of viewers every year.
Jakob has worked with web development and enterprise software since 1998 - mostly consulting for larger companies. The later years Jakob has taken a step back from development to focus on software architecture an the business context in which it exists. Jakob prefers a scientific approach to problem solving, favouring deep analysis and evidence over shallow understanding, assumptions and opinions whenever possible.