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Digital distribution, also referred to as content delivery, online distribution, or electronic software distribution, among others, is the delivery or distribution of digital media content such as audio, video, e-books, video games, and other software.
The term began being used in the 1990s to describe content delivery networks —these were used to deliver website and video content from servers located near users. [2] In the early 2000s, these systems expanded their scope to hosting other applications, [3] leading to early edge computing services. [4] These services could do things like find dealers, manage shopping carts, gather real-time ...
A content delivery network or content distribution network ( CDN) is a geographically distributed network of proxy servers and their data centers. The goal is to provide high availability and performance ("speed") by distributing the service spatially relative to end users. CDNs came into existence in the late 1990s as a means for alleviating ...
Software deployment is all of the activities that make a software system available for use. [1] The general deployment process consists of several interrelated activities with possible transitions between them. These activities can occur on the producer side or on the consumer side or both. Because every software system is unique, the precise ...
Payload (computing) In computing and telecommunications, the payload is the part of transmitted data that is the actual intended message. Headers and metadata are sent only to enable payload delivery [1] [2] and are considered overhead . In the context of a computer virus or worm, the payload is the portion of the malware which performs ...
A systems development life cycle is composed of distinct work phases that are used by systems engineers and systems developers to deliver information systems.
A computer network diagram of clients communicating with a server via the Internet. The client–server model is a distributed application structure that partitions tasks or workloads between the providers of a resource or service, called servers, and service requesters, called clients. [1] Often clients and servers communicate over a computer ...
Hospitality point of sale systems are computerized systems incorporating registers, computers and peripheral equipment, usually on a computer network to be used in restaurants, hair salons or hotels.