Web in the present scenario is the ubiquitous platform through which the world today communicates. From a simple portal to massively scalable e-commerce, collaborative web sites, banking, social media, web applications over mobile networks, and so on, everyone uses web protocols as an interface to interact with the outside world. What we normally see as web platform is just a small part of the application that is under web operations, backend web applications, such as supply chain management, order management, online, offline analytics, and so on, are also web applications or use web protocols to integrate for example HTTP, SOAP, REST and so on.

One of the reasons for the web's success is its effective simplicity, open standards, and multiple channels through which it can operate. The fact that it's popular is forcing people and companies to come out with solutions that are simple, cost effective, high performing, and easy to maintain and develop. This...