A first look at third-party service dependencies of web services in africa

A Kashaf, J Dou, M Belova, M Apostolaki… - … Conference on Passive …, 2023 - Springer
Third-party dependencies expose websites to shared risks and cascading failures. The
dependencies impact African websites as well eg, Afrihost outage in 2022. While the …

Measuring cloud latency in Africa

OV Babasanmi, J Chavula - 2022 IEEE 11th International …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Internet and Public Cloud adoption has been growing all over the world, and major Cloud
Providers have a growing presence in Africa. However, little research has been conducted …

Divided at the Edge-Measuring Performance and the Digital Divide of Cloud Edge Data Centers

N Martin, F Dogar - Proceedings of the ACM on Networking, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Cloud providers are highly incentivized to reduce latency. One way they do this is by
locating data centers as close to users as possible. These “cloud edge” data centers are …

Making distributed edge machine learning for resource-constrained communities and environments smarter: contexts and challenges

HL Truong, T Truong-Huu, TD Cao - Journal of Reliable Intelligent …, 2023 - Springer
The maturity of machine learning (ML) development and the decreasing deployment cost of
capable edge devices have proliferated the development and deployment of edge ML …

Hybrid cloud approach to data platforms: A South African perspective

SV Gaorekwe, KJ Bwalya - South African Journal of Information …, 2024 - journals.co.za
Background An effective data platform is essential for fostering data-driven organisations
and enhancing decision-making. A review of the literature shows that cloud computing and …

The Application of Big Data and Cloud Computing Among Smallholder Farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa

E Mupaikwa - Handbook of Research on Technological Advances of …, 2023 - igi-global.com
Big data and cloud computing technologies have become popular technologies for
information processing across different sectors of the economies including agriculture. This …

[PDF][PDF] Preparedness towards adoption of cloud computing technologies by academic libraries in Kenya

PK Maina, DW Muthee - International Journal of Research in Library Science, 2020 - ijrls.in
In many develo** countries including Kenya, there is a great challenge determining the
preparedness of libraries towards the adoption of cloud computing technologies. Paucity of …

[PDF][PDF] Enhancing Digital Accessibility in Africa: Evaluating the Impact of AWS CDN on Cloud Performance Across Different Regions

M Gebremedhin - 2024 - erepo.uef.fi
This thesis presents the impact of Amazon Web Services Content Delivery Network in
enhancing digital accessibility and cloud performance across different regions in Africa. It …

Towards a More Resilient Web Infrastructure

A Kashaf - 2023 - search.proquest.com
The modern web ecosystem is complex in which multiple web infrastructure providers eg.,
DNS, and CDN rely on each other for certain services giving rise to a complex mesh of …

Towards a Hybrid Approach for Data Platforms in Information-Intensive Environments

SV Gaorekwe - 2023 - search.proquest.com
In the contemporary business landscape, data warehouses (DW), often perceived as
outdated, continue to wield considerable influence, particularly when harnessed alongside …