Lightweight Application Development Mechanisms for UNIX based Environments

Abstract

With the dawn of SSDs, the storage though has become incredibly faster but purchasing higher capacities have skyrocketing price tags associated. It is but natural for a user to be lured into buying a lower storage but high performance SSD instead of a higher capacity HDD with terribly slow transfer rates. Installing heavy software could be a pain on SSDs due to paucity of space. Lightweight applications take up less space on the drive while achieving the same results of a conventional application under same hardware. Most companies are shifting to using SSDs for all their computer systems as a standard and hence the storage problem becomes more evident. A lightweight application development mechanism aims to solve the problem.