Web services standardize the format (XML) and the protocol (SOAP) for application-to-application communication. Such standardization spurs software vendors to create quality applications with ...

Coupon giant Groupon transitioned from monolithic architecture to microservices architecture back in late 2012. They migrated their U.S. web traffic from a monolithic Ruby on Rails application to ...

Every working web developer today is required to understand both the basic principles of REST (the theory) and how they are widely applied in RESTful applications and interfaces (the practice).

Mobile clients could set a trend towards adoption of a new 2-tier application architecture that talks directly to a cloud-hosted database-as-a-service such as Database.com, cutting out the need ...

The MVC architecture lets you integrate Web services at several useful points in your Web application development. First, you must understand the components of an MVC implementation. MVC components ...

Instead of using the current application paradigm in which batch, transactional, and streaming applications are all separated, with a converged architecture you can employ all or parts of your ...

Cloud application architecture does bear some resemblance to SDN, where a centralized intelligent element (a cloud service) often plays the role of analyzing data from across numerous end nodes ...

Web services and their associated services-oriented architecture (SOA) are tools use entirely as a software strategy, or more correctly, an enterprise application strategy. This strategy assumes that ...

By supporting these features, headless CMS platforms are not just keeping pace with modern web architecture but actively driving its evolution, making it easier than ever to deliver sophisticated ...

Too many companies end up with redundant applications. An architecture-first approach helps mitigate many of these, as well as their disruptive follow-on consequences.