2-tier architecture is a client-server architecture where the server is versatile, meaning it can directly respond to all of the client's resource requests. In 3-tier architecture , however, the ...

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 diagram at top left gives an idea of how the tiers relate to each other in Weather's case (in practice this arrangement is replicated over two data centres) The mid-tier REST API makes data ...