Under a three-tier, thin-client architecture - in order to ensure reasonable performance, system modularity and ease of maintenance - an application should be made up of many small transactions.

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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 ...

What is 2-tier architecture? 2-tier architecture describes client/server systems in which the client requests resources and the server responds directly to the request, using its own resources. This ...

The growth of rich mobile and edge applications is requiring developers to build applications in new ways. Client-serverless is the way of the future.

Google Voice Search, which is a feature of the Google Search app, performs the voice recognition for each query on the client-side, while Apple's Siri processes these requests on the server-side ...

Nothing is more important for an enterprise application than scalability and availability. Learn how to use clustering to meet both existing and future demands.

What is a client-server environment? Numerous applications run in a client-server architecture. This means that client computers (computers forming part of the network) contact a server that provides ...

On the surface one of the oddest things about a large client-server operation that grew from an earlier 327X style system is that they didn't meet their SLA terms then, and don't now - but the ...

All the most innovative SaaS applications are built on a connected, cloud-native architecture that is a generation apart from the traditional enterprise-centric, client-server model. While it may seem ...