A client tier that uses a web server, such as Tomcat or Nginx as a reverse proxy. A middle-tier that performs logic. Application servers including Tomcat or JBoss sit on this tier. A backend database ...

Implementing Microservices Architecture in Scalable Web Applications. Companies like Netflix, Uber, and Amazon have transformed industries with their Web platforms, largely due to their adoption of ...

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).

In 3-tier architecture, however, the server-level applications are remote from one another, meaning each server is specialized with a certain task (for example: web server/database server). 3-tier ...

Improving the client-side web experience means overcoming the challenges of ‘hydration,’ a fascinating engineering problem being tackled in many different ways. Let’s dive in.