A Friendly Guide to Software Development: What You Should Know Without Being a Developer

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L. PortellaA Friendly Guide to Software Development Friendly Guides to Technologyhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8969-3_6

6. Backend: What’s Underwater

Leticia Portella¹  

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Dublin, Ireland

 

Beautiful is better than ugly. Explicit is better than implicit. Simple is better than complex. Complex is better than complicated.

—The Zen of Python

We defined how our frontend should look like, now it’s time to think about the other side! While the frontend is responsible for interacting with users and making sure they have an amazing experience with the website, the backend is responsible for implementing the business logic as well as making sure that the information ...