September 2017
Intermediate to advanced
432 pages
8h 20m
English
Content preview from Clean Architecture: A Craftsman's Guide to Software Structure and Design
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31THE WEB IS A DETAIL
Were you a developer in the 1990s? Do you remember how the web changed everything? Do you remember how we looked at our old client–server architectures with disdain in the face of the shiny new technology of The Web?
Actually the web didn’t change anything. Or, at least, it shouldn’t have. The web is just the latest in a series of oscillations that our industry has gone through since the 1960s. These oscillations move back and forth between putting all the computer power in central servers and putting all computer power out at the terminals.
We’ve seen several of these oscillations just in the last decade or so since the ...