Common architectures
Web applications have evolved greatly over the last 15 years, emerging from their early monolithic designs to segmented approaches, which in more professionally deployed instances dominate the market now. They have also seen a shift in how these elements of architecture are hosted, from purely on-premise servers, to virtualized instances, to now pure or hybrid cloud deployments. We should also understand that the clients' role in this architecture can vary greatly. This evolution has improved scale and availability, but the additional complexity and variability involved can work against less diligent developers and operators.
The overall web application's architecture maybe physically, logically, or functionally segmented. ...
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