Dawn of application architecture
Ever since Ada Lovelace (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace) wrote the first algorithm for Analytical Engine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytical_Engine) in the 19th century and Alan Turing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing) formalized the concepts of algorithm and computation via the Turing machine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_machine), software has gone through multiple phases in its evolution, both in terms of how it is designed and how it is made available to its end users. The earlier software was designed to run on a single machine in a single environment, and was delivered to its end users as an isolated standalone entity. In the early 1990s, as the focus shifted to application ...
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