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Web Application Architecture: A Comprehensive Guide

DZone

When a user logs on to this desktop/laptop or mobile, opens a browser, and types the name of a website, the browser displays the required information, and the user performs an action on the site. It’s an underlying web application architecture that makes this process possible.

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QCon London: Meta Used Monolithic Architecture to Ship Threads in Only Five Months

InfoQ

The company leveraged Instagram's existing monolithic architecture and quickly iterated to create a new text-first microblogging service in record time. Zahan Malkani talked during QCon London 2024 about Meta’s journey from identifying the opportunity in the market to shipping the Threads application only five months later.

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Lessons learned from enterprise service-level objective management

Dynatrace

Example 1: Architecture boundaries. First, they took a big step back and looked at their end-to-end architecture (Figure 2). For example, the mobile device talked to an API gateway, and that team was not responsible for all the details of the back-end systems. SLO dashboard defined by architectural boundary. Saturation.

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How to design a RESTful API architecture from a human-language spec

O'Reilly Software

Most web APIs are consumed by client applications running on PCs, mobile devices, etc., It's common to find APIs that merely expose database functions, without considering what the end users will do with them. By RESTful API we mean an API that follows Representational State Transfer (REST) architectural style.

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Managing hybrid cloud infrastructure with an observability platform

Dynatrace

That’s why hybrid cloud architecture is a key tool in the arsenal for organizations striving to grow, modernize, and innovate. build microservices-based architecture. IBM Z platform with a private cloud, public cloud, mobile front end, and several workstations involved with middleware technologies.

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The Relationship Between Software Architecture And Business Models (and more)

Strategic Tech

If every significant architecture decision has business consequences, then knowing the business model and which trade-offs to choose is maybe the most important skill of architects. But what is the actual relationship between a business model and a software architecture? It’s not just about business models and architecture, though.

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RSA Guide 2023: Cloud application security remains core challenge for organizations

Dynatrace

Cloud application security remains challenging because organizations lack end-to-end visibility into cloud architecture. As organizations migrate applications to the cloud, they must balance the agility that microservices architecture brings with the complexity and lack of transparency that can also come with it.

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