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Movie fans were thrown into crisis today when their favorite app and website, Letterboxd, went down. According to ...

In a non-Web environment, an application server performs the business logic (the data processing), although some amount of business logic may be handled by the user's machine. In a private or public ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Web clients should never hit an application server directly. Instead, all web-based requests ...

The packaging mechanisms defined in Chapter 8 of the J2EE 1.3 specification provide a framework for pulling together all the pieces of a J2EE application. However, application server vendors are free ...

- we will deploy a custom intranet web app (web server + app server + db server) across 3 geographical regions. - testing confirms that latency between the 3 regions is too high (actual bandwidth is ...

With so many security efforts concentrated on networks themselves, it seems as though Web applications have been all but forgotten. Perhaps it’s because applications used to be stand-alone programs ...

We've all had an experience in which the software is installed on the servers, the network is connected and the application is running. Naturally, the next step is to think, "I wonder how much traffic ...