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I guess the middleware does less and less. You still need notifications, but most of the data can be taken directly from the database.
by wisty 15y ago
I guess the middleware does less and less. You still need notifications, but most of the data can be taken directly from the database.
- wladimir 15y agoI guess it depends on the specific architecture, if you use something like Mongrel2 messaging is used for everything, even for routing HTTP requests and responses to the processes/servers that handle it. Also, hasn't it always been the case that a lot of web applications communicate with the database directly to fetch information? What's so "web 2.0" about that? The major thing that changed with AJAX/Comet and Websockets and such is that the javascript running on the end user's browser can now be regarded as an endpoint for message-passing. This increases the amount of messaging, doesn't it? In so far that relying on just polling a database is no longer good practice in our "realtime notificiation" world...
- gizzlon 15y agoYeah, maybe Web 1.0 killed the middleware star and Web 2.0 is bringing it back.