> and yet modern web applications tend to demand a dramatic distributed architecture The dirty secret is: Most of them don't really need that architecture. Mos

> and yet modern web applications tend to demand a dramatic distributed architecture The dirty secret is: Most of them don't really need that architecture. Most, and I mean +95% of websites would run just fine on a single box, running the websrv, db and whatever script-interpreter the backend runs on. Sure, it may be a bit slower if its not hooked up to a global CDN, and if the box goes down the user gets 404. But its also alot easier for an admin to simply give the one box a good wallop and put it back online, since it so simple. https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm#heavyclouds https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm#heavyclouds