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History of Web Applications
- latchkey 4y agoThe title of the post is "Web Applications 101" which is far more applicable since it doesn't cover the days of animations with multiple title tags.
- mdmglr 4y agoThe whole section on "What's the difference between Web Server and Application Server?" is not very precise. I wouldn't say the difference has to do with content type being served. I think it would be better to talk about responsibility in the stack. A quick google search yields this page from IBM ( https://www.ibm.com/cloud/learn/web-server-vs-application-server https://www.ibm.com/cloud/learn/web-server-vs-application-se...) which IMO provides a clearer explanation. There is also something called reverse proxy which I think is important but is missing. Another diagram has the app + web server within the same physical server. While it gets the point across I think it would be better to use an example where this is not the case. From my experience it is usually not the case.