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Traditional application architectures

Traditional application architectures

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Traditional application architectures

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- [Instructor] As applications began to find a home within enterprise environments, certain architectures quickly became popular. Let's explore a group of traditional application architectures first. As developers began building more and more powerful applications, they started bumping into hardware limitations. Their solution was to take the application's workload and divide it among multiple systems. This idea became known as distributed computing. There are four types of distributed computing architecture that you should be familiar with. In a client server architecture, the user's system is the client. This is the system that the user relies on to access the application. When that user needs the app to do anything, and I mean anything, those requests are distributed among multiple servers. A web server handles the web traffic, while the application itself runs on an application server. Files generated by the user are stored on a file server, and structured data sets are stored in…

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