For decades, web architecture has followed a familiar and frankly exhausting pattern. A dominant approach emerges, gains near ...

New Business Requirements Recent government initiatives to expedite the purchase ordering process, improve inventory control and deliver better services to the public have created demands for ...

An architecture in which the user's PC or mobile device (the client) is the requesting machine and the server is the supplying machine, both of which are connected via a local area network (LAN) or a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I track enterprise software application development & data management. Software builds applications. Some of those applications ...

A Web server exclusively handles HTTP requests, whereas an application server serves business logic to application programs through any number of protocols. Let’s examine each in more detail. A Web ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Client-side rendering technologies like React and Angular use the processor on the client device ...

This guest post comes courtesy of ZapThink's senior analyst Ron Schmelzer. By Ronald Schmelzer Traditional market research focuses on the size and growth of well-defined market segments. As vendors ...

An application in which all or some parts of the software are downloaded from the Web every time it runs. There are essentially three types of Web applications. Progressive Web apps are browser based, ...

Rich Internet applications (RIA) are Web-based applications that have some characteristics of graphical desktop applications. Built with powerful development tools, RIAs can run faster and be more ...

Legacy web applications are synchronous in nature. The user interacts with the web interface presented in the browser, the browser makes requests back to the server based on that user interaction, and ...