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14 points by rwieruch on May 20, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



The 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.


The 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-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.




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