Serverless architecture eliminates the need for server management, enabling automatic scaling and event-driven ...

Web services standardize the format (XML) and the protocol (SOAP) for application-to-application communication. Such standardization spurs software vendors to create quality applications with ...

Mobile clients could set a trend towards adoption of a new 2-tier application architecture that talks directly to a cloud-hosted database-as-a-service such as Database.com, cutting out the need ...

The MVC architecture lets you integrate Web services at several useful points in your Web application development. First, you must understand the components of an MVC implementation. MVC components ...

Every working web developer today is required to understand both the basic principles of REST (the theory) and how they are widely applied in RESTful applications and interfaces (the practice).

It's a task that is relatively simple when using desktop APIs or native mobile APIs, but it's not at all intuitive over the Web. Of course, there's more to the speedy and adept manner in which mobile ...