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 ...

In the two years since ratification of the standard, it’s gone from statistically nothing to just over 8 percent of top web sites. The stat against which this was compared was IPv6 adoption rates.

A client tier that uses a web server, such as Tomcat or Nginx as a reverse proxy. A middle-tier that performs logic. Application servers including Tomcat or JBoss sit on this tier. A backend database ...