An introduction to web applications architecture

Conclusion

This free course, An introduction to web applications architecture, has given you a taster for the full Open University course, which is TT284 Web technologies.
Web Applications Architecture concerns the design and implementation of computer software that runs on web servers, instead of running solely on desktop computers, laptops or mobile devices.
You explored ‘client–server’ and ‘multi-tier’ approaches to web applications architecture, which represent mainstream common ‘tried and tested’ approaches, and then ‘network type’ approaches - Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and cloud architecture, which represent more recent developments
This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course TT284 Web technologies.

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