While there may be incremental gains from implementing 3-tier client-server apps in a web-delivered model, the real advances will come from doing things differently.

Just like the client-server and three-tier architectures did, the client-serverless application model will create tremendous opportunity (and disruption) for every kind of customer and vendor in ...

The client-server model organizes network traffic using a client application and client devices. Network clients send messages to a server to make requests of it.

Separating an application into components that run on multiple servers. Programming languages and development systems that support this architecture, known as "three-tier client/server," may allow ...

This collection of protocols and drivers constitutes the all important front-end to any two-tier client/server application.