As you will see in this chapter, companies use SQL Server for many types of applications and on most tiers now. Gone are the days when you would second guess yourself choosing to use SQL Server over a ...

In some cases, applications can be based upon industry-accepted standards, as shown in Figure 10-27. For example, for devices that need to be able to connect to other devices to transfer data or to ...

The AI company Anthropic, which was founded in 2021 by former OpenAI employees, has developed the Model Context Protocol (MCP) with the aim of standardizing communication between Large Language Models ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Web clients should never hit an application server directly. Instead, all web-based requests ...

There's been a shift in the enterprise Java community when it comes to what has commonly been referred to as an "application server." What was an application server? Historically, when an enterprise ...

The server-side architecture of an application can have a significant impact on how well the application performs. I’ve seen examples where an application server had to make queries against a database ...

A Web server exclusively handles HTTP requests, whereas an application server serves business logic to application programs through any number of protocols. Let’s examine each in more detail. A Web ...