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3 Key Differences Between a Web Site and a Web Application

Invid Group

You’ll frequently need back-end servers, database servers, load balancers, scripting languages, AJAX calls, REST APIs, and more to make the application work as expected. These simple platforms can efficiently serve up HTML, JS, and CSS.

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How to build Microservices using Node.js?

Openxcell

4) Developer Productivity: Node.js 5) Prototyping and MVPs: If you plan to build Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) or prototypes. 2) Increased cost- Microservices can cause heavy costs relating to load balancing, service discovery, and communication protocols. can build functional microservices.

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Platform Engineering: The Next Step in Operations

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Can improved tooling make developers more effective by working around productivity roadblocks? Can operations staff take care of complex issues like load balancing, business continuity, and failover, which the applications developers use through a set of well-designed abstractions? That’s the challenge of platform engineering.