From Mosaic to Modern: The Evolution of Web App Architectures

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Traces the web from NCSA Mosaic (1993) to today, showing concrete shifts: early CGI spawns a new OS process per request and is slow, then XMLHttpRequest → Ajax enables Gmail/Maps style partial updates, Nginx’s event loop supports 10,000+ concurrent connections changes scaling, and Node plus WebSocket moves JavaScript to the server. Cloud and containers (EC2/S3, Docker, Kubernetes) enable deployment change, and the current move toward server-side rendering + hydration and microfrontends echoes portal servers while solving time-to-first-paint and deployability.

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1. 0:00Talk introduction
2. 3:12Early web origins
3. 10:17Mosaic browser revolution
4. 16:40Dynamic web with CGI
5. 23:29Server-side APIs emerge
6. 31:00Model 2 architecture
7. 36:18Portal servers and components
8. 41:17HTML5 and modern browsers
9. 44:56Ajax and modern UIs
10. 50:25Containers and cloud-native
11. 53:57Micro frontends concept
12. 59:38Q&A and closing

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