Anatomy of a Web Service
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An overview of what a backend/application server actually does, limits on load, and ways to improve performance. Covers concurrency approaches (threads, processes, async I/O, event loop, coroutines), programming models (multithreaded, multiprocess, explicit async), database driver concerns (connection management, pipelining, sharding, fault tolerance), compute-heavy patterns (queues, RPC, workers) and SOA; compares architectures and popular web frameworks in Ruby, Python, Go and Java and how they implement these models.
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