8 docs tagged with "server-architecture"

The single most important concept for understanding modern server design. Once you get this, Tomcat, Netty, Node.js, and reactive programming all click.

The mental model every server-side concept builds on — who talks to whom, and how.

TCP gives you a reliable byte stream. HTTP, WebSocket, and gRPC are different conventions for what to put on top.

Web, TCP, WebSocket, gRPC — what each one is for, how they differ, and a decision flow for picking one.

The lowest-level thing your server code touches when the network shows up — and why everything above it makes more sense once you get this.

How Spring, Spring MVC, Spring WebFlux, and Spring Boot compose on top of Tomcat and Netty — and how Spring Boot is used far beyond just web servers.

How one server program handles thousands of clients at once — and why threads are both the solution and the problem.

The same idea — serve HTTP — implemented two completely different ways. Servlets and thread-per-request vs event loops and non-blocking channels.