Basis of modern web application architecture

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Basis of modern web application architecture

Objective

• Help a learner to grasp the basis of modern web application architecture
• Help a team to share necessary contexts and definitions for communication

Table of context

0. Unix Philosophy
1. CGI, Servlet (Thread Pool) and Event Loop
   1. CGI: fork a process to handle one request
   2. Servlet: reuse thread in pool to handle one request
   3. Event Loop: share one thread to handle all requests
2. Quality Indicator for System
   1. Reliability
   2. Availability
   3. Serviceability
   4. Integrity
   5. Security
3. Key Factors of Cloud Native Applications
   1. Consistency
   2. Scalability
   3. Resiliency
4. AWS building blocks
   1. Amazon S3
   2. Amazon SQS
   3. Amazon EMR
   4. Amazon Cloud Front (CDN)
   5. Amazon API Gateway
   6. AWS Lambda
   7. AWS ELB
   8. AP servers: AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Amazon EKS etc.
   9. DB servers: Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora, Amazon Elasticsearch Service, AWS Dynamo DB etc.
   10. Others: AWS AppSync, etc.
5. Cloud Design Patterns