title: Web Application Architecture: Principles, Protocols and Practices
author:  Leon Shklar 
description: It is not enough for Web application developers to be proficient injust one platform. As platforms grow and evolve, and as new onesarise, developers must be able to transfer their proficiency acrossplatforms in order to build complex Web applications effectively.This book helps developers understand the underlying coretechnologies so that they can learn new APIs and applicationframeworks more quickly.
zlib_text: Advanced Web Application Architecture
  Matthias Noback
  
  Advanced Web Application Architecture
  Matthias Noback
  ©2020 Matthias Noback
  ISBN 978-90-821201-6-5
  Cover drawings by Julia Noback
  Other books by Matthias Noback:
  • A Year with Symfony (Leanpub, 2014)
  • Principles of Package Design (Apress, 2018)
  • Microservices for Everyone (Leanpub, 2018)
  • Object Design Style Guide (Manning Publications, 2019)
  • PHP for the Web (Leanpub, 2020)
  ii
  
  In memory of my grandfather, H.A.J. Noback
  iii
  
  Contents
  Introduction
  x
  1.
  Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  x
  2.
  Why is decoupling from infrastructure so important? . . . . . . .
  xi
  3.
  Who is this book for? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii
  4.
  Overview of the contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii
  5.
  The accompanying demo project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii
  6.
  About the author . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiv
  7.
  