Mobile clients could set a trend towards adoption of a new 2-tier application architecture that talks directly to a cloud-hosted database-as-a-service such as Database.com, cutting out the need ...

If a request is for a simple, static file such as HTML or an image, the Apache web server will send that file back to the client. If the request requires some logic, the Apache web server passes the ...

Google Voice Search, which is a feature of the Google Search app, performs the voice recognition for each query on the client-side, while Apple's Siri processes these requests on the server-side.

Improving the client-side web experience means overcoming the challenges of ‘hydration,’ a fascinating engineering problem being tackled in many different ways. Let’s dive in.