Web System Architecture

Web System Architecture

100

What is both the process and product of planning, designing, and construction?

What is architecture?

200

This is how architecture is presented.

What are schematics?

300

This acts as the "middleman" between the server and the browser.

What is the internet?

400

This idea comprises everything from the creation of new information to its eventual retirement when it is no longer needed.

What is managing information?

500

A big dream of computer scientists is to stanadardize what three things?

What are software, hardware and networks?

Facebook and Google Tiers

100

This is how many tiers Facebook has.

What are five tiers?

200

This tier runs in the user browser.

What is the presentation tier?

300

This is the tier that holds a permanent record of what happens on a site such as Facebook?

What is the database tier?

400

This is fast, temporary info storage; provides supporting services to Web tier (for Facebook).

What is the services tier.

500

This is what the data infrastructure team is responsible for and what they produce.

What are warehousing and reports?

Tiers of WoW

100

This is the temporary storage place that holds a copy of data that is stored permanently elsewhere.

What is a cache?

200

This is what kind kind of client World of Warcraft.

What is a thick/fat client?

300

The WoW login server is part of this tier.

What is the processing tier?

400

This is another name for the bad guys or creeps in World of Warcraft?

What are mobs (or mobile bad guys)?

500

An outline of concepts that all relate to each other like chapters and and sections of a book.

What is a taxonomy?