Re:Web 2.0 Killed the Middleware Star
by wisty on Wednesday July 27, 2011 @05:27AM
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I guess the middleware does less and less. You still need notifications, but most of the data can be taken directly from the database.
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I guess it depends on the specific architecture, if you use something like Mongrel2 messaging is used for everything, even for routing HTTP requests and responses to the processes/servers that handle it.
Also, hasn't it always been the case that a lot of web applications communicate with the database directly to fetch information? What's so "web 2.0" about that?
The major thing that changed with AJAX/Comet and Websockets and such is that the javascript running on the end user's browser can now be regarded as an endpoint for message-passing. This increases the amount of messaging, doesn't it? In so far that relying on just polling a database is no longer good practice in our "realtime notificiation" world...