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Date Published
Author
Robin Vasan
Word count
1422
Language
English
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None

Summary

The technology industry is currently undergoing a significant platform shift, impacting the entire application architecture and prompting a reevaluation of the presentation layer. Historically, shifts like these begin within the infrastructure sector and affect the broader technology stack, moving from client-server models to web and application servers, and now to cloud-native architectures featuring containers and microservices. The new paradigm emphasizes an application- or service-centric model with programmable, elastic, and secure infrastructure, largely driven by open-source software. As companies increasingly adopt digital transformation, the focus is shifting towards improving the frontend presentation layer, leveraging technologies like React, GraphQL, and serverless architectures to enhance performance, security, cost efficiency, scalability, and agility. This evolution involves replacing traditional web servers and content management systems with a serverless approach, utilizing pre-built JavaScript code served from cloud/edge caches, which offers faster, more secure, and cost-effective solutions for developing user experiences.