Client-Server Architecture

Question 1

What is client-server architecture?

Answer 1

• It is a distributed application structure that explains how a server provides resources to one more clients

Question 2

How do you understand client-server architecture?

Answer 2

• The client sends requests to the server, which accepts them, grabs information from the database, and sends a response back to the client.
• A load balancer can also be involved if we are talking about multiple servers

Question 3

What is a server?

Answer 3

The server itself is software that runs on the computer. It is a computer system that provides resources, data, services, or programs to other computers aka clients

Question 4

What does the Load Balancer do?

Answer 4

The load balancer is software the distributes tasks/requests between multiple servers to avoid server overloading

Question 5

Can the application work without a load balancer?

Answer 5

• Yes, the load balancer is not needed unless there is a need to distribute load between multiple servers

Question 6

Why do we need a database?

Answer 6

We need a DB to have a place to store and retrieve information from