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LAMP architectures are dead because few web applications want to ship full payloads of markup to the client in response to a small event; they want to update just a fragment of the DOM, using Javascript. […] [T]his means shifting our view of the server from a document courier (HTML Age), or a template renderer (LAMP Age), to a function and data shipper. The principal role of the server is to ship an application to the client (Javascript), along with data (JSON), and let the client weave those into a DOM. The secondary role of the server is to listen in on a stream for events (a new edit, a message, or ticker change) and efficiently push responses back to clients.
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I can’t stand when someone proclaims that “[fill in the blank] is dead”…but this one just makes so much sense to me.
