Rob Scott from Event Booking walks us through a web architecture recap and discusses web frameworks.

1. Eyes and Ears Volume 2
Information architecture
Framework options

2. Rob Scott

3. What is information architecture?
How to represent your data
● In-memory
● On disk (persistence)

4. Why is it important?
● Data integrity
○ Corruption
○ Ambiguous
● Security
○ Who does the data belong to?
○ Who is allowed to see it?
● Performance
○ Can it scale?

5. Layered architecture
Presentation layer
Service layer
Domain layer
Persistence layer

6. Layered architecture
Presentation layer
Service layer
Domain layer
Persistence layer
View model
Domain model
On-disk format
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}
}
“In-memory”
representation
“Official”
representation
Relational - ORM
Document - serialized to JSON

7. Data structures discussion
In which we discuss relational database design
and how it differs from document database
design. Also discuss difference between “in-
memory” models and “on-disk” models.

8. Layered architecture - common
Presentation layer
HTML5/JS/CSS
Service layer
REST API - view models
Domain layer
Domain models
Persistence layer
Database
Browser
Server
} AngularJS
Knockout etc.
}
ASP.NET - Web API
PHP - Laravel
Python - Django
Ruby - Rails
}
Relational
● SQL Server
● MySQL
Document
● RavenDB
● MongoDB

9. Layered architecture - MeteorJS
Presentation layer
HTML5/JS/CSS
Service layer
REST API - view models
Domain layer
Domain models
Persistence layer
Database
Browser
Server
}MeteorJS
} Document / MongoDB