The slides explain request-response life-cycle that flows through a web application (built using Ruby on Rails)

1. Request-Response life cycle

2. “Web server...App server
What’s these ?

3. Web Server

4. “. Handles HTTP requests and sends back HTTP responses.
. Serves static files and assets.
. Apache, Nginx etc.
. Can handle SSL requests
. Compresses requests

5. Application Server

6. “. This actually runs our rails app
. Loads the code and keep the app in memory
. Sends response back to the web server
. Webrick, Puma, Mongrel, Unicorn, Thin etc.

7. “Let’s make an HTTP
request :)

12. Static files

13. “Congrats! - now you
know what’s going behind
a request

14. Thanks!
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