To effectively plan – or even talk about – application development intelligently, you usually have to understand which of the many program architectures you're referring to. In other words, software code can be deployed in many more ways than just the "standard" web app. So let's see what we've got.

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Learn about different software deployment models including client/server architectures, thin client and fat client architectures, and microservices vs. monolith architectures.

Software Deployment Models – Explained for Beginners

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)