Tier is a natural boundary

Posted by Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz on Jun 21, 2010 in Blog, Featured Posts | 0 comments

When talking about multi-tiered architectures, we need to remember that the tier boundary is significant. The tier boundary is where distribution happens and if you remember the “fallacies of distributed computing“, you know not to take that lightly. A tier is a physical boundary (versus, for example, an Edge in a SOA which is a logical boundary within the service). The implications...