Asking stupid questions. Today: Why are Three Tier architectures great?

@ewolff @simonbrown great may be too strong. 3TA lets you scale clients, application computation & and storage independently of one another

@natpryce @simonbrown I'd say: Don't Distribute Your Objects bit.ly/1FnMOM6

@ewolff @simonbrown that’s an othogonal issue

@natpryce @simonbrown Scaling tiers independently mean distributing them - doesn't it?

@ewolff 2TA was rich clients talking to the database server with app logic in stored procs

@natpryce @ewolff I agree with most of your explanation, don’t see stored procs as a necessary aspect of 2TA though

@stilkov @ewolff no, not necessary but historically was common way of implementing app functionality shared between clients …