JavaScript (and Node.js) JavaScript is also a must-have language for web app development. That's true not only because JavaScript dominates the world of client-side programming languages for websites, ...

When I began to write server-side web applications, there were two mainstream choices: if you wanted the program to execute quickly, you chose C, and if you wanted to write the program quickly, you ...

Using the Session object isn't as scalable as other solutions precisely because the objects are stored on the server and the server is a shared resource: As the number of users increases, the amount ...

Apple created the new Swift programming language as a better way of building apps for the iPhone. Now one company wants to put it on servers.

Programming languages are like standards; the nice thing about them is that there are so many to choose from. Selecting the best programming languages for back-end, server-side applications often has ...