What we call the "N-tier architecture" is really just an uninformed accomodation to Wintel scalability limitations - a kind of Rube Goldberg meets career needs response to achieving SMP via the ...

If, on the other hand, you suspect the CMS will become large, an n-tier architecture is advisable. The 3-tier is easier to build because it requires less interserver communications.

With a focus on the business case for a CQRS architecture, this article covers the core concepts of CQRS, and contrasts them with a common, n-tier architecture.

In an n-tier architecture there's a level of trust between the client (UI), the services it calls on an app server, and the underlying database. These are all part of a single distributed application, ...

Using J2EE to develop n- tier applications involves breaking apart the different layers in the two-tier architecture into multiple tiers.