Building a 3-Tier Application on AWS
When I hear the word "3-tier architecture," it sounds like one of those big concepts people often mention in all these tech talks. Most times, I just add it to my list of things to read later. But ...
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When I hear the word "3-tier architecture," it sounds like one of those big concepts people often mention in all these tech talks. Most times, I just add it to my list of things to read later. But something interesting happened when I started looking into it more closely. I realized that 3-tier architecture is actually something many of us already interact with, especially when using Backend as a Service platforms. Sometimes a concept becomes clearer when someone explains it in a simple way. After attending a session from Solavise Technologies Institute, the idea stopped feeling abstract. Instead of only reading about it, I decided to build something small to understand how it actually works. With their guidance, I built a Nigerian passport application system deployed using a 3-tier architecture on AWS. Architecture Diagram Below is a simple overview of how the system is structured. User | | HTTP Request v ----------------------- Presentation Layer EC2 Instance Nginx Web Server (HTML,