Web architecture

We introduced in the introduction of the chapter the LAMP architecture, which is the base for the web server architecture:

Figure 6.1: The LAMP architecture

The LAMP architecture is more general, but we will take a closer look at the web server and web worker. We will use specific tools, based on the Python ecosystem, but we will discuss possible alternatives.

Figure 6.2: More detailed architecture in a Python environment

From the point of view of an incoming request, a web request accesses the different elements.