---
title: "What is this architecture called?"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/what-is-this-architecture-called--jmo14mxie
source_url: https://gist.github.com/quad/bc2351e2df4a4a815f8e0d19f36cfa80
type: article
source: "Lobsters"
published: 2024-03-13T15:56:03.768Z
updated: 2024-05-09T09:28:05.588Z
tags: ["architecture", "graphql", "rest-api", "grpc"]
reading_time: 3
upvotes: 15
comments: 3
language: en
---

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# What is this architecture called?

**[Lobsters](https://daily.dev/sources/lobsters)** · 3 min read · 15 upvotes · 3 comments

## Summary

The post discusses a different architecture than the classical three-tier architecture, focusing on the presentation tier, logic tier, and data tier. It also explores the bifurcation of the logic tier's server into hot path categories.

## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://gist.github.com/quad/bc2351e2df4a4a815f8e0d19f36cfa80>

## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@idoshamun** · 0 upvotes

> Never thought about it this way, but definitely the unnamed one is the more popular and classic monolith one. You can see it everywhere

**@jsporna** · 0 upvotes

> For me unnamed architecture looks like [event driven architecture](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event-driven_architecture) or [message driven architecture](https://devaraj-durairaj.medium.com/message-driven-vs-event-driven-e07a18d40a95)

**@vigikaran** · 0 upvotes

> Its Event Driven architecture,

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