Power of Modern Websites

03/11/17

As I have became more and more experienced with angular java, I have begun to understand truly what is possible with modern web development tools.

Dignity Health builds nearly all of their applications online rather than as something they would download to each and every computer. Traditionally this would seem less powerful as websites are generally seen as much more limited than your traditional program on your computer, but in truth, they are now sometimes just as powerful as the downloaded normal programs.

Seeing as Dignity deals a lot with big data and servers, they host most of the processing on their large servers and merely use the web applications as a portal to access the server data or pass it to the system to process rather the individual computers. This is a hallmark of the modern technology and an extension of the idea of the "cloud". Transferring the processing to a server, rather than on a local machine, allows these web applications to be just as powerful while also being mobile and accessible anywhere since it is just a website in its most basic form.

The way they build their systems here really shows me what big data and that ideology can lead to, more versatile and centralized systems that can be accessed from nearly anywhere.