Rakesh Potnuru
Web3 Magazine
Published in
4 min readMar 7, 2022

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Web 2.0 architecture Vs Web 3.0 architecture

If you are switching from web2 to web3 or if you want to learn web3 then you may have doubts about how web3 is different from web2? Are there any similarities? Can I directly jump into web3 without knowing web2 stuff?. So, in this blog, get answers to your questions by learning the architectures of both.

This blog is a high-level overview of web3 application architecture.

Let’s get started

How does web2.0 application work?

Terminology

Let’s recall web2.0 things. Three main things.

  • Frontend — Frontend is what the user sees and interacts with your application.
  • Backend — Backend is where we do all the business logic(secrets 👀).
  • Database — Where we store all the data.

When we build an application combining these. This is how we visualize:

web2 overview

How this works in simple terms with an example — You interact with the application in the browser. For example, if you click a login button, then the browser will talk to the server, then that server will talk to the database. The server will query data(your existing creds), then the server will…

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Rakesh Potnuru
Web3 Magazine

I write about web technologies, tools and my learnings. Connect with me — itsrakesh.com. (New article every week.)