Separating a website's brain from its face makes it faster
Modern web architecture is moving away from all-in-one systems to a split design that delivers content five times faster than traditional methods.
Most of the internet relies on a 'monolithic' structure where a website's data and its visual layout are locked in a single, heavy package. This creates a bottleneck because every time a visitor clicks a link, the server must rebuild the entire page from scratch. By 'decoupling' the site—separating the content storage from the display layer—developers can send pre-packaged data to the user instantly. This shift reduces the initial response time from nearly half a second to just 89 milliseconds.
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