What is occurring in the world of server-side technologies in regards to the mobile app boom?

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Published on 2012-09-27T04:56:59Z Indexed on 2012/09/27 9:50 UTC
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With mobile technologies becoming increasingly popular what is happening on the server-side with most of these apps when they need to communicate with a back end?

I'm used to the world of technology from 10 years ago when most resources were accessed by requesting a dynamic web page that behind the seen used a server-side language to get the information it needed from a relational database.

Is this still the case, and if not, what are the big changes?

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