Containers are the ultimate vehicle for portability. Packaging the application, its specific runtime environment, and its proxy sidecars into Docker images ensures the backend runs identically on a developer's machine, a QA environment, or a production Kubernetes cluster.

A truly portable architecture rests on a "Cloud-Native Foundation Layer" composed of three key components:

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Discover how the web evolved from head-of-line blocking in HTTP/1.1 to multiplexing in HTTP/2, and finally to QUIC-based transport in HTTP/3.

The Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model standardizes network functions. As a backend engineer, you will primarily operate at two layers: