Back-end

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Back-end is a web development domain — the coded part of an application that is invisible to the user: the server side.

Back-end is a web development domain — the coded part of an application that is invisible to the user: the server side. All the computing logic that responds to requests sent through the interface lives in the back-end.

It covers database management, server-to-server communication, API management, accessibility, security and so on. It is often compared to the submerged part of the iceberg, since it represents the bulk of an application's code.

Examples of back-end languages:
- Python
- PHP
- Ruby
- Java

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PHP
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Ruby
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API

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PHP

Python

Ruby

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