/ˈsəːvə/
noun
- a person or thing that serves.
- a computer or computer program which manages access to a centralized resource or service in a network.
In WDI we will be dealing a lot with writing the logic of a web application server.
This application runs on a computer and responds to requests from the network.
In response to a request it gets data from a database and serves it back to the user who requested it.