Can anyone recommend any guides that specifically go over the fundamental explanations of why/what benefits/how it all works together etc. and how better to understand the model abstraction principles ...

I'm interested to hear discussion on patterns for multi-tier applications having a central (in-house, internal network) datadatabase, but multiple UI clients across multiple platforms (HTML5, Android, ...

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