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Ushahidi 3.x is split into 3 layers: Presentation (Frontend), Services (API) and Data. The API is a PHP application built on Kohana. The Frontend is a javascript application, built on BackboneJS.

In theory the Kohana application could handle frontend views and interactions too, but splitting the API out allows us to encapsulate and standardize a lot of business logic: what can/cannot be done to a model, how the data is structured, etc. We can improve our database structure as we go, without necessarily breaking API compatibility. Mobile apps, 3rd party integrations, etc are not 2nd class citizens: they can consume the same API as our primary frontend. The API has to be able to do everything to our data.

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