This folder demonstrates the server-side "Persistence Tier". It can be the file system (as in this example), or a a relational database, or some cloud storage, or a memory cache of some sort. What "Persistence Tier" does is to abstract all those implementation details and provide a unified interface. The "Business Tier" reads data from the "Persistence Tier", and executes business functions with them. The "Business Tier" can also write data to the "Persistence Tier".