The document discusses the architecture of Dropwizard (DW), a Java web framework. DW builds on top of Jetty by adding the InstrumentedHandler. Resources are defined using Jersey and dispatched via a RequestDispatcher chain. Metrics are captured using classes annotated with @Timed and @Metered and exported to Graphite for long-term storage and visualization. Providers are interfaces that customize DW's behavior at runtime, such as defining how arguments are injected into resource methods.