Mobile and Cloud architecture - Save the buzz words please

Mobile and Cloud ArchitectureSave the Buzzwords Please

Dan Lewis – The Judge Group - USA

Who am I?

My name is: Dan Lewis

I am from: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - USA

I work for: The Judge Group, Inc.

As the: Leader of the Mobility Solutions Consulting Practice

For my job I: Eat, sleep, and breath mobility

I used to: Build intranets, web, and database stuff

So what is the “glue” between mobile and standards?Mobile development and standards can be best friends

JavaScript

Access to the web standards

Front-end modeling

UI Frameworks

Template control

Let’s use a standards-based approach to our data layerWe need data for all of these mobile applications

REST

Employ standards-based C.R.U.D. actions

Leverage HTTP security paradigms

Small payload sizes w / JSON

Instead of 3 projects, let’s go HYBRID and have 1Well I need an iPhone, Android, and Windows app in the app store

Hybrid Mobile App Development The 85/15 Rule

85% Standards-based code (HTML/CSS/JS) 15% Native code (Obj-C, Java, C#)

Apache Cordova (PhoneGap)

Cross-platform build pattern and methodology

Be warned – Apple plays hard ball

What services are out there that I can buy over build?The “Cloud” for a purpose not just “because”

Key Cloud Services for Mobile

In-App Purchasing

Push Notifications

Data / Service Hosting

Code Hosting

Thank You!

Dan LewisPractice Leader – Mobility SolutionsThe Judge Groupwww.judge.com

[email protected]@DanTheITManlinkedin.com/in/dantheitman