A natural pair: mobile development and cloud application portfolio

Do you wonder why mobile developers are more likely to embrace cloud computing than their competitors in typical enterprise development?

Short time is clearly a driving factor. By nature, mobile apps are faster, newer, and more frequent than their peers. This adds to the pressure of the mobile development team, exerting great pressure on them to download or outsource as much development load as possible, and more and more, which means that a cloud-based vendor can help solve everything and let it host front-end and large data management at the back end.

Short time, low budget

With the development team's production pressures, there is a painful paradox that many of these mobile development teams need to complete their work within tight budgets. This means that when you put elaborate segmented servers together to test the workload of their applications, or where broadband and usability are combined, the performance degradation is not always sufficient for mobile teams. So, as a smart project manager, in the face of tight budgets, how to complete all the necessary research on application integrity before the first big release, and not beyond the budget? They chose a low-cost option that, in today's era, means the more they are moving towards low-cost Paas,saas and IaaS products.

But of course, every enterprise development team is under pressure. And it seems that every IT budget has been cut or rationalized as an organization to deal with this century's first big recession. So why are mobile teams more likely to tend to cloud computing than those who are under a lot of pressure to deliver a full-featured, web-based application to their customers? The biggest difference is often governance.

Organizational Cloud governance

Mobile development is new, and the development team often delivers the first mobile application in the organization, working on the principle of fair trade with other development teams in the enterprise, almost like the CIA's "black people" department. As IT organizations work to reduce governance rules about how and when the cloud is used by enterprise applications, the mobile development team revolves around the discussion to make it clear that asking for forgiveness is better than getting permission. When the development team quietly uses cloud computing to deliver a finished product, and users like it, and the accounting department is not hesitant, the business organization does not have the proper use of cloud policy management, which inevitably finds itself on the list used by other companies.

Of course, when doing the same thing, it may not be entirely fair to compare the enthusiastic embrace of the cloud's mobile development team with an unwilling enterprise development team. After all, one compelling reason for the mobile team to embrace the cloud is that in fact they are working on a project that is starting from scratch, giving them a rule that explains which technologies they allow to use. On the contrary, it is against their mission to be responsible for enhancing the enterprise applications in the SOA capabilities that have been developed for more than 5-10 years. When a project is new, it is much easier to introduce cloud-based technology than an environment that is relatively stable and secure during a project.

But if you ignore this, then there is no doubt that mobile development and cloud-based technology are a complete combination and a natural pair. Considering that the mobile development team is going to produce an application in a short time, many cloud-based vendors offer this service-based hybrid approach to help reduce the time and money needed to test, host, and manage applications, and I will continue to see mobile applications and mobile developers more reliant on the services hosted in the cloud, Infrastructure and platforms.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)