Paas/saas and IaaS Accelerate mobile development

In the fast-paced world of mobile application development, it is very stressful to get the next major software out there quickly. The fact that the problem is exacerbated by short deadlines and high voltage deadlines is that business organizations are truly committed to providing the best user experience for their mobile customers, carrying four to five different mobile platform development and application deployments, Ios,rim, Android,windows phone or Mamaeo. So what is the development team doing to deal with the frantic pressures of the mobile application development market?

A new method of mobile development?

Best practices are never outdated. After all, development is development, so it is easy to take a lean or agile approach that has proven to be effective in the enterprise development world. The fragmentation of the mobile space means occasional distortions, and how a lean development approach gets the end-to-end implementation (a real-time case is, ThoughtWorks's Giles Alexander recommended "Y"-shaped method), But finally in the business community has practiced and honed the agile practice equally applies to those handheld device development.

But when the pressure really comes, it's often inadequate to do things the way they always do, which is why so many mobile players are looking for new technologies and ways to save time and money for them. That's why so many mobile developers and mobile solution architects expect the cloud to help them develop, deploy, and publish apps faster than ever before on the market.

"Just like my conversation with the CTO, especially with the newly created company, this is a simple matter," said virtualization Practice, an analyst at the virtualization Practice Company and an expert in agile cloud development, Ryan Shriver. "They're looking at things like this because they tell me, ' I can start writing commercial application code faster without having to deal with all the infrastructure and plumbing. "Of course, the sooner developers write their own code, the quicker it will be to complete the project into the mobile app store."

PAAs roles and mobile markets

The platform as a service (PAAs) role has become particularly attractive to many start-up mobile companies because of the significantly reduced time spent on installation and configuration because, by definition, PaaS services will handle these types of activities for you. "A PAAs role will handle all of your software deployments without you really worrying about the underlying infrastructure," Shriver said. Comparing an infrastructure that is a service (IaaS), such as Amazon's EC2, the client has almost completely occupied the operating system, and must do more work.

Full control of an IaaS role is excellent, but it also means more time spent doing things like installation, configuration and optimization, which is why many mobile teams tend to be PAAs solutions. Using the PAAs role, "You don't have to worry about the operating system, the configuration or the tools are set correctly." All of these things are magically done for you, "Shriver said. "Developers tend to love that. ”

Cloud computing is not just about providing virtualized hardware, it provides a reliable target for deployment and operation. Many mobile applications can also take advantage of cloud-based Web analytics tools in real time. The Cloud-based integrated Development Environment (IDE) is being used to develop applications before the team begins to think about deployment destinations. Load tests, problem tracking, payment gateways, and source control solutions all become standard issues that are being addressed by PAAs roles and SaaS solutions.

Corporate Culture and cloud computing

However, not every player in the mobile game is as eager to choose a Paas,saas or IaaS role as the venture-capital start-up Shriver mentioned earlier. Large organizations are often reluctant to accelerate the delivery of mobile applications by leveraging cloud-based services. "Cloud-based technologies may be suitable for mobile development, but how they can use it freely when they return to the enterprise," Shriver said. Of course, the fact that large organizations are reluctant to take advantage of cloud-based technology is gradually changing. Larger companies are increasingly eager to emulate fast-moving start-ups with speed and success rates, and also in doing so, they are starting to take governance patterns that are less restrictive and more flexible within the organization, making it most meaningful to use cloud-based technologies to reduce development time and reduce costs.

The bottom line is that the success of the mobile market can be driven as much by the first group of people as possible, and they are largely driven by the quality of the delivered applications, as well as minimizing the time to market. With so many available cloud-based offerings, it helps to accelerate everything from development to deployment to runtime operations, and that's why today's people in the market are so focused on mobile development on a variety of Paas,saas and IaaS products. (Translator: Zhang Xuanbin)

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)