mobile apps
Latest Past Events
Android Apps The Right Way
N906 300 Jay St., Room N906, Brooklyn"Mobile is eating the world", but few developers realize that mobile software is written very differently from desktop software. This leads to lots of mobile apps that simply don't work well, suck up battery power, or can't recover from being put into the background. I'll discuss a few such apps on the Android platform, and explain how they should have been written to improve user experience, illustrating general mobile development principles by example.
Software at Scale
N119 300 Jay St., Room N119, BrooklynCan your app handle an appearance on the front page of TechCrunch? In this talk, we'll compare common design patterns and strategies for building software that can scale to millions of users and beyond, such as concurrency, caching, CDNs, compression, immutability, sharding, partial ordering, and read optimization. We'll discuss why the REST paradigm has become such a natural fit for building web and app backend services, as well as how to test your app for scalability so you can be confident that it will survive an unexpected spike in traffic.
