Hi,
I'm currently looking into two things:
- push notifications that can be scheduled on the server (job workers). Could be used by users to remember to: get a train on a certain time, appointments etc.;
- optimized mobile backend stacks (LAMP) with DB, API, sample code for social network aggregation, oAuth etc.
In the end when you publish your application and people like it you will hit a wall because of scalability. If your app. needs backend features (which app. doesn't) every developer will try to do the same trick over and over again: streamline code, look into caching, use external services etc.
I think solutions like Parse are great but I want to stick to my LAMP stack but with scalability included. My experience is that most of the hosters suck. I used around 20 hosters in my life (Dedicated, VPS or shared) and some are fine at serving Wordpress sites but none are very good at custom stuff.
Backends for mobile is a new challenge and not all of us are experts in managing Linux servers (i'm not) so we need a hoster that is great at stuff with the following keywords:
- MySQL;
- CURL;
- Caching;
- Performance tuning;
- Running or connecting to external API's;
- Load balancing.
For me phpfog comes near but is just a little too nerdy because you need to use commandline tools etc.
Any other thoughts?
Cheers,
I'm currently looking into two things:
- push notifications that can be scheduled on the server (job workers). Could be used by users to remember to: get a train on a certain time, appointments etc.;
- optimized mobile backend stacks (LAMP) with DB, API, sample code for social network aggregation, oAuth etc.
In the end when you publish your application and people like it you will hit a wall because of scalability. If your app. needs backend features (which app. doesn't) every developer will try to do the same trick over and over again: streamline code, look into caching, use external services etc.
I think solutions like Parse are great but I want to stick to my LAMP stack but with scalability included. My experience is that most of the hosters suck. I used around 20 hosters in my life (Dedicated, VPS or shared) and some are fine at serving Wordpress sites but none are very good at custom stuff.
Backends for mobile is a new challenge and not all of us are experts in managing Linux servers (i'm not) so we need a hoster that is great at stuff with the following keywords:
- MySQL;
- CURL;
- Caching;
- Performance tuning;
- Running or connecting to external API's;
- Load balancing.
For me phpfog comes near but is just a little too nerdy because you need to use commandline tools etc.
Any other thoughts?
Cheers,
