API Tier for the new Front-edge

Shubhra Kar Apr 2014

Agenda

Why are we hereStrongLoop OverviewNode.js and DevOps training scheduleNode.js certification (SCND)Little bit about our training partner – OlinDataTraining kick-off

“If you’re not fast, you’re dead” - Jack Welch

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Mobile is the new interface

One billion consumers will have smartphones by 2016. US consumers alone will own 257 million smartphones and 126 million tablets.

In 2016, 350 million employees will use smartphones — 200 million will bring their own (BYOD). Employees pay for more than half of the devices and data plans used for work.

Mobile spend will reach $1.3 trillion (35% of tech spend) as the mobile apps market reaches $55 billion in 2016. Tablet and smartphone apps, at average price of $2.43, will grow explosively to $56 billion in 2015.

Business spending on mobile projects will grow 100% by 2015. Most major businesses now have a tablet strategy for sales reps. IT professionals will respond to the onslaught by diverting IT budgets to mobile technology.

Mobile commerce is expected to reach $31 billion by 2016, 7% of overall eCommerce, representing a compounded annual growth rate of 39% from 2011 to 2016.

Mobility is (obviously) a big deal . . .

(source Forester Research)

What else is related to this trend ?Mobile App Strategy

Big Data & Embedded (M2M)

10%

60%

30%

Enterprise Mobile

NativeHybridMobile Web

40%

40%

20%

Consumer Mobile

NativeHybridMobile Web

Full Stack JavaScript

Today’s enterprise reality

RMI Objects

MessagingService

BI Tools

Business Rules

FileSystem

ESB

WebInterfac

e

ContentDatabase

DataWarehouse

FinancialsMainframe

Web/WAP

Interface

EJB

VirtualServic

e

Routing

Service

SOAP

CRM App

Products

Collaboration

AppPortal

HelpEngine

BPMSLegacy

Infrastructure

Internal

External CloudPartners

# of Interconnected Components

# of Inter-dependent Teams

# of Heterogeneous Technologies Rate of Change

So how ready are we for the new UX ?

Everyone understands the problem! No one has an answer, until now!

Well, it appears to me that the

problem is on your end.

And thus was born the most revered

phrase in tech support.

What needs to be built ?Front Edge

Thousands to Millions of devices connecting to business APIscreating the new user experience

APIs for each device, each app, each screen. Optimized for bandwidth & battery, adjusting to each device’s capabilities

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Highly concurrent

Scriptable (the teams already know JavaScript)

Giant ecosystem of reuseable components (just like in the browser)

Keeps device-specific APIs from polluting core SOA

Node.js is the perfect match

Vast open-source community (70 K re-usable modules)Reduce development time by 50% or moreReuse existing UX toolsLow latency - MobileEvent-driven and fast by design: 50x fasterNon blocking, high throughput: helps scale 20x

Why do 3 million developers download every release of Node.js

Some performance stats

Hardware UtilizationBenchmarking

Performance Outcomes : counting “faster” endpoints per application

Some users of Node in mainstream enterpriseTransportation Gaming Chat & Social

Analytics & Big Data

Multi-media

Advertising Financial

Wearable & Embedded/Sensor Retail & Consumer

Tech & Cloud

Exposing enterprise

data to these chatty, highly concurrent, mobile and web apps in form of an

easily consumable

API helps create “Rich Apps”, useful for genuine

business needs.

StrongLoop Stack

Evolution of application development & service models

AppServerDC

AppServer IaaS

PaaSmBaaS

API Server

Speed of DevelopmentCost, Control, Data

1st Generation mBaaS - Parse, StackMob, Kinvey, Apigee, etc

mobile/web clients

social & analytics

JSON APIREST API

APIXMLSQL

SOAPEtc.

mBaaS

API tier(Java, Ruby, PHP, C#)

MongoDB, mySQL

tunnels

Enterprise

LoopBack: Industry’s 1st Open source (Node.js) API Server

Enterprise – On Premises / Private

It’s fast and steady ! : 0-60 in a mature sprint

curated modules, support, access to Core teamprivate registry, audit, whitelisting, certification

API Tier

Tools &

platform

Marquee FeaturesMobile SDKs Pre-Built Mobile Services ORM – no SQL

Enterprise ConnectorsAuto API Engine API Security & Mgmt.

Sample backend services creation in loopback

How it works – Create or consume multiple data sources

How it works – Data discovery & relationship modeling

How it works – JSON API generation

How it works – API security configuration

Automatic Data modeling and REST API publishing

Mobile SDKs (iOS SDK) for remotable integration

Realizing a full-stack JavaScript solutionProject

UX Design

Develop

Mobile App Test / Emulation

Create ScaffoldingDefine base CSS Define componentsUse JS widgets

Create Scaffolding Define ModelsDefine ControllersDefine Views

Compile and Build

Define Filters

UserDeviceFileGeoLocationNotification

Define DirectivesConfigure Routes

Model the DataGenerate REST API

Connect to Data-sources (Oracle, SOAP, Mongo)

Setup Services

Debug

Generate Deployable App

Monitor frontend performanceOptimize (Log Analytics & scale)

Profile client-side

Configure API Security

Mobile App Mgmt.

Create UI & styling Arch. & binding Access Native Integrate Existing Data and Services

mBaaS Test / Emulation

Profile server-side

Deploy to local/PaaSMonitor backends performance

Optimize (Usage Analytics, Crash Reporting )

BLE

Node.js challenges for EnterpriseLack of best practicesNo enterprise versionWeak tool chains & monitoringMissing production-class features:– Auto-scaling– Certified run-time– Event/error management– Root cause tools

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StrongLoop Backs Node

Wrote most of the features & fixes in v0.10 and 0.12– Including over 60% of the C/C++ code

Implemented custom work for clients in core5 active core authors – Joyent has 1Maintain 50+ modules (e.g. libuv, debugger, profiler & Oracle DB driver)

StrongLoop Node Platform

① Multi-platform (Windows, Unix, Solaris, Mac) support② On-premises, private or public cloud support③ Certified Node.js curated modules and ecosystem④ Commercial Enterprise supported, security updates⑤ Configurable and extendable⑥ Most popular node modules, curated modules, private

NPM⑦ Access to Node.js Core team⑧ SLAs and Premium support hotline

Node.js support (Sample modules set)

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Node.js Core

strong-module-loader

strong-cluster-connect-

store

strong-cluster-control

SL-Config

Loopback Strong-mq

strong-task-emitter Engine.io Mongoose

Strong-agent

strong-cluster-

socket.io-store

strong-config-loader

Request

Node-heapdump

Asynch

node-inspector

Passport

Strong-remoting

Q

EJS

Express

Connect

Socket.IO

Reggie Postgres Connector

Oracle Connector

SQL ServerConnector

MongoDBConnector

REST Connector

In-Memory connector

LIBUV

V8 Profiler

DevOps Tools - Private Registry

Strong Registry

npm client

npm client

public npmjs

registry

Other upstream registries

metadata packag

es

indexes

• white/black list• audit

• security• cache

Pluggable Stores

① Private & multi-registry② On-premises, private or

public cloud support③ Module Whitelisting④ Audit⑤ Configuration Mgmt.⑥ CI and Build Mgmt.

DevOps Tools – Debugging and Profiling

DevOps Tools - Error Detection

DevOps Tools – Runtime Mgmt. & Dynamic Scaling

DevOps Tools - Memory Profiling and Leak Detection

DevOps Tools - Memory Leak Analysis

DevOps Tools - CPU profiling and hot spot detection

DevOps Tools - Transaction and end-point tracing

DevOps Tools - Performance Monitoring

DevOps Tools - Performance Monitoring

DevOps Tools - Alerts

DevOps Tools - Open Data API

What’s next ?Visit the StrongLoop website to learn more about Node and mobile

http://strongloop.com

Open Source API tier (Loopback) http://strongloop.com/mobile-application-development/loopback/

DevOps (StrongOps) http://strongloop.com/node-js-performance/strongops/

Install StrongLoop in a few simple steps to get started http://strongloop.com/get-started/