Backbeam.io and other backend services

Talk given at NSSpain 2013

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1. Backbeam.io and other backend services NSSpain, September 2013 Alberto Gimeno @gimenete
2. This place is awesome ? Some great pub Even a simple app needs to share data including geolocated data, user generated content, user authentication, etc.
3. So you need to build an infrastructure behind your app.
4. You need to build a database, a web service,...
5. A control panel to be able to see and administrate the data of your service
6. You need to implement the users authentication mechanism: integrating with Facebook, Twitter, Google+, allowing to signup with email +password, implement password recovery, etc.
7. You will probably need to send mails and take care that they don’t fall in the spam folder
8. You will need to implement Push Notifications for iOS and Android, take care of devices no longer active, send notifications to many devices at once,...
9. You need to monitor the servers, scale, do backups, install server software upgrades,...
10. This place is awesome Some great pub And this is just a very simple app!
11. And your app evolves • Change the database schema • Update the control panel • Modify the web service • Deploy or fetch the changes • Then code the actual feature!
12. app == iceberg
13. What users see...
14. What they don’t see
15. What you love doing
16. The boring stuff
17. What gives value to your users
18. What bothers you
19. Alternatives?
20. Third party backend services • Focus on your app • Don’t waste time on infrastructure • Save time, save money • Evolve your app quickly • Enjoy a well tested backend
21. Existing services
22. Push notifications
23. Hosted databases
24. Email delivery
25. Limited services
26. Full-featured services
27. Backbeam.io features
28. Complex queries select news where title like 'Awesome' join last 5 comments having score > 10 fetch author sort by created_at BBQuery *query = [Backbeam queryForEntity:@"place"]; [query setQuery:@"join city sort by popularity"]; [query fetch:100 offset:0 success:^(NSArray *objects) { // do something with these objects } failure:^(NSError *error) { // something went wrong }];
29. Realtime • Send events • Subscribe • Websockets
30. Control panel for humans • Rich text editing • Edit and browse relationships • Geolocated data • Drag and drop files
31. Full featured web framework • Model-view-controller • URL routing with patterns • File uploads and downloads • Cookies, gzip, JSON support,...
32. DEMO
33. What’s next?
34. Code instrumentalization
35. Code versioning
36. Admin panels
37. In the long term • Data mining • Machine learning • Marketplace of project templates
38. http://backbeam.io @backbeamio ¡Gracias!