Choosing Technology Stack for Your Startup

There are many development stacks, web frameworks and technologies out there, which all does different things. How can a startup pick the right technology stack that maximize their outputs and deliver their product on time, and iterate fast?

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1. Choosing Technology STACK for Your Startup By: Dr. Lau Cher Han
3. UCAN ACADEMY
4. Finding News Topics From Twitter MACHINE LEARNING BIG DATA ANALYSIS TEXT MINING
5. Birds and Koala Sensing using mobile device Microsoft e-Research Centre
6. Co-oprating.com
7. Start-up Founders vs Couples
8. COUPLES: Meet during social events
9. FOUNDERS: Meet during hackathon
10. COUPLES: Wants to be together 24 x 7
11. FOUNDERS: Have to be together 24 x 7
12. COUPLES: Quarrel over things
13. FOUNDERS: Quarrel over decisions
15. A start-up story (Based on true stories) The events, characters and startups depicted in this story, are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or to the actual start ups, is purely coincidental.
16. Wee Meng
17. Ali
25. App OR Web
26. APP WEB BOTH Mobile Messaging (Whatsapp, WeChat,LINE) Location based (Foursquare) Instagram Social Media (Facebook, Google+) Prezi PiktoChart
27. Native Apps PROS Smooth UI / UX Experience Marketing through Appstore Visibility (on the phone) CONS Expensive Appstore approval
28. Android 81% IOS 13%
29. Mobile Website PROS Less maintenance SEO Advantage CONS Limited UI / UX (e.g. Pen SDK)
31. EXAMPLE
32. HTML 5 Drag-n-Drop SVG Drawing CSS 3 Animation Media Queries JS Demo 1 Demo 2 DEMO
33. STATIC
34. 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 Category 1 Market Share of Server Side Languages PHP ASP.NET Java Coldfusion Perl Ruby Python Javascript Erlang Source: http://w3techs.com September 2014
38. PROS of PHP • Easy to implement • Long history • Community support • Open source (Free)
39. CONS of PHP • Easy to mess up • Hard to maintain without framework • Security (for beginners)
41. ASP.NET
42. Front End (UI) Code Behind (C#)
43. PROS of ASP.NET • Supports wide range of languages • Good separation of webforms and code behind. • LINQ
44. Language Integrated Query (LINQ) var customers = Customers.Where(p=>p.Location == “Kuala Lumpur” Works with Lists, Arrays, Objects, XML mapped directly to SQL database var products = Products.Where(p=>p.Price > 30)
45. CONS of ASP.NET • Free technology, but not the IDE • Resource intensive • Lack of tools for certain tasks e.g. DB Migration
48. http://tryruby.org
49. PROS of RAILS • Dynamic and more concise language syntax • Very good Object Relational Mapping (ORM) • Good for quickly hacking prototype
50. CONS of RAILS • Some say it’s hard to scale. • No default IDE (command-line might be scary for beginners) • Less hosting options
51. http://www.slideshare.net/jduff/how-shopify- scales-rails-20443485
52. Data
54. Structured Query Language (SQL) • Designed for Relational Database • SELECT * FROM Customers • SELECT * FROM Sales, Customers WHERE Customers. CITY = ‘Kuala Lumpur’ • Good for retrieving row-based data
55. NoSQL •Not Only SQL •FOUR primary types: •COLUMN •KEY-VALUE •DOCUMENT •GRAPH
56. Column Based Database
57. Document Database
58. Graph-based Database
59. Key Value Database
61. START TODO LIST RENDER TABLE
64. • No upfront investment • Scalability (On demand instance) • Availability (Backup, Restore) • Cost Effective (Pay for what you use)
66. Amazon EC2 • Free 750 hours per month on micro instance (for 1 year) • Low cost for Linux instances (as low as $0.013 / hour)
68. Windows Azure • Not just a Microsoft platform (supports .NET, Java to Node.js, Hadoop) • Startups get $150 / month usage (free) from Bizspark.
69. There is no BEST TECHNOLOGY Which one is the fastest, Free style, breast stroke, butterfly?
70. Start with what you are FAMILIAR Twitter, Facebook, Google does it, so you should, too.
71. SUSTAIN before SUCCESS
72. http://www.cherhan.net laucherhan@gmail.com 019 – 752 8388