Mobile Apps & APIs: Best Friends Forever (Basic)

Mobile apps are powered by APIs, and the trend for building the backend is towards small, fast moving microservices. These granular backends aren’t always well suited to integration with mobile apps. Companies like REA, SoundCloud and Thoughtworks have been experimenting with patterns for developing Backends For Frontends (BFFs) to allow greater flexibility on both the client and the server. Stewart will talk about some of the concerns when building mobile apps and APIs and how the BFF pattern tries to address these.

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1. Mobile Apps & APIs: Best Friends Forever Stewart Gleadow @stewgleadow stew@bilue.com.au stewgleadow.com/talks
2. 2010 2016 2012
3. 2010 2016 microservices 2012
6. API
7. microservices!
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14. BACKEND FOR FRONTEND
15. BFF BFF
16. CREATORS LISTENERS
17. BFF ?
18. BFF ? caching
19. BFF ? caching single-point of failure
20. BFF ? caching single-point of failure duplication
21. BFF ? caching single-point of failure duplication
22. BFF API
23. BFF API GraphQL Falcor
24. BFF API GraphQL Falcor Apigee Mulesoft
25. Mobile Apps & APIs: Best Friends Forever Stewart Gleadow @stewgleadow stew@bilue.com.au
26. REFERENCES • Sam Newman, Pattern: Backends For Frontends: http://samnewman.io/patterns/architectural/bff/ • Stewart Gleadow, Legacy To Mobile First, https://speakerdeck.com/sgleadow/legacy-to-mobile-first • Software Engineering Daily interview with Lukasz Plotnicki, Moving To Microservices At SoundCloud: http://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2016/02/04/moving-to-microservices-at- soundcloud-with-lukasz-plotnicki/ • Stewart Gleadow, Cameron Barrie, James Brett, Evolving Mobile Architectures @ Mi9: http://www.slideshare.net/sgleadow/evolving-mobilearchitectures • Lucasz Plotnicki, BFF @ SoundCloud: https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/blog/bff-soundcloud • Jan Stenberg, A Pattern For API Backends Serving Frontends: http://www.infoq.com/news/2015/12/bff-backend-frontend-pattern • Stewart Gleadow, The Next Killer App Is Not An App: https://www.thoughtworks.com/p2magazine/issue02/mobile/ • Martin Fowler, Microservices: http://martinfowler.com/articles/microservices.html • Sam Newman, Demistifying Conways Law: http://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/blog/demystifying-conways-law • Michael Feathers, Microservices Until Macro Complexity: https://michaelfeathers.silvrback.com/microservices-until-macro-complexity • Anthony Green, What Is A Microservice And Why Does It Matter: http://www.brunton-spall.co.uk/post/2014/05/21/what-is-a-microservice-and-why-does-it-matter • Richard Clayton, Failing At Microservices: https://rclayton.silvrback.com/failing-at-microservices • Fred George, Microservices Architecture: http://yow.eventer.com/yow-2012-1012/micro-services-architecture-by-fred-george-1286 • Todd Hoff, Microservices Not A Free Lunch: http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/4/8/microservices-not-a-free-lunch.html • Martin Fowler, Strangler Application: http://martinfowler.com/bliki/StranglerApplication.html • Stewart Gleadow, No App Is An Island: https://speakerdeck.com/sgleadow/no-app-is-an-island • Sam Newman, Practical Microservices: http://www.slideshare.net/spnewman/practical-microservices-yow-2013