Building Always-Available Mobile

Applications

Wayne Carter | Architect, Couchbase

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Wayne CarterArchitect, Couchbase

@waynecarter

Why aren’t today’s apps always-available?

How to build always-available apps

Hear from Firefly Logic

Live Demo

Q&A

What are we going to talk about today?

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So why don’t today’s mobile apps always work?

The Question

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Today’s Mobile Apps

Try again

later.

No Internet

please wait…

How does this affect what people think about your app?

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Doesn’t work a lot of the time and when

it does it’s slow.

How does this affect application uninstall rates?

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0%

20%

40%

60%

80%

100%

Un

insta

ll R

ate

Freezing

Crashing

Slow Responsiveness

Source: uSamp

Data location is the problem.

The Problem

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Data Location Options & Effects

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Data

Location

Network

Requirement

Application

Availability

Application

Responsiveness

Enabling

Technology

Remote

Only

Always

Connected

Sometimes

AvailableVariable

REST Services

(JSON)

Local

Only

Never

Connected

Always

Available

Always

FastSQLite

Local

& Remote

Occasionally

Connected

Always

Available

Always

FastSync

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Data Location Options & Effects

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Data

Location

Network

Requirement

Application

Availability

Application

Responsiveness

Enabling

Technology

Remote

Only

Always

Connected

Sometimes

AvailableVariable

REST Services

(JSON)

Local

Only

Never

Connected

Always

Available

Always

FastSQLite

Local

& Remote

Occasionally

Connected

Always

Available

Always

FastSync

1 2 3 4 5

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The Solution: Local Data + Sync

Always work both online & offline

Always be blazing fast

Built with orders of magnitude less code

Users will absolutely love your apps

What does this mean for your apps?

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Couchbase Mobile

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Couchbase Lite

On-device, lightweight, native embedded JSON database

Sync Gateway

Securely synchronize on-device Couchbase Lite with Couchbase

Server in the cloud

Couchbase Server

High performance, scalable, always-on JSON database in

the cloud

Building the Conference Mobile App

Bryan Hunter | CTO, Firefly Logic

Couchbase Lite

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Couchbase Lite

Full Featured

JSON

Native

Lightweight

Secure

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Couchbase Lite for .NET

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Sync Gateway

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Sync Gateway

Replication

Authentication

Data Partitioning

Data Access Control

Couchbase Server

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Couchbase Server

JSON

Highly Scalable

High Performance

Always On

Demo

Zack Gramana | Senior Engineer, Couchbase

Q & A

@waynecarter @bryan_hunter @zgramana