Forrester on The Evolution of App Dev & Architecture. Mobile. IoT. UX.

Forrester on The Evolution of App Dev & Architecture. Mobile. IoT. UX.

›  Jim Sinai, Senior Director Product Marketing, Salesforce

›  Michael Facemire, Principal Analyst, Forrester

Forrester on The Evolution of App Dev & Architecture. Mobile. IoT. UX. Michael Facemire, Principal Analyst

Sept. 17, 2015

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Modern Challenges Demand A Modern Architecture


Experience Drives Mobile Success

User Interface

Performance


Software — approaching a zero-day event!

Tomorrow Yesterday

Del

iver

y tim

e

12-18 months

2-4 months

Zero Day


The Challenge Is Daunting

CRM

HR

CMS

Directory

Directory


How Do We Get There?


Move From This…

UI Presentation Layer HTML/JavaScript/CSS

UI Generation Layer Java/.Net

Business Logic Java/.Net


To This!

UI Presentation Layer HTML/JavaScript/CSS

UI Generation Layer JavaScript

Business Logic Java/.Net


Services

Aggregation

Delivery Content Delivery Networks

Backend-as-a-Service

Enterprise Service Bus

API Management

Mobile Middleware

Microservices 3rd Party Services

Responsive Frameworks

Four-tier Engagement Architecture

Client JavaScript Libraries Native SDKs X-Platform

Framework

Elastic Performance & Rapid Development

Deliver Granular & Rapid Content

Support Every Front-end Channel

Maintain Velocity & Modularity


Black Friday, 2014

“A concentrated spike in mobile traffic triggered issues that led us to shut down BestBuy.com in order to take proactive measures to restore full

performance.”


Black Friday, 2014


NGINX

Node.JS

Microservice 2 Microservice 1

Line of Business Service 1

Line of Business Service 2 Line of

Business Service 3

Enterprise Service Bus 3rd Party Service 1

3rd Party Service 3

3rd Party Service 2

Web Service 1

Web Service 2

Web Service 3

Web Mobile B2B


Node Devs Drive Success


Open Source Stack React Ionic Angular Cordova

Varnish

NodeJS React

Redis

MySQL CouchDB Mongo

Hbase

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Define/refine objectives.

Establish KPIs.

Minimum viable product

Quantify feedback.

Align feedback with KPIs.

. . . to a feedback-driven life cycle.


Invest in modern skills.


React & React Native Development Libaries

Flux Architecture


Do These 3-5 Things › Now: Invest in JavaScript skills.

› Next 12 months: Understand the upcoming shifts in application architectures so that all new services can be built to perform in these models. Amazing user experiences depend on this!

› 1 year +: Build applications to perform (1/2 of great user experience) at Connected World scale.

“The future is already here, it’s just not very evenly distributed.”

-- William Gibson

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Thank you

Michael Facemire +1 617.613.6675 [email protected] @ASocialFace

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