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APIS & MBAAS: HOW TO EXTEND YOUR ARCHITECTURE FOR A MOBILE WORLD
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Coleridge's Ancient Mariner, dying of thirst on the open ocean,
famously cries, "Water, water everywhere / Nor any drop to drink."
Replace "water" with "data" and you have the cry of today's mobile
apps. Our world may be swimming in data, but little of it is optimized
for mobile consumption.
Why? Simply put, the standards for middleware and backend data
access that defined the web era don't work for mobile. The mobile
world brings different types and sources of data, different formats
and payload sizes, different transaction volumes and usage profiles,
and the end of connection persistence.
"Mobile," as Forrester Research observes, "is pushing aging web
architectures to the brink."
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The good news is that with the right architectural tier, one that delivers
mobile-optimized APIs, an enterprise is positioned to make terrific
innovation leaps—and at a pace their competitors can only envy.
APIs & MBaaS: How to Extend
Your Architecture for a Mobile World
1 Facemire, Michael, Ted Schadler, and John C. McCarthy. Mobile Needs A Four-Tier
Engagement Platform: Web Architectures Can't Handle the New Demands of Engagement.
Forrester Research. Web. 21 Nov. 2013.
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