Progressive Web Apps - Covering the best of both worlds

Lightswitch is a new tool from Microsoft that is part of the Visual Studio family. It uses a Russian doll model structure with a backend SQL or Azure database in the middle tier connected to a Silverlight front end through WCF RIA services. Lightswitch handles complexity through proven multi-tiered design patterns so developers can focus on business logic. It utilizes the latest technologies like Silverlight and WCF RIA services while still providing programmers flexibility through extensibility and custom controls.

This document provides an overview of single page applications (SPAs) including: - An introduction to SPAs and their goals of providing a more responsive user experience similar to desktop applications. - Key characteristics of SPAs like more responsive UIs, ability to work offline, and less data traffic. - A brief history noting the coining of the term "single page application" in 2005 and early examples from 2002-2003. - Common techniques in SPAs like DOM manipulation, managing application state and data, and module composition. - Challenges in SPAs like managing the browser back button and integration with analytics. - Specific libraries and frameworks mentioned that can be used to implement features in SPAs.

This document discusses mobile backend as a service (MBaaS) which provides developers with services to link mobile apps to backend cloud storage while handling common functionality like user authentication and notifications. MBaaS reduces development time and complexity by allowing developers to focus on core features instead of low-level tasks. Some key components of MBaaS include cloud storage, user management, analytics, and specialized integration with enterprise software.

My talk for TechDays Finland 2018: Recent improvements in client-side technologies allow for new hosting possibilities that do not require as much from the server. For example, static web hosting is an approach where files are delivered directly to the client, without needing to write or deploy backend logic. And while the frontend has been in a churn, the cloud has had some really interesting improvements as well with services like Azure Functions. In this session I will show you how to build, deploy, secure, and monitor a serverless web application from scratch.

This presentation contains details about single page application and why they important than traditional systems.

CakePHP is an open source web application framework written in PHP. It has features that make prototype building faster such as code generation and scaffolding. It also has built-in features like translation, database access, caching, validation, and authentication. CakePHP's MVC structure and friendly licensing make it suitable for both personal and commercial use. It also keeps applications secure through features like input validation, XSS and CSRF prevention, and protection against SQL injection and form tampering.

This document provides an overview of full stack web development and the technologies involved. It discusses Coursera, an online course platform, and defines full stack development as building both front-end and back-end portions of a web application. It then covers the basics of front-end development using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and back-end development using the Django web framework in Python. Key concepts in each technology like models, views, templates are explained. Examples of code for each are also provided.

Webinar - Building Real-Time Collaborative Web Applications The digital revolution has brought in a change in the way we communicate and collaborate. Research shows that number of mobile workers will reach up to 1.3 billion by 2015. The pace of information flow has been astounding. These factors have fuelled the pressing demand among customers, businesses, for real time web applications. Real-time web applications have been around for many years. But today, the users expect collaborative, personalized and an amazingly interactive experience using real time web technologies. Key Takeaways: Key technology enablers for real-time collaboration Supporting open source technologies such as Node.js, WebSocket and HTML5 Enriching user experience with real-time collaboration Demonstration of a sample real-time collaborative web application Performance benchmarks

WOLF Frameworks has introduced a path breaking platform which allows business analyst, domain experts to design & deliver all sorts of business applications over the internet without writing a single line of technical code (no scripts).

This talk was presented at VodQA Gurgaon 3rd edition (11 July 2013) Talk Abstract: In midst of testing functional aspect of your mobile apps, performance testing is often ignored or takes a back seat. With the strict quality checks on app stores and other platforms, it becomes all the more essentials for your app to meet performance criteria. We would be focusing on understanding these criteria in detail, their impact and ways to tackle them. Speakers: Rupesh Dubey: Rupesh has 5+ years of experience in Test Automation and Manual testing and have been with ThoughtWorks for more than 3 years. He has worked in various domains including HealthCare and Business Consulting. Priyank Dhillon: He has around 8 years of experience as QA. He has worked on domains such as Telecom, Video and E-commerce and has been involved in different aspects of testing such as Security, White box, Performance. He has worked in software automation testing using wide range of automation tools, doing manual testing and in requirement analysis.

This document discusses progressive web apps (PWAs). It defines key attributes of PWAs such as being discoverable, linkable, responsive, and installable. The document notes that while PWAs were initially dismissed, they are now widely seen as the future for building web apps. Examples of large companies using PWAs successfully are provided. The document also references app shells, universal JavaScript, service workers, offline caching, and performance optimization as important techniques for developing high-quality PWAs.

The document discusses using HTML hypermedia APIs and adaptive web design together. It advocates for building APIs that use HTML and hypermedia constraints so the API and web interfaces can share code and templates. This allows optimizing interfaces for both web and API perspectives. The document provides examples of building HTML hypermedia APIs and using them with adaptive web design that responds to different devices and browsers.

This document discusses modern web applications using progressive web apps (PWA) and WebAssembly (WASM). It begins by defining a web application and describing challenges like performance issues. It then introduces PWAs and WASM as solutions, explaining what they are, how they work, and providing examples. The document shares links to starter kits and success stories to help readers get started with building modern web apps using these technologies.

In this session, Dwight will talk about how you can automate your BizTalk Installations and Deployments using Chef.

Progressive web applications should be one of the pillars web design. PWAs offer better accessibility, offline functionality, push notifications, and faster operating speeds that native apps or traditional websites.

- Web Forms allow for rapid development but can result in bloated HTML and poor separation of concerns - The Web Forms page lifecycle can be complex and difficult to work with for complex pages - ASP.NET MVC provides cleaner separation of concerns, testability, and stateless RESTful URLs at the cost of less RAD development - MVC follows a Model-View-Controller pattern where the Controller coordinates the Model and View - Popular sites like StackOverflow use MVC principles for its benefits around scalability and maintenance

Un breve viaje por la concepción del Desarrollo de Aplicaciones Web desde el clásico patrón de Aplicaciones Web de Servidor con renderización en servidor e interactividad limitada en cliente a la reciente era de las Single Page Applications con renderización en cliente, foco en la interactividad y desacoplamiento del backend hasta llegar a los actuales patrones híbridos de renderización en cliente y servidor en busca de la mejor performance, la mejor experiencia de usuario y el mejor SEO.

SOA is a manufacturing model which deals with designing and building software by applying the service oriented computing principles to software solutions, while SaaS is a model for sales and distribution of software applications.

In this document, cloud computing concepts and service models including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS) are introduced. Effective use of cloud computing in primary schools is also discussed. Specifically, adopting cloud computing can help schools reduce IT costs, improve resource utilization, easily update software, and provide students and teachers secure access to applications and data from any device. Case studies of schools in Hong Kong that have implemented virtual desktop infrastructure and cloud solutions are presented.

Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction. Key characteristics of cloud computing include on-demand self-service, broad network access, resource pooling, rapid elasticity, and measured service. Common uses of cloud computing involve hosting applications and services through major cloud platforms like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.

This document introduces Aerobatic, a UX delivery platform that allows for nimble web applications. It emphasizes that nimbleness, or the ability to rapidly respond to changing conditions, is important for maintaining competitiveness. Aerobatic aims to provide nimbleness at the point of customer interaction by streamlining tools and processes to reduce workflow friction. It achieves this through acting as a browser-resident UX layer that decouples the presentation tier from the backend, allowing for independent release cycles and improved testing capabilities. Aerobatic handles asset delivery, provides development tools, and allows pushing changes to production with traffic routing for A/B testing.

This document provides an overview of cloud computing, including definitions of key cloud concepts like Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). It discusses characteristics of cloud computing like on-demand access to shared computing resources and pay-per-use models. Examples are given of opportunities like lower costs and challenges like dependence on internet connectivity. Statistics are presented on the growing cloud services market size and adoption of cloud models.

Cloud computing is an umbrella term for internet-based computing resources that provide shared processing, data storage, software, and other services. It allows users to access applications and data from anywhere via simple web services. Key advantages include lower costs, improved performance, universal access to documents, easier collaboration, and unlimited storage. However, it requires a constant internet connection and features may be limited compared to desktop software. Data security and loss of access are also potential disadvantages.

Cloud computing is an on-demand service model that provides scalable and flexible IT resources over the Internet. Key attributes of cloud computing include pooled computing resources through virtualization, elastic scaling, flexible pricing where users pay only for resources used, and resources provided as a service. Cloud services are broadly divided into Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS). IaaS provides basic storage and computing resources, PaaS provides software development tools and runtimes, and SaaS provides complete applications to end users over the Internet.

Now that you have earmarked workloads for migration, it's time to look at the various tools and methodologies that are available to help customers shift applications to AWS. This session highlights some of the key AWS tools, services and approaches that organisations are using to successfully migrate to the cloud. AWS Speaker: Sven Hansen, Solution Architect - Amazon Web Services Customer Speaker: Pieter Breed – Core Platform Engineer Zoona

Cloud computing provides on-demand access to shared computing resources like networks, servers, storage, applications and services over the internet. It aims to address growing IT needs like increasing server capacity, reducing costs through pay-per-use models, and integrating external web applications. Cloud computing exhibits characteristics of utility computing, virtualization, and elastic scalability. The key service models are Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Cloud deployment models include private, public, community and hybrid clouds.

The document discusses challenges facing today's enterprises including cutting costs, driving value with tight budgets, maintaining security while increasing access, and finding the right transformative capabilities. It then discusses challenges in building applications such as scaling, availability, and costs. The document introduces the Windows Azure platform as a solution, highlighting its fundamentals of scale, automation, high availability, and multi-tenancy. It provides considerations for using cloud computing on or off premises and discusses ownership models.

Continuous Availability and Scalability with ScaleBase Lite and ScaleBase Abstract: Business are driven by data and processes. Ensuring databases availability during unexpected outages, continuous operations during maintenance and webscale scalability – are keys for major positive impact on businesses. ScaleBase and ScaleBase Lite distributed database management systems ensure business continuity during unexpected and expected outages with automated failover and failback capabilities, enabling five-nines of availability (99.999%). Additional functionalities, such as load balancing and data distribution further increase performance and throughput capacity for more users and more data management. This webinar will review and discuss: 1. The lifecycle and the challenges of webscale databases 2. Availability challenges in public, private and hybrid clouds 3. Introduction to ScaleBase Lite – instant and transparent MySQL Scale-out by intelligent load balancing (read/write splitting) and continuous availability 4. Scale further with ScaleBase – Massive scale out to distributed database containing 10s and 100s of servers (Webinar Dec 17 2014)

Jelastic provides a turnkey Private, Public and Hybrid cloud platform that brings together unlimited PaaS ease of use and container-based IaaS flexibility.

The document discusses the commercial aspects of cloud computing. It describes how traditional systems involved high costs for hardware and underutilized capacity. Cloud computing provides software, platforms and infrastructure as on-demand services with scalability, reduced costs and increased reliability. Some examples given include Salesforce.com, ClickDesk and Amazon EC2. The document outlines advantages of cloud for situations with variable traffic loads and discusses barriers to cloud adoption like data security, legacy applications and internet connectivity requirements.

This document provides an overview of KEMP LoadMaster and its integration with VMware technologies. It discusses: - KEMP LoadMaster's delivery methods including hardware, virtual, cloud, and bare metal appliances. - Licensing and support for VMware products like vSphere, vCloud Air, Horizon, vCenter Log Insight, and NSX. - How the KEMP vRealize Orchestrator plug-in automates deployment tasks and enables dynamic scaling. - Example dashboards that provide visibility into LoadMaster and application metrics through integration with vCenter Operations Manager. - The architecture and benefits of integrating LoadMaster with VMware NSX for advanced load balancing and security capabilities in a

Liam Eagle, analyst at 451 Research Group covering the Internet infrastructure business, joins Flexiant Founder and Product Champion, Tony Lucas in a presentation that explored the strengths and benefits of moving from VPS to an IaaS platform.

Cloud computing is a general term for internet-based computing where shared servers provide resources, software, and data to computers and other devices on demand. It provides scalable and elastic resources, accessible from anywhere on the internet. Key characteristics include on-demand self-service, broad network access, resource pooling, rapid elasticity, and measured service. Cloud services can be software, platforms, or infrastructure delivered as a service via private, public or hybrid clouds.

For enterprises trying to stay ahead of the game, having a robust and fast application development program can make or break their market presence. The challenge for developers, however, is to build responsive, devise-agnostic applications in days, not months.

A use-case-driven introduction to the most common design patterns for modernizing monolithic legacy applications to microservices using Apache Kafka, Debezium, and Kubernetes.

Cloud computing comes into focus only when you think about what IT always needs: a way to increase capacity or add capabilities on the fly without investing in new infrastructure, training new personnel, or licensing new software. Cloud computing encompasses any subscription-based or pay-per-use service that, in real time over the Internet, extends IT's existing capabilities.

You’re building the next killer mobile app. How do you ensure that your app is both stable and capable of near-instant data updates? Build a backend! But there’s more to building a backend than standing up a SQL server in your datacenter and calling it a day. Since different types of apps demand different backend services, how do you know what sort of backend you need? And, more importantly, how can you ensure that your backend will scale so you can survive an explosion of users that comes from events like being featured in the app store? Siva Katir and Melissa Benua will discuss the common scenarios facing mobile app developers who are looking to expand beyond just the device and will share best practices learned while building the PlayFab and other companies’ backends. Join Siva and Melissa to learn how you can ensure that your app can scale safely and affordably into the millions of concurrent users (CCU) and across multiple platforms.

We are obsessed with coding and creating automated workflows and optimisations. And yet our final products aren't making it easy for people to use them. Somewhere, we lost empathy for our end users and other developers. Maybe it is time to change that. Here are some ideas.

This document discusses ways to improve how web developers learn best practices through browser and tooling improvements. It suggests that linting and inline insights directly in code editors could help prevent mistakes by flagging issues early. A tool called webhint is highlighted that provides one-stop checking and explanations of hints related to performance, accessibility, security and more. The document advocates for customizing hints based on a project's specific needs and environment. Overall, it argues for accelerated learning through context-sensitive, customizable best practices integrated into development workflows.

This document discusses privilege in the context of social media and the internet. It acknowledges privileges like internet access, the ability to communicate, and supportive online communities. It warns that machine learning and algorithms risk creating echo chambers and guided messaging if they are not kept in check by human curation. The document advocates taking back the web for decent, thinking and loving humans and using privileges to help others gain access to learning, communication, and communities.

JavaScript is a bigger world than a language these days. Time to take stock and find happiness in that world.

This document discusses artificial intelligence and how it can help humans. It covers that AI is not new, having originated in the 1950s, and is now more advanced due to increased computing power. It also discusses how AI utilizes pattern recognition and machine learning. The document then covers several applications of AI including computer vision, natural language processing, sentiment analysis, speech recognition/conversion and moderation. It notes both the benefits of AI in automating tasks and preventing errors, as well as the responsibilities of ensuring transparency and allowing people to opt-in to algorithms.