Introduction to Red Hat Mobile Application Platform
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The document introduces the Red Hat Mobile Application Platform, emphasizing its role in addressing mobile development challenges such as fragmentation and security. It outlines features like a unified development environment, mobile backend-as-a-service (mBaaS) functionalities, and collaboration tools, aimed at enhancing app deployment and management. Benefits include a scalable architecture, centralized security, and improved productivity through reusable components and easy-to-use templates.
Introduction to Red Hat Mobile Application Platform
- 1. INTRODUCTION TO RED HAT MOBILE APPLICATION PLATFORM Evan Wong Middleware Solution Architect, Malaysia, Red Hat
- 4. 4 I WANT AN APP CRM app …OK I pay Workflow app …OK I pay
- 8. THE MOBILE DEVELOPMENT CHALLENGES Fragmentation – device OS Fragmentation - toolkits Speed to Market 3rd Party Developers Security Continuous Develop/Deploy Backend Integration Cost of App Development Deployment
- 9. • Shared Platform Or Service To Develop And Run Mobile Solutions • Brings Client-side And Server-side Together • Facilitate Collaboration On Launching Mobile Initiatives Across Enterprise • Repository Of Apis And Services For Discovery • Offers Templates And Code Re-use • Centralized Control Of Security & Access • Lifecycle Management And Reporting WHAT IS A MOBILE APPLICATION PLATFORM?
- 11. USER INTERFACE CLIENT NODE MBaaS
- 12. CLIENT-SIDE APP DEVELOPMENT • Online/Local development • Command line access • HTML5, Hybrid & Native • Cloud Build Farm • Git SCM • HTML5 Form App Wizard • Credentials Management CLIENT
- 13. WHY NODE.JS? • Server-side JavaScript for building fast, scalable network applications • Perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices • Lightweight integration to backends • Event-driven, non-blocking, I/O model • Fast-growing Community of modules NODE
- 14. MOBILE BACKEND-AS-A-SERVICE (MBAAS) A set of server-side functions, exposed as Restful APIs and optimized for mobile, that a client side developer uses for common mobile features MBaaS Caching API Keys Auth Storage Data Sync Cloud Alerts Cloud Alerts Stats App Manage- ment Deploy Targets User Roles User Admin Cloud Env. Push Notification Env. Variables
- 15. ENHANCED TEAM AND COLLABORATION Teams & collaboration features to define teams and provide access to all components
- 16. DATA SYNC FRAMEWORK • Provides a mechanism to manage bi-directional data synch from multiple app to cloud and backend systems • Allows delta updates to be distributed from Cloud to connected clients • Provides facilities for managing data collisions
- 17. APPLICATION LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT Provides the ability to define a set of software environments e.g. Dev, Test, Pre-Production, Production. Enables DevOps processes in a mobile context
- 18. RESOURCE MANAGEMENT • App cloud performance and utilization resource monitoring and alerting • Aggregated and individual app level views of memory, CPU, disk and cache
- 19. ANALYTICS
- 21. THE BENEFITS TO OUR CUSTOMERS • Open, Scalable Architecture for Company-wide Mobile Projects • Centralized Security, Policy Management and Access Control • Facilitates Collaboration across distributed teams • Bring your own tools and frameworks reduce training costs • Fast Prototyping with templates and Drag & Drop forms • Re-use of micro-services to increase developer productivity • Supports Fast IT - agile app development and deployment