This is a talk I gave at #PHPBenelux in December 2011 about Mobile Cloud Architectures

1. The Cloud Sucks.
@davidcoallier

2. Building in the Cloud
Why?

3. Global Availability
Locality is important.

4. Elasticity
Economically and Technically viable.

5. Be HTML5
Don’t be dependent.

6. Transparent Updates
Do not modify your workflow.

7. Perpetual Evolution
The basic promise of Cloud Computing.

8. Reality Check
Components can fail. Assume they will.

9. Share Nothing
Services should be independent.

10. Cluster Up
Nodes above you, nodes under you.

11. Traditionally
We used to build things like...

12. Web Server
Database Cache
Storage Queues.

13. And then
Traffic spiked. Then what?

15. It was an issue.
Basic Rules of Scalability

16. Web
Servers
Storage Database
Cache Queues

17. Brainf*ck
Downside... costs a lot? Or does it?!

18. Pushing it further
Welcome to the cloud

19. Personal Experience
Orchestra for instance.

20. Everything is an API
As it should.

21. A Healing Process
Things should heal ... away from the cluster.

22. Deployments
Implicit to your application.

23. Anyways...
Mobile stuff ;-)

24. The Revolution is here
We’re in the middle of a revolution.

25. Mobile Growth
A few numbers.

26. Smartphones
27% of all phones.

27. Multitasking
Television and Mobile Browsing. 86%...

28. Facebook
Over a third are mobile users.

29. Twitter
Over 50% are mobile users.

30. Youtube
More than 200M views per day.

31. Europe
Soon to be primarily mobile.

32. http://bit.ly/fkmrjK

33. Google

35. http://bit.ly/fkmrjK

36. Another case of growth
StumbleUpon

38. We get it
Yeah it’s growing and it’s growing fast.

39. Mobile Development

40. Native or HTML5
Personal choice.

41. HTML5
Widely accepted.

42. NimbleKit
HTML5, XCode, templates.

43. Titanium
HTML5 to ObjC.

44. jQuery Mobile
Built on jQuery, lightweight, easy.

45. Should we try it? :D

46. It has to seem fast
Fast has many meanings.

47. Local Storage
Fast doesn’t mean fast.

48. The API is king
Offload, track data, you need this.