How to Scale a Mobile App?

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How to scale Java app in the cloud automagically?, or, is there a Heroku for Java?

I recently came across Heroku, which looks extremely cool. You just upload your app and you're done; it scales without further intervention. Unfortunately, Heroku is for Ruby and our app is in Java. It's a webapp, implemented as a .war file. We want it to scale automatically across clusters of servers maintained entirely by other people. We've spoke to Rackspace. They have "Rackspace Cloudsites" which does this for Wordpress. They have no intention of supporting Java app servers in this...

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Take a look at Google App Engine. In your case, the App Engine Java Overview will be helpful. You can...

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Is AngularJS good for a large scale social app-like mobile site?

When I say app-like mobile, it means it's basically a website that acts like an app.

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Yes. Given the fact that AngularJS is a client side library, you may design the architecture of your...

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iPad scale drawing app

I want an iPad app that will let me easily make a scale drawing of my back yard, and then export it in a useful standard format (e.g. PDF, EPS, etc.). I'm having a hard time telling of the "room design" and "floorplan" apps will do...

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My immediate thought was "Google SketchUp", but it looks like they don't do SketchUp for the...

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Does working with a startup to produce a co-branded app help scale the app's user base, increase user retention rates, create a longer "shelf life" for the brand messaging, broaden the reach for the brand campaign etc.? (Pros and Cons?)

A co-branded app weaves brand messaging/identity into the app's core user experience. e.g. AKQA'S VW Real Racing GTI iPhone App: http://www.clickz.com/clickz/new... Serving display ads is not co-branding.

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I'd be very careful here. That's an enthusiast's car they are talking about. But the language used in...

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What are the resources I will need to manage the scale up operations for an app?

I have been asked to head operations for an mobile App and related website. It includes scaling up existing user base and marketing activity. It is going to be self funded by owner of App. What technical and HR resources should I add over the period...

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You are looking at the following areas here, from what I understand: 1. Ensuring that the existing user...

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Is it possible to run a low-scale dynamic app on Heroku, completely free of cost?

I want to deploy a rails app on Heroku. My app needs database interaction and I therefore assume would need a worker dyno. Since I need to display my pages too, I will need a web dyno too. Since my app, in initial stages at least, will utilize a very...

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Sujoy Gupta is right, database interaction does not require any background worker, they are rather thought...

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What is a good initial architecture for a social web app on AWS that can scale over time?

Assume the following characteristics: a "normal use" web app (i.e. not "real time", maybe traffic spikes from PR but not for normal use), probably an "average" read vs. write ratio for a social app, some heavy back-end processing...

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Here is a broad answer: I wrote about the architecture about a Rails site I've been working on earlier...

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If the hope of any Web App is to scale, why are some companies still starting out with PHP?

I read a recent example of the evolution of Tumblr. They started as a LAMP shop, developing the initial site in PHP. When scaling they got rid of PHP and moved to a better technology stack built around Scala + JVM. This isn't the first example I"...

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Getting your product out asap is more important than scalability in the early stage of a startup. If...

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What's the best method to scale a Rails app built on Neo4j as its graph database?

Neo4j for can be accessed as embedded database in a Rails app or can be accessed over REST API from a separate server. Using embedded Neo4j would hamper horizontal scaling of the Rails app. Can the REST API be used effectively with all ActiveRecord features...

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We've been using the neo4j.rb embedded db in our rails applications. It's great to work with, but the...

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What is the ideal database server architecture for a Facebook App that is anticipated to scale up very quickly?

We intend to use MySQL, and users will be uploading media (mostly photos) through the app. We anticipate a few hundred thousand users in a relatively short period of time, and want to architect the app and the server side to be prepared to handle the...

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Avoid focusing too much on future load while developing the application initially. Most approaches to...

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