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Golden Gekko, CEO, Magnus Jern represented the mobile developer community talking about how developers leverage cloud services, challenges with the cloud and opportunities for telcos. The discussion and presentation touched on the following topics: Shifting from monolithic web app development: building services and infrastructure for today’s apps to allow data flow and management within the Cloud
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Developers in the Cloud!!Magnus Jern, CEO & Founder!Twitter: @goldengekko !E-mail: mj@goldengekko.com
Agenda
! How can APIs and services be made friendlier for the mobile developer?
! Recognising the importance for of interoperable APIs in user management and QoS
! Pinpointing how to turn APIs from a technical solution into a profitable steering wheel which drives business
Shifting from monolithic web app development: building services and infrastructure for today’s apps to allow data flow and management within the Cloud
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Overview
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A team of 140+ people that love and breathe mobile apps. 20+ nationalities across 5 countries.
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More than 150 brands and agencies have put their trust in us with 400+ apps delivered in the past 12 months
Why are we talking about cloud services? Always consider leveraging open source and cloud services to reduce time to market, risk and cost
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App evolution over time
Experience
Our first app in 2006
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Arla Mobile Cookbook
Solution: We invented our own cloud for content and user data
BAA in 2009
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Challenge: A holistic experience for travellers through Heathrow airport
1 Pre-trip Looking for easy ways to plan, book and board the plane
2 At the airport Track flight status, discover airport services or search for information if things go wrong with the travel 3 On-board A unique opportunity to provide enhanced services with the increase in connectivity on planes 4 At the destination Explore destination informaton and share experiences
5 Post-trip Share feedback and search information for next trip
Solution: Aggregate existing backends/feeds (no acceptable APIs) through GAE with a REST JSON API and later added push with Urban Airship
My Dog in 2010 Social mobile platform for dog lovers.
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Portfolio
Challenge: Build a social platform with user management, photo sharing, status updates, content storage, in-app payments, notifications and more
Solution: Evaluated 5+ social platforms incl Ning, Kickapps, Facebook Open Graph, etc and based it on Kickapps
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Portfolio
O2 Healthy in 2011 Healthy is a walking app that allows users to track, record and publish your walking
Challenge
Social core part with users inviting friends for walks, publishing their walking activity, routes and photos to Facebook and get rewarded with badges to collect.
Solution: Social interaction and user management based on Facebook with additional support from Twitter
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Meetr Enterprise Product 2012
Notifications of updates to all resources.
Take orders and capture data from
the road.
Online and offline access to product
catalog and support material.
Stay up-to-date with corporate blogs and social media.
Challenge: Develop a tool to improve sales productivity
Solution: Document repository from Box.net, Forms from Google Forms, CRM from Salesforce, Social from Twitter, Linkedin, etc
Other
! WAC In-app Payments
! Bluevia APIs for Location, Roaming Presence and more
! Vodafone Storage Cloud
! Vodafone Contacts & Backup
! O2/Telefonica Enterprise Cloud
Experience from operator cloud services
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What do developers want and need?!
The Challenge
Developer needs
! API Maturity and service compliance
! Short and long term cost
! Simplicity of integration incl API protocols
! Reliability & Scalability
! Data Ownership, Privacy and Protection
! Future proof including transition path
Key considerations when choosing a cloud provider
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Developer challenges
! Testing (especially offshore without a SIM)
! Device specific issues
! Early stage pilots and version control
! SDK maturity
! Forums to ask for support (maturity/popularity)
Key considerations when choosing a cloud provider
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What’s next?
! Standardised cross-operator payments
! Big data APIs from operators
! Customer profile APIs from
! Personal customer storage
! “App recommendations” (secure/safe)
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Operator opportunity
!Thank you !!Magnus Jern, CEO Golden Gekko!mj@goldengekko.com
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