Database Strategies for Better Mobile and Edge Apps - why REST won't cut it anymore

It’s the modern developer’s dilemma: Your mobile app needs to deliver real time responsiveness, maintain 24x7 uptime, and be secure…and do so wherever the user happens to be - even if that's on a subway, airplane or elevator. Any failure to meet these requirements means a sub-par user experience which leads to an abandoned app and a poor app rating. To deliver on user expectations, you need to ensure your mobile apps have fast access to the data that makes them run. But if you’re using REST APIs in the cloud for app data this can present challenges, not the least of which is a dependency on the internet. Options and approaches for dealing with internet dead-zones are available, but which one is best for meeting speed and availability requirements, and what are the tradeoffs to keep in mind when making a decision? If these challenges sound familiar, then this talk is for you.

Join this session for a discussion of database strategies for mobile apps. We'll talk about how to choose the best database for your requirements, and for the development team’s skill set. The session will include a LIVE DEMO of a mobile database powered app in action!

Topics include:
~Enabling and handling data persistence on a mobile device

~Essential database components like local data storage, data synchronization, and conflict resolution

~What to look for in an intuitive query API, including SQL support

~The importance of full-text search and flexible data models

~How an off-the-shelf solution accelerates app development