The document discusses the need for an API tier to support the growing demand for mobile applications and discusses how StrongLoop's Node.js and LoopBack platform can be used to build such an API tier to connect mobile and web applications to backend services and data sources in a highly scalable and performant manner. It provides an overview of StrongLoop's Node.js platform and LoopBack API framework and related DevOps tools for building, managing and monitoring Node.js and mobile backends.

1. API Tier for the new Front-edge
Shubhra Kar
Apr 2014

2. Agenda
Why are we here
StrongLoop Overview
Node.js and DevOps training schedule
Node.js certification (SCND)
Little bit about our training partner – OlinData
Training kick-off

3. ―If you’re not fast, you’re dead‖ - Jack Welch
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4. Mobile is the new interface

5. One billion consumers will have smartphones by 2016. US consumers alone will own 257
million smartphones and 126 million tablets.
In 2016, 350 million employees will use smartphones — 200 million will bring their own
(BYOD). Employees pay for more than half of the devices and data plans used for work.
Mobile spend will reach $1.3 trillion (35% of tech spend) as the mobile apps market
reaches $55 billion in 2016. Tablet and smartphone apps, at average price of $2.43, will
grow explosively to $56 billion in 2015.
Business spending on mobile projects will grow 100% by 2015. Most major businesses
now have a tablet strategy for sales reps. IT professionals will respond to the onslaught by
diverting IT budgets to mobile technology.
Mobile commerce is expected to reach $31 billion by 2016, 7% of overall eCommerce,
representing a compounded annual growth rate of 39% from 2011 to 2016.
Mobility is (obviously) a big deal . . .
(source Forester Research)

6. What else is related to this trend ?
Mobile App Strategy
Big Data & Embedded (M2M)
10%
60%
30%
Enterprise Mobile
Native
Hybrid
Mobile Web
40%
40%
20%
Consumer Mobile
Native
Hybrid
Mobile Web
Full Stack JavaScript

7. Today’s enterprise reality
RMI
Objects
Messaging
Service
BI Tools
Business
Rules
File
System
ESB
Web
Interface
Content
Database
Data
Warehouse
Financials
Mainframe
Web/WAP
Interface
EJB
Virtual
Service
Routing
Service
SOAP
CRM
App
Products
Collaboration
App Porta
l
Help
Engine
BPMSLegacy
Infrastructure
Internal
External CloudPartners
# of Interconnected
Components
# of Inter-dependent
Teams
# of Heterogeneous
Technologies
Rate of Change

8. So how ready are we for the new UX ?

9. Everyone understands the problem!
No one has an answer, until now!
Well, it appears to me
that the problem is on
your end.
And thus was born the
most revered phrase
in tech support.

10. What needs to be built ?
Front Edge
Thousands to Millions of devices connecting to business APIs
creating the new user experience
APIs for each device, each app, each screen. Optimized for bandwidth &
battery, adjusting to each device’s capabilities

11. Highly concurrent
Scriptable
(the teams already know JavaScript)
Giant ecosystem of reuseable components
(just like in the browser)
Keeps device-specific APIs from polluting core SOA
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Node.js is the perfect match

12. Vast open-source community
(70 K re-usable modules)
Reduce development time by
50% or more
Reuse existing UX tools
Low latency - Mobile
Event-driven and fast by
design: 50x faster
Non blocking, high throughput:
helps scale 20x
Why do 3 million developers download every release of Node.js

13. Some performance stats
Hardware Utilization
Benchmarking
Performance
Outcomes : counting
―faster‖ endpoints per
application

14. Some users of Node in mainstream enterprise
Transportation Gaming Chat & Social
Analytics & Big Data
Multi-media
Advertising Financial
Wearable & Embedded/Sensor Retail & Consumer
Tech & Cloud
Exposing
enterprise data
to these
chatty, highly
concurrent, mo
bile and web
apps in form of
an easily
consumable
API helps
create ―Rich
Apps‖, useful
for genuine
business
needs.

15. StrongLoop Stack

16. Evolution of application development & service models
AppServer
DC
AppServer
IaaS
PaaS
mBaaS API Server
Speed of Development
Cost, Control, Data

17. 1st Generation mBaaS - Parse, StackMob, Kinvey, Apigee, etc
mobile/web
clients
social &
analytics
JSON API
API
XML
SQL
SOAP
Etc.
mBaaS
API tier
(Java, Ruby, PHP, C#)
MongoDB, mySQL
Enterprise

18. LoopBack: Industry’s 1st Open source (Node.js) API Server
Enterprise – On Premises / Private

19. It’s fast and steady ! : 0-60 in a mature sprint
curated modules, support, access
to Core team
private
registry, audit, whitelisting, certifica

20. Marquee Features
Mobile SDKs Pre-Built Mobile Services ORM – no SQL
Enterprise ConnectorsAuto API Engine API Security & Mgmt.

21. Sample backend services creation in loopback

22. How it works – Create or consume multiple data sources

23. How it works – Data discovery & relationship modeling

24. How it works – JSON API generation

25. How it works – API security configuration

26. Automatic Data modeling and REST API publishing

27. Mobile SDKs (iOS SDK) for remotable integration

28. Realizing a full-stack JavaScript solution
Project
UX Design
Develop
Mobile App Test / Emulation
Create Scaffolding
Define base CSS
Define components
Use JS widgets
Create Scaffolding
Define Models
Define Controllers
Define Views
Compile and Build
Define Filters
User
Device
File
GeoLocation
Notification
Define Directives
Configure Routes
Model the Data
Generate REST API
Connect to Data-sources (Oracle, SOAP, Mongo)
Setup Services
Debug
Generate Deployable App
Monitor frontend performance
Optimize (Log Analytics & scale)
Profile client-side
Configure API Security
Mobile App Mgmt.
Create UI & styling Arch. & binding Access Native Integrate Existing Data and Services
mBaaS Test / Emulation
Profile server-side
Deploy to local/PaaS
Monitor backends performance
Optimize (Usage Analytics, Crash Reporting )
BLE

29. Node.js challenges for Enterprise
Lack of best practices
No enterprise version
Weak tool chains & monitoring
Missing production-class features:
– Auto-scaling
– Certified run-time
– Event/error management
– Root cause tools

30. StrongLoop Backs Node
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Wrote most of the features & fixes in v0.10 and 0.12
– Including over 60% of the C/C++ code
Implemented custom work for clients in core
5 active core authors – Joyent has 1
Maintain 50+ modules (e.g. libuv, debugger, profiler &
Oracle DB driver)

31. StrongLoop Node Platform
① Multi-platform (Windows, Unix, Solaris, Mac) support
② On-premises, private or public cloud support
③ Certified Node.js curated modules and ecosystem
④ Commercial Enterprise supported, security updates
⑤ Configurable and extendable
⑥ Most popular node modules, curated modules, private NPM
⑦ Access to Node.js Core team
⑧ SLAs and Premium support hotline

32. Node.js support (Sample modules set)
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Node.js Core
strong-
module-loader
strong-cluster-
connect-store
strong-cluster-
control
SL-Config
Loopback Strong-mq
strong-task-
emitter
Engine.io Mongoose
Strong-agent strong-cluster-
socket.io-store
strong-config-
loader
Request
Node-
heapdump
Asynch
node-
inspector
Passport
Strong-
remoting
Q
EJS
Express
Connect
Socket.IO
Reggie Postgres
Connector
Oracle
Connector
SQL Server
Connector
MongoDB
Connector
REST
Connector
In-Memory
connector
LIBUV
V8 Profiler

33. DevOps Tools - Private Registry
Strong
Registry
npm
client
npm
client
public
npmjs
registry
Other
upstream
registries
metadata package
s
indexes
• white/black list
• audit
• security
• cache
Pluggable Stores
① Private & multi-registry
② On-premises, private or public
cloud support
③ Module Whitelisting
④ Audit
⑤ Configuration Mgmt.
⑥ CI and Build Mgmt.

34. DevOps Tools – Debugging and Profiling

35. DevOps Tools - Error Detection

36. DevOps Tools – Runtime Mgmt. & Dynamic Scaling

37. DevOps Tools - Memory Profiling and Leak Detection

38. DevOps Tools - Memory Leak Analysis

39. DevOps Tools - CPU profiling and hot spot detection

40. DevOps Tools - Transaction and end-point
tracing

41. DevOps Tools - Performance Monitoring

42. DevOps Tools - Performance Monitoring

43. DevOps Tools - Alerts

44. DevOps Tools - Open Data API

45. What’s next ?
Visit the StrongLoop website to learn more about Node and mobile
http://strongloop.com
Open Source API tier (Loopback)
http://strongloop.com/mobile-application-development/loopback/
DevOps (StrongOps)
http://strongloop.com/node-js-performance/strongops/
Install StrongLoop in a few simple steps to get started
http://strongloop.com/get-started/