Should Building Apps Be This Hard?

Is the traditional way of building apps working for you?

We believe this is:

  • Too Expensive
  • Too Complex
  • Too Slow

1st You spend your capital budget on expensive servers and you house those servers in an expensive data center. You have to guess your peak loads and buy enough servers to handle that load for a short period of time. Then as soon as you deploy your servers they begin to depreciate. That sounds expensive!

2nd You buy operating system software and specialized middleware, then hire experts to install and maintain the software on your servers. These software releases then go out of date, requiring expensive upgrades and maintenance.

3rd You need to string these servers together, and buy additional servers for backups, disaster recovery, testing, software developers, and training. These additional servers also need system software and constant upgrades and maintenance.

4th You hire a team that knows the software that makes up the entire server stack to keep it humming along and reliable. Does this sound complex? You have not even added a single software app yet for the business!

5th You get your software developers to write lots of code, deploy the code, load test the code, monitor and tune performance, patch and regression test the code. Now your business has an app!

The Cloud Way of building an App
  • Ask the business what they need
  • Design and build the app
  • Test the app with the business
  • Deploy the app to as many users as you need
  • Make the app available to mobile users

Learn how to create apps the Cloud way.

 

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Published On: February 24, 2013

About the Author: Paul Selway

Paul is the president and co-founder of Redpath. He works with prospects and customers to help them imagine their future with a Salesforce solution. He was born in England and hails from the Redpath clan in Scotland.