Tips for Devs and Sys Admins
So you’ve designed an amazing app and you’re ready to launch it on the Android and iOS markets. However with over 750,000 apps in each market, having an app with pristine code and a great user interface may not be enough. The market is crowded. So to stand out, you may have to do a little old fashioned marketing, and it starts before you even launch your app.
Filed in Mobile on Apr. 18, 2013 by Waqas Makhdum
Since the start of native app development on Android and iOS, there has been a blazing debate as to which IDE is better. And if you’re new to the development scene, you may be trying to decide which IDE you should learn and use to develop. Or perhaps you’re already a developer for one and you’d like to expand into the other. Regardless, there are a few things to consider before you begin your adventure.
Filed in Mobile on Apr. 15, 2013 by Waqas Makhdum
Several weeks ago, I flew out to San Francisco and got to talk with a lot of developers about their applications and the cloud. There were three points that almost every developer brought up: scaling their app, initial deployment and feature requests.
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on Apr. 11, 2013 by Joseph Palumbo
Building mobile apps that include a large amount of photo and video content yet still perform and download quickly can be challenging. But by integrating Trigger.io Reload and Rackspace Cloud Files, it’s possible to achieve fast performance by storing media locally within the app, while also allowing fast updates from the cloud.
Filed in Mobile on Apr. 10, 2013 by Waqas Makhdum
Many of our prospective Managed Cloud customers are interested in migrating to the open cloud, but some could use a hand getting there. Our Rackspace Cloud Ready team was created to help save you time, and we have assisted many customers with migrations over the past several years.
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on Apr. 10, 2013 by Chris Wuest
One of my favorite services here at Rackspace is Mailgun, a set of APIs that allow you to send email and manage mailing lists via a REST API. Coming back from a recent trip to San Antonio I decided that I would add an Objective-C interface to send email via Mailgun using my own iOS interface instead of using Apple’s `MFMailComposeViewController.` This library is now open sourced on Github and available via Cocoapods.
Filed in Mobile on Apr. 9, 2013 by Jay Baird
There are five essential pillars of cloudiness. In this recurring blog series, we’ll count down from No. 5 to No. 1. Last time, we looked at modular design. In this fifth and final post, we discuss parallel computing.
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on Apr. 9, 2013 by Wayne Walls
There’s no denying that the world has gone mobile. Mobile technologies are disrupting nearly every industry. IDC estimates that this year mobile technologies will account for roughly 57 percent of the IT industry’s overall growth. Clearly, mobile is the place to be – it’s where the web was in the 90s.
Filed in Mobile on Apr. 9, 2013 by Waqas Makhdum
As you may have read, this morning we launched mobile-ready cloud stacks. Here, we’ll answer some questions you may have.
Filed in Mobile on Apr. 9, 2013 by Joseph Palumbo
You’ve worked hard on your application and are gearing up for a major event. You’ve heard me talk about the power of the cloud API, and have incorporated it into your app to control cloud infrastructure, in particular to scale up your configuration in a short amount of time. But before the big day comes, there is one important point to remember as you plan for a high traffic event.
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on Apr. 4, 2013 by Joseph Palumbo