Making the Backend as easy as the Frontend: A look at BaaS

Monday Night Brewing will be sponsoring our venue this month (and hopefully future meetups as well). Refreshments will be provided, so come and learn something new!

[UPDATE] - at 6:45pm Phil Edholm will be giving a quick 15 minute intro to the upcoming WebRTC conference (http://www.webrtcworld.com/conference/) in Atlanta (June 25-27). So make sure you get there around 6:30 to hear about it.

About the talk

Sure, HTML5 makes it super-easy to built the front of your mobile app, but what happens when you need to plug it to a backend to load data, register users, connect to social platforms, etc. ?
Does it have to be the same mess of PHP, MySQL, Rails and legacy code you had to deal with during the old days of the web? (Ah, the old days of the web… That was so long ago.)
Fear not! There is an alternative today, it’s called a Backend-as-a-Service.
Tim from Apigee will give us a tour of how they work, and how you can use them from any mobile app. He’ll conclude with a live demo of how to plug one into a jQuery Mobile + PhoneGap app.

About the speaker:
Tim Anglade works at Apigee, a Silicon Valley company dedicated to the API and Mobile revolutions. In previous lives, he was a CTO of a small startup, a software architect at NASDAQ, a Computer Science lecturer, and an invited expert at the W3C. When he’s not busy helping developers build their mobile apps, he’s travelling to conferences from San Francisco to Seoul. You can find him on Twitter as @timanglade.