The Secret to Mobile - Andy Lech @ TEKsystems (Lake Mary)

Timetable:

• 6:30 PM - Intro and Community Announcements
• 6:45 PM - Talk starts
• 8:15 PM or sooner - Talk ends and Questions
• 8:30 PM or sooner - Meeting ends

The Secret to Mobile is API Design, App Architecture, and Data Handling

Let's face it: API design, app architecture and data handling do not make customers flock to your mobile app on their own. But they are essential to every non-trivial app out there and the difference maker for creating efficient, robust apps that are easier to maintain and extend.

In this session, we'll cover the benefits of:
* Designing your API to deliver data just-in-time due to the constraints of mobile and knowing when and how to break that rule
* Returning an extensible error object with detailed information instead of re-throwing exceptions, returning error codes without context, or redeploying your app
* Compartmentalizing all REST calls into testable API clients
* Pre-processing data and caching in your app core along with network fault-tolerance
* Centralizing calls to logging, reporting, and analytics services
* Moving all data decisions as far into your app back-end as possible

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This meeting will be held in-person at a new location, the TEKsystems offices in Lake Mary (200 Colonial Center Pkwy, Suite 300). We thank the staff of TEKsystems for generously allowing ONETUG to hold our meeting at their facility.