BENEFITS OF USING NODE.JS FOR MOBILE APP BACKEND (SERVER-SIDE) DEVELOPMENT
Node.js is best at talking to other services. The mobile app has to talk to the platform API and database, so Node.js is a great tool for this. World titans have chosen to work with Node.js to develop their mobile app backend (server-side).
Walmart, the largest e-commerce giant in the world, uses Node.js back-end to execute front-end code in the mobile applications of mobile shoppers. It allows for providing them with rich and dynamic functionality of the Walmart online services regardless of the mobile application’s capacity.
LinkedIn, the largest business social-networking site, has its entire mobile software stack completely built in Node.js on the server side.
Using MongoDB with NoSQL data schema and Node.js, Belitsoft developers can build event-driven web or/and mobile backend (server side) and real-time communication applications.
All the goodness that comes with the microservices approach comes with a drawback. Distributed computing and complex microservices deployments can be hard to manage if you do it by yourself. Service Fabric provides the plumbing needed to create, deploy, run, and manage microservices in an effective and efficient way.
What is Service Fabric? It’s a distributed systems platform used to build hyper-scalable, reliable and easily managed applications for the cloud. Service Fabric addresses the significant challenges in developing and managing cloud applications. By using Service Fabric, developers and administrators can avoid having to solve complex infrastructure problems and focus instead on implementing mission-critical, demanding workloads knowing that they’re scalable, reliable and manageable. Service Fabric represents Microsoft’s next-generation middleware platform for building and managing these enterprise class, Tier-1 cloud scale services.
Service Fabric is a universal deployment environment; you’re able to deploy any executable based on any language (Microsoft .NET Framework, Node.js, Java, C++) or even database runtimes like MongoDB.
Therefore, it’s important to make clear that Azure Service Fabric is not limited to microservices-oriented applications. You can also use it to host and deploy traditional applications (Web apps or services) and get many benefits related to scalability, load balancing and fast deployment. Yet Azure Service Fabric is a new platform built from the ground up and especially designed for hyperscale and microservices-based systems, as shown in Figure .
Many AWS customers adopt microservices to address limitations and challenges with agility and scalability that they experience in traditional monolithic deployments. Let’s look at the main drivers for choosing a microservices architecture.
Agility
Microservices foster an organization of small independent teams that take ownership of their services. Teams act within a small and well-understood bounded context, and they are empowered to work independently and quickly, thus shortening cycle times. You benefit significantly from the aggregate throughput of the organization.
The following figure illustrates two types of deployment structures: many small independent teams working on many deployments versus a single large team working on a monolithic deployment.
Innovation
The fact that small teams can act autonomously and choose the appropriate technologies, frameworks, and tools for their domains is an important driver for innovation. Responsibility and accountability foster a culture of ownership for services.
Establishing a DevOps culture by merging development and operational skills in the same group eliminates possible frictions and contradicting goals. Agile processes no longer stop when it comes to deployment. Instead, the complete application life-cycle management processes—from committing to running code—can be automated as a Continuous Delivery process. It becomes easy to test new ideas quickly and to roll back in case something doesn’t work. The low cost of failure creates a culture of change and innovation.
Quality
Organizing software engineering around microservices can also improve the quality of code. The benefits of dividing software into small and well-defined modules are similar to those of object-oriented software engineering: improved reusability, composability, and maintainability of code.
Scalability
Fine-grained decoupling of microservices is a best practice for building large- scale systems. It’s a prerequisite for performance optimization since it allows choosing the appropriate and optimal technologies for a specific service. Each service can be implemented with the appropriate programming languages and frameworks, leverage the optimal data persistence solution, and be fine-tuned with the best performing service configurations.
Properly decoupled services can be scaled horizontally and independently from each other. Vertical scaling, which is running the same software on bigger machines, is limited by the capacity of individual servers and can incur downtime during the scaling process. Horizontal scaling, which is adding more servers to the existing pool, is highly dynamic and doesn’t run into limitations of individual servers. The scaling process can be completely automated.
Furthermore, resiliency of the application can be improved because failing components can be easily and automatically replaced.
Availability
Microservices architectures make it easier to implement failure isolation. Techniques such as health-checking, caching, bulkheads, or circuit breakers allow you to reduce the blast radius of a failing component and to improve the overall availability of a given application.