Are your mobile apps slow?
Hello fellow hackers!
I've got a few questions towards mobile apps developers.
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Is the performance of your app requests an issue? More specifically, how is the response time when you have to query a database in your server-side?
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If so, have you implemented any cache solutions? Which ones?
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What would you think about a REST API providing a high-performance cache 'as-a-service' offering? (serverless, all your app would do is a single API call)
Our team is playing around this idea, but we are not quite sure it is relevant enough to build a product for it.
Any input is highly appreciated. I can provide further details if you want to discuss this.
Your idea sounds like https://pusher.com/
On my side - the problem i have is that my API is on the other side of the world and the response is slow because the request has to travel 10 000km.
If you can provide scalable distributed API service, you might find a good market since everyone and their grandma are going mobile now.
Awesome to read this.
Our idea is really to distribute it globally, using CDN + our backend to provide these API calls a much faster response. So the 'traveling 10 000km' would really not exist.
Thanks so much for your input