Secrets to Building and Delivering Amazing Apps at Scale

Desmond Tam – Senior Enterprise Architect Lead

@desmondtam

linkedin.com/in/desmondt

https://developer.akamai.com

What is an app?

What is an app?

browser server

What is an app?

browser

server

ios

android

ios

android

What is an app?

browser api

media

datastore

ios

android

What is an app?

browser api

media

datastore

dns

ios

android

What is an app?

browser api

media

datastore

dns

TCP/UDP

ios

android

What is an app?

browser api

media

datastore

http

TCP

ios

android

What is an app?

browser api

media

datastore

http

TCP/UDP

Secrets to Building and Delivering Amazing Apps

at Scale

Three-layer architecture

Frontend Backend Network

tcp/udp tcp/udp

Frontend

Beautiful Interface Capture your audience…

Accessible improves UX for everybody

Fast & Responsive performance == user experience

Network Awareness Automatically adapt to any network conditions

Secure It is a wild west out there

Backend

Distributed Architecture Performance and fault tolerance

Auto-Scaling because sometimes throw more hardware at it is a valid solution

Performant fast backends make for faster frontends

Continuous Monitoring if something happens but it wasn’t logged, did it happen?

yes… yes it did.

DevOps Automation react to changing conditions automatically, in real-time

Network

Distributed DNS every connection to a hostname starts with a DNS lookup

Protocol Optimization we’re not stuck with http/1.1 and tcp anymore

Latency Optimization Roundtrip distance matters a lot

Because the laws of physics apply…

Latency: The Enemy of Distribution

Seattle New York Bangalore

Sydney

San Francisco 17ms latency

228ms latency 77ms latency

* Load times of the average Website on a LTE mobile connection

155ms latency

Faster Apps on any device, anywhere

Solving the Latency Problem

Seattle New York Bangalore

Sydney

San Francisco 17ms latency

228ms latency 77ms latency

155ms latency

3 seconds

9 seconds

17 seconds

26 seconds

Faster Apps on any device, anywhere

Solving the Latency Problem

Seattle New York Bangalore

Sydney

San Francisco 17ms latency

228ms latency 77ms latency

155ms latency

3 seconds

9 seconds

17 seconds

26 seconds

1.5 seconds

1.5 seconds

1.5 seconds

1.5 seconds 9ms latency

9ms latency

9ms latency

9ms latency

Edge Compute Smart servers one hop away

Secrets to Building and Delivering Amazing Apps at Scale

Frontend

‐ Beautiful Interface

‐ Accessible

‐ Fast & Responsive

‐ Network Aware

‐ Secure

Network

‐ Distributed DNS

‐ Protocol Optimization

‐ Latency Optimization

‐ Edge Compute

Backend

‐ Distributed Architecture

‐ Auto-Scaling

‐ Performant

‐ Continuous Monitoring

‐ DevOps Automation

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