451 Research authored an Impact Report recently which looked at IBM’s future for the Internet of Things (IoT). CEO Ginni Rometty has “disclosed 80,000 developers and 500 partners to create an IoT ecosystem leveraging the company’s Watson technology for natural-language processing.” It’s an interesting read looking at IBM’s commitment and ambitions in the IoT space…
“Amazon UK wowed the retail industry when it revealed it processed 84 transactions per second during its Black Friday sales,” according to Information Age. “During any busy sporting event, however, William Hill processes 400 transactions per second against a backdrop of 1.5 million products. Meanwhile, its prices change more than 5 million times per day.”…
Most of us dream of winning the lottery – we’ll buy homes all over the world, fly on a private jet, buy the car we’ve always wanted. That reality came true for two lucky winners in the UK this weekend sharing a prize of £66million. The biggest National Lottery jackpot since its launch in 1994,…
There is a tremendous need to meet the demands of real-time app experiences that can perform at scale, every time and all the time. The Real-Time Messaging market is exploding. For a term that is still relatively unknown, why is this? The answer is simple: developers need their apps to perform at scale, every…
Our development team put together some awesome blogs this year – ranging in topics from getting started with Diffusion Cloud and NodeJS, the introduction of the Reactive Data Layer, to blogs about dynamic pages with ClojureScript. Below is a list of the top five most popular blogs from our development team. Check them out! Almost…
Building a mobile app? You probably have no case to do it according to Gartner’s Jason Wong (@mobilegourmet). That’s some of what he discussed in his session on ‘Creating a Successful Mobile Strategy’ at the Gartner Application Architecture Development and Integration Summit. His premise is that there are two types of companies – ones that…
Following the latest and greatest edition of API Days in Paris last week, it’s clear that interest and adoption of real-time is a mainstream objective for many developers and organizations. In both the business and technical tracks there were various presentations on real-time and event-driven architecture, where speakers discussed lessons learned and best practices for…
Improving end user experience and app performance on mobile is one of the primary reasons customers reach out to Push – and our new mobile app architecture workshops are designed to provide guidance and best practice for designers, developers, and product managers looking to take their mobile app experiences to the next level. We kicked…
In the US, healthcare spending far exceeds that of other countries around the world – currently more than $3 trillion per year. Yet information technology advances have been limited, and adoption of rudimentary digital health services such as electronic medical records (EMRs) has been woefully slow. An EMR allows a clinician to track data over…
When developing an app, you’ll certainly think through the purpose of it, who your end users will be, how it will look and feel, how you’ll attract users and how it aligns to your business strategy (at least we hope so!). But here are three things you might not have considered about your app: How…