Introduction
Few
months ago a friend of mine suggested to do a startup together. I will
not tell you yet about the project we’ve decided to do but I’ll tell
you that it is a mobile oriented service. I decided to describe the
project flow step by step and so there will be series of articles and I
will do the project presentation in the very last article. So here we
go.
Architecture design
I’ve had some experience in developing back-ends for iPhone apps previously
and the main challenge I’ve faced was a sharp rise of load. In other
words everybody started to purchase the app suddenly and the back-end
failed to handle such amount of connections. To make things easier to
understand I’ll tell you few words about the back-end I used. It was a
Zend Framework based application which was working on Apache2 web
server, MySQL database was used and the application provided the REST
API for the iPhone app. iPhone application was just an image gallery
where images were provided by the backend.
