Our consultants are fluent in Java Enterprise (J2EE), the dominant industry server side platform. In contrast to wireless client programming, the J2EE platform has mature APIs and well tested development tools and libraries, many of which are part of the Open Source movement.
The main challenges of server side work are:
- Choosing the most effective and efficient tools for a given project
- Building a data architecture that is robust to change
- Creating an architecture that meets current and future requirements
The costs of a poorly architected server system are not always
apparent from the start. While it may seem to meet your current
requirements, the real test is how that system will behave in
months and years to come.
A serious and common problem we encounter on existing server side
systems is a badly design data model. A rigid model is difficult
to adapt to new requirements after your system is live with user
data in the database.
Another common error is over-architecture. A complex system
performs poorly under load, and is difficult to understand and
maintain. A real-time international currency trading server has
fundamentally different scalability and data integrity
requirements from a game server: there is an appropriate
architecture for each.
ThumbJive takes care to "right-size" the
server side architecture so that is easy to deploy, meets the
level of scalability and data protection appropriate for the
product domain, and is robust to change when new requirements
arise.
The costs of a poorly architected server system are not always
apparent from the start: the real test is how that system will
behave in months and years to come.
