Web developers work in environments that are continually evolving and need to adapt to the latest developments. It is important for a web development company to stay updated with the latest trends, techniques and approaches. They need to adapt to shifting technologies and keep with the most important trends to stay ahead. Technology advancement has taken great strides in the past decade. Some of the technologies that were started in the past decade still have to get wider acceptance and adoption across industries. Some of the latest IT industry trends that will gain momentum in 2021 and beyond are discussed below.

Singe page application

Single page application (SPA) works inside a browser and does not require page reloading during use. SPAs use the JavaScript framework for content loading that offers some amazing benefits such as UI/UX in a native browser environment, efficiency of a caching process, focus on APIs and save bandwidth. We use SPAs in our everyday lives that include Facebook, Gmail, Twitter, Google Maps and GitHub.

Single page websites are much easier to navigate on mobile phones that people are used to accessing websites and applications these days. These websites assist businesses to reach their target audience with a limited content and minimalistic design.

Progressive web apps

Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) are all about reliable and smooth user-experiences. These are built with modern APIs to enhance capabilities, installability and reliability that provides the apps with cross-browser compatibility. PWAs offer the best of both worlds – the convenience of native apps and classic website. PWAs work offline as it is connectivity independent and helps in reducing bounce rate. Examples of PWAs include Uber, Instagram, Forbes and Pinterest. PWAs work great even in offline mode and provide offline experience to the users like the way Google Maps do. Developers store the static files of the site in the web browser cache. When a visitor visits the website, the site fetches those static files and serves well.

WebAssembly programming language

The limitation with JavaScript is that it makes calculations slower and significantly slows the user experience. This problem can be overcome with the use of Web Assembly portable binary-code programming language that facilitates the interface between programs and their host environment. This programming language and platform works independently of hardware, and provides a high level of security and executes code fast.

Mobile design UI

Motion design UI will dominate web development trends in 2021. It utilizes a minimalistic design coupled with sophisticated interactions that provide an engaging and interactive look to the users. With the help of AMP, motion design can be easily implemented without loss of download speed. Motion design easies navigation, dissimulates slow load times and eases navigation. Elements such as page header transitions, pull-down menus and pop-ups are possible due to motion design UI. It makes the website fun to browse while bringing important elements into the focus of the user. The content and page hierarchy can be set so that users do not get distracted in heavy gradients and are able to focus on what is most important for them.

Low-code and no-code development

Developers will use low-code and no-code development to streamline workflows and reduce their workloads. No-code tools lower the barrier to entry with visual programming interface and drag-and-drop tools for the convenience of those with no experience of writing codes. 2021 can see no-code development applications such as Bubble and Airtable as a clear winner.

AI-powered chatbots

The demand for AI-powered chatbots will increase in 2021 as websites will be more focused on building AI-powered chatbots and virtual assistants for providing enhanced customer experiences. Chatbots provide users with a fast response without a manual attendant and help businesses reduce customer drop-off rates. As chatbots are trained on data collected from users through a series of engagements and use natural language processing (NLP), they can create more reliable interactions with human users.

Seamless tools through cloud computing

Given the current global situations where many businesses are depending on remote solutions, cloud computing will help such businesses develop seamless tools.

Voice ecommerce

Voice commerce will be one of the fastest-growing web app development trends in 2021. Devices such as Amazon’s Alexa use speech recognition technology that has revolutionized the way people search the internet. Users can now seek information with actionable words, rather than simple two-three word keyword phrase. These are questions such as “what would the weather be like today evening”, and commands like “order a pizza for me” from the human users. Just pass on the order and it is done.

3D visuals

More websites and blogs will get powered by realistic 3-dimensional visuals that bring life to the elements on the screen and create an enticing user experience. 3D visualization will be in trend not only for the gaming sites but business websites will also be leveraging the trend.

Advancements in blockchain technology, mobile-first design, artificial intelligence, serverless architecture, dark mode website and headless CMS will continue to grow in popularity in 2021 and beyond.

The new reality taking shape post COVID-19 is full of uncertainties and opportunities in software development, marketing and online sales. Businesses are responding differently to COVID-19 crisis with tailored product development. To thrive in these hard times, the organizations must align their processes to be agile and resilient. The pandemic has brought into sharp focus the need to continuously plan for future risks and scenarios.

Many businesses are running by the day and digitizing by night. For supporting online sales, businesses need to plug AI, BI and chatbot technology into their product development for faster onboarding of customers and delivering a seamless experience across various sales channels.

Adapting to cohesive software development

The software development companies need to reimagine how they approach software development and software engineering during the crisis to keep it safe and secure through remote development, including working from home. They need to adapt a cohesive business and software development strategy to build the product with changing consumer needs in mind.

Consumers too are facing new personal situations with changes in income, work and leisure time. Their preferences and shopping behaviors have never shifted so quickly. The crisis-of-the-century has given huge rise to the digital commerce and the contactless product delivery is likely to continue long after the pandemic is gone.

Collaborating virtually

Consumer behaviors continue to be driven by their new personal circumstances, and stay-at-home mandates. With more time spent at home, consumers are engaging in renewed activities, such as conduction board meetings online through video conferencing, taking online classes and connecting with others virtually, such as through online bars. Virtual collaboration is being stepped up to flatten the impact curve of the pandemic and reshape businesses through collaboration technologies.

The unprecedented public health emergency is rapidly transforming the way we work, behave and lead our lives.

Shifting to new development environment

Software development companies need to shift to new working conditions rapidly. Accurate insights and innovations can help play a significant role in recovering from COVID-19 impact which largely depends on the sub-sectors they serve and support. The pandemic has shaken economies around the world to the core, and SMBs have felt the impact more compared to enterprises, so offering platform-independent services can help in boosting operations and stay resilient. They need to work smart and implement staff capacity augmentation measures to fulfill their delivery gaps.

Virtual platforms and service delivery models can help small and medium businesses keep operation during the lockdown and physical shut downs. To survive through the current crisis, the businesses must augment their digital capabilities and take measures to safeguard against future disruptions.

Agile operating structure

Major shifts in customer needs require retailers to adopt creative solutions to increase sales and product stickiness. They need to quickly adapt to changing customer behaviors and establish a more agile operating structure to stay competitive. They need to repurpose their supply chain capabilities and proactively manage digital network fluctuations to be resilient.

COVID-19 has accelerated shift to digital with more people working from home and spending more time online. The increased load on digital resources is inhibiting the ability of many organizations to deliver quality service with reliability.

When it comes to restart and plug into the economy post COVID-19, retailers and enterprises need to implement visible safety measures to win the confidence of consumers. They need to improve their shopping efficiency, both online and offline.

Keeping the overheads low

Software development companies have embraced distance coding and doing software development as effectively as they are in shared offices. Office space is expensive, and needing the less of it offers a great way to keep the overheads low. The developer community is adapting to the agile development framework that allows responding rapidly to the changing market demands. Software delivery and personalized outreach is needed to retain and attract more customers during the pandemic crisis.

High tech leaders need to develop new capabilities to change how they work in the short and long run. Networks that support workers and customers must be assured to ensure business continuity.

Flexible support for custom software development

Flexsin Technologies, being the leading software development company can help you reboot to the economy in the current COVID-19 crisis with its innovative software solutions delivery. We can help in infusing creative and innovative methods to customer engagement with custom software development to meet the specific needs of your business. We can help identify where AI could be used to improve service and provide flexible support to rekindle your growth potential.

COVID-19 has affected a number of people, processes and enterprises worldwide. And this number continues to rise at a high speed because the spread of the fatal virus remains unchecked. In such difficult times, the world relies on the effectiveness of how any fintech infrastructure works. Accessing highly resilient and robust electronic payment ecosystems securely is important for businesses and consumers in these uncertain times.

A payment ecosystem that is evolving with the COVID-19 crisis is actually stepping up to the challenge. While most economic ecosystems may claim to remain resilient throughout many crises, the actual limitations and strengths of any system become visible when it is put under stress.

At Flexsin, we have identified a variety of factors where we build exclusive technology road maps for strengthening the legacy payment ecosystems for many of our clients. We aim to harness the next wave of digital technologies for making contactless payments a widespread reality throughout the world. By leveraging our expertise, we have empowered many clients to build digitally robust economic ecosystems and payment gateways infrastructures.

This way, we are enabling many fintech leaders around the world to serve their consumers better, faster, and more easily during COVID-19 and beyond. Right now, we are creating one of the most comprehensive no-touch payment ecosystems for one of our clients. Once deployed, this ecosystem will help people embrace digital transactions safely and confidently.

Up next, let us go through some of the key highlights of this contactless payment ecosystem that will bring safety, reliability and security to anyone doing digital transactions.

Unlocking The Power Of No-Touch Digital Transactions

COVID-19 is changing the way global payment card markets operate. Now, contactless is considered a safer and more hygienic way of paying for merchandise. The adoption of contactless digital payments is accelerated by key fintech ecosystem players as well. Now, the marketing message behind digital payments is also making a shift from convenience to health and safety.

As per a study, the touchless digital transactions are getting pushed by technology leaders and governments alike. Owning to this specific push, the world can expect the adoption rate of digital transactions to rise by 8 percent worldwide. To make the adoption of no-touch payments even faster, the governments across the world are explaining the benefits of a digital payment ecosystem. The rise in the adoption is expected to soar up dramatically given the fact that how the world is grappling with the COVID-19 outbreak.

That is why we are helping our client to come up with a robust e-payment platform to address the changing needs of consumers – to manage the shift in their spending habits. Once this digital transaction ecosystem rolls out, the client will help consumers avoid crowded marketplaces and limit their social interactions. On the other hand, the ecosystem will also help businesses seamlessly embrace the concept of e-payments and money-less transactions. We are confident about this payment ecosystem’s capabilities in checking the spread of the novel coronavirus disease.

An Intuitive Chat Interface That Does More

We developed a built-in chat interface within the payment ecosystem. We did that because we wanted the client’s audience – consumers and merchants – to communicate with each other. With the help of this platform, the audience may discuss payment-specific conditions or any other important things related to bookings and deliveries.

The idea behind developing an in-app chat interface is straightforward: We and the client want to simplify and speed up the way consumers interact with merchants. On the app’s chat interface, consumers can talk to their friends or even merchants anytime. The chat functionality will help customers pre-book and pay directly from the interface itself without having to navigate through the app. That way, the whole experience of using the app will become more intuitive and less hassle-free.

Even getting to know your way around the chat interface and the app at large will be faster and easier. To drive digital transactions to a whole new level especially in a world ravaged by COVID-19, we are making sure that the entire ecosystem’s UI and UX elements are well-designed and consistent. The payment ecosystem, which is in its final production phase, will be super intuitive so that it will not have a steep learning curve.

Where Payment Safety Is The Topmost Priority

Last but not least, we could not have enhanced the whole web ecosystem’s UI by ignoring its security. While designing the mobile app and web-based application, we made payment security the cornerstone of every digital interaction that will happen in the ecosystem.

If any fintech ecosystem has security loopholes, then it is predisposed to the rising instances of fraudulence and cyber-attacks amid the COVID-19 outbreak. In times of a crisis as big as the COVID-19 pandemic, many bad actors pose as trusted organizations including banks, merchants and the like. For this purpose, we have included full-fledged security protocols for making sure the digital transactions happening in the ecosystem will be secure every time.

We have included a special escrow feature where the booking amount of the consumer or the business will be safely returned to their wallets in case there’s a cancellation. By integrating an escrow feature in the ecosystem’s payment gateway, we have made sure that the funds of the users are secure every time and all the time.

The digital wallets for both consumers and merchants have high-end security features for making sure that the processes of requesting, sending and receiving payments will be safe and fast. By fortifying the security of user funds in the fintech ecosystem’s wallet, we have specially implemented data protection protocols. That way, the users have the peace of mind while doing transactions on this ecosystem.

Other Miscellaneous Features That Drive Digitalization Ahead

Other than facilitating the way contactless digital payments will make the buying process simpler and safer in a COVID-19 world, the fintech ecosystem will come with other goodies too. A case in point: The ecosystem will have a newsfeed just like the one you will find on social media channels. This feature will be used by businesses and users both; businesses will use newsfeed for promoting their offers, product discounts and new arrivals. These posts will be visible by all business followers on the platform.

The user, on the other hand, will also use the newsfeed feature for listing all the details of a transaction that they will make public; these details will include amount, comment and the like. In a way, the use of the newsfeed feature in the ecosystem will successfully revolutionize digital advertising for enterprises both big and small. It will prove to be a game-changing way of promoting products, services and discounts in a world where traditional advertising may not grab so many eyeballs.

Explore New Digital Possibilities With A Strategic Technology Partner

When it comes to implementing the right fintech ecosystem that accelerates digital transactions for reducing social interactions and checking the spread of COVID-19, it comes down to us. At Flexsin, we hold deep expertise and an excellent track record in developing web-based and app-based fintech ecosystems.

If your enterprise has an idea of how contactless payments can curtail the spread of the pandemic, then collaborating with us will make sense. As a leading web Application development company, we have a team of expert web and app developers who have years of experience to seamlessly take any fintech idea from paper to the real world. Get connected with our sales team and discover how digital can equip your business idea for fighting through the difficult times.

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced healthcare enterprises to readjust their clinical resources and rebuild their financial roadmaps. The pandemic has caused unprecedented business changes in every segment, including healthcare, that would have been unthinkable to carry out in the recent past.

In these unfortunate times, the healthcare industry will have to open a new world of contactless care that can help save lives and even enable medical facilities to thrive. At Flexsin, we understand the vulnerabilities of the healthcare segment posed by the novel coronavirus disease’s outbreak.

The novel coronavirus disease has disrupted the global medical supply chain to an incredible extent. When the healthcare sector is facing unheard challenges and unknown obstacles, we are leveraging our deep digital expertise and capabilities for building innovation-driven solutions for medical enterprises.

Here is how we have empowered a healthcare enterprise to achieve a new level of success and safety in the face of the growing business challenges created by COVID-19.

Making Contactless Care A Reality For Healthcare Facilities In The COVID-19 Era

A client with an impressive track record in the medical sector had a revolutionary idea of dialing up the quality of healthcare by streamlining the interaction between doctors and patients. And for tackling the COVID-19 situation head-on, the client wanted the care delivery to be contactless so that it is free from any kind of exposure.

For putting the idea from conception to completion, the client required harnessing immense digital capabilities of a key technological player. That is where our development team, at Flexsin, came on board. We developed a hybrid HIPPA-compliant mobile application along with a web-based application for the client’s two user groups for making sure that delivering contactless care is a possibility.

Unlike the challenges faced by legacy medical technologies, this new-age healthcare ecosystem was designed to drive healthcare-centric innovation to a whole new level of excellence. Our development team understood that tomorrow’s contactless care delivery solutions could not be designed by simply relying on yesterday’s solutions.

Which brought us to …

A Medical Ecosystem That Revolutionizes Contactless Healthcare From Scratch

The next generation of healthcare applications and web systems must be fluid, responsive and reliable. Our development team made sure that this healthcare application checked every single of these boxes to become one of the most useful healthcare ecosystems of all time.

We built dedicated platforms for patients and doctors; these platforms had features exclusively designed for each user group. First of all, let us discuss the application in this healthcare ecosystem that has helped patients receive best-in-class care and consultation from top doctors in the comfort of their home.

An Intuitive Application That Builds A Digital Bridge Between Patients And Doctors

Our team came up with an incredibly fluid hybrid mobile application for iOS and Android. The application is live and helping patients track their COVID-19 symptoms without stepping out of their homes.

Since the novel coronavirus disease has the symptoms that are strikingly similar to the common flu, it is important to make sure that the patients are tracking the right symptoms every time. Thanks to its health diary, this healthcare mobile app has enabled many patients and their doctors to diagnose the COVID-19 disease in its early stages and take necessary precautions.

Besides having tremendous symptom-tracking capabilities, the application even lets patients share their symptomatic data and other related details with their doctors and patients. All in all, this healthcare application is digitally transforming healthcare in every possible way.

A Robust Web Ecosystem That Gives Healthcare A Digital Dimension

For doctors, our team designed an end-to-end web-based application. With this web-based application by their side, the doctors would save their lives from the novel coronavirus disease and even their business from shutting down in times of an outbreak that sees little to no patient visits.

Once the doctors signed up on this web-based application, they would be able to carry out online consultations. That means they could do consultations online without having patients coming to their clinic in person. Which is why, the web application is best for doctors who do not want them and their patients to get exposed to the high risk of contracting COVID-19.

Other than providing healthcare practitioners with the facility of doing online consultations, the web healthcare ecosystem has a host of interesting features. These features help the doctors give their patients the ability to do online bookings, managing their appointment dairy with a few clicks and interacting with patients through chat or call.

A Strategic Partnership For Driving Digital Transformation In Clinical Care Ahead

This fully regulated healthcare ecosystem, which we developed for a client, has helped in making healthcare better and safer in these times of COVID-19 outbreak. For this specific client, we used scalable mobile and web app solutions for ensuring that the security of the clinical workforce and patients does not get hampered at any cost and at any time.

Like this success story, our development team has numerous live projects that have transformed businesses and improved lives across the world. If you are associated with a healthcare enterprise and want to discuss an idea that will transform the way care is delivered, then get connected with our sales professionals.

Our team has expertise in understanding your idea and helping you refine it to the extent that it goes from paper to the real world in the shortest period. We have already improved the innovation capability of many healthcare enterprises from the world over. So, now it is your turn to collaborate with us and revolutionize healthcare so that it is better equipped to scale according to unknown medical challenges involving pandemics and the like.

As a high-level programming language, Python offers a lot of flexibility in implementing a variety of functionalities. That’s the reason it is used in many development areas including data analysis (scikit-learn, SciPy) web development, desktop UI, and system administration. Python’s rich standard library and clean syntax allow for speedier development with this programming language.

Libraries have modules that can be reused throughout the development process. If you are developing for some specific actions, such as web scraping, you would most probably have a library in Python for it. So, you will not be required to write the code from  scratch.  This way, libraries allow the developer to work efficiently and speedily without rewriting common commands.

Since Python is an object-oriented language, everything in it is an object. Use object-oriented paradigm for writing codes in Python, This way, you will be able to achieve the following objectives in your coding:

• Modularity
• Polymorphism
• Inheritance
• Data hiding
• Encapsulation, and
• Reusability

Avoid implementing the best practices from other languages. Also, take care not to turn off error-reporting during the development process, and do not alter sys.path, use distutils instead.

Doorstrings and readable documents

Readable documentation though may appear to be burdensome but it is important for clean coding. Markup languages such as reStrucuredText, Markdown and Sphinx can be used to improve the readability of your documentation. Developers can use Sphinx to export formats like HTML while reStructuredText allows you to generate Python documentation from the existing reStructuredText documentation.

Doorstrings are the documentation strings used at the beginning of each module, class or method. Use line breaks and indent your code. Use comments and whitespaces around operators and assignments, and stay consistent. Also, write code to name your functions, variables and methods to self-document them and make them reflect the purpose of a specific component.

While reStructuredText is the first step to prepare documentation, a Python development company should be clear about the use of Doorstrings. This documentation string appears prior to every module. Once every component of your code has a properly documented Doorstring, you can use Sphinx to generate Python documentation. A developer can also add documentation to ReadTheDocs documentation repository after every code commit.

Logic operands

Logic operands can be used to speed up development and improve the readability of your code. The object can be obtained from the cache, If check_in_cache( ) returns an object with logical function, it will be treated as missing. This will cause your application to call a pull_from_db function. If your functions return such objects, you should consider the use of additional explicit is None check.

Python Enhancement Proposals (PEPs)

Python Enhancement Proposals or PEPs ensure that all Python code looks and feels the same. To achieve this, use proper naming conventions for variables, functions, modules, packages and methods. Four spaces should be used for indentation. The code should be formatted correctly and also displayed correctly on other configurations, as the indentation level is important for this programming language. Mixing tabs and spaces is not a good idea, rather you can avoid tabs altogether as tabs semantics are generally not well defined. There is the possibility that they can be displayed completely differently on different systems and editors. Moreover, while copy-pasting in a web page or some other markup code, they can be wrongly converted or even destroyed.

Python Package Index or PyPI

Use codes from Python Package Index or PyPI instead of writing them yourself. It has an extensive repository of codes, so you will be able to get clean codes to complete your programming faster. It has projects about everything, and you can also crate and upload your own package. Create a virtual environment for each of your projects to avoid library clashes as different versions of a library may be needed by different projects.

Dictionaries in Python

While dictionaries in other languages are more of associative memories or associative arrays type, in Python, they are an unordered set of value pairs, and each key is unique. However, for a clean and easily testable code, exception catch and conditions should be avoided. Using exceptions for flow control is normal for any Python development company. However, try-except-style is used to prevent the race-conditions in some race constructs.

Making everything a class is not considered good practice in Python. In many instances, a developer could be better off with a function than creating a class. Take the below example:

class Salutation(object):
def __init__(self, salutation =’Good Morning’):
self.salutation = salutation

def salut(self, name):
return ‘%s! %s’ % (self.salutation, name)

salutation = Salutation(‘Cool’)
print salutation.salut(‘Austin’)

The above code can be written in a concise way without creating class, and instead using a function, such as shown below:

def salut(salutation, target):
return ‘%s! %s’ % (salutation, target)

Make it a practice to use more built-in library functions and much less long chains of the class hierarchy.

Top companies such as Facebook, Goldman Sachs, PayPal, Instagram, Uber, Glassdoor, Netflix, Twilio and JP Morgan Chase are using Python across their range of products. The programming language is used for web development, machine learning, game development and entertainment, data science, finance, blockchain and many other applications.

Python for business analytics

Python is the top programming language for data science, web development and writing automation scripts. It allows the users to store, access and manipulate data. The programming language is useful for almost every industry. It has emerged as a popular language for business analytics and its ecosystem continues to grow.

Python for decision trees and Bayesian networks

Python programming language is fast replacing Excel which has been the de-facto decision engine for companies for over a decade. Excel was built for a world where real-time information was not required and collaboration wasn’t as important. Now, Python is being used by data scientists for descriptive analytics to understand trends and evaluate business metrics over a period of time. It is becoming the preferred language for machine learning. Python development companies and data scientists use it to create models for Bayesian networks, decision trees and much more.

Python frameworks such as Django, Flask, CherryPy and Web2Py are being used for the development of a variety of applications including command-line applications, system administration applications, image processing, automated testing and a lot more.

Python is the current language of choice for web developers, data scientists and machine learning experts. It can run on most of the operating systems including Windows, Mac and Linux. It’s a developer’s favorite. It has been crowned the number two language in the 2019 survey of Slack Overview.

Every business has its unique workflows, and standard applications and third-party tools aren’t always the best option to get the things done the way you want, and may as well be hard to implement on your website. That’s the reason custom web applications development has become quintessential for modern businesses to achieve their goals faster and more effectively.

A quality web app should be fit for use just not for the current needs of an organization but also be able to adapt to the changing technologies. It should be able to address the users’ long-term needs and grow with the requirements of a business.

Here are some of the trends and principles of modern custom web applications development.

Small codebases and microservices for separating concerns  

Monolithic codebases can put a significant amount of cognitive load on the app developers, as it is large and interactions between the functional components may not be well-defined. The development process using microservices can help in reducing code lines as each service focuses only on one set of functionality. The service boundaries are sharp and clear, while the effect of the internal operations of one service can’t easily leak over to the other service.

A custom web app development company can make your code and architecture easy to understand with a single interface for interacting with your system services and accessing data. Implementing application services as microservices provides a clear separation of concerns as they provide an excellent mechanism for separating the concerns. They provide a single interface for utilizing functions in a Restful API and help in improved productivity.

Apply a networking mindset

With the applications becoming larger, their development and delivery too have become more distributed and networked, shifting from single server to three-tier architecture to a service-oriented architecture, and now to microservices. Networking of application architecture makes it more resilient and their deployment becomes easier. Networked applications are more resilient as they provide high availability from the get-go, and can be deployed easily as they do not have to go through the entire regression process of deploying a single service. We have steadily been moving toward a networked future, applying a networking mindset throughout the architecture helps in evolving and delivering applications as per client’s needs.

Security is no longer a feature

Security is no longer a feature for the modern custom web applications that the developers can just add at the end, given their high vulnerabilities, such as Cross-Site Scripting and SQL Injection, and there are always new threats. More than ever, a modern web applications development company must build security into the design and architecture of the web apps from the start to avoid any financial, data loss or reputational costs later due to the vulnerability issues.

The benefits of custom web application development services:

• In contrast to the commercial off the shelf (COTS) software, custom web applications are designed to perfectly fit your specific business needs, as it is exclusively yours.
• Users can address the same version of a web application across devices, eliminating any compatibility issues
• A business can embed as many security features as it wants
• With the data integration, information about your business is automatically updated directly from the website, that helps reduce the cost of data entry.
• You can boost your business efficiency and user satisfaction as multiple systems and protocols come together under a single platform.
• Custom web apps facilitate collaboration among the teams in modern businesses that need to be adaptive, pulling expertise from across their functions to serve the customers in better ways.

Mobile-first approach

In the mobile devices based world of today, it’s imperative to provide intuitive transition effects as well as search experiences to the users.

Single page applications (SPAs) do not need the webpage reloading during the usage. They provide outstanding user experience by imitating the natural environment in web browsers with no extra wait time. It’s a great choice when creating custom mobile applications. Angular and React framework based custom SPAs make them the most suitable for hybrid mobile applications.

Serverless architecture

Serverless architecture allows the companies to execute applications without worrying about the servers as the management and updates are taken care of by the cloud vendors such as AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. Another benefit of serverless architecture is that it is easy to set up and get running, and the scaling process is also automatic.

Partner with a reliable custom web app development company

Customization of web applications as per the specific business needs can be challenging and daunting at the same time as it is quickly becoming more complex and requires an ever-evolving skillset. At Flexsin Technologies, we provide custom web applications development services, leveraging multiple frameworks, technologies, APIs and databases to provide businesses across the industries with the applications and features they require for efficient working of their business operations.

Some of the web applications frameworks that we specialize include the below ones:

• Laravel PHP Framework
• Symfony PHP Framework
• Codeigniter PHP Framework
• Django Python Framework
• Zend PHP Framework, and
• Yii PHP Framework.

We use below JavaScript Libraries and Frameworks

• AngularJS
• jQuery
• Google Web Toolkit
• Node.js and
• Ext JS, among others.

We specialize in various programming languages including PHP, JavaScript, Python, Lass, Perl, Ruby, CSS and many more.

Caring for your success with custom web apps

Our dedicated team will find solutions for your existing business needs for customization with flawless and smooth operations. Our QA team, UI/UX designers and developers will work to create custom applications for you with intuitive features and clean code. As a strong technology partner with over a decade of expertise and successful delivery of 2500+ projects across the world, Flexsin Technologies cares for your success and is ready to cover all your applications customization needs with a focus on usability, performance and scalability.

As a trusted custom web development company, Flexsin utilizes a developer-oriented approach that frees them from the concerns about CI/CD, and works to maximize the developer’s productivity by helping them to focus on the features you want in your custom web app development.

Providing a great brand experience to your customers

Performance, load and stress testing are very much the part of our custom web app development process. Our developers can integrate user-friendly interface designs in your custom web apps that can perform any complex task that your audience will appreciate, resulting in a great brand experience.

An enterprise creating a mobile application for users or its employees must face one big challenge. It is to decide whether to develop a native application or a cross-platform one. With native applications, the business may lose the audience of a particular platform for which it is not building.

But when it comes to building an end-to-end cross-platform application, it means building a product that can be targeted to the user base of both iOS and Android. In the early days of web application development, the businesses and developers targeted just a single set of users. But, now, things have changed. In fact, as of January 2019, Apple disclosed that it serves almost 1.4 billion users across the world; while in May 2019, Android stated that it serves nearly 2.5 billion users.

So, businesses cannot possibly miss out on either of the two user bases. That is why more and more enterprises are making a beeline for cross-platform app development. But when the businesses have decided to go with cross-platform development, it comes down to picking the right one for their applications.

Ionic crosses the mind while speaking of really robust cross-platform application development platforms.

Why Is Ionic So Iconic

A front-end yet open-source SDK, Ionic is leveraged for developing hybrid mobile applications using SaaS, PhoneGap, and AngularJS. Ionic’s advent has provided many developers with the vast breadth that was previously not included in the development landscape. The breadth is related to designing and deploying intricate and highly functional user interfaces.

The applications deployed leveraging different technologies can be published in different app stores. Built on Ionic, the applications can get the native look. How? Well, because this cross-development framework brings to the table dedicated kits for Android and iOS known as Android UI and iOS UIKit, respectively.

Being built on the HTML5 framework, Ionic leverages a range of wrappers including Cordova and PhoneGap for running native apps. Below, let us throw light on some of the benefits a business can experience when it places its trust on Ionic for its next cross-platform app development endeavor.

Open Source Framework

The biggest benefit of Ionic is its open-source framework. The platform comes at a very low cost and has extremely robust community support from developers. This framework goes one a step ahead and provides different codes of multiple mobile-optimized HTML, JS, and CSS components. Which is exactly why, when it is integrated with AngularJS, that integration will help make applications and code structures manageable across different platforms.

Default UI

Ionic includes default JS and CSS components addressing the elementary aspects of different mobile application development. There are different options in the form of lists, sliding menu, buttons, tabs, popups, navigation, and the like. With these elements, it is simple to not compromise on elegance. Best of all, these elements can be customized to create powerful effects as per the developer’s choice. The uniformity, however, will never compromise on the UX carried out on independent platforms.

AngularJS Foundation

Being built on the AngularJS framework, Ionic has many features directed toward delivering creative and engaging mobile applications. This robust framework carries many in-built features that create an immersive user experience. The Ionic framework is being completely compatible with AngularJS and is made of different features. Ionic broadens the scope of AngularJS and makes it simpler and faster for offering scalable mobile app development services.

Platform Agnostic

Ionic is engineered to automatically and immediately recognize different baked-in CSS equivalent present in the platform for delivering a native experience. The platform offers a variety of codes of mobile-optimized HTML, CSS, and JS components. That way, the developers must not have to rewrite codes for different platforms time and time again. Additionally, the integration of this platform with the AngularJS framework renders a solid structure that will never compromise on ease of maintainability and code quality.

To Sum Up

Cross-platform application development is the best bet for any enterprise that is operating in a set of circumstances where the application should be simultaneously released on multiple platforms. And when it comes to delivering high-end cross-platform application development with tight deadlines, Ionic comes into the picture.

In simple words, Ionic lends the developers the needed space for extending their creativity without compromising on user experience. For budget-conscious enterprises, too, Ionic brings good news as it offers low-cost cross-platform application development solutions.

But finding a reliable enterprise technology partner offering scalable Ionic mobile app development services is challenging. Whether it is designing intuitive applications, developing custom apps, testing or updating applications, or maintaining existing solutions, Flexsin does it all seamlessly.

Flexsin has a dedicated team of developers offering full-cycle of Ionic framework development services. The team has deep expertise and rich experience in handling Ionic use cases that incorporate a range of frameworks including JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and AngularjS. Connect with Flexsin’s sales team and discover how Ionic can be leveraged to unlock new and exciting cross-platform application development opportunities.

Python is a powerful, dynamic and highly flexible scripting programming language which is gaining popularity among the cloud technology providers across the world. It is best suited for minimum value products (MVPs) and prototypes. The sophisticated Python framework is designed to efficiently handle data manipulation and RAD for a positive impact on the overall performance of your application. It has really easy syntax that makes it a preferred choice for writing websites and applications.

When high level built-in data structure is required to be combined with dynamic binding and typing, Python becomes the obvious choice as it allows for the rapid application development with vibrant semantics. It has many applications on different domains with a further sub-implementation. As it is an aspect-oriented language, there are modules with different functionality.  This general purpose programing language is most often used for web app development due to its ease of understanding and implementation.

Python’s open-source community continues to develop innovative libraries for a wide array of applications to interact with customers using cutting-edge data analytics software.

Other prominent features of Python include -

• Requires fewer codes that makes the development process much faster
• Trusted by Facebook, Google, YouTube and Instagram for web development
• Supports multiple programming structures and functional programming
• Impeccable security for the web and mobile applications
• Integrate systems more efficiently to work quickly
• Scalable for portable and cross-platform development

Frameworks are an essential time-saving tool for advanced web development services providers that help in delivering the products faster with their ready-made structure. Python-based web frameworks such as Django and Flask are among the popular choices for web development.  These frameworks help create server-side code in Python that runs on your server, instead of the user’s devices and browsers. Django provides an all-inclusive experience; you get an admin panel directory structure and object-relational mapping for your projects. On the other hand, Flask provides simplicity, flexibility and fine-grained control, and allows you to decide how you want to implement it.

Flask or Django?

Flask should be chosen if you want more control about which component to use and focus on experience opportunities. Flask is a better choice for beginners and when you want more customization. Django is a good option for straightforward applications where there will be a single way of doing things, such as an e-store.

Machine learning

Machine learning typically implements an algorithm to automatically detect a pattern in a given output. Deep learning, random forest and support vector machines are some of the popular machine learning algorithms. Python support the below two machine learning libraries and frameworks:

• Scikit-learn: Includes the popular machine learning algorithms built in.

• TensorFlow: It’s a low-level library that is used for building custom machine learning algorithms.

At Flexsin, we use multiple python frameworks such as Django, Pyramid, libraries such as Fabric, Requests, tools and utilities such as Asyncio and Beautiful Soup, and databases such as MySQL and MongoDB, to provide custom functionalities to your python applications.  Scikit-learn is good for getting started with a machine learning project whileTensorFirst is a good option for efficiency issues.

Data analysis and visualization with Python

Matplotlib is a popular library for data visualization in Python. It’s easy to getting started with and will help you learn other libraries later on.

Our experts have tamed Python to do awesome for you. We offer below range of specialized Python development services as per your needs, including the below:

• Custom  Python development for flexible, feature-rich portals
• Full-stack python web development services
• Python based app development
• REST API development
• Migration of existing applications in PHP, Java,  ColdFusion, and ASP.Net to Python
• CMS and Ecommerce development
• Machine learning using Python libraries

Python is gaining popularity among the developers

As per the Popularity of Programming Language Index, the use of Python Application Development has grown steadily over the last few years. Machine learning is also fueling the interest in Python.  Google is considering transitioning its products to Go that help propel its popularity among the developers even further.

Python is going to remain the most preferred programming language among the developers in the foreseeable future. Its high degree of flexibility, wide array of plugins and frameworks such as Django, Pyramid and TurboGears make Python a great tool for many projects More companies will adopt Python as this single, full-stack language serves the bulk of their development needs.

UX, expanded as user experience, is one of the buzzwords in the world of design technology and digital interfaces these days. As the field of UX is evolving, it gets all the more challenging to define what user experience means.

To put it simply, UX design is any website’s backbone. When an enterprise focuses on its web asset’s UX, the process will be channelized to enhance the satisfaction level of end-users by improving its efficiency, accessibility, and usability. Also, a web portal’s conversion rate is proportional to the richness of a UX design.

Because of its undeniable importance, more and more emphasis is laid by enterprises to team up with world-class UX design partners or leading digital web development companies. Nonetheless, a good UX design includes way more than intuitive user flows and mesmerizing layouts. To put it simply, enhanced user experience will elevate browsing experience of an end-user and jack up the traffic while pushing the conversion to an all-time high.

In short, result-driven transformative user experience will change visitors into leads and buyers into staunch brand advocates. But improving user experience is challenging to say the least. That is why here are four ways of taking the user experience to a whole new level.

Integrating Clear Call-To-Action Buttons

CTAs or call-to-actions are buttons used for guiding users to take a definite action. Each CTA button takes the end-user toward conversion. Some of the common CTAs instruct the end-user to download something, sign up on a page, book a consultation, and the like.

Using an attractive yet clear CTA button improves the user experience of any website. As web design best practice, a clear and powerful CTA button must be placed on each webpage of a portal. As per studies, clear CTAs can drive more conversions. Besides, leading Web Design Services providers believe that a rich CTA enhances the overall web user’s experience.

Few things to keep in mind before designing a CTA button are mentioned below.

• Use colors (preferably contrasting shades) in a CTA for helping it stand out.
• The copy in a CTA needs to be action oriented.
• A CTA button’s text should not exceed five words.

Catching Every Single 404 Error

Whenever users are searching, they land on a variety of pages that match their search intent. But the real kicker to the user experience happens when an enterprise’s leads land on its business page showing a 404 error message. When that happens, the leads quickly bounce back from that error page in search for an alternative webpage to get the desired information.

That is, 404 errors can easily drive away users or prospective buyers from an enterprise’s webpage. Which is why, it becomes necessary to properly manage the 404-error messages. First of all, an enterprise’s digital marketing team should find what all the different searches that display 404 errors; once these errors are found, the team needs to fix them at the earliest.

Even if the search is displaying a 404 error message, it is advisable to personalize that message. That means the error message should have a friendly appeal that nudges the visitor-cum-prospect to stick on the website instead of bouncing back immediately.

Accelerating The Page Load Times

The speed at which a webpage loads is a significant part of shaping end-user experience. The importance of a page’s load time is cemented because Google ranks webpages based on their load times; likewise, Facebook has even declared that it will give a high priority to only snappy links.

So, it is a no-brainer that slow load times in webpages can frustrate any user. Worst of all, slow load times can force a user to leave a website and find another alternative; it means a page’s slower load times can cost a business precious leads.

That is to say, if an enterprise’s landing page is slow to load, then the chances are high that the user may not even visit the company’s corporate website. Most importantly, it will not help much even when the page load times are increased; rather, the website or a webpage has to be completely optimized for mobile users as well.

The internet is full of tools that can check a webpage’s load times. Most leading webmasters prioritize a webpage’s load times above anything else.

Summing It Up

All in all, a powerful yet immersive user experience goes beyond providing just the useful information to an end-user. Nonetheless, most enterprises do not have the time and resources to refine their website experience for end-users.

That is precisely where Flexsin comes in. This web development partner has expertise-backed experience of designing and deploying web experience pleasingly and engagingly driving conversion rates to the next level.

As a web development partner, Flexsin has deep expertise in a variety of digital design technologies such as Adobe Photoshop, Corel, Adobe Illustrator, Sketch, Adobe XD, InDesign, InVision, Axure, Dreamweaver, and Zeplin.

So, enterprises must take decisive actions regarding building web design experience that is intuitive enough to impress users present in desktop and mobile ecosystems.

Over the last few years, the growth of the smartphone market has exploded. As of 2019, there are more than 2.7 billion smartphone users worldwide. Because of this fact, it is not at all surprising that the smartphone market has rapidly evolved and thrived.

But what do billions of smartphone users do on their devices? To tell the truth, 90 percent of the mobile time is spent on browsing through different applications. And that is definitely the most encouraging news for any business looking forward to developing powerful applications.

All in all, smartphone penetration and app usage are growing steadily without any signs of slowing down in the near future. Right now, many enterprise owners like you invest time and money in building scalable, innovative mobile applications. Today, businesses want to develop applications that can engage, guide, and educate users.

But before embarking on mobile app development, the real challenge lies in picking the right development approach. First and foremost, the most important question you ask is this: Whether the application will be a web-based one, a hybrid one, or a native one?

Among many development approaches available today, many enterprise owners place their bets on native application development. Why? Because this development approach tremendously improves user experience. That is because native app development builds an application for the users of a particular smartphone platform.

So if you are going to invest your time and resources in native application development, you must keep in mind the following things before beginning full-cycle native app development.

Understanding Native App Development

When you create a native mobile application, you develop a program that will run on a specific device or platform such as Android and iOS. The native software is coded in its dedicated programming framework. That way, the application remains compatible only on a particular mobile platform.

For example, if you want to develop an application for iOS, then you must use Swift or Objective-C for writing its code. Likewise, if you want to develop an Android application, then you must use Java and Kotlin.

To be precise, there is a multitude of guidelines for developing applications for a specific platform; the developers must follow these guidelines to the letter for building an intuitive native app. These guidelines are generally related to the platform’s graphics styles, typography, data entry, visual effects, etc.

Enterprises, today, build native applications not only for smartphones but also for desktops, smart TVs, etc. Differing from web applications and websites, native mobile applications cannot run on a browser. If anyone wants to use a platform-specific app, then they will have to download the app from the platform’s app store such as Android’s Google Play or Apple’s App Store. Once the app is downloaded, anyone can access it by tapping on its icon.

Native app development, however, is completely different from mobile website development in terms of technologies and skills used. When you are developing a native app, you will not have to overthink about browser compatibility. That is to say, when a native mobile application is developed, it will be able to leverage different native features found in a mobile’s operating system. Which is exactly why, it is easier for mobile app development companies to implement native functionalities in an app.

Besides building native apps, there is the option of developing hybrid and web apps. A web app is nothing more than an interactive website that a user can easily control, but a hybrid app is a variety of web apps that are developed through CSS, HTML, and other programming frameworks. Once a hybrid app is developed, it is wrapped inside a native framework via dedicated app development platforms such as Cordova.

Now that you know a great deal about native application development, it is time to take a deep dive into this development approach’s benefits.

Why Businesses Trust Native App Development

Seamless Performance Delivered

When you develop a native application, you have a single version of that application running on a dedicated platform. That is, a native application will always be well-optimized to work on a specific platform or operating system. That way, these applications run buttery smooth on a specific platform for which they are built.

The Speed That An App Needs

As a native application is well-optimized for either iOS or Android, it will definitely outperform web apps and native apps by a wide margin. You can see that for yourself by running a couple of speed and performance tests between a native app and its web or hybrid counterpart. For improving the opening time of a native app, you must program the code in a way that it can make the most of a device’s battery and memory.

Intuitive User Experience

Every mobile application has to make a very positive, smooth, and good impression if it does not want to be deleted soon. When you are developing a native app, you can do a lot of things for enhancing its user experience. For instance, integrating gesture support and other functions is easy in a native mobile app. Also, you can design a native app to have better and faster scrolling, eye-capturing animations, and other appealing elements.

Strong Data Protection And Security

Data protection is one of the most sought-after features when you are developing an application. For protecting your app’s data, you must ensure the hardware resource’s full efficiency. And unlocking the full potential of hardware resources is possible with native app development.

When Flexibility Is A Priority

If you want your app to be flexible, then native app development is the way forward. Native apps offer blazingly fast access to other smartphone utilities such as GPS, camera, microphone, calendar, and other functions. The thing is, native apps do not have any restrictions and can implement everything that is possible within the mobile operating system’s framework. So these applications are generally fast and flexible.

Tailor-Made Development Experience

As there are so many Android devices available on the market today, you can even hyper-personalize the development experience. For instance, native app development lets you design an app for a specific range of screen sizes as well. Like that, you can do different customizations while developing a native app that can significantly personalize the experience of end users.

Finding The Right Native App Development Partner

For translating the benefits of native mobile app development from paper to the real world, your business will need the best development partner. That is where Flexsin comes in. This app development company specializes in building highly intuitive native applications for platforms such as iOS and Android.

Flexsin has the expertise of developing applications ranging from food-ordering, money transfer, enterprise, iBeacon to fitness. The company has an excellent track record of delivering applications for different verticals such as wearable, geo-location, utility, e-commerce, e-learning, and the like.

In case you want to develop a groundbreaking native application for your business, Flexsin is the right development and growth partner that can help you realize your vision.

What is client-server architecture?

Client-server architecture is a computer-network where clients appeal and accept services from a centralized server also known as host computer. You are given an interface that enables computer users to appeal for services of the server and also showcase the results server yields. Here, servers do wait for clients’ requests and respond to them accordingly. Ideally, client-server architecture does provide a standardized and transparent interface for the clients, hence the client do not require being aware of system specifics, i.e. software and hardware. Clients are often placed at the workstations or working from their personal computers, while the server is placed away, somewhere on the network, generally on a more potent machine. This architecture is in effect when server and clients each has different jobs that they customarily perform.

What is server-oriented architecture?

Let’s start with a simple definition – This architecture is the slant where network components are arrayed as per the services offered. In service-oriented architecture, services are demarcated as individual program that creates building blocks, allowing the users to influence information and data in their very own way, effortlessly. The service serves as a channel through which users’ requirements are addressed. It is provided through a negotiated contract by a communication protocol. Services of server-oriented architecture are usually self-determining technologies, products or vendors. Therefore, organizations offering ASP.NET development services can avail the infrastructure service across different and independent networks.

Client-server architecture: Use and Benefits

Businesses often look for opportunities in order to upkeep their services and also a healthy competition to sustain in the industry niche using latest technologies. Deploying client-server computing in your business sure will improve the productivity as the architecture has cost-effective interface, reliable application services, wide connectivity and enhanced data storage. Below are the benefits of deploying client-server architecture in your organization in pointers –

Improved data sharing

You can easily retain all your business data through usual dealing processes and manipulate them on a server, which is available only for titled clients over an accredited access.

Integration of services

Each client gets the opportunity to avail corporate data via desktop interface exterminating the requirement to sign-up with a processor or terminal.

Shared resources amongst multiple platforms

Application castoff for client-server computing model is designed regardless of technical background of the authorized software (which is providing an open computing environment) or the hardware platform. It moreover enforces the users to acquire clients’ as well as servers’ services.

Data processing capability despite location

In this architecture, users are logged into the system regardless of any location, distance or the processor technology.

Easy maintenance

It’s an absolute shared model, representing dispersed liabilities amongst autonomous computers integrated over a network. Thus, it is easy to repair, replace, relocate a server and upgrade while clients remain unmoved.

Security

Servers do have improved resources and controlled access to ensure that only designated clients are allowed the access to manipulate the data. Here, all server updates are as well managed ensuring highest efficacy.

Server-oriented architecture – Use and benefits

Service: Users experience improved data flow, ability to demonstrate internal functionality and there is of course an organizational flexibility.

Service re-use: Cost-effective management and software development.

Messaging: Users enjoy absolute configuration flexibility.

Message monitoring: There are business intelligence, performance measurement and security attack detection.

Message control: Perhaps two of the most desired benefits: application of management policy and application of security policy.

Message transformation: Data translation has always been a concern in the niche of software/application development, but by deploying server-oriented architecture, you can truly enjoy the same.

Message security: The most desired and most essential feature: data integrity and data confidentiality.

Complex event processing: here the users enjoy simplification of software structure, ability to adapt faster to other external environments and better manageability and security.

Service composition: Users are allowed to develop new function combinations at individually required pace.

Service discovery: Users are given opportunity to optimize performance, cost and functionality. Moreover, it gives a simpler introduction of system upgrades.

Asset wrapping: Users can integrate existing assets into the system.

Virtualization: There is an improved reliability and users are able to scale operations as they meet multiple demand levels.

Model-driven implementation: Users can develop new functions as quickly as they require.

SOA Vs Client-server architecture: In A Nutshell

Application logic: While the client-server architecture has fat client, working through data-related logic and bulk of processing; in the matter of SOA, choices are about where the application logic can possibly live and how it gets shared.

Application processing: While the client-server architecture trails 80/20 wherein processing is done in bulk, SOA allows a unequivocal functional margin and resource condition.

Technology: While client-server architecture makes the most of 4GL programming languages and 3GL programming languages for performance causes, SOA uses XML data representation arch coupled with SOAP message framework. Server-oriented architecture basically uses CSS, HTTP, HTML etc.

Security: While client-server architecture is centralized on the server side, SOA is heavily dependent on WS-security framework for security purpose.

Administration: While client-server architecture’s maintenance cost is higher, SOA is immune to user-side maintenance needs.

Why choose Flexsin

Flexsin’s Client-Server Architecture and SOA suite offers all-inclusive modules for developing, securing and monitoring the both. Our service modules include business rule, human task, mediator and spring. These help build blocks that can be used for the construction of SOA/client-server architecture based applications.

Why today’s businesses prefer application development on AWS Cloud is because it helps them move faster, implement more securely and save a lot of overhead costs.

AWS Cognito offers an exhaustive set of services and products to be used while running scalable and sophisticated applications. From handling app authentication to providing enterprise federation and secure user directory, AWS (Amazon Web Services) Cognito is helping businesses with features such as Cognito User Pools and Federation too. While Cognito User Pool provides an encrypted user directory, which scales to millions of users, Federation helps users sign in with the platform via their social profiles on Google+, Amazon and Facebook.

AWS Cognito: Solutions

• Websites: Enables highly scalable, reliable and cost-effective web application and website hosting.
• Backup & restore: Cost-effective and durable options for disaster backup and recovery.
• Archiving: Data archiving from gigabytes to petabytes is convenient as AWS Cognito offers affordable and seamless solutions for it.
• DevOps: Fast and reliable development and delivery of products using its DevOps practices.
• Data analytics and lakes: Businesses need understanding, security, scalability and cost-effectiveness for running app development projects. AWS Cognito’s data lake and analytics solutions have it for you.
• Cloud computing: Means, development and running apps is now possible without having to worry about servers.
• High speed computing: Cloud-scale clusters and enhanced networking add value to solving complex issues related to app development.
• Internet of Things: It allows you to scale to millions of devices and billions of messages at a time.
• For instance: Smart watch, Smart cars, PoS at the retail outlets and many like that.
• Business applications: Simplified and cost-effective management of all your existing application development processes.
• Content delivery: Whether it be websites, video content or APIs, AWS Cognito accelerates them all.
• Mobile services: AWS infrastructure offers an exhaustive range of services to build mobile applications that can scale to millions of users worldwide.
• E-commerce: Run small, large e-commerce businesses ensuring high security, scalable solutions for retails and sales.
• Hybrid cloud Architectures: It lets you extend and expand your existing IT infrastructure.
• Blockchain: AWS Cognito is able to incorporate shared ledgers, i.e. blockchain technologies to support involvement and execution of multiple parties.

AWS Cognito Platform: Benefits

• Easy handling: This is designed to enable app developers, businesses and ISVs to securely and quickly host their scheduled projects. Using AWS Management Console, developers can access AWS’ app hosting program.
• Flexibility: AWS allows you to choose operating system, web app platform, programming language and other services as you need and prefer.
• Affordability: AWS Cognito does not oblige you with any of contracts or service bonds. You pay only for the storage, computer power and other basic resources required.
• Reliability: Users get to leverage high scalability, security for global computing infrastructure and consistency.
• High-performance and scalability: With AWS Auto scaling, Elastic Load Balancing tools, developers can scale up and down the functionality of their apps; and if the demand asks so.
• Security: AWS uses an end-to-end line to harden and secure its infra, including operational, physical and software measures.

Why migrate your business onto AWS?

• For experiencing global infrastructure
• To enjoy speed to market
• To run business in a secured environment
• To leverage extensive ecosystem

Popular businesses leveraging AWS Cognito infrastructure are as follows:

• Netflix
• Airbnb
• Imgur
• Pinterest
• Reddit
• HTC
• Nokia
• Citrix

How it helps your business? – Brief yet informative!

• Power your startup: For the startups as yours, AWS program offers: hands-on labs and training to enable you with resources you will need to grow your business. Besides, it offers AWS Promotional Credit and AWS Support as you start funding your budding venture. For reference, read about Airbnb’s journey with AWS Cognito.
• Help build your website: AWS Cognito sure helps boost your business’ online presence. Using AWS Elastic Beanstalk to develop a web app by choosing a platform and name for your environment. This program as well allows you to host your website on the platform itself. For a case study, refer to McCormick & Company.
• Create mobile app: So now that your web product is up and running, what about mobile presence? AWS takes care of it. It enables feature configuration for your applications by creating user authentication, push notifications, content delivery, analytics, storage and backend logic. For case study, refer to Easy Taxi project on AWS.
• Create big data: As your business starts growing, you will need big data app to support the velocity, variety and volume of your data. AWS features enable you to scale any big data application including clickstream analytics, datawarehousing, fraud detection, IoT processing, cloud computing quickly and seamlessly. The best example would be NETFLIX. Netflix streams thousands of TV series, web series and movies on-demand, using Amazon Web Services infrastructure. It allows them to deploy thousands of terabytes of storage and servers within a minute.

Why Flexsin?

We are a global partner of APN (AWS Partner Network). We are focused on helping businesses grow successfully on Amazon Web Services infrastructure, providing full-time consulting, technical, go-to market support and comprehensive marketing services at times.

The complexity of a system depends on:

Integration of components

There could be multiple interrelations between the components of a system with recursive levels of integration.

Heterogeneity of components

As designing a complex system involves several specialized fields; it becomes difficult to keep a unified vision of a system.

Depending on the context, system architecture can refer to:

• A model to describe and analyze a system
• A method to build the architecture of a system
• A discipline to master system design

High Availability Architecture

At times, you can experience dip in the performance of your servers due to events like sudden spike in traffic that can even cripple them. Instead of hoping that such things don’t happen to your system architecture, you need to gear up for it.

The solution lies in High Availability (HA) architecture. The approach defines the modules, components and implementation of services of a system for optimal operational performance, even at the time of high loads. It simply refers to a component or system that is continuously operational for a desirably long period of time. High availability architecture ensures that your system or application is configured to handle different loads and different failures with minimal or no downtime.

Achieving High Availability

Modern designs allow for the distribution of workloads across multiple instances which help in optimizing resource use and preventing overburden of any system in the process, which is known as Load Balancing.

Do the following to achieve High Availability for your system architecture:

Multiple application servers

Deploy your applications over multiple servers to equally distribute the load so that none of them is overburdened and you get the optimized output.

Scaling database

Do the redundancy check to achieve failure detectability and preventing common cause failures. Maintain Slaves who could step-in in case the main server crashes. Do a horizontal partition in database (sharding) where rows of the same table are run on separate servers.

Diversified geographical location

Keep your servers in different locations to save yourself from the consequences if something terrible like natural disaster happens to a location. Ensure that your servers are distributed all over the world and not localized in an area.

We will elaborate five key components:

- AWS EC2
- Application Load Balancer
- Auto Scaling
- RDS, and
- CloudFront of a scalable and highly available system architecture design in a little detail here.

1. AWS EC2

Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) is a web-based service that allows businesses to run application programs in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud. It provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. The cloud computing service is designed to make web-scale computing easier for the developers. This web service interface allows the developers to obtain and configure capacity with minimal friction.

Virtual Machines on AWS EC2, also known as Instances, offer many advantages like being highly scalable (one can choose instances with more CPU, RAM etc.), they are easy to start and stop and allow for the selection of various platforms. Different virtual machines are available for different purposes. EC2 reduces the time required to obtain and boot new server instances within minutes, allowing you to quickly scale the capacity as needed.

Here are the key benefits of EC2 architecture

Elastic web scale computing

It allows you to commission thousands of server instances simultaneously and your application can automatically scale up and down as per need.

Flexible cloud hosting

Amazon EC2 allows you to select instance storage and boot partition size that is optimal for your choice of application and operating system.

Complete control of instances

You can root access to your instances, stop your instances while retaining the data on your boot partition and restart the same instance using web service API.

Secure

All your compute instances are located on a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) with an IP range that you specify. You decide which instances to expose to the internet and which one to keep private.

Ease of use

It can be used in conjunction with Amazon Sample Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Sample Query Service (Amazon SQS), and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) to provide complete solution for computing query.

Inexpensive

With on-demand instances, reserved instances, spot instances and dedicated hosts, Amazon EC2 passes on to you the financial benefits of Amazon’s scalability.

Other features of Amazon EC2 include:

• Preconfigured templates for instances
• Secure login information for instances
• Storage volumes for temporarily deleted data
• Multiple physical locations for resources
• Static iPv4 addresses for dynamic cloud computing, and
• Virtual networks that are logically isolated from the rest of the AWS cloud.

Getting started with Amazon EC2

If you’re signed up for an AWS account, you can access Amazon EC2 console by signing into the AWS Management Console and selecting EC2 from the home page of console.

 2. Application Load Balancer

Application load balancer allows a developer to configure and route the incoming end-user traffic to the applications based in AWS. It pushes traffic across multiple targets in multiple AWS availability zones. It inspects packets and creates access points to HTTP and HTTPS headers. Based on load type, the Application Load Balancer spreads out the target with higher efficiency based on application traffic flowing in HTTP messages. It has support for WebSocket and also conducts health checks on connected services on per-port basis. These health checks specify a range of acceptable HTTP responses, and are accompanied by detailed error codes.

Adding listeners for rules configuration

A developer can add Listeners to load balancers and configure rules that include conditions and corresponding actions. Listeners are procedures that wait for specific events to occur. Application load balancer supports content-based routing and applications that run in Containers. It has access to HTTPS headers and allows you to route requests to different backend services. One can define up to 10 URL-based rules to route requests to the target groups.

Application load balancer multiplies new CloudWatch metrics including the number of active connections, overall traffic in GB and the connection rate per hour. It is designed to handle streaming in real-time and WebSocket workloads in an optimized manner. In connection with Auto Scaling, elastic load balancing significantly simplifies the task of building applications that scale up and down while keeping the high availability.

3. Auto Scaling

AWS Auto Scaling monitors your applications to maintain steady performance at low cost. The service provides the developers powerful user interface to build scaling plans for the resource including EC2 instances, Amazon Aurora Replicas and Amazon DynamoDB tables and indexes. It makes scaling simple with recommendations to balance performance costs.

Here are the key benefits of auto scaling

Smart scaling decisions

It automatically creates all of the scaling policies and sets targets for you based on your preferences. You can optimize costs and availability, and balance both.

Automatically maintain performance

It allows you to maintain optimal application performance and availability even when the workloads are unpredictable.

Quick scaling setup

Auto scaling allows you to quickly see the average utilization of all of your scalable resources without having to navigate to other consoles. One can set target utilization levels for multiple resources in a single, intuitive interface.

Pay only for the resources you need

You pay only for the resources you need as auto scaling will automatically remove any excess resource capacity when the demand drops.

4.  Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)

The service makes it easy for you to setup, operate and scale a relational database in the cloud. It allows you to provide fast performance, security, high availability and compatibility to your applications.

Here are some of the tedious management tasks performed by RDS:

• You can easily scale CPU, storage, memory and IOPS as per your need.
• It delivers a managed service experience by restricting access to certain system procedures that require advanced privileges.
• Manages software patching, automatic failure detection, backup and recovery.
• Provides high availability with primary instance and a synchronous secondary instance.
• Allows you to have automated backups performed when you need them, or manually create your own backup snapshot.
• You can define users and permissions to access the RDS using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM).

5. Amazon CloudFront

It’s a global content delivery network (CDN) service that securely delivers data, applications, videos and APIs to the viewers with low latency and high performance speeds. It speeds up the distribution of static and dynamic web content such as .html and .css to the end users. It works in conjunction with other Amazon Web Services for content distribution to the end users. Once content is put in an origin server, such as Amazon Simple Storage Service bucket, it is pushed out to multiple CloudFront servers as per the requested content.

CloudFront accelerates the delivery of dynamic content by moving it closer to the user by minimizing the internet hops. The service is highly useful for the organizations in need of higher response times and large file content that they want to distribute to a sizeable number of users. It’s the CloudFront edge server that provides fastest delivery to the viewer which improves performance. Users experience lower latency and higher data transfer rates.

Flexsin has extensive expertise in designing salable, High Availability system architecture for businesses large and small. Contact Flexsin to discuss your system architecture needs and we will work to design the best architecture for you for highly optimized performance.

AI becomes smarter and learns faster with more data, and businesses worldwide are fueling their growth leveraging machine learning and deep learning solutions.

The ability to build and leverage applications that learn on their own is a powerful idea. The challenges related to building sophisticated AI systems center mostly around scale as the databases are massive, training can be computationally challenging and inferring predictions can be hard.

How Amazon rebuilt itself around AI

Amazon is no stranger to AI Services. It was one of the pioneers to use the technology to drive its product recommendations. Amazon AI is Amazon Web Services (AWS) deeply customizable machine learning and AI platform. It is designed to be scalable to match an enterprise’s specific needs. Amazon AI is structured in three layers at services level.

These are:

• Amazon Rekognition
• Amazon Polly
• Amazon Lex

These APIs are pre-trained and pre-tuned so that these can be used by the developers with little to no AI expertise.

At the platform level, AWS supports deep learning engines such as Apache MXNet, pyTorch, TensorFlow, Caffe/Caffe2 and others.

One layer lower are AI platforms which are:

Amazon Machine Learning: It contains a series of visualization tools to analyze data without the need to learn complex machine learning tools.

Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR): It’s a managed Hadoop framework which is designed to perform real-time analytics, log analysis, predictive analytics and other data operations.

Spark: It’s an Apache product that runs inside of Amazon AI as a distributed processing system for big data workloads.

Below that are the AI frameworks, all of which run as part of the Amazon Deep Learning. The AI framework level is a basic Linux environment with the required tools to do AI and machine learning work. It is also the most development intensive of the three frameworks.

What AWS has to offer in the realm of artificial intelligence?

Artificial Intelligence is a major component in enterprise cloud deployments and applications. Amazon AI is a collection of cloud-hosted tools and services that enable enterprises to use a variety of technologies such as:

• Chatbots
• Document sentiment analysis
• Natural language understanding (NLU)
• Machine and deep learning, and
• Image and video recognition

These services help the developers create advanced applications for the end users to allow them interact in a variety of ways. This collection of tools and services includes:

Machine Learning

Amazon Machine Learning (Amazon ML) provides visualization tools and wizards that guide the developers to create machine learning models without having to learn complex ML algorithms. You can easily obtain predictions for your application using simple APIs, without managing any infrastructure or implementing custom prediction generation code. The service uses powerful algorithms to create ML models by finding patterns in your existing data and uses these models to process new data and generate predictions for your application.

Deep Learning

It dives deeper on the data than machine learning using layered algorithms. It typically uses neural networks to sort through large amounts of structured data to train models for informed predictions. The technology leverages many of Amazon AI tools and services.

Amazon Lex

Speech recognition and natural language understanding (NLU) require sophisticated deep learning algorithms to be trained on massive amount of data and infrastructure. With this service, you can build conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. It provides advanced deep learning functionalities of automatic search recognition (ASR) for converting speech to text, and natural language understanding to enable you to build applications with highly engaging user experience and lifelike conversational interactions. With its deep learning technologies, developers can easily build sophisticated, natural language conversational bots or Chatbots.

Amazon Polly

It’s a service that turns text into lifelike speech. It uses advanced deep learning technologies to synthesize speech and sounds like a human voice. It lets you create applications that talk. Polly includes 47 lifelike voices spread across 24 languages. Polly delivers consistently fast response time to support real-time, interactive conversation. Simply send the text you want converted into speech to the Polly API, and it will immediately return the audio stream to your application that you can play directly or store in a standard audio file format such as MP3.

Amazon Recognition

With this service, you can easily add image analysis to your applications, detect objects, scenes and faces in them, and also search and compare faces. The service uses deep neural network models to detect and label thousands of objects and scenes in your images. You can build powerful visual search and discovery into your applications. It provides two ways to feed the corresponding APIs:

Inlined Image: It’s a base 64 encoded representation of the input image, serialized as part of the API request.

Cloud Storage: It’s a simple reference to an image file hosted on Amazon S3.

Amazon SageMaker

Enables developers to create and train machine learning models. There are built-in algorithms for some of the most popular machine learning use cases. Jupiter notebooks help you visualize S3 data, or you can use AWS Glue to pull and translate data from AWS-hosted databases. A developer can train the model and deploy it into production. It has a modular structure so you can use any or all of its capabilities in your existing machine learning workflows.

Amazon Comprehend

It allows you to input large volumes of documents for textual analysis. It makes use of natural language processing for the analysis of text document and classifies entities into organized subsets, such as locations or people. The service leverages AI algorithms to rank keywords or phrases with a confidence score in relation to their importance in the document. It uses Neural Language Processing (NLP) to better understand and determine meaning within the text. The technology learns how to comprehend and process language as it was intended by the human being speaking or writing it.

AWS DeepLens

This programmable video camera can perform onboard analysis of the videos it captures. It comes with projects that help beginner-level and expert developers hone their machine learning skills. It allows you to get up and running with deep learning quickly and easily. The smart camera can recognize faces, objects, creatures and motions. It comes with recognition techniques that developers can build upon for their own projects. Object and action recognition can help seamlessly create something like demonstrations by developing an algorithm that learns to recognize how the two are paired for different outcomes.

Amazon Transcribe

This automatic speech recognition service enables you to submit audio files for transcription to text with timestamp for specific words in the original audio file. One can easily transcribe audio from common file formats, such as MP3 and WAV. It uses machine learning technologies to recognize the spoken word and transcribe it into text.

Amazon Translate

The service allows you to translate text from one language to another in real-time. This could be particularly helpful for the enterprises having worldwide audience to consume content. It uses machine learning to more naturally translate text from one language to another. It allows for multilingual web presence of your online properties where content can be seamlessly viewed in the chosen language of the viewer.

Alexa Voice Service (AVS)

The service leverages voice recognition and natural language understanding to provide a voice-controlled interface for the end users. It simplifies the development of voice-forward products by handling complex speech recognition and natural language understanding in the cloud. This way, the businesses can reduce their development costs and accelerate time to market.

Alexa Skills Kit (ASK)

The SDK allows you to build skills akin to voice apps for Alexa-enabled services. In includes APIs, webinars, code samples and documentation. Developers can create a variety of skill types, such as flash briefing, trivia, smart home, video skills and custom skills. There is a developer console for easy building of skills.

Flywheel – Amazon AI management strategy

Amazon calls its approach to AI as Flywheel which keeps AI innovation humming along and encourages energy and knowledge to spread to other areas of the company, just like a flywheel in engineering keeps the energy constant and spreads it to other areas of machine. Flywheel approach means the innovations around machine learning in one area of the company fuels the efforts of other team members. Essentially, what is created in one part of Amazon catalyzes AI and machine learning growth in other areas.

Amazon has come a long way since its early beginning in AI and machine learning. The company sells its machine learning approach through Amazon Web Services to clients like NASA and NFL.

AWS serves as a flexible, low-cost platform that can meet business requirements on the fly. The service is spurring innovation across various industry verticals, thanks to its ease of access from the cloud.

Who should use Amazon AI?

The platform is highly useful for the businesses that want to get into machine learning without having to make a large investment for hosting or analysis. The businesses that are already using AWS AI can enhance their big data processing capabilities without having to worry about splitting the systems between different providers.

Machine learning adding value to predictive analytics

Machine learning helps to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of business processes.

Data analysts are increasingly using machine learning techniques for predictive analytics as they tend to outperform statistical techniques for prediction problems. Potential applications of AI for predictions in business operations are broad and deep. Machine learning produces more accurate results when the behavior you want to predict is rare and the data sets have large number of varying features. ML algorithms tend to scale well with large volumes of data.

With cheap storage solutions, businesses looking to make better use of data can keep the data they used to discard. Machine learning helps the data analysts identify patterns in this data too.

Breadth of functionality

Businesses benefit from the continual evolution, innovation and iteration as they stand to access the newest features and enhancements instantly. They need not upgrade, deploy or mitigate.

Elasticity

Enterprises often overprovision to ensure that they had enough capacity to efficiently handle their business operations at the peak levels of demand. Implementation of artificial intelligence capabilities will allow them to provision the amount of resources that they actually need knowing that they can easily scale up or down as per the demand. This not only helps in reducing costs but also enhances an organization’s ability to meet the demands of its customers instantly.

How to get started with Amazon AI?

Anyone with AWS account can begin using the service after making payment. It’s charged on per-use basis, so costs should be negligible for basic use. The three Amazon AI services (Amazon Lex, Amazon Polly, Amazon Rekognition) can be used for free for a year, provided you perform only certain number of requests each month. After that, the services are still relatively cheap. Other components, like the frameworks and platforms are charged based on hours used.

AI is the new electricity

Not all organizations have access to the data, computing power and resources required for AI. For businesses without such resources, Amazon Web Services provides artificial intelligence services that enable them to take advantage of the benefits of AI without having to create their own training data sets or develop algorithms. AWS AI serves as a low cost, flexible platform that can meet business requirements on the fly. It provides the platform and resources to the businesses to get up and running quickly at low cost.

AWS lets the customers quickly spin up resources as and when they need them, deploying hundreds or even thousands of servers within minutes. They can quickly develop and roll out new applications

The primary goal of a content delivery network or CDN is to deliver content from the providers like media companies to the audiences as quickly as possible. The model works by delivering content from the CDN server closest to the audience consuming it, thereby eliminating maximum number of network hops.

Key advantages of a CDN are:

• Offloads traffic served directly from the content provider
• Lower network latency, lower packet loss and higher availability
• Decreases server load for faster content delivery
• Manages denial of service attacks by absorbing some of the traffic
• Efficiently handles increased number of concurrent users
• More control of asset delivery

Amazon CloudFront is a global content delivery network service that securely delivers data, applications, videos and APIs to the audience with low latency and high transfer speeds. It uses a global network of edge locations and regional edge caches to ensure that your end-user requests are served by the closest edge location, thereby improving performance for the viewers. It supports all files that can be served over HTTP including static files that are a part of your web application and dynamic web pages such as HTML or PHP pages. CloudFront accelerates the delivery of dynamic content by moving it closer to the user to minimize internet hops involved in retrieving that content.

What has to be done to configure CloudFront?

• The first step is to define the server hosting the content you want CloudFront to deliver. The origin server can be an HTTP server or a S3 bucket.
• Next, upload your content (webpages, images, audios, videos, media files) to the origin server. Anything that can be served over HTTP or a supported version of Adobe RTMP can be made use of.
• Create a distribution through which you tell CloudFront what content is to be used and what to do with it. You can use either HTTP/HTTPS or RTMP Distribution. To create a distribution, create login for your Amazon AWS account, go to CloudFront control panel and select Create Distribution. When prompted for the delivery method, select Web. The defaults are usually sufficient for your application. A distribution draws its contents from an Origin which is where the CloudFront will draw files from should it not have a copy within the distribution.
• Select a web distribution for HTTP or HTTPS. In case your deployment uses RTMP protocols, choose an RTMP distribution.
• Create URL-matching rules for your distribution. Like, you can decide that a request including the string “/automobile/” fetches data from your HTTP server, while a request containing “/manufacturer/” should go to S3.
• Finally, use the domain name endpoint given to you by CloudFront as URL. It is through this URL that your users will be accessing your content.

Once the setup is ready, your Amazon CloudFront distribution is ready to serve requests. Your DNS service will route a request from your end user to the CloudFront endpoint URL, which will send it to the edge location that can serve the user’s request in best way.

Benefits of CloudFront for businesses:

Global content delivery network

The CDN is built on the expanding global AWS infrastructure with Edge locations delivering high availability, scalability and performance from anywhere in the world.

Programmable CDN

With Lambda@Edge, you can easily run your code across AWS locations worldwide. Upload your Node.js code to AWS Lambda and it will take care of everything required to replicate, route and scale your code with high availability.

Secure content at the Edge

The CDN provides both network and application level protection. Its infrastructure and processes are all compliant with PCI, DSS and ISO to ensure secure delivery of your sensitive data.

High performance

The CDN is optimized for low latency and high data transfer speeds. It makes use of AWS backbone network to accelerate the delivery of content end-to-end.

Deep integration with key AWS services

CloudFront is deeply integrated with and optimized to work with key AWS services including Lambda, S3, Elastic Load Balancing and EC2.

Key Features:

Dynamic and customized content

The CloudFront delivers all of your content, including dynamic one that changes for each and every user. You can configure multiple origin servers and cache behaviors on your website. Cache behavior is the set of rules you configure for a given URL pattern based on file extension, file name or any portion of a URL path on your website. The CDN allows you to configure multiple cache behaviors for your web distribution.

Security features

You configure the CloudFront to enforce end-to-end HTTPS connections from your viewer to your origin. You can securely serve private content by using signed URLs to restrict access to Amazon S3 bucket. Field-Level Encryption allows you to further encrypt sensitive data so that in can only be viewed by certain components and services in your origin infrastructure.

Reporting and analytics

CloudFront offers a variety of solutions for your different reporting needs. With CloudWatch, you can set alarms on operational metrics, learn about your end users and which domains referred them to your website.

Unified streaming

CloudFront can be used to deliver live video streaming and video on demand (VOD) without operating any media servers and building reliable, broadcast quality video workflows in the Cloud. CloudFront can be used to stream any live video origination service that outputs HTTP=based streams. It uses Adobe Flash Media Server 3.5 as the streaming server and streams your media files using Adobe’s Real-Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP).

Device detection

Amazon CloudFront can look at the value of User Agent header to detect the device type like desktop, laptop, mobile phone, smart TV etc. from where the end user request came. This information is passed to the Origin server in the form of new HTTP Headers that can be used to generate different versions of the content based on the new headers.

Cross origin resource sharing (CORS)

It defines a way for client web applications that are loaded in one domain to interact with resources of different domain.

Geo tagging

It can detect the country wherefrom your end users are accessing content, generating different versions for the users of different countries. CloudFront catches these versions at the edge location to serve subsequent users visiting your website from the same country.

Low TTLs

CloudFront uses the expiration period you set on your files to determine whether it needs to check the origin of an updated version of the file.

Custom SSL

This feature provides your website the security benefits of CloudFront over an SSL connection that uses your own domain name in addition to lower latency and higher reliability.

Query string parameters

This feature helps you customize your webpages for each viewer, leveraging the performance and scale the benefits offered by caching content at Amazon CloudFront edge locations.

Besides the more obvious features already discussed above, with Amazon CloudFront, one can:

• Enable AWS WAF (Web Application Firewall) to secure content
• Configure the default TTL and Max TTL values
• Add signed cookies for private content
• Since it is PCI DSS compliant, you can engage in multiple ecommerce activities
• Add support for advanced SSL features.

You need a content delivery network if:

• The number of website users is increasing
• Your audience is geographically distributed
• Your website’s media quality is poor
• Your website speed is slow and downtime is high
• You are in need of more storage or bandwidth

Use cases

Replacing S3

CloudFront has a global network of edge locations or data centers spread around the world. The user request is routed to the nearest edge location to achieve high performance delivery of the content. It allows for parallel downloads and improves the performance of your application.

Caching dynamically generated content

You can use CloudFront to replace custom caching solution and fine tune its behavior. CloudFront supports Etag headers used by the browsers to save bandwidth. Etags are a sort of a hash or a digest, of the given resource. Just add Etag to your content on CloudFront and this behavior will be automatically triggered.

Whole-site delivery

In the typical usage pattern, CloudFront acts as a CDN for static content only, typically hosted on S3 or on your custom Origin server. CloudFront can be used as a proxy for both S3 and EC2 instances, or your own Custom Origin server.

The CloudFront lets you quickly obtain the benefits of high performance content delivery. Developers benefit with tight integration with other Amazon Web Services. With Amazon S3, EC2 and Elastic Load Balancing as origin servers, it provides developers a powerful combination of durable storage and high performance delivery.

Low latency and high transfer speeds

As the cloud continues to dominate application and content delivery, AWS continues to dominate the cloud. There can’t be many providers who haven’t given a serious thought to migrating their operations to AWS cloud. Amazon CloudFront prides itself in securely delivering data, applications, videos and APIs to site users, with low latency and high transfer speeds.  Websites using Amazon CloudFront benefit from AWS security and integration with AWS services. The service is useful for the companies that require higher response times and large file content. CloudFront is beneficial for a business developing a website that distributes a lot of content that needs to scale up.

You can contact Flexsin for your Amazon CloudFront setup and integration requirements. We have highly experienced developers to meet your CDN deployment needs.