Intellial Blog

Nowadays growing companies are experiencing exponential data growth. Companies are collecting as much data as they can and storing into their live database to do various kind of analysis and reporting.

Organizations are capturing a lot of new data types such as website comments, visitor analytics, communications, transaction history, during the course of the business flow, a lot of documents are generated and stored within the system, these data are important and provide a competitive advantage.

Government regulations about data retention for customer transactions and communications are also driving up the amount of data companies must store in order to comply.

How many times you have seen a decent looking website on your mobile phone (or tablet) and you got amazed? That's because they are either optimized to look great on mobile or they are specifically made for mobile devices.

Here at Intellial, when client comes to us asking to make his website look good on mobile devices, we guide him by presenting various approaches available and discuss which is most suitable for him in terms of both cost and efforts. Here I give you some highlights of which approaches we follow:

Node.JS is currently riding the hyperbole, there is no second thought that the technology is really cool, easy to learn and at the same time easy to deploy. Now that will easily tempt us to use it for a production project, but what are the good use cases where we can really gain by using Node.JS? Remember it's still a new technology which still needs to be mature and production projects involve serious money so we have to think and evaluate.

What is Node.JS?

According to nodejs.org (official website) it is "A platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications". 
Core part of Node.JS is Google's powerful V8 Javascript engine which powers Chrome browser, hence the performance.

Inc.com has an interesting article on why it's more important than ever to focus on mobile strategy for businesses. Here are some excerpts:

Mobile Websites

Several companies have a subdomain set up specifically for mobile phones. So, for example, when users type www.ESPN.com into a smartphone, the ESPN site actually figures out that they are visiting the site from a mobile device and redirects them to a subdomain. The user experience from the phone is different than the user experience at a computer.