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For the past few years, shoppers have changed their shopping behavior dramatically. Fortunately, businesses also have a lot in hand to catch and stay competitive in their industries.

However, over time eCommerce has become one of the leading trends for shoppers. Due to which the eCommerce industry has also been expanding vigorously over time.

Most importantly, within the next year, the revenues of eCommerce are expected to grow up to 5.4 trillion USD. On top of that, the emerging trend is also changing how retailers used to do their business before. Ecommerce businesses now can create smoother applications to offer a more seamless and convenient shopping experience to their customers. However, before simply starting to create an eCommerce app or site for your business, there is a lot to know in this regard.

So, here we have brought a detailed article for you regarding eCommerce and eCommerce benefits that you must know.

So, here we go:

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This article will discuss the best backend services to develop a React Native mobile application. The list will encompass Back4App, Firebase, AWS Amplify, and Parse.

There is no doubt that phones have become half the soul of each individual, and mobile applications are considered an essential part of every mobile phone.

However, when it comes to developing an iOS and Android mobile application, it becomes indispensable to offer consumers a great mobile application with an outstanding user experience and excellent user interface. When you are considering these features, then React Native development is a solution that will come into the picture here.

React Native can help you create effective real-time and exciting mobile applications with JavaScript help only, which can be supportable for both android and iOS platforms. Even more, this will also help you to save much of your application development time.

Ready to know more about React Native services?

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Behind every mobile application, there is a comprehensive array of backend services that are intended to support user-interface or frontend we use or see every time while using an application. The amount of energy, work and time that is involved in the process of development of this backend technology is huge. While, most of the organizations want to save their time, energy and efforts and never want to reinvent the wheel. This is the place where BaaS comes into an action. BaaS is an effective solution which can provide organizations efficient cloud-based services which have been catered to backend processing. 

Whether you are updating your existing application or want to create the new one using a BaaS solution can help you to save much of your time, efforts and resources required to develop backend services. Even more, using effective BaaS solutions can also provide a competitive edge over other applications. By adding most demanding features, you can also get an amazing opportunity to improve user engagement in the best possible way. 

To know more about how BaaS solutions can be effective for you, have a look at the information given below:

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In recent years, the open-source world is experiencing a range of innovations at a significantly high rate. Many current business models are based on free and open-source technologies. As a result, organizations are adequately supporting different open source modules and are shifting the tasks and duties to open data architecture.

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Things you need to know about scaling Parse Server.

In January 2017 Facebook Parse hosting service was completely closed. We feel proud for the number of people that trusted in Back4App`s Parse hosting service. From the start of this journey, we learnt some lessons which we want to share with our community.

When launched, it provided exceptional NodeJS framework for the app building and scaling process. It was launched as an open source version of Parse.com. We took total control of the backend and avoided locks and limitations that occurred with Black Box solutions. Due to this, we were able to scale some apps up to 10.000 Req/s at the rate of about 80.000 simultaneous users.

The figures mentioned above show us that we were far better than many black box backends as Parse server was able to scale more than 600 Req/s that was told on the pricing page. There were numerous features that ensured that Parse server was the best app scaling option at that time.

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Google has been investing a lot in improving Firebase during the last couple of years. It has the ability to provide a unified platform to build iOS, Android, and web applications. Authentication, AdMob, indexing, Analytics, notifications, VR/AR, and test lab are some of the new features that have been introduced in this Firebase’s latest versions.

While, on the other hand, Parse Server can be a better choice to build new APIs and applications. It’s an excellent option for developers looking for an open-source backend with a relational data structure.

If you want to know more about both Parse server and Firebase, then keep on reading the following information to get a compelling sense of comparison between them.

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Reading this article you will learn the benefits of using a managed Parse Server provider vs. the Open Source framework, the productivity gains Parse framework provides to developers, the categories of apps you can create using Parse, and the most important features of managed Parse platform.

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This article explains how Back4App reduced their AWS cloud costs from $55k per month to $20k per month and accomplished more than 500k yearly savings. This article will also provide you with our experience-based practical advice for AWS cost management along with some tips that work in our case.

AWS has developed so much that it has to turn out to be a significant part of the Amazon strategy. Being an enthusiastic user of AWS, my concerns about its cost and complexity have headed me to search for different ways to optimize cloud usage. Although it offers an increasingly sophisticated set of services yet it is not the most straightforward, fastest, or most affordable option. This demand for a personalized architecture to optimize costs once you have moved to the cloud. 

Follow this guide to accelerate the optimization of AWS costs. The article will provide you with the following details.

• Ask for AWS credits, and earn up to $ 100k
• Utilize spot instances and save up to 90%;
• Buy reserved elastic cache nodes to save up to 77%;
• Go for the new AWS savings plan to save up to 72%.
• Move to Cloud Front and save up to 75%;
• Use a private IP, and there is no need to pay for data transfer data between A to Z;
• Reduction of data transfer expenses with the implementation of the GraphQL API;
• Buy reserved instances on the AWS market to save up to 75%;
• Save your data on S3 rather than EBS to save 75%;
• Apply auto-scaling for inactive resources;
• Choose Northern Virginia and get away from Tokyo.
• Upgrade to new generation families, saving up to 20%
• Place the S3 endpoint on your VPC and the optimized network activation on EC2.

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Are you thinking about creating a successful mobile app? Its quite possible, but the process is stressful, time-consuming, and quite expensive too. However, the procedure can be a lot easier when you use technology like the GraphQL Backend Framework. This article discusses the benefits of GraphQL and the value you can get when you deploy the technology on a backend as a service platform.

Here is the summary of crucial titles in this article

• A Brief Overview of Graphql
• Optimizing Query for Performance
• What is GraphQL?
• Mutations, Queries, and Subscriptions
• Comparing GraphQL and REST
• Why use GraphQL?
• Advantages and Disadvantages of GraphQL
• Benefits of GraphQL
• Shortfalls of GraphQL
• The Best Time to Use GraphQL?
• Deploying GraphQL with a BaaS
• GraphQL BaaS Providers

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