3 Sure-Shot Ways to keep your Ruby on Rails Apps Healthy

Ruby on Rails is an enormous framework for developing contemporary web applications and because of this, it is highly essential to make sure your apps are always running smooth plus healthy.

The world is moving very fast and custom application developers are playing with different types of technologies for creative and user-friendly application development. 

Therefore, application development is not a big challenge for developers or for solution providers but choosing the right technology – does matter a lot.

Selecting the right technology-solution for your application completely depends upon you and your technical consultant. They help you in selecting the right one and how that will help to keep your application healthy for long-term future use.

That brings me to tell you about Ruby on rails is the great framework, which supports agile development.

Ruby on Rails is both revolutionary as a language as well as a framework.

Klaus-Michael Vogelberg, CTO of Sage Software

Rails is the most well thought-out web development framework I’ve ever used. And that’s in a decade of doing web applications for a living. I’ve built my own frameworks, helped develop the Servlet API, and have created more than a few web servers from scratch. Nobody has done it like this before.

James Duncan Davidson, creator of the Tomcat web server

A supportive and user-friendly web application is always preferable by customers. And keeping the application smooth and healthy in factors like; slow pages, memory, security, third party APIs and server's resources are always the first thing in precedence that will keep you one-step ahead of your competitors. 

Let us discuss the key points, which will keep your ruby on rails application smooth and healthy for all time;

1. Keep Your Code Clean:

Application coding must be clean and bug free. Duplicated blocks of code, or several levels of nested conditions creates bugs in the application.

You need to check the code smells (the deeper problems of your application in the code part) of application. Code smells are dangerous problem for application. Solutions for code smells reduces the risk of application and makes it easier for ruby on rails developer to modify and maintain it once the application is ready.  

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10 Most Important Questions you must be Aware of before Using a SaaS Application

Software as a Service aka SaaS – take my words, this term is going to be the next big thing in coming years for businesses across the globe. 

Just to give you a preview of what’s the future is going to be for SaaS Platform Businesses, take a look at the below statement by Scott McNealy former CEO of Sun Microsystems.  

“We believe we're moving out of the Ice Age, the Iron Age, the Industrial Age, the Information Age, to the participation age. You get on the Net and you do stuff. You IM (instant message), you blog, you take pictures, you publish, you podcast, you transact, you distance learn, you telemedicine.

You are participating on the Internet, not just viewing stuff. We build the infrastructure that goes in the data center that facilitates the participation age. We build that big friggin' Webtone switch. It has security, directory, identity, privacy, storage, compute, the whole Web services stack."

 – Scott McNealy, former CEO, Sun Microsystems

Very soon, there will be SaaS applications – that would adhere and help businesses in driving important work functions within minutes. 

  

SaaS is continuously offering features to increase the efficiency and free-hand accessibility of application for your business needs as compared to traditional web applications.

More than 86% IT product users or consumers are gathering information from social media and other sources to mark the final buying decision.

“SaaS Sales is all about Rapid Sales.”

When [SaaS customers] need a solution, they do some online research, maybe ask a colleague, try the solution or watch a demo, and then buy. The whole process might take a few days, maybe a few hours. There is no long, drawn out sales engagements, RFIs and RFPs, head-to-head “bake-offs,” contract negotiations, blah, blah, blah.

Customers find it, they see it, they like it, they buy it. Done.

Peter Cohen, managing partner of SaaS Marketing Strategy Advisors

(Source: kissmetrics Blog)

As a SaaS product and application Development Company, we have been continuously interacting with users who are interested to start with, SaaS application development or going to use a SaaS Based Application but they have some important questions (which some you might also have in mind!). 

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How Much Does It Really Cost to Develop a Mobile App

Heard, this conversation between two people in one of the conference I was attending last month, 15^th. And suddenly I felt how mobile apps are taking over like a gigantic hurricane. Thought the conversation is real the name is just to make your reading easier.

Drew: Hey Jennie, you know I have this new app getting built that will change the way people book hotels or transport. You know it got almost everything under one roof – it’s kinda going to be the mother of all on-demand communications.

Jennie: That’s cool, Drew!  So when is your mobile app being launched. I hope you launch the iOS version first.

Drew (Completely dumbfounded Jennie I’m just planning to launch the web version now!

Jennie: Oh! Ok…see you then

So people, the above conversation between the two individuals might have given some idea and realization that things are changing the way people interact with different scenarios is going mobile. So, here it is – Think App. Think Change. You’re Idea. Mobile First.

Now let’s get into the details of how to go about with a mobile development and what are the things you need to take care of. As well as, how much should a normal app costs. And certain questions you need to ask to your app development team before you start with the mobile app. 

Keeping the above things in mind – 75% business owners are planning to go mobile for their business, it may be for their product or service.

But two most important questions that you need to get answer for before your planning;

• First one: How exactly does your business need a mobile app or in!
• Second one: How much will it cost!

Does being Mobile help!

With my experience in this industry for more than 8+ Years – It’s very much important.

 

Mobile apps help business to be engaged with more customers, helps increase the brand recognition, provide value to customer and maximize sales channels.

According to ‘Statista’, the worldwide Mobile App revenue was at $90 Billion in 2016 and a prediction of more than 200% growth by 2020.

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Important Reasons Why to Switch and Invest in SaaS Product and Apps

SaaS is the process of hosting applications over internet as a service. Without any complex hardware installation and management in user’s computer and minus the complex data center - user can directly access the application through internet.

Being in the industry for almost 9 years and building two highly ranked SaaS applications in the league of Project Management Tool (that is Orangescrum) and Customer Relationship Management (that is Wakeupsales), we have literally got into the depth of SaaS App Development, Deployment and Marketing activities to apply to make it a success. 

Now, what ‘Bob Warfield’ told is a clear truth and gave us a glimpse of the future. We go about it and completely agree to what he conveyed.

Market is competitive and business is getting intelligent every single day – in situations like this we need to think of a business model that can beat the market competition and keep you a step ahead from the crowd.

Ok!

So now the serious question – what should do! & how should I do it!

Accept SaaS and believe in it.

This is the future and the mix of your app idea with the adoption of a secured development environment makes it even more powerful. 

SaaS has massive opportunity to increase the efficiency, productivity and accessibility of business operations as compared to an on-premises inflated, distracting physical infrastructure.    

Global Stats & Forecasts

Global statistics shows that SaaS segment grown at 20.3% in 2016 to 37.7 billion.

IDC research teal tells that SaaS market is
poised to surpass $112.8 billion by 2019 and

According to Transparency Market Research (TMR), overall SaaS market will reach $164.29 billion by 2022.

Have a look at the global usage of SaaS technology by small and medium businesses,

(Source: KPMH Technology)

Take a look at the market share and revenue growth of SaaS in enterprises;

    

Now, you do that math’s, and imagine how fast the SaaS market is growing day-by-day!
From the above statistics, you might get a clear understanding the rise of SaaS platform is going to be even higher than what we see at present.  

Let me share some of the most important reasons, as to why you should stitch and invest in SaaS application development.

Here we go,

1. Setup Costs

SaaS application setup (in simple language on Cloud), the cost is comparatively a lot less than on-premise systems and some service provides are also providing it completely free.  

As it’s over the cloud, the user pays very less for the customization of the application as per your requirement and accesses it through his/her own internet connection.

The installation and setup also takes a lot less time.

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