Understanding Mobile Architecture

For software developers, designing and implementing good application architecture is paramount to success. Enterprise software architecture activities must take into consideration myriad concerns when choosing an approach: everything from technology standards to deployment options, potential user profiles, expected user loads — and don't forget scalability, extendibility, and maintainability. Software application architecture is ultimately a game of trade-offs between all these considerations. You often must compromise in one area to accommodate another to arrive at a workable solution. Three considerations may be unfamiliar to most enterprise architects, which represent the most important points to evaluate when architecting mobile applic....