Best platforms to scale mobile app to 100,000+ users

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Originally answered by Ram Iyer, President of Sunvera Software on QUORA in response to:

If you had to develop a new mobile/web application that had to support 100,000+ users what language would you use?

I am assuming you are looking for technology stack – here is the run down…

Determine if you app needs mobile specific abilities – pictures, videos, gyro, bluetooth, etc. If so – definitely go native. I know cross-platforms can support all of these and in some cases may even be easier. But over the long-term, you will benefit from going native. Your ultimate goal is to scale mobile app to 100,000+ users.

  • IOS: Objective C or Swift
  • Android: Android Java

For your backend, you need to determine if you are going to have a lot of image processing or video/audio processing, could be geo coordinate processing and may be real-time chat like functionality. Once you know those you can choose from a variety of platforms.

Stack choices

  1. Node.js, MongoDB, Nginx, Socket.IO, etc.
  2. ASP.NET/MVC5, MS SQL Server, etc.
  3. LAMP

Again depending on your need, pick a stack that you are comfortable with.

Finally, you need to see if you are going to do all yourself or may be assemble a team (if you don’t have one) or out-source. In any case make sure your team is familiar and comfortable with the stack. You could end up spinning your and your teams wheels if you pick something unfamiliar.

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