Hi everybody!
Thank you @orarbel for the hunt :)
I'm Emmanuel, the maker of Rooftop. Over my 20 years or so career in programming, I survived the change of paradigm from green screen terminals to fat clients to today's client-server architecture. In the last 10 years, since the advent of the smartphone, things have pretty much settled to a standard way of developing applications: a client, be it a smartphone or a web browser, requests data from a server and renders the UI for the user. And although we're got pretty good and efficient at designing and implementing UIs, we are still stuck in the last century when it comes to the backend infrastructure.
We started developing Rooftop as a result of many years of experience building and maintaining backend infrastructures for mobile and web applications. From our experience, the main factor for being late to market or having high maintenance costs is, well, the backend infrastructure.
So what is Rooftop? Rooftop is a managed serverless backend for mobile apps development that runs in your own cloud account to significantly reduce time to market and total cost of ownership.
Let's consider a very typical scenario:
You are about to build your new app and one of the first questions you'll need to resolve is about the development and the ongoing maintenance of its’ backend and supporting infrastructure.
There are two way to go about it:
- You can "do it yourself", but you will spend a considerable amount of time, efforts and resources at first and throughout the lifetime of your app. As a result your Time to Market will be longer, and your total costs will be higher.
- You can use the services of a BAAS provider instead, which provide ready made solutions, but you will lose control over where your data is stored. In addition, you will be billed according to their (sometimes obscure) pricing plans and your costs will skyrocket very quickly. Plus, what happens when the service closes? Oops...
In contrast, Rooftop aggregates all the advantages of the DIY method with the BAAS offer, in YOUR cloud account, enabling you to focus on your app’s technology and scale efficiently and quickly.
By offering fully managed serverless BAAS services in your own account, Rooftop:
● Minimizing the Time to Market - Saves up to 80% in server development and ongoing maintenance.
● Significantly reduces the Total Cost of Ownership - you will pay only according to your cloud usage and there is no need for dev-ops or backend developers positions.
● Lets you keep your data in-house, where it belongs.
● Last but not least, since it runs in your own account, your business is resilient to changes - forever!
We love our roots and we are not shy to acknowledge that we have based part of our development on some of the best open source software around. In particular, the remarkable but now defunct Parse, the powerful AWS SDK and many others. Combined together and with the many modifications and enhancements we made, Rooftop is an efficient, cost effective and secure solution for mobile and web apps development.
We hope you enjoy using it as much as we enjoy developing it and we are looking forward to many discussions here and on our Facebook page with you.
