Cloud Computing: Front-End Ops Comes to Fore in Web Development

Grazed from MidsizeInsider. Author: Rick Robinson.

Web users are an impatient lot. They expect speed — as in quick responsiveness — from applications; they also expect the latest applications to be developed and delivered to them quickly. Because users demand speed, Web developers are concentrating on delivering it for them.

One result of this demand is a growing emphasis on "front-end ops," an approach to application development and testing that concentrates on the client side rather than just on the server side. The shift in focus to the client side is being boosted by a new generation of testing and development tools. The shift also embodies the maturation of a cloud-centric approach that is reshaping the IT universe in general and midsize IT in particular…

The Need for Speed

As Paul Krill reports at InfoWorld, the Web application development and testing approach known as front-end ops is increasingly drawing attention from the development community. The concept is not entirely new, but "the tooling around it is certainly becoming more popular," says front-end ops evangelist Alex Sexton. New build tools such as Broccoli and the Grunt JavaScript are fueling the trend…

Read more from the source @ http://midsizeinsider.com/en-us/article/front-end-ops-comes-to-fore-in-web-devel

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