Backend for Your Business
As a full-stack software company, we create backend solutions for software products.
The backbone of your application
A backend solution for your web or mobile app is the part of the application that orchestrates the core functionality, business logic, and handles data manipulation and coordination between databases and third party integrations. A software product’s backend is the core part of the application that enables the front-end to process user requests, display data, messages, and other key pieces of information to the user.
Use cases
Why develop a custom backend?
Backend solutions are critical to crafting software development products that users can rely on effortlessly. Backend solutions can be built for a wide variety of business needs and use cases. Some of the most common reasons to build a custom backend solution include:
How Do Backend Applications Work?
Backend architecture
A large-scale solution
A backend solution should be designed and developed with architecture that can scale and serve many types of front-end applications. Backend solutions are built with several types of architectures, and most commonly connected to an application’s front-end by using API endpoints that deliver data in a standardized format through a series of requests by the user of the web application.
Variety of solutions
Interaction with frontend
Backend solutions are uncoupled yet connected to front-end applications. Backend solutions can be developed using separate technologies than the front-end application is developed in. For example, a company’s front-end application might be developed using a javascript framework called React, while their backend solution could be built using Python or Ruby on Rails.
Scalable and modular
Converting requirements into successful solutions
Our experience developing back-end solutions is wide and extensive - our solutions are engineered to be scalable, performant, and modular. Asymm has experience creating back-end solutions for complex and specific business needs, and has the ability to understand and convert business and operational requirements into functional backend solutions.
How is a Backend Solution Crafted?
Asymm follows a process to scope and define the architecture and functionality of a backend solution. A few of the key process steps we follow to develop backend applications are the following:
Understanding
Understand key business requirements and use cases
Assembling
Think through user flows and features
Conceptualizing
Conceptualizing the core functionality
Clarifying
Clarify acceptance criteria
Researching
Define and researching any integrations necessary
Designing
Design system architecture and flows
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The Right Technology for Backend Solutions
A backend solution can be built using several different kinds of architectures and technologies.
Monolithic and microservices architecture
Notably, our experience covers the development of monolithic backend solutions using technologies such as Ruby on Rails, Node.Js, Javascript, PHP, Python, and other common languages. Asymm also has experience building backends with a microservices architecture - systems design structure that keeps different functions and services of an application isolated and scalable. You can learn more about the advantages of microservices here.
Experience in multiple fields
Our diverse experience in several languages and frameworks allows us to perform audits on already built backend solutions and modify, grow, and manipulate them as business needs evolve. For most projects that Asymm takes on, we tend to recommend an architecture consisting of API’s.
What Does Creating a Backend Solution Look Like?
Backend development consists of many responsibilities to create a functional and performant application.
Scoping development milestones
Aside from programming business logic and requirements into functional software, backend application development also consists of general programming to specifications and requirements, database development, integrating third party API’s, creating API’s for external party consumption, developing API’s for your frontend application, creating unit tests, end-to-end tests, and sometimes light devops responsibilities, including the setting up of servers and continuous integration and development infrastructure.
What Does a Successful Backend Solution Look Like?
A successful backend solution should support a wide range of functionality and enable your front-end application to meet user demand and required front-end features.
Scalable structure
A backend solution should also be modular and have room to grow. Naturally software products expand and change as a business grows, and the technology should be able to do the same. For this reason, it’s important that when developing backend solutions best practices are followed for future use cases, features, and enhancements.
Documented and organized
A backend solution should have sufficient documentation, sbrractions, organized, and well thought out from an architectural and infrastructure perspective in order to be sustainable and scalable as a business needs it to be.