Alexander Gladysh

The case of rapid prototyping of a small prototype for a server backend of a geolocation-based mobile game, using nginx, OpenResty, Redis and Docker will be examined in the talk. Topics will include: why was the technology stack selected, what are the advantages (and some disadvantages), the architecture of the prototype, and how the features of the stack were used in the implementation. Some words will be said on how to keep iterations on the prototype rapid and how to upgrade the project from the prototype to a production system.

The talk presents a programmer-friendly approach to rapid prototyping of functional UI sketches for an enterprise application, using a home-grown Lua text template library and the mermaid.js command-line tool. The speaker will also share the experience of creating yet another text template library, the reasoning behind it and the lessons learned in the process of implementation.