Introduction Designing a mobile app today goes far beyond building a beautiful interface. Native apps — whether for iOS or Android — need secure authentication, user role management, real-time communication with the backend, and scalable infrastructure to support growth. In this post, I’ll walk you through a clean and modern architecture to connect native mobile apps to a robust backend on AWS. The architecture is modular, scalable, and aligned with best practices for security and performance — without relying on overly complex tools. Why it matters: apps today are more than just UI A production-grade mobile app often includes: User login (email, Google, or others), Differentiated access for multiple roles (e.g., user vs admin), Secure token-based communication, A backend capable of handling business logic and data, Data storage, asset management, and scalable APIs, Compliance with Google Play and App Store requirements. All of these require a backend architecture ...
Managing dynamic inventory in private subnets using bastion jump box The title of post is quite large, but is something I encountered issues in the last weeks. I had a VPC in AWS, creating x amount of instances in a private network, and was quite complex to manage this instance using static inventory files. So I will explain you how to manage this problem with Ansible . Before continue, I want to say these articles are really good and can help you with this issues. Dynamic inventory Ansible (behind a jumpbox / bastion ) SSH jump hosts on CircleCI 2.0 So you will be asking, if these articles are so good, why are you writing them again? Easy, I’m doing this in Gitlab CI, and I suppose other CI will encounter similar issues. It’s not possible to connect to the instances using the instructions above. First Step We get our inventory in a dynamic way. For this we will use the inventory scripts. We need to modify the ec2.ini file with uncommenting the vpc...