Getting lots of followers on twitter by following lots of people works well enough, but increases the noise to where you miss stuff from those you really want know about. Let me create a REALLY Follow list that bubbles up tweets from these people to the top and hides everyone else's tweets further down on the page or on a completely different one.
Specifically, with the proliferation of client-heavy javascript apps, assuming a new hacker can master html/js/css, is there a provider out there that provides a secure backend-as-a-service for them to build on? What I mean is, figuring out ssl, getting the site to work on https, setting up, configuring, and managing the servers invovled, pretty much everything other than client side development, is there a best in class solution that provides all that? Let's assume that the app is usuable without signing up, and is designed to be used in one-off use cases where there is no point to save ones progress or past work, and now their is a feature request to be able to store the result of the workflow for future loading/editing. What's the simplest way for this developer, assuming they have money to throw at the problem, to get all that boring but necessary backend/security stuff handled? Obviously if billion dollar companies we can only assume use best practices can still get hacked, any provider of a service such as I have described is selling a promise they can't quite keep, but anything is better than not being able to finish my app for a year while I teach myself all the backend/security stuff. What would you recommend someone in my position do? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
