As web and mobile have become the primary channel for engaging users, it’s critical that developers deliver applications with uncompromising user experience, performance, and scale. I will show you how to develop, release, and operate cloud-powered applications, at scale. We will navigate use cases like authentication, fine-grained access control, offline and real-time data, APIs (REST and GraphQL), AI/ML. We’ll dive into an iOS application to show how your applications can easily integrate with cloud-powered services without any previous cloud knowledge.