At the Glue Conference May 21-22 in Broomfield, CO, StrongLoop announced it is greatly simplifying data synch and replication for mobile apps requiring APIs and connectivity to enterprise data sources. 
The company's LoopBack open-source API framework, written in Node.js, is used to connect devices to enterprise data sources. This new functionality is available for Oracle, SQL Server, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL and more.
Almost all enterprise mobile apps that are data-driven require offline sync capabilities. Until now, developers first had to figure out how to locally store a subset of the application's data. Secondly, they had to implement a mechanism that could keep the data synchronized on both the client and server. For the first time, developers can now easily synchronize to and from various databases without requiring constant network connectivity. LoopBack's replication also handles the complexity of moving data between devices, device to server, and server to server. This upgrade to LoopBack means developers can now focus on the front end versus the mechanics of how to replicate data between disparate databases, whether they be in the cloud or the data center.
I interviewed Al Tsang, CTO of StrongLoop, after he gave his talk at Gluecon, which was entitled, "Isomorphic JavaScript in Action: Using HTML5, Node.js, and LoopBack for Offline Synch." (Apologies for accidentally clipping off his last sentence. The company was founded in 2013, is based in San Mateo CA, and is backed by investors including Ignition Partners and Shasta Ventures. It is the leading contributor to the latest Node.js v0.12 release. Also apologies for the sound quality. Forgot my good mic!)
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