SongShift started out as an iOS app where everything was done client side. As our demand grew, in addition to the expectations of our customers, we wanted to move things to the server and needed a backend that could scale and function. As a small company, we didn't have a backend team, we didn't want to manage servers, and we didn't want to switch to a completely different language just to make it work.

I will share the journey of how my small team went from a simple client-side app to using cloud systems on AWS powered by Swift. I will share the things along the way that worked, didn’t work, and how we accidentally became backend engineers along the way.