About the Sample Recruiting App

The goal of this book is to show you how easy it is to create powerful, multifaceted applications that solve common business problems. To do so, let's walk through the steps of creating a simple application for a make-believe company called Universal Containers.

Like many companies that have grown rapidly, Universal Containers has been experiencing a few growing pains, especially in its Human Resources department. In this book, we're going to build a Recruiting app for the company that allows it to move away from the Microsoft Word documents and Microsoft Excel spreadsheets that it has traditionally used to an application that's available on demand.

By the time we finish building the Recruiting app in this book, you should feel confident enough to build a custom application in the cloud that suits your own company's needs. So let's get started!