Blog - Begin

☀️ The Begin master plan

The future is serverless, and the future is here. When we got started in 2015, we didn't set out to build a serverless application platform.

Ryan Block

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Enable CORS on your serverless application with a single boolean

Retrieve data from any static site with Architect. CORS is often painful to implement. But with Architect we've made it significantly nicer to work with. Now you can build an API and retrieve your data from any static website.

Brian Leroux

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Enable CORS on your serverless application with a single boolean

Serverless frontend patterns with Architect Views

Retrieve data from any static site with Architect. Architect views helps you share view specific code between Lambda functions.

Kristofer Joseph

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Serverless frontend patterns with Architect Views

Architect 4.1: serverless, meet frontend workflows

Last week we released Architect 4 (Yeti), focused on simplicity and speed. Today we're incredibly stoked to share Architect 4.1, our most frontend friendly release ever.

Ryan Block

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Architect 4.1: serverless, meet frontend workflows

Introducing Architect 4.0: faster, lighter, simpler serverless

We've been listening to your feedback and today we're extremely excited to introduce Architect 4.0 (Yeti), the fastest, simplest, most powerful way to build serverless applications.

Ryan Block

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Introducing Architect 4.0: faster, lighter, simpler serverless

Sunsetting Begin — and a new Beginning

We've been listening to your feedback and today we're extremely excited to introduce Architect 4.0 (Yeti), the fastest, simplest, most powerful way to build serverless applications.

Ryan Block

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Let's Begin!

Today's tools for managing work are broken. You love your team and your teammates. You want to do your best work, and help everyone do their best work, too.

Ryan Block

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Build an infinitely scalable* Slack app, part 2: prepping for distribution in the Slack App Directory

In part 1 of this series, we used Architect to provision the infrastructure needed to build a (theoretically) infinitely scalable serverless Slack app.

Brian Leroux

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Build an infinitely scalable* Slack app, part 2: prepping for distribution in the Slack App Directory

Build an infinitely scalable* Slack app in 5 minutes

Everyone's favorite work messaging app — Slack — offers a powerful, open platform for developing rich applications in an increasingly important venue: where teams work and communicate together online.

Brian Leroux

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Build an infinitely scalable* Slack app in 5 minutes

Slack for JS 10.x! 🔥

Slack for JS is a super tiny Slack Web API client for NodeJS and the browser.

Brian Leroux

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Introducing Slack JS 9.0.0 🎉

Slack for JS is a super tiny Slack Web API client for NodeJS and the browser.

Brian Leroux

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How to build a better bot

The bots have landed. And as is usually the case, some early products shipped that could have used some more time in the oven. Personally, I've yet to use a bot that's really impressed me.

Ryan Block

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Conversational interaction design: constructing context

Recently I wrote about interface visibility — the presence and degree of friction in interface design and human computer interaction — and the idea that it exists distinctly from specific interface paradigms.

Ryan Block

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Conversational interaction design: constructing context