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The cloud lock-in myth: opting out of servers, and opting into de facto standards

The forecast is cloudy; with zero chance of servers. Practically all future compute workloads will run on cloud vendor infra.

Brian Leroux

read time 10 mins

The cloud lock-in myth: opting out of servers, and opting into de facto standards

Architect 6.0: Ruby, Python, CDNs, and CloudFormation

The simplest, fastest way to build modern applications just got a lot more powerful

Ryan Block

read time 4 mins

Architect 6.0: Ruby, Python, CDNs, and CloudFormation

Architect 5.5: serverless meets single-page apps & static site generators

Seamless integration of SPAs & static site generators with a super-fast serverless backend

Brian Leroux

read time 5 mins

Architect 5.5: serverless meets single-page apps & static site generators

Introducing Architect 5.0: fully serverless WebSockets

Real time serverless compute is here! We're thrilled to announce Architect 5.0 (Catalope), with full API Gateway WebSocket integration.

Brian Leroux

read time 6 mins

Introducing Architect 5.0: fully serverless WebSockets

Introducing Begin Data: DynamoDB made ridiculously easy!

Fast, scalable cloud function-based apps need fast, scalable cloud function-capable persistence.

Brian Leroux

read time 4 mins

Introducing Begin Data: DynamoDB made ridiculously easy!

The real reason frameworks get adopted

Sitting down to write a serverless application in 2018 feels a lot like it did to write a greenfield web application in the pre-Rails and Django times.

MRB

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Architect 4.3: even faster local offline development, and sunrise support for Python!

Architect treats local offline development of serverless apps as a first-class concern, and today we're taking it to the next level.

Ryan Block

read time 2 mins

Architect 4.3: even faster local offline development, and sunrise support for Python!

Local, offline serverless app development with Architect

Build & deploy serverlessly without sacrificing the local development experience

Brian Leroux

read time 4 mins

Local, offline serverless app development with Architect

📦 Serverless ES Modules

This post will walk you through how to get started working with standards based JavaScript modules in an Architect serverless project.

Kristofer Joseph

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☀️ 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

read time 6 mins

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

read time 10 mins

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

read time 7 mins

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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