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November 3, 2023

Unleashing Creativity with Jetstack’s Canvas Builder: Design Your Platform Your Way

Unleashing Creativity with Jetstack’s Canvas Builder: Design Your Platform Your Way In the ever-expanding realm of digital platforms, customization is...

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November 1, 2023

Server-side scripting — when automations aren't enough

Most business logic fits the visual automation builder, and when it fits, that's where it should stay. Visual automations are easier to read at a glan...

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October 1, 2023

Real-time delivery — updates arrive the moment they happen

Nothing says "modern" quite like seeing the data change the instant someone else saves it. Nothing says "brittle" quite like aggre...

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September 1, 2023

Empowering Positive Change: Our Partnership with DOBROKRUH

In a world where technological advancements continue to reshape our lives, harnessing the power of software for the greater good has never been more i...

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September 1, 2023

Magic-link login — sign in without a password

Not every user lives in the platform daily. An external reviewer signs off on a contract twice a quarter. A partner submits a compliance form three ti...

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August 1, 2023

Single sign-on — one identity across everything

Ask any IT department whether they want to manage another set of passwords for another business application and the answer is a tired, emphatic no. Ea...

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August 1, 2023

Dark mode — comfortable hours, long sessions

Dark mode is one of those features that sounds like a cosmetic preference and turns out, in daily use, to matter substantially. For users who spend th...

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July 1, 2023

The scheduler — automations on a clock

"Run it every night" is one of the most common automation requests in any business application. Nightly reports to finance. Weekly digests t...

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July 1, 2023

Canvas forms — fully custom forms inside canvas pages

The form builder covers the common case elegantly: a form that maps to a single record on a single type, generating a clean create-or-edit experience...

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July 1, 2023

Public pages — the parts of your tenant open to the world

Not every interaction happens behind a login. A prospective customer fills in a lead form on a website. An applicant submits a job application through...

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May 1, 2023

Webhooks — the platform as a participant, not a silo

The REST API answers how does my system read the platform? Webhooks answer the inverse: how does the platform tell my system something happened? Witho...

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May 1, 2023

Automations — business logic without writing code

Every business application needs custom logic. When an invoice is paid, create a receipt and email the customer. When a task is overdue by more than a...

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May 1, 2023

The canvas page builder — custom pages without writing templates

The default views — table, kanban, calendar, list — cover most day-to-day work. Most of what users do in the application is look at records, edit reco...

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February 1, 2023

Homepage widgets — a personalized landing page

Most users land on the home screen at the start of every session. It's the first thing they see, the one surface that sets the tone of the application...

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January 1, 2023

API protection — rate limits, throttling, and challenge flows

An API worth integrating with is also an API worth attacking, misusing, or accidentally hammering. A runaway script that polls every two seconds inste...

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December 1, 2022

Image handling — thumbnails, compression, and lightboxes built in

Images are heavy. A product catalog with five thousand items and full-resolution photos is a spectacular way to destroy page-load times, mobile data p...

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November 1, 2022

The REST API — the whole application over HTTP

Every business application has to integrate with something else. A public website that needs to display the latest product catalog. A mobile app that...

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October 1, 2022

Multi-tenancy — many customers, one platform, real isolation

Multi-tenancy isn't just a deployment shape. It's a design decision that sets the economic model of the platform — who pays for what, how many custome...

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October 1, 2022

Tenant customizations — one platform, every customer's shape

Customers look similar from thirty thousand feet and genuinely different on the ground. Two accounting firms, two manufacturers, two nonprofits — view...

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September 1, 2022

Spreadsheet exports — every view as a spreadsheet

"I just need it in a spreadsheet" is one of the most common sentences in any organization that works with data. An accountant wants to recon...

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