This is a question we get very often: “How can I avoid rejected API calls when my app generates more calls than allowed by the plan’s limit?” To give you the context of the question – all Backendless plans have a limit of API calls/minute. With the free plan the limit is 300, the Cloud…
The backend for your Backendless app sends out emails for the following events: When a user creates an account for your app When a user requests password recovery When a user logs in for the first time The default email address used by Backendless is develop@backendless.com, which is an automated account – we do not actively…
Version 4 of Backendless is getting quite close to being released in Backendless Cloud. We are in the final stages of testing and it should not take very long for you to see and experience the new version online. The initial release of 4.0 in the Cloud environment will be a Beta. We anticipate keeping…
One of the new features we added in Backendless 4.0 is support for custom code generators. We already have multiple code generators which can create complete client-side projects for Android, iOS, and JS with just a few button clicks. Ability to add your own custom generators greatly expands the possibilities. The Backendless code generator system uses…
With the introduction of version 4.0 in the Backendless Cloud environment, we set the goal to allow both the current version of 3.x and the new 4.0 to collocate on the same subdomain. When we introduce 4.0 in the Cloud, both versions of the backend will be available on the https://develop.backendless.com domain. As a result, there…
Backendless version 4 has a lot of magic. An example of this is our integration with AWS Lambda – Amazon’s version of “serverless” programming. With Lambda, you define your server-side code without any association with a physical machine where it runs. A lambda function can be developed in node.js, Java, C#, etc. The integration we…
Backendless offers three billing plans to choose from – Free, Cloud9 and Cloud99. You can see the details of all the plans on the Backendless Cloud Pricing page. Each plan has its own limits which can be increased/customized for the Cloud9/99 plans. Plan customization is done via the purchase of a “Function Pack” from our…
It has been a long journey from the early days when the Backendless team sat down to discuss what we wanted to do with the platform to today when we are writing this blog post. The idea for the 4.0 release was started as a uniform vision for a major cleanup of all the issues…
2016 was a pretty big year for Backendless. There is a steady stream of developer sign-ups for the Backendless Cloud version, fueled in part by the impending closure of Parse. The ever-increasing API traffic generated by the apps and the growing developer activity resulted in stability problems towards the end of 2016. There were outages…