Addressing Our Current Outage: Steps Forward
Dear Community, We’ve always believed in transparency and accountability, especially when things don’t go as planned. Today, we find ourselves in one of those challenging moments: a significant service outage has affected our operations in the EU and US regions. This blog post aims to shed light on the situation, our ongoing efforts to resolve…
Addressing the Elephant in the Room: Disinformation and “Vendor Lock-In” in No-Code Platforms
It’s time we address the elephant in the room. The vast amount of disinformation on the Internet, occasionally bordering on outright lies, does a huge disservice to end users. It’s disappointing to see many no-code vendors use FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt) to scare uninformed and less technical citizen developers with the dreaded “vendor lock-in”…
Introducing the New Home Screen in Backendless Console
We’re excited to announce a significant enhancement to the Backendless platform – a completely redesigned Home screen in the Backendless Console! This update is part of our ongoing commitment to streamline your experience and make managing your applications more intuitive than ever.
🌎 Introducing Our New South American Server Cluster for Backendless! 🚀
Greetings, Backendless users! We’re thrilled to announce a major milestone in our ongoing commitment to improving your experience with our application development platform. Today, we’re excited to introduce our brand-new server cluster located in South America! Bringing the Power of Backendless Closer to You Our mission at Backendless has always been to provide you with…
Phishing attack
This morning we got an alert from Google saying that some phishing content had been detected in Backendless. Indeed, a user created an app in Backendless and uploaded a phishing page to the Backendless File storage.
How to Display Dates in Data Objects in the GMT0 Timezone
If a data table in your application has a column of the DATETIME type, the values for that column will be rendered by Backendless Console in mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss format. For many applications, and specifically in some industries like telecommunications or finance, it is important to see the date objects in a “neutral” format and often…
How to Compress Any Directory in Your File Storage Using Backendless Console
In another post, we wrote about Backendless File Browser – an online management system for your files and directories. One of the features built into File Browser is the ZIP Directory feature. The feature does exactly what it sounds like it would do – creating a zip file for a directory and its contents.
Game With Me
App features include: Push Notifications, Search Filters, Instant Messaging, Social Login, React Native frontend.
5 Things You Can’t Do With Firebase (But Can With Backendless)
Backendless and Firebase, both being mobile backend as a service (MBaaS) platforms, present different capabilities for mobile app creation. Here is a list of the Backendless features which either are not supported by Firebase or just exceed it in usability. Backendless Pro (the standalone, self-hosted version of the product) can be installed on the developer’s…