Backendless Geolocation is a system that can store and manage geospatial information in your backend. With geolocation, you have the ability to build applications that utilize location information to deliver a variety of services, from delivery and vehicle tracking to user segmentation and notification targeting. Read on to learn how we make it easy to...

In an increasingly mobile world, business and consumer decisions are made quickly. If your users aren't getting information in real time, you risk losing out on sales and engagement opportunities that can drastically impact your bottom line. Read on to learn how Backendless makes your database real-time capable right out of the gate. Chat-Enabled AppsThe...

As business and the web become increasingly interconnected, API Service Management has never been more important. Building and maintaining APIs is necessary to keep your business's connectivity up-to-date, functional, and valuable. Read on to learn how Backendless makes it easy to streamline your API creation and hosting process to avoid the pitfalls of haphazard API...

User Management is a critical component of any business. You need to be able to handle account creation, login workflow, password management, and many other common user needs. Meanwhile, you need the ability to understand how your users interact with your application so you can extrapolate business insights from that data. Read on to learn...

Develop and debug locally then deploy to the cloud your own server-side business logic with CodeRunner, our Cloud Code container for Java and JavaScript/Node.js scripts.

The Backendless Platform is built to run anywhere. We have had that vision right from the very first release of the product. Many of you are familiar with Backendless that we host in the cloud; however, the exact same technology stack is also available as an on-premises solution which we call Backendless Pro. Backendless Pro…

In one of our previous articles, we showed how to develop a custom Alexa skill using an example of a Trip Planner app (How To Build A Dialogue Custom Alexa Skill Using JavaScript (Without Lambda). In this article, we will show you a more complex example of the interaction between Alexa and the user. Today,…

If you’ve used the Data Retrieval API in Backendless Cloud, you may know that the server limits the number of objects retrieved from a table to 100 in a single call. For Managed Backendless and for Backendless Pro, this limit is configurable.  In order to retrieve more than 100 objects, data paging is required. Paging greatly…

In this article, we will describe how to use the Backendless API to save multiple related records with one primary (parent) record in a table. All related records (children) will be stored in separate tables as a part of the same routine. Examples of this type of requirement might be personnel records tied to a…