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…

We just published a new product into our Marketplace that enables integration with Stripe. Introducing the Stripe Integration Plugin and its purpose is to handle card payments submissions to Stripe. The plugin runs in Backendless business logic (Cloud Code) and uses Stripe’s app signing and secret keys when communicating with Stripe. Below is a list…

Backendless offers support for the development of custom Amazon Alexa Skills. In this post, we are going to demonstrate how easy it is to create a custom skill using JavaScript. You will learn how to control the dialogue flow between the user and Alexa using Backendless and custom Cloud Code.