Community Session: Streamline both sides of the stack - zero boilerplate, zero DevOps

Hi everyone, we are live. So, welcome to the Versal community live session. We are so excited to have you here. I'm Anuan, one of your hosts for today. And joining me is Jacob. You have probably seen us hanging around in the community space answering questions and talking to you. Uh so it's amazing to connect with you all live here uh our customers or community members. It's awesome to see so many of you joining us here today.

Drop a message into the chat uh to let us know where you are tuning in from. And if you cannot see the chat box, do not worry. You can just sign on from the uh sign in but on the top of the navigation bar uh on the virtual community and then go to this event and click on I am going and then you'll see the chat box where you can interact with us ask any questions and for those of you watching this on axe you can join us on community.versel.com and interact and ask questions from the chat box. Uh yeah

over to you Jacob. Yeah. So, we're going to see a demo here. At the end of the session, we're going to have some Q&A. So, feel free to ask questions in our chat along the way. Uh, please remember to be respectful and follow our code of conduct. I'd like to introduce our speaker here, Andre Ericson, who is going to show us a little bit about his company, Encore. Andre, hey, great to meet you both. Uh, great to see so many people tuning in. Yeah, it's good to meet you as well. Thanks for coming on for us.

Yeah, I think we should just uh jump straight in and uh let's get into it. Awesome. So, I will share my screen. Uh so, quick intro about Encore uh and what Encore is before we kick into a live demo where we show how it integrates with Persell. So, Encore is a backend framework designed to reduce and remove cloud

complexity. So, if we think about what you're trying to achieve when you're building a product, really it's you have an idea, you try to create something out of your idea and then you repeat and you try to do this as quickly as you possibly can. So if you look at tools like Verscell um they are really excellent at taking this and shortening this feedback loop uh to

you know going from hours to minutes when it comes primarily for front- end development. And so Encore is very similar to Nex.js JS and Versel but for back-end development and this is why they pair so well together. So what are the problems that we're trying to solve when it comes to dealing with uh backend development? Well, it's really a couple things. Uh and it all comes down to the cloud. Um so reasons why you might choose to use

the cloud is things like uh dealing with scalability. It's dealing with reliability, security, and just the overall like breadth of functionality that uh like major cloud providers uh provide. So these are all good reasons why you might want to use the cloud. Um uh however um that doesn't mean that it's particularly easy or productive to use the cloud. Um and so if we look at

how modern backend development is done, uh it's really about trying to leverage uh cloud providers and the underlying infrastructure resources that they provide in order to achieve a lot of functionality. So typically that involves you know uh using databases using pub sub messaging uh object storage for you know storing unstructured files and things like that