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