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Back4app AI Agent β Your AI DevOps assistant
Create a scalable cloud architecture in minutes and with just a few prompts. Back4App Agent is an autonomous AI tool that helps developers build, deploy, and troubleshoot applications, streamlining DevOps tasks and making cloud operations more efficient.
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Gus Oliveira
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Hey PH community!
I'm so happy to be here today representing our amazing and incredibly talented team to share with you our latest tool Back4app Agent.
Back4app Agent is an AI-powered tool created to autonomously assist developers in building, deploying, and troubleshooting applications.
Our goal when creating the Agent was to simplify the DevOps process, boost efficiency, and increase productivity.
Think of the agent this way: It's your personal AI DevOps assistant that you can rely on 24/7.
So does the agent do?
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Executes tasks: Input your requirements or issues and the Agent generates solutions, code snippets, and troubleshooting steps, and executes & and implements them in the cloud.
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Deploys applications: Ensure a transparent and traceable deployment process by creating a new web app from a GitHub repository, managing its settings, initiating new deployments, and accessing detailed logs.
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Creates and manages applications: Deploy cloud code, retrieve content, call REST/GraphQL, APIs, fetch schemas, create classes, insert data, and execute cloud code functions.
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Manages code repos: With our seamless integration with GitHub, you can fully manage your repositories directly from the Back4app Agent. With the Agent, you can access your repos, push new code, fetch existing code, monitor changes, manage branches, and clone repos.
Thanks so much for taking the time to check out our launch. We'd love to hear your feedback, so if you have any questions, feel free to ask in the comments!
Happy Friday! π
Gus
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@mtrezza Hey thank you for your support. For sure, with the backend and the agent you can reach another level of productivity!
Hi, Gus!
I'm wondering, how did you make such a wonderful product?
Accept my congratulations!
@gusoliveira_ Hey Gus! Back4app Agent sounds like an awesome DevOps sidekick π. How does it handle security?
That's great to hear about Back4app Agent! It seems like a valuable tool for developers. Congrats!
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@kate_ramakaieva thank you so much Kate! Today we have over 300,000 users spread all over the world and to be honest, they're the ones that keeps us moving forward and evolving.
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@kate_ramakaieva Hey Kate, glad to know you think that the tool is valuable. Is there any specific feature you like most?
Such a great service, really simple to integrate into any iOS app. Documentation is really great and the database managerβs UI is really straight forward without too much distractions.
Would integrate this in every of my next indie app projects.
I did not use the AI Agent yet but itβs probably top notch as well :)
Looks like a really useful app!
Big kudos for the team and good luck with the launch!
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@johnnyfekete Thanks! Do you believe having an integration to AWS would be useful and would you use for your current projects running on AWS, for example?
@george_batschinski1 AWS integration would definitely be a big one! π€©
It's very complex, and so easy to get lost or don't follow the right practices. In my current project we use a wrapper on top of AWS (Laravel Vapor) that takes care of it, but I see that in the future I could use something like this to facilitate the setup.
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@johnnyfekete I agree that we will face a lot of challenges. I will take a look on Laravel Vapor and get familiar with it.
Congrats with the launch! Sounds like a magic too for deployment π
Do you have a plan to incorporate it to the primary product or remain it as a separate tool under back4app umbrella?
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@xeniagoron great question Ksenia! The Agent is incorporated into our product. All you have to do is log into your account and you can start using it from the dashboard ππ»
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@xeniagoron thank you for your feedback! The idea is to develop the product further and integrate with clouds like AWS. Do you think this feature would be useful to you?
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@xeniagoron Thank you for your question and for your support. The Agent also is an interface for the other back4app products so you can use Containers and Backend with Natural Language. And our goal is to integrate it with other Cloud providers to give more flexibility to our users.
@alyssoncm I should say it's a great approach to extend the audience by empowering the core product! How do you validate your idea about the new feature? I'm interested in ways of collecting first feedback from early adopters. Or did you ask your product community and current users?
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@ingibitors thanks for your message! We will continue to work hard to continue to improve the DevOps team efficiency.
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@ingibitors Thank you for the kind words ! Let us know if you have more feedbacks for us :)
Looks like something every devops engineer should check out!
Congrats on the launch!
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@anthony_latona Thanks for your comment! Yes, the Agent is up and running on Back4app's website and you can test it there.
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@anthony_latona It can make the work more productive. Thank you for the support
@alyssoncm In my experience, devops can be tedious & time consuming so anything that helps streamline, automate or organize these responsibilities is a big win for engineers and managers :)
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@getusome Great to hear that! Our development and marketing team worked really hard for this launch.
I struggled with Skaffold YAML files when working with Google Cloud Run and Google Cloud Deploy.
This might help with that in the future and I was able to solve my problems via trial and error and reading outdated documentation.
Hopefully something like this can help alleviate that!
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@kingromstar Hey Rami, I don't have this answer yet, but we will investigate and understand the use case better.
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@kingromstar Perfect ! You got the point. Instead of digging deep into DevOps, IAC and other Cloud-related docs you will be able to create and deploy on any cloud with ease. Thank you for your support!
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@fredkzk thank you so much Fred! With the release of the Agent, we're going to a full demo and walkthrough on YT ππ»
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@fredkzk happy to hear that. The Agent goal is to pursue this vision and keep helping developers to release more code faster. As soon as you have more feedback on the Agent would love to hear. Thank you
@alyssoncm One question though: the agent is great at understanding instructions. But as a no coder with little clue about how backends, containers, github work, can it answer questions about how to actually proceed, what the steps should be, prior to giving it instructions?
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@fredkzk Thanks for your feedback, Fred. Do you think integrating this agent to AWS would be helpful in supporting other projects that are already up and running on major clouds?
@george_batschinski1 Yes, AWS, Google Cloud, as well as integration with cloud computing servers like RunPod, RunDiffusion, etc...
Excited to see all the positive feedback on your product launch. Can't wait to check it out πͺ
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@jaketital Thanks Jake. The AI-Agent is already in production mode and you can check it out in our platform.
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@jaketital thank you so much for your support! We truly appreciate it ππ»