Platformatic Launch, Fastify Book available on June 9th, and other Adventures in Nodeland

Hi Folks,

The last few weeks have been beyond hectic. Last week we launched the new features of Platformatic at JSNation 2023 in Amsterdam. I will cover all the details and a few notable articles and releases. Let us know!

(Photo by Marcel Cuts)

Platformatic Launch

Last week Platformatic released its most exciting tools to date, enabling developers to seamlessly upgrade existing backends from a monolith to modern, distributed systems, with Fastify & Node.js & at its core.

Platformatic’s new features include:

🎹Platformatic Composer: A new way to develop, deploy and consume aggregated APIs, starting with OpenAPI composition across multiple APIs sources. With Composer, you can create custom APIs by mixing and matching different endpoints without writing any code. Watch the Deep Dive Video.

🗺️Platformatic Taxonomy: Manage complex API ecosystems securely & resiliently with low maintenance. Declare which dependencies your service has, and we take of the rest, creating a map of microservices connections & dependencies to assess architecture and deployment risks.

📦Platformatic Runtime: Consolidate all your Node.js applications into a single unit for deployment + simplify the development & execution of microservices by using Platformatic Taxonomy to run your app like a monolith, without losing the benefits of distributed development. Watch the Deep Dive Video.

☁️Platformatic Cloud: A cloud environment for deploying Node.js applications with pull request previews, rapid deploys & observability built in. Watch the Cloud in action.

Discover Platformatic and get started here👉 https://hubs.ly/Q01SqTYN0.

I can’t wait to see what you all do with it!

The good news doesn’t stop here!

Last week, we also announced that we raised $3.5 million in a funding round led by Decibel with participation from Panache Ventures and several angel investors, including GitHub founder Tom Preston-Werner, Socket founder and CEO Feross Aboukhadijeh, major Node.js contributor James Snell, Tier.run founder Jevon MacDonald and notable Silicon Valley investor Walter Kortschak. Learn more about our announcement in TechCrunch’s coverage hereWith that being said, I can’t wait to see what you all do with Platformatic!

I can’t wait to see what you all do with Platformatic!

Releases

• platformatic v0.26.0 ships the massive commit that includes Platformatic Runtime and Composer - just shy of 10k lines added!
• create-fastify v4.0.0 bumps fastify-cli to v5.x.
• fastify-undici-dispatcher v0.4.1 fixes the support query string/search params.
• light-my-request v5.9.2 fixes a bag bug when using inject() together with @fastify/http-proxy.
• @fastify/error v3.2.1 improves performance by 5%.
• @fastify/kafka v2.2.1 bumps node-rdkafka to v2.16.1.

The Fastify Book Launches on the 9th of June!

Accelerating Server-Side Development with Fastify will be available on June 9th! Pre-order it now!

Articles

• You might be aware that Platformatic is wholly built on top of Fastify, and it’s straightforward to adopt; take a look at how to migrate a Fastify application to Platformatic Service.
• GitHub (Preview) Deployments with Google Cloud Platform - creating Preview environments for your application is a powerup for your team, learn how to do with GCP!
• Frontend Platform use case - Creating a roadmap without a Product Manager - Learn from my friend Stefano Magni how life in a “scaleup” is!
• Azure recommends Fastify for their Constoso reference architecture for JavaScript.
• Should you use UUIDs, CUIDs or ULIDs? While UUIDs have plenty of downsides, I typically use them because the algorithm is baked in Node.js and Web.
• Setting up Firecrack seems exceptionally easy according to this article: exploring Firecracker MicroVMs for Multi-Tenant Dagger CI/CD Pipelines. I will give it a shot!