What is platformOS?

platformOS is a managed application development platform. Designed for developers, it provides a flexible and limitless API-first development approach while automating the whole DevOps infrastructure.

platformOS is a platform as a service (PaaS) that enables you to create and host anything from small websites to large enterprise applications and even entire SaaS products.

platformOS is:

• Decoupled: You can create custom workflows, B2B, and P2P solutions using a modular architecture that interacts with any 3rd-party API.
• Scalable: Each infrastructure component is equipped with a built-in capability to scale either vertically or horizontally, accommodating increasing workloads.
• Cloud-agnostic: We can run platformOS for you on major Cloud-as-a-Service providers like Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud.
• Highly Available: We minimize downtime and ensure uninterrupted access to services and resources through redundancy, load balancing, fault tolerance, automatic failovers, and auto-scaling.
• Secure: Utilize our Secure Data Centers with additional layers of security, catering to country-specific security or legal requirements.
• Fast: The inclusion of Liquid and a built-in GraphQL Schema in platformOS ensures swift performance optimization for your application, regardless of its size. You can employ advanced caching mechanisms without worrying about underlying infrastructure and cache-invalidation complexities. Our web workers and background workers are running 24/7 — you do not need to wait to spin up a container to execute your function.
• Flexible: Build progressive web apps, integrate IoT (Internet of Things), or create APIs for mobile apps. Integrate external services via webhooks and REST APIs to complement your build with existing systems.
• Extensible: Integrate your sites with virtually any 3rd-party system providing API access, or build your own APIs in platformOS.
• SEO-friendly: We provide you with the ability to control your URL structure, meta tags, response headers, HTML structure, and tools to write SEO-friendly applications.
• All-in-one Development Platform: We've already solved numerous challenges for you, ready to be used. Need a powerful full-text keyword search with scoring, typo tolerance, and geolocation? Want to build Activity Feeds to highlight new content on the website? Looking to leverage cutting-edge technology like OpenAI Embeddings? Our infrastructure includes built-in ElasticSearch, Redis, Postgis, PGVector, and we have ready-to-use GraphQL queries and mutations for you to leverage.

Technologies

On the client side, you own the build process of your static assets and have full access to the HTML, which means you can use any client side technology you like and are familiar with - for example React, Angular, Vue.JS. On the server side, platformOS uses a couple of languages that you need to become familiar with to build a site on our platform.

YAML

A human-friendly, easy-to-use and read data serialization standard used in platformOS for setting properties in configuration files. To learn more, visit the Original Website yaml.org or yaml.info to learn YAML.

GraphQL

A query language used to communicate with our data storages.

Check out the platformOS code examples for GraphQL terms in our GraphQL glossary, and find detailed descriptions of queries, mutations, objects, scalars, interfaces, enums, and input objects in our GraphQL Documentation.

To help you quickly develop GraphQL queries, we provide a GraphiQL graphical user interface through the pos-cli. GraphiQL is a GraphQL editor with autocomplete and live docs that helps you structure GraphQL queries correctly.

Liquid

Liquid, or Liquid markup is an open-source template language used in platformOS to implement server side business rules, invoke GraphQL queries and mutations, triggering external API Calls, scheduling Background Jobs, sending Emails or SMSes and more.