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CloudGlue - Cloud-Platform-as-a-Service platform (CPaaS?)
This is a draft post
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node.js
javascript
baas
serverless
subscriptions
payments
architecture
integrations
UX
scaling

CloudGlue was my first (huge) big node.js based product experiment, and boy was it an ambitious and hard lessons learned experience.

Click for archived documentation and screenshots - note live app and blog links are dead.

In the early 2010s I was inspired by the flexibility of Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) platforms like Kinvey and Parse, and delightful frontend UX platforms like Shopify + Liquid templates.

These platforms provided a bunch of out of the box functionality and were richly customisable, providing users a great starting point, and easy customisation down to custom code that ran on their servers.

At the time I was a subscriptions/payments consultant, utilising payment platforms like Paypal and Stripe, and subscription platforms like Chargify.

My clients often wanted to provide a custom subscription experience for their customers to start and manage their subscriptions.

Chargify provided a barely configurable portal, Chargebee was in it's infancy,and Cratejoy was pre-launch.

So I decided to build my own hybrid platform to serve this opportunity.

I hastily went deep into building my own BaaS and Shopify style platform.