Catalyst by Zoho is a highly scalable serverless platform that lets developers build and deploy world-class solutions without managing servers.
Catalyst is a full-stack cloud-based serverless development tool that provides backend functionalities to build microservices and applications in various platforms. It adapts a BaaS (Backend as a Service) model and provides pre-written, universal, server-side components from a unified interface as programmable elements. Catalyst allows developers to focus more on designing the user experience of the serverless applications, instead of investing time and effort into setting up and maintaining the server-side components. You can deploy applications and microservices at scale, while we take care of everything else—drastically reducing your development cycle and operational costs.
What can you build with Catalyst?
Catalyst helps you build a variety of applications and microservices without needing to worry about the backend infrastructure. Catalyst provides three major components:
* Backend as a Service
* Function as a Service
* WebClient Hosting
These pre-built services coupled with other Catalyst tools like, push notifications and emails, authentication, Advanced AI solutions and more provide a complete serverless suite for app development.
By leveraging these pre-built services you can build several microservices and reduce the time to launch. Here are some common use cases:
* Building fully customized web and mobile applications
* Building REST APIs that can serve as the integration for various applications, on both web and mobile
* Building data processing pipelines that run in the background as a microservice for things like data migration and data analysis
* Running scheduled jobs at set intervals of time, to perform tasks such as cleaning databases, analyzing logs, and more
Advantages
* Rapid application development: Catalyst enables developers to quickly deploy applications at scale without worrying about managing servers. This drastically improves the time to market.
* Near-zero server maintenance: Catalyst takes care of all the maintenance work, like provisioning, logging, patching, and keeping hardware and software updated.
* Elastic scaling: Catalyst scales your applications automatically as requests come in, so you don’t have to scale your applications manually.
* Pay per use: Elastic scaling and pay per use go hand in hand, as you’ll only be paying for what you used—not the resources that were idle.
* Security and privacy: At Zoho, we take privacy and security very seriously, which is why we run our own servers. And by running your applications on Zoho’s infrastructure, you inherit all the effort we’ve put in to keeping our servers secure and private.
Who can use Catalyst?
* Independent developers looking to create fully customized web or mobile applications.
* Systems integrators looking to run one-off or responsive microservices that help you integrate products or systems.
* IT teams looking to modernize parts of their applications through the latest serverless architecture.
* Startups looking to ship software applications fast, at scale.
Awarded the Quality Choice Award
Awarded the Trusted Vendor Award
Catalyst by Zoho currently scores 89/100 in the Development category. This is based on user satisfaction (86/100), press buzz (68/100), recent user trends (falling), and other relevant information on Catalyst by Zoho gathered from around the web.
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Catalyst enables developers to quickly deploy applications at scale without worrying about managing servers. This drastically improves the time to market.
Catalyst adapts a BaaS (Backend as a Service) model and provides pre-written, universal, server-side components from a unified interface as programmable elements.
Catalyst allows developers to focus more on designing the user experience of the serverless applications, instead of investing time and effort into setting up and maintaining the server-side components.
Catalyst takes care of all the maintenance work, like provisioning, logging, patching, and keeping hardware and software updated.
Catalyst takes care of all the maintenance work, like provisioning, logging, patching, and keeping hardware and software updated.
Catalyst scales your applications automatically as requests come in, so you don’t have to scale your applications manually.
Catalyst scales your applications automatically as requests come in, so you don’t have to scale your applications manually.
Elastic scaling and pay per use go hand in hand, as you’ll only be paying for what you used—not the resources that were idle.
Elastic scaling and pay per use go hand in hand, as you’ll only be paying for what you used—not the resources that were idle.
Build fully customized web and mobile applications
Build REST APIs that can serve as the integration for various applications, on both web and mobile
Build data processing pipelines that run in the background as a microservice for things like data migration and data analysis
Run scheduled jobs at set intervals of time, to perform tasks such as cleaning databases, analyzing logs, and more
Here are some common use cases:
* Building fully customized web and mobile applications
* Building REST APIs that can serve as the integration for various applications, on both web and mobile
* Building data processing pipelines that run in the background as a microservice for things like data migration and data analysis
* Running scheduled jobs at set intervals of time, to perform tasks such as cleaning databases, analyzing logs, and more
You can find documentation and tutorials under the Resources section of our website. Please write to [email protected] for any queries.
Yes, you can create, maintain, and monitor requests from client applications and microservices through Catalyst’s highly secure API Gateway.
The User Authentication feature on Catalyst enables you to add, remove, and manage end users through simple integration. You can configure accounts and roles, as well as manage sign-ins and authentication directly from the Catalyst console.
Catalyst gives us the freedom to run on-prem or on-cloud via managed & remote configurations.
We use REST API to manage our Catalyst instance. API is both forward & backward compatible.
It provides flexible query language for search base on metadata.
Supports cloud storage providers like AWS & Azure.
There's no Filestore sharding support.
No support for replication modes for multi-site topologies.
Catalyst doesn't provide support for hybrid cloud repository.
Product has several known security vulnerabilities. Some XSS vulnerabilities got fixed recently.
Selecting Catalyst was more DevOps driven decision. It supports our cloud strategy & is integral in our automated DevOps Pipeline. Offers all the endpoints needed for development, distribution & deployment.
