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Back4app AI Agent โ 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! ๐
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 ๐. How does it handle security?
Congrats with the launch! Sounds like a magic too for deployment ๐
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 ๐๐ป
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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?
Congrats!
Looks really good for devops! Is there a way to abort or revert quickly and easily an wrong prompt?
Will share it with my devops teammates.
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@julienergan Thank you for your question. The process we recommend is initially to clone your environment and test the prompts before moving to production.
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@julienergan Hi Julien. If you are using the developer environment as it is an isolated container you will not have this problem because all your code will be summited to GitHub as a PR.
Launching soon!
Congrats on launching Back4app Agent, @gusoliveira_
It's really amazing how you've created an AI-powered tool to assist developers in building, deploying, and troubleshooting applications - all while dealing with nightmare hiccups along the way!!. The Agent sounds like a game-changer in simplifying the DevOps process and boosting efficiency.
Can't wait to see how it helps developers increase productivity and streamline their workflow. Excited to dive in and explore all the features!
P.s. If you're looking for a really honest team full of genuine people - Myself and Gus have been connecting on LinkedIn / PH and I can't speak more highly of someone who I've only met on the internet. So if you have any concerns/hesitations about the team and their professionalism/integrity, please feel free to reach out to me as a character reference!!
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@dzaitzow thank you so much man! Our talks on LinkedIn over the past few months are part of the reason we're having such a great launch day. If you ever need anything, I'm here for you! Looking forward to your 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!
Congrats on the launch @gusoliveira_ !
Back4app AI Agent looks likั a really cool app, that will certainly make DevOps tasks and cloud operations more efficient.
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thank you @evgeny_kotelevskiy! Weยดve been getting a lot of great feedback ๐๐ป
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@julia_kot Hi Julia, We have been running the company for around eight years. This product took us about three months of development but already uses our infrastructure as a foundation.
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@julia_kot Hi Julia, also complementing @george_batschinski1 answer we have learned a lot first from a ChatGPT Plugin we've launched on OpenAI store and then improved our approach to create the Agent.
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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 ๐๐ป
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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 ๐ช
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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 ๐๐ป
Congrats on the launch! Existing coding assistants struggle when the project gets larger in size. How do you deal with this issue?
Is the AI capable of finding its own way or do you have ways of making handholding relatively easy for humans (referencing modules, files etc)?
Regardless, looks great, wish you lots of success!
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@aliyesilyaprak That a great and difficult question. Here is what we are doing so far. We will store a summary of the non confidential project data and use this knowledge to prepare better questions to the AI models. That is, we will enrich the questions with previous knowledge so the results are better. Do you think this approach makes sense?
@george_batschinski1 Yes, especially if the performance is good. I'm sure you already tested your product and it works great. It could still be a good idea to make it easy and intuitive to enter complex commands with relatively smaller metadata for when the model fails to figure things out.
(Ex: Create a new user class in /project/module/submodule/file.ext and add register endpoint to /.....
I think we are often okay with entering a bit more information as long as it doesn't create too much friction, like referencing the file).
Just a small suggestion :)
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@aliyesilyaprak Your suggestions make sense and will pass them to our team.
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@george_batschinski1 @aliyesilyaprak Great ideia Ali. Also, we are going to optimize the context memory and improve our models to create a deep understanding on each kind of project.
I really appreciate the concept of having a 24/7 agent to assist with managing code repositories, congrats team on the launch.
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@rohitjoshi Thank you for your support ! And count on us to help your devOps
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@olenabomko thank you for your support Olena! You were one of the inspirations behind our launch ๐๐ป๐๐ป
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! ๐คฉ
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.
this looks very very interesting, do we have cloud integrations for aws and other providers?
Looks like an awesome and full-fledged deployment tool! Congratulations with the launch!
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@sviridov Many thanks for your comment! Our development team worked really, really hard to have the agent ready for this week and we are glad to receive your feedback and message. It give us a lot of enthusiasm to move forward.
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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@nixkulinax Hi Alex, that's a great question. Depending on the level of complexity it can be challenging to provide an accurate answer. Our efforts are now focused in optimize the context to make the model better understand the whole scenario and providing the most accurate possible response and also expand our models capacity by training them on new deployment problems. For now I would recommend you ask the Agent to break bigger tasks into small ones and execute them step-by-step.
