Engineering notes and product updates

Long-form posts about Para, Scoold, and the infrastructure that powers them.

Oct 15, 2018

Announcing Scoold Pro

Scoold Pro is now available with new features and easier integration into enterprise environments. It supports SAML auth and unlimited spaces for team separation on intranets.

scooldenterpriserelease

Apr 27, 2017

Introducing Scoold - an open source Q&A platform

Scoold brings Stack Overflow-style Q&A to your site and showcases the Para backend. It's a lightweight, cloud-ready Java app that runs without a database.

scooldstackoverflowclone

Dec 12, 2016

Implementing full-text search for your static site

Static site generators make it easy to build and host sites, but static content makes search difficult. This post highlights the UX problem of not being able to quickly search static sites.

searchblogpara-cli

Nov 21, 2016

Saving money on DynamoDB with Global Secondary Indexes

DynamoDB is a fully managed, scalable AWS database optimized for low-latency, write-heavy workloads. Its adjustable throughput and global secondary indexes are key advantages.

awsdynamodbtips

Aug 12, 2016

An open source backend for the Internet of Things

IoT devices are becoming everyday, and reliable open-source backends are increasingly needed as focus shifts beyond mobile. We accelerated adding IoT support to Para after realizing the demand from real-world use cases.

releaseparaiotdevices

Jun 09, 2016

Building a full stack application from scratch with Angular

This article and its code were updated for Angular 8.x. A React version is also available.

angularparatutorialtypescript