{ "version": "https://jsonfeed.org/version/1.1", "title": "Erudika Blog", "home_page_url": "https://erudika.com", "feed_url": "https://erudika.com/feed.json", "description": "Release notes, architecture deep-dives, engineering notes and insights from Erudika.", "language": "en", "authors": [ { "name": "Erudika", "url": "https://erudika.com" } ], "items": [ { "id": "https://erudika.com/blog/introducing-para-mcp-server-your-ai-powered-backend/", "url": "https://erudika.com/blog/introducing-para-mcp-server-your-ai-powered-backend/", "title": "Introducing the Para MCP Server - your AI-powered backend", "date_published": "2026-04-16T00:00:00.000Z", "summary": "If you're building AI-powered applications or just want to work more efficiently with your Para backend, the MCP server opens up entirely new possibilities.", "tags": [ "ai", "mcp", "para" ] }, { "id": "https://erudika.com/blog/status-update-helm-native-image-ipv6-n8n/", "url": "https://erudika.com/blog/status-update-helm-native-image-ipv6-n8n/", "title": "Status update - new Helm charts, native images, IPv6 support and n8n", "date_published": "2026-03-30T00:00:00.000Z", "summary": "Major updates to Para and Scoold: redesigned websites, new Helm charts with customizable secrets, GraalVM native image support for faster startups, IPv6 connectivity on ParaIO.com and Scoold Cloud, plus the official n8n integration for workflow automation.", "tags": [ "kubernetes", "graalvm", "deployment", "para", "scoold", "n8n" ] }, { "id": "https://erudika.com/blog/how-to-add-html-form-handling-to-your-website-for-free/", "url": "https://erudika.com/blog/how-to-add-html-form-handling-to-your-website-for-free/", "title": "How to add HTML form handling to your website for free", "date_published": "2026-03-23T00:00:00.000Z", "summary": "Para now supports handling HTML form submissions directly, including email notifications, CAPTCHA verification, and optional message storage - all without writing a single line of backend code.", "tags": [ "forms", "backend", "open-source", "para" ] }, { "id": "https://erudika.com/blog/building-a-simple-free-alternative-to-algolia-and-typesense/", "url": "https://erudika.com/blog/building-a-simple-free-alternative-to-algolia-and-typesense/", "title": "Building a simple and free alternative to Algolia and TypeSense for your website", "date_published": "2026-02-26T00:00:00.000Z", "summary": "Let's build a new version of our simple search box which uses our Para backend for indexing documents. The content is first ingested and processed by Para, then we use clientside code to query the data.", "tags": [ "search", "frontend", "open-source", "para" ] }, { "id": "https://erudika.com/blog/scoold-pro-now-integrates-with-microsoft-teams/", "url": "https://erudika.com/blog/scoold-pro-now-integrates-with-microsoft-teams/", "title": "Scoold Pro now integrates with Microsoft Teams", "date_published": "2021-07-23T00:00:00.000Z", "summary": "Scoold Pro now integrates with Microsoft Teams and is rolling out to licensed users and Scoold Cloud instances. It's the third official chat integration after Slack and Mattermost.", "tags": [ "scoold", "ms-teams", "integration" ] }, { "id": "https://erudika.com/blog/status-update-para-goes-global-pricing-changes/", "url": "https://erudika.com/blog/status-update-para-goes-global-pricing-changes/", "title": "Status update - Para goes global, pricing changes", "date_published": "2021-02-01T00:00:00.000Z", "summary": "Para's hosted BaaS has grown to hundreds of active apps and paying customers worldwide. To reduce latency from a single EU region, we set out to make the service global.", "tags": [ "para", "baas", "hosting" ] }, { "id": "https://erudika.com/blog/announcing-scoold-cloud/", "url": "https://erudika.com/blog/announcing-scoold-cloud/", "title": "Announcing Scoold Cloud", "date_published": "2020-09-22T00:00:00.000Z", "summary": "Scoold Cloud is the official hosting for Scoold Pro, offering easy deployment with scaling and upgrades handled for you. Combined with Para, it provides a low-maintenance knowledge-sharing solution for organizations.", "tags": [ "scoold", "saas", "hosting" ] }, { "id": "https://erudika.com/blog/status-update-python-client-scoold-api-integrations-and-more/", "url": "https://erudika.com/blog/status-update-python-client-scoold-api-integrations-and-more/", "title": "Status update - Python client, Scoold API, integrations and more", "date_published": "2020-03-22T00:00:00.000Z", "summary": "Over the last year, Scoold and Para gained many features, bug fixes, and community contributions. Scoold Pro revenue is rising with several large enterprise deployments.", "tags": [ "scoold", "para", "api", "slack", "mattermost", "python" ] }, { "id": "https://erudika.com/blog/building-a-full-stack-application-from-scratch-with-react/", "url": "https://erudika.com/blog/building-a-full-stack-application-from-scratch-with-react/", "title": "Building a full stack application from scratch with React", "date_published": "2019-08-14T00:00:00.000Z", "summary": "This React article is a clone of the Angular version. Read the Angular post for the original content.", "tags": [ "react", "para", "tutorial", "jsx" ] }, { "id": "https://erudika.com/blog/webhooks-implemented-in-para-and-scoold/", "url": "https://erudika.com/blog/webhooks-implemented-in-para-and-scoold/", "title": "Webhooks implemented in Para and Scoold", "date_published": "2019-07-04T00:00:00.000Z", "summary": "Para 1.32.0 introduces webhooks for all apps, available on ParaIO.com. Webhooks enable near real-time notifications for create, update, and delete events.", "tags": [ "scoold", "para", "webhooks", "release" ] }, { "id": "https://erudika.com/blog/status-update-containers-java-11-and-more/", "url": "https://erudika.com/blog/status-update-containers-java-11-and-more/", "title": "Status update - containers, Java 11 and more", "date_published": "2019-01-28T00:00:00.000Z", "summary": "We've been maintaining Para and Scoold with minor dependency upgrades and bug fixes. Scoold also received translation contributions and now supports 12 languages.", "tags": [ "scoold", "para", "docker", "kubernetes", "helm", "lucene", "release" ] }, { "id": "https://erudika.com/blog/top-5-open-source-q-a-platforms/", "url": "https://erudika.com/blog/top-5-open-source-q-a-platforms/", "title": "Top 5 open source Q&A platforms for 2021", "date_published": "2018-12-30T00:00:00.000Z", "summary": "This post lists top open-source Q&A platforms that are actively developed and have working demos. The projects are inspired by Stack Overflow and the list is unordered.", "tags": [ "scoold", "open-source", "stackoverflow" ] }, { "id": "https://erudika.com/blog/announcing-scoold-pro/", "url": "https://erudika.com/blog/announcing-scoold-pro/", "title": "Announcing Scoold Pro", "date_published": "2018-10-15T00:00:00.000Z", "summary": "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.", "tags": [ "scoold", "enterprise", "release" ] }, { "id": "https://erudika.com/blog/introducing-scoold-an-open-source-q-and-a-platform/", "url": "https://erudika.com/blog/introducing-scoold-an-open-source-q-and-a-platform/", "title": "Introducing Scoold - an open source Q&A platform", "date_published": "2017-04-27T00:00:00.000Z", "summary": "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.", "tags": [ "scoold", "stackoverflow", "clone" ] }, { "id": "https://erudika.com/blog/implementing-full-text-search-for-your-static-site/", "url": "https://erudika.com/blog/implementing-full-text-search-for-your-static-site/", "title": "Implementing full-text search for your static site", "date_published": "2016-12-12T00:00:00.000Z", "summary": "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.", "tags": [ "search", "blog", "para-cli" ] }, { "id": "https://erudika.com/blog/saving-money-on-dynamodb-with-global-secondary-indexes/", "url": "https://erudika.com/blog/saving-money-on-dynamodb-with-global-secondary-indexes/", "title": "Saving money on DynamoDB with Global Secondary Indexes", "date_published": "2016-11-21T00:00:00.000Z", "summary": "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.", "tags": [ "aws", "dynamodb", "tips" ] }, { "id": "https://erudika.com/blog/an-open-source-backend-for-the-internet-of-things/", "url": "https://erudika.com/blog/an-open-source-backend-for-the-internet-of-things/", "title": "An open source backend for the Internet of Things", "date_published": "2016-08-12T00:00:00.000Z", "summary": "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.", "tags": [ "release", "para", "iot", "devices" ] }, { "id": "https://erudika.com/blog/building-the-stack-from-scratch-with-angular-2/", "url": "https://erudika.com/blog/building-the-stack-from-scratch-with-angular-2/", "title": "Building a full stack application from scratch with Angular", "date_published": "2016-06-09T00:00:00.000Z", "summary": "This article and its code were updated for Angular 8.x. A React version is also available.", "tags": [ "angular", "para", "tutorial", "typescript" ] }, { "id": "https://erudika.com/blog/jprime-roundup-para-client-ios-swift/", "url": "https://erudika.com/blog/jprime-roundup-para-client-ios-swift/", "title": "jPrime roundup, Para client for iOS and Swift", "date_published": "2016-06-01T00:00:00.000Z", "summary": "jPrime 2016 was a major Java conference in the Balkans with 500+ attendees and themes of microservices and reactive programming. We sponsored the event to support the local Java community.", "tags": [ "para", "ios", "swift", "jprime", "release" ] }, { "id": "https://erudika.com/blog/para-web-console-the-admin-ui-for-your-backend/", "url": "https://erudika.com/blog/para-web-console-the-admin-ui-for-your-backend/", "title": "Para Web Console - the admin UI for your backend", "date_published": "2016-03-25T00:00:00.000Z", "summary": "We released an open-source, client-side web console for managing Para servers. Built with AngularJS, it connects to local or remote Para instances and is open to contributions.", "tags": [ "para", "ng-admin", "angular", "frontend" ] }, { "id": "https://erudika.com/blog/para-v1-18-released-new-site-and-jprime/", "url": "https://erudika.com/blog/para-v1-18-released-new-site-and-jprime/", "title": "Para v1.18 released, new site and jPrime", "date_published": "2016-03-06T00:00:00.000Z", "summary": "The past month brought feedback, bug fixes, an Android client, and a MongoDB plugin, with plugins and MongoDB support as top requests. We also refreshed the Para docs and redesigned paraio.org for better mobile display.", "tags": [ "para", "release", "mongodb", "jprime" ] }, { "id": "https://erudika.com/blog/para-1-17-released/", "url": "https://erudika.com/blog/para-1-17-released/", "title": "Para v1.17 released", "date_published": "2016-01-05T00:00:00.000Z", "summary": "Para v1.17 is released and published to Maven. The update is already deployed on ParaIO.com.", "tags": [ "backend", "para", "release" ] }, { "id": "https://erudika.com/blog/backend-frameworks-usergrid-loopback-para-baasbox-deployd-telepat/", "url": "https://erudika.com/blog/backend-frameworks-usergrid-loopback-para-baasbox-deployd-telepat/", "title": "Modern backend (BaaS) frameworks - an overview of Usergrid, LoopBack, Para, BaasBox, Deployd and Telepat", "date_published": "2015-10-21T00:00:00.000Z", "summary": "This post compares modern open-source backend frameworks that handle server-side app operations. It focuses only on open-source options and not the broader backend services market.", "tags": [ "backend", "baas", "frameworks", "para", "api" ] }, { "id": "https://erudika.com/blog/hello-world/", "url": "https://erudika.com/blog/hello-world/", "title": "Hello World!", "date_published": "2015-10-16T00:00:00.000Z", "summary": "Welcome to the Erudika blog where we'll share project updates and development news. Follow us on Twitter or GitHub to stay in the loop.", "tags": [ "general" ] } ] }