This blog posts contains links that I found with useful information.

SaaS

Offline first apps

One of the first experiences I had with offline first development was with Realm and MongoDB Sync, a service that would provide bidirectional sync between the database running in your mobile phone (Realm) and the one in the cloud (MongoDB). This was discontinued in 2024. You can find the links to the repos in Github:

• Realm Swift - For a version of realm-swift without sync features, install version 20 or see the community branch
• Realm Kotlin

Alternatively, you can use the following services to cover this requirement:

• PowerSync - This is an alternative to App Services Sync from MongoDB that can use MongoDB as a database in the backend and SQLite in the phone or you can use PostgreSQL. Here you have a link explaining more.
• Ditto - Ditto is a real-time edge sync platform for mobile, web, IoT, and server apps. You can read more about the Ditto Reference Architecture and the Migration Guide from MongoDB App Services to Ditto
• AWS AppSync - AWS AppSync creates serverless Pub/Sub APIs to simplify development through a single endpoint to securely query, update, or publish data. Migration guide contains a guide on how to migrate to AWS AppSync.

Analytics

tabase - Aptabase is an Open Source alternative to Google Firebase Analytics for Next.js Apps. Find an example on how to integrate with your NextJS app in this GitHub repo

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Recommendation Systems (GitHub repo)

This repository contains examples and best practices for building recommendation systems focusing on 5 key topics:

• Prepare and load the data
• Build models using deep learning recommendation algorithms
• Evaluate models using various performance measures
• Tune and optimise models
• Operationalise models in a production environment

Techniques to generate embeddings is a link to Google ML course explaining how embeddings work.

Self hosting

• Cloudflare Tunnel - Create a tunnel to connect HTTP web servers, SSH servers, remote desktops, and other protocols safely to Cloudflare. Your server on-premises will be secured by Cloudflare.
• Marius Hosting - Self-hosted blog about hosting your apps in a Synology NAS using DiskStation and Container Manager.

CMS

• Cockpit CMS - Cockpit is a CMS that uses PHP and MongoDB as data base (also SQLite and more), is open source and can be self-hosted. Github repo
• Payload CMS - Open source CMS that can be deployed in Vercel or be self-hosted. It can use MongoDB or other databases.

Other CMSs are: Wordpress, Contentful, Sanity, Strapi

Alternatively, you can develop your own CMS using Next.JS and Vercel as it will simplify operations such as routes, DNS management, blob storage, image optimisation, CDN, WAF,…

MongoDB Links

Tool to quickly create MongoDB clusters using Docker -> Super useful tool created by a colleague from MongoDB (thanks Yuvi!) to create clusters with different topology either using brew or pip.