Good day, everyone, and happy Friday. It’s the first week of the month, so we’re gracing your LinkedIn accounts once more with news from Andromeda Galactic! First, let’s take a look at what’s going on with the team.
The month of September is relatively calm for our Andromeda Stars as they stick close to home before October, when they head to Germany! From October 20th through the 22nd, Berlin will be host to both the API Conference and the Serverless Architecture Conference, and both Martine Dowden and Michael Dowden will be there! They will both be heading an Advanced Serverless Workshop, while Michael will also present "Coding Serverless Functions" and "Real-time Serverless APIs."
You might have also seen the posting a few weeks ago about our anniversary. On August 12th, we celebrated ten years since our founding. Since Andromeda started around a kitchen table by Martine Dowden, Michael Dowden, and Marc Ebtinger, it has slowly grown to where we are now. Michael Dowden has said, “We’ve seen ups and downs in the industry, tech stacks have come and gone, but the principles of providing good service and addressing the needs of humans remains a consistent value.” This applies to both the products we produce and the services we provide to our clients. Products such as Ignition CMS.
One of the fundamental requirements of running a business – especially a technology business – is a website. For years, the team at Andromeda used a wide range of content management systems, static HTML, and web frameworks. As we continued focusing more and more on websites and product development, we found two things coming up a lot.
- Our clients needed control over their own data and content in a user-friendly way.
- We needed a way to integrate content workflow with the code deployment process.
After spending a couple of years testing commercially available content platforms, we found they consistently fell short on both of these points. During a cold winter week in 2022, Martine led the creation of our very own Content Management System (CMS). By April, we were migrating our own websites over to the new platform and started onboarding clients just a few months later.
Ignition was named and received its own website by the end of 2022 and has become a core component of our technology stack. Ignition itself is fully serverless and built for Google Cloud using Firebase and Angular, and as a headless CMS, supports any front-end application you want to throw at it.
The core of Ignition is a flexible and user-friendly schema engine, which allows you to build data models for your content and layouts to suit your needs. Even better, you can use our dynamic API to create custom webhooks mapped from an external data source to your custom Ignition schema, making it possible to push content directly into your collections without compromising on data integrity.
See the full list of features and request a demo at IgnitionCMS.com.
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All right, with that, I’m going to go ahead and cut everyone loose to enjoy the start of your weekend. Please remember to take good care of yourselves. Stay hydrated, don’t work through meals, and get up from your desk to stretch now and then. Most importantly, please be excellent to yourselves and each other.