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As one of the most popular technology companies, Zoho has built and vertically integrated everything from applications, operating system, network infrastructure, app infrastructure, and even data centres. It has been investing in technology for a long time now. An important form of this investment was released in the form of Zoho Catalyst, a reliable, scalable, and secure infrastructure that promises many features to the developers.<\/span><\/p>\n

Zoho catalyst is a highly comprehensive <\/span>serverless development platform<\/b> that can be used for power applications. It provides multiple serverless features that are considered important for building applications and other solutions.<\/span><\/p>\n

In essence, Zoho Catalyst is a <\/span>serverless web applications<\/b> platform that enables specific vertical applications to get developed quickly, tested, deployed, and even supported without worrying about global standards. Essentially, it sits at the very core of the serverless strategy and gives unlimited flexibility for digitalizing multiple manufacturing processes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ever since the launch of Zoho Catalyst, it has empowered many developers to build services and applications. With Zoho Catalyst, you can turn your ideas into innovation. It allows you to build many common serverless solutions.<\/span><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s have a look at them in brief one by one.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>1. Microservices<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n

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Zoho Catalyst enables you to build modular, independent, and autonomous components that put the development process on a fast track while accelerating time to market. The developers can use Zoho Catalyst for accessing many out of the box services including sign up and authentication, search indexing, emailing, and push notifications.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>2. Serverless Web Applications<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n

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Zoho Catalyst can be used to build powerful serverless web applications by crafting backend logic and using data stores, functions along with other components. You can then host them securely over the HTTPs with the web hosting of Catalyst.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>3. Data Processing<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n

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Zoho Catalyst can be used to create many powerful data processing applications like data migration, ETL operations, cleansing, thumbnail generation, and many more using event-driven functions.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>4.<\/b>Scheduled Tasks<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n

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This lets you execute functions, data processing jobs, and microservices with the use of Catalyst\u2019s scheduler. This helps in handling time-sensitive and periodic tasks for the applications.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>5.Serverless APIs<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n

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The serverless APIs help in exposing backend logic to the first party and third party applications safely while using well-defined REST API endpoints. This further helps in improving security and advancing the APIs with the use of the Catalyst API gateway.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>6. Intelligent AI Solutions<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n

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You can add intelligence to your applications using an extensive set of artificial intelligence and data science tools that are powered by Zia, Zoho\u2019s AI assistant. This helps in creating AI-powered applications.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>7. Mobile Applications<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n

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Zoho Catalyst allows mobile developers to quickly access backend data sources using the native SDKs and offloads intensive computer tasks to the backend using different functions. You can sign up and track users safely, gather the usage data, or debug crashes on mobile devices with the use of mobile analytics. In this way, you can also keep your users informed about using push notifications.<\/span><\/p>\n

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<\/span>Developer First, Developer Friendly<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n

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Zoho Catalyst strives to offer a seamless experience to the developers which are the reasons why it has handcrafted tools with each kind of developer in mind. It has a unified interface that drives the productivity of developers and enables them to access all the important tools from one location. In addition, it also offers web and mobile SDKs and APIs for developers so that they can build serverless applications easily.<\/span><\/p>\n

The <\/span>serverless development platform<\/b> of Zoho Catalyst is such that the developers are able to host their web applications within the Catalyst along with managing distribution through built-in Mobile Device Management (MDM). Zoho Catalyst comes with extensive performance monitoring and metrics for tracking usage in real-time.<\/span><\/p>\n

Some of the ways in which it helps the developers are:<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>1. Speaks All Languages<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n

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Zoho Catalyst is a <\/span>serverless web applications platform<\/b> that creates serverless functions in the favourite language of the developer such as Java and Node.js.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>2. Deploys from Anywhere<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n

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The developers can use their favorite code or give the online version a complete spin. The code can then be tested and deployed with the powerful command-line interface or from Zoho Catalyst\u2019s site.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>3. Seamless Development and Production<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n

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With the use of Zoho Catalyst, the developers can ship with confidence. One can use separate sandboxes for the process of development and production while always being sure to ship a well-tested product to the users.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>Features of Zoho Catalyst<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n

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<\/span>1. Compute<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n

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Zoho Catalyst helps the developers to compute with three main functions. They are:<\/span><\/p>\n