Innovation Series

At Poly, we’re passionate believers that innovation isn’t just the key to success; it’s what makes the journey in software development truly exciting. Our video series is designed to showcase the cutting-edge of what’s possible today, and give you a glimpse into how we envision the future. We aim to demonstrate why our approach stands out, highlighting how thoughtful architecture can unlock a world of possibilities in enhancing integration and microservice development.

If you’re a potential customer, we encourage you to dive into these videos with a keen eye. Please note the classification of each video carefully, and understand that features labeled as “in-progress” or under “exploration” may not necessarily make it to the final product stage. And if you’re a competitor who’s been captivated by what you see, let’s talk. We’re always on the lookout for exceptional talent to join us in shaping our vision for the future.

See how Poly webhook handlers can be used to implement and new APIs and services easily. Leveraging event driven architecture, the generated Poly functions for webhook handlers use WebSocket connections to the Poly server to deliver events to services running either as Server functions in Poly, traditional web servers, or even in the case of this demo my laptop. Note this API created is a Public APIs (since my Poly server is a public instance) served by my laptop and was implemented in a matter of minutes.

0:00 Introduction of use case
5:19 Registration of webhook handler using Postman
7:49 Implementation of event handler in VS Code
12:12 Adding a return statement
14:49 Adding return status code and content type

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In this video, we explore accessing backend system data using Google Sheets through Vari.

0:00 Introduction
2:52 Demo in Google Sheets
7:37 Walkthrough of Implementation

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A demo part of the innovation series, exploring how to use Poly to build and host micro webapps.

0:00 Introduction
4:21 Demo of 3 Micro Apps working together
7:36 Walkthrough of implementation in VS Code

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In this video, we take a look at using Vari for feature flags to control runtime execution flow dynamically using server side configurations.

0:00 Introduction
3:09 Walkthrough of Demo Implementation
6:56 Execution of Demo

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This demo showcases using client functions to encapsulate reusable logic with server functions. A major boost in reusability and manageability of integrations at scale.

0:00 Introduction
4:03 Demo of Client Function within Server Functions

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In this video, we consider a future state where developers instead of using APIs just prompt an AI model for the data they want and then run a command to generate a function which mimics the behavior of the AI but in a programmatic, consistent, performant, and low cost way. The ability to use AI powered APIs exists in Poly today, but auto generation of a function to replicate the AIs behavior does not exist today.

00:00 Introduction
04:54 Using AI Powered APIs
08:38 Plugin Model Generation and Conversation/Execution History
12:14 Vision of Future Generated Functions
13:10 Using the generated function instead of the AI Model

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In this demo, we showcase one of our favorite capabilities of Poly, the ability to write object agnostic reusable mapping functions which improve reusability and allow for more multi-tenant integration development.

0:00 Introduction.
4:28 Custom client function for generic mapping.
7:59 Customer specific JSON mapping Files.
8:57 Invocation of webhooks representing different customers.
10:17 Viewing results of first round of invocations.
10:39 Updating the mapping file.
10:56 Rerunning the webhook calls to see updated results.

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In this demo, I showcase a pattern supported today where you can build server functions to efficiently and securely manage access tokens using Vari.

0:00 Introduction
5:33 Walkthrough of Implementation

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In this demo we showcase an upcoming feature where poly can learn from OpenAPI Specifications (3.0.0 +). This capability accelerates a companies ability to ingest APIs where good quality and accurate specs exist and is a compliment to the existing observation based training approach in Postman.

0:00 Introduction
6:48 Demo

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In this demo, we showcase our upcoming Canopy UI service (as of May 2nd 2024) which will be used to power the Poly Management UI as well as allow customers of Poly to build their own UI application on top of Poly API and Server Functions. This service will make development of UIs very easy and fast and will afford a lot of flexibility in the interaction to enterprise APIs, Databased and Event Brokers.

00:00 Introduction to Canopy Service
03:46 Using Canopy to Power the Poly Management UI
07:06 Building a new Custom UI using Canopy + Poly Functions