extremum is an integrated solution for rapid backend development in projects of any scale. The platform offers a comprehensive set of components and tools for developing and using easily scalable high-traffic web services compliant with the industry-leading standards. The platform provides ready-made sets of data models and functions for various applications in key business areas.

What’s new in version 3.1

Data management: Added support for anonymous collections and distributed contexts for storing intermediate data processing results.
Operational tools: Added support for tracing system performance using OpenTelemetry and Jaeger.

Features

Once you install the extremum.pro 3.1 distribution, you get a fully functional cloud backend featuring:

High-performance web API.
- Work with JSON data via REST or GraphQL.
- Guaranteed fast response tool that prevents keeping HTTP connections in an unproductive wait state.
- JSON-LD and RDF-like data linking.
- Transactional mechanism for comprehensive object updates.
- Asynchronous data streaming and subscriptions to object updates.
- Caching requested data.
Advanced security tools:
- Identity management subsystem supporting integration with third-party authentication providers, such as social networks and corporate directories.
- Backend object access management based on flexible rules using CEL expressions.
Server logic environment:
- Signaling mechanism for running application and system logic.
- Tools for invoking serverless functions to handle various system events.
- Subscribing serverless functions to events and triggers.
Massive content management:
- Support for multiple representation of multimedia and other file resources.
- File uploading and transcoding pipeline.
- Integration with cloud file storage systems (S3, R2, and more).
Operational tools:
- Generating accounting events for the billing tools.
- System log aggregator.
- Monitoring system.
All these features hosted in Kubernetes clusters for automatic dynamic scaling and optimization of resources depending on the actual load.
The extremum.farm service package for platform management. It provides tools for:
- Code generation
- Deployment automation
- Platform updates
- Dynamic scaling
- Distributed resource management
Full integration with cloud platforms-as-a-service (PaaS), such as:
- Containerization
- Cloud DBMS
- File storage systems
- Message queuing systems
- Function containers
- Firewalls
- Load balancers
Continuous development oriented tools for short-cycle delivery of new versions without the need for technical downtime.
Ready-made client libraries for JavaScript/TypeScript, Kotlin, Python, and Go (support for more languages will be added moving forward).

Pricing

A free license is provided for this distribution including the fundamental part of the extremum platform. It covers the platform core and basic components that provide query processing, data operations, execution of user functions, and distribution of event signals.

The license for the extremum.pro 3.1 distribution kit components included in the extremum.farm system package is commercial. It is provided for each installation of a solution developed based on the platform. Pricing is based on the current discount program for early installations of the extremum.pro 3.1 release:

Grace period	Usage period	Discount
Free trial period for using an installed instance of extremum.pro 3.1	First 14 days	100%
Piloting an installed instance of extremum.pro 3.1 on preferential terms	From day 15 to day 90	75%
Permanent benefit for an installed instance of extremum.pro 3.1 with updates within versions 3.x	From day 91	50%

The discount program is valid until August 31, 2023. After that, new installations of extremum.pro 3.1 will be charged based on new terms and conditions.

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