🚀 State of the ARC - August 2024

[yeshamavani]

Dear ARC Community,
Greetings! Hope you're well. Our team has been hard at work crafting exciting updates for ARC, and this month's newsletter is brimming with cool highlights spanning across our branches ARC SaaS, ARC API, ARC IAC and Backstage. Dive in and discover the latest innovations tailored just for you!

No more waiting, let's get to the good stuff!

☁️ ARC SaaS

1. Billing Component: We have developed a flexible billing module tailored for SaaS providers, enabling seamless integration with a wide range of third-party billing tools. This solution enhances efficiency in managing billing processes and ensures compatibility with industry-leading platforms like Chargebee. This solution streamlines billing operations by offloading all billing-related tasks to these platforms, freeing up your resources and enhancing overall efficiency. Thanks to Sunny Tyagi for his contribution.

2. Customizable licensing Plan and Feature Toggling: We now empower SaaS providers to customize their subscription plans with flexible licensing options and configurable features for each plan. Additionally, they can easily manage and adjust the size of resources to suit their needs, ensuring optimal performance and scalability. This empowers providers to quickly toggle features for tenants based on selected plans, ensuring they can tailor offerings to meet diverse customer needs efficiently. Thanks to Shubham Prajapat, Harshit Kumar and Yesha Mavani for their contributions. Also Deepika Mahindroo for UI changes.

3. Migration to Github Repository: With the deprecation of AWS codecommit, we have successfully migrated our repository from AWS CodeCommit to GitHub, streamlining the management of our SaaS tenant management and Control Plane Application. This transition enhances collaboration, version control, and overall development efficiency within a more robust platform. Thanks to Harshit Kumar for his contributions.

⏳ Coming Soon

Excited to share what we will be serving you soon:

1. Support for Multiple IDP: We are integrating Keycloak and Auth0 as an identity provider for our SaaS application planes, alongside our existing Cognito support. The first user for each tenant will be saved in Keycloak/Auth0, and we will update the authentication service database accordingly to ensure seamless integration and user management.

🔗 Learn More About ARC SaaS

🌐 ARC IaC

1. Transit Gateway: A reusable Terraform configuration designed to streamline the creation and management of AWS Transit Gateways, enabling seamless connectivity between multiple Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) through a central hub. This module automates resource provisioning, including optional routing tables and VPC attachments, reducing the complexity of network management. It also offers extensive customization options, allowing users to tailor VPC attachments, route tables, propagation, and cross-account sharing to meet their specific needs. Contributed by Manikanta Sadurla. Follow the link to its terraform registry.

⏳ Coming Soon

Get a sneak peek of our future updates:

1. Site to Site VPN: A reusable Terraform component that simplifies setting up secure VPN connections between your AWS environment (VPC) and on-premises or remote networks. It automates the creation of AWS VPN resources and offers configurable options for VPN gateways, customer gateways, and routing protocols, making it easy to deploy across different environments.

🔗 Learn More About ARC IaC

🔧 ARC API

1. File Utils: Introducing a new extension that streamlines file uploads with enhanced multipart support, making it easier and faster to handle large files. This extension improves efficiency and simplifies the process, ensuring seamless integration with your existing system. Thanks to Akshat Dubey for his contributions.

2. Enhanced Caching: Our enhanced caching extension allows you to apply caching to any method not restricting you to limited classes like repositories only. This provides greater flexibility, enabling you to optimize performance across your entire application by caching method results wherever needed. Thanks to Akshat Dubey for his contributions.

⏳ Coming Soon

Excited to share what we will be serving you soon:

1. Auth0 Idp: Our ARC module will soon include support for Auth0 authentication, allowing you to seamlessly integrate Auth0 as an identity provider for your web application. This ehnacement will simplify your authentication and authorization flow.

2. Entity Level Archival: Rather than limiting archival features solely to audit logs, we're introducing a comprehensive approach to alleviate database overhead across all services. Our upcoming solution provides a universal method for archiving and retrieving entries for any entity, offering a versatile and streamlined approach to data management across your entire system.

🔗 Learn More About ARC API

ARC Backstage

1. Sonar Integration: We have integrated SonarQube with Backstage to provide code quality metrics directly within the Backstage Code Quality screen. This integration will enable developers and managers to easily access and review code quality reports without leaving the Backstage environment, enhancing workflow efficiency and ensuring consistent code quality oversight. Thanks to Sadarunnisa Sutar for her contributions.

⏳ Coming Soon

Stay tuned for more exciting updates:

1. Access Management: We are enhancing access control to be more granular, which will streamline permission management across all projects. This improvement will ensure more precise and efficient control over user permissions to the repositories. This will boost overall security and efficiency.

🎨 ARC UI

No ground breaking updates here. Stay tuned for further exciting updates.

⏳ Coming Soon

Watch this space for other exciting things we are working on:

1. Enhancing angular boiler plate: We're expanding our Angular boiler plate to include more frequently used elements such as ag-grid, gantt charts, breadcrumbs, and select modules etc. By integrating these popular components, we're working to provide a more comprehensive and efficient toolkit for Angular developers.

🔗 Learn More About ARC UI

We can't wait to bring you these exciting updates! Keep an eye out for more details and release announcements in the near future.

That’s a wrap for this month’s updates! 🙂
We can't wait to see the things you'll create using these fresh features and enhancements. Remember, your feedback means the world to us. Whether you have questions, ideas, or just want to chat, don't hesitate to post your thoughts in the arc-general channel.
Stay tuned for more exciting updates in the months ahead, and happy coding!
Best wishes,
The ARC Team 😎