<img src="https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/cosmicjs/d69d2e70-d4d4-11e7-987f-63705e47eb9e-redis-status.png" style="width: 100%;" class="fr-fic fr-dib">I am deeply sorry for the performance and uptime issues that we experienced several hours of the day on Tuesday, November 21 and in the days following. &nbsp;The initial issue was caused by a friendly-fire DDOS attack that caused our servers to become slow or unresponsive and continued due to increased traffic on the platform. We quickly diagnosed the problem and have been working around the clock to fix it and try to prevent the issue from happening again. &nbsp;And in the process, we&#39;ve made significant improvements in overall speed and reliability. &nbsp;Here&#39;s what we did: <ol><li>We&#39;ve deployed a new high-speed caching layer for all API requests which has dramatically improved API response times (by a factor of 10+)! &nbsp;You will now notice blazing fast response times across the web dashboard and API endpoints.</li><li>We&#39;ve upgraded our infrastructure capacity to scale with increasing&nbsp;traffic and perform reliably with sudden&nbsp;spikes in traffic.</li><li>We have a <a data-cke-saved-href="http://cosmicstatus.com/" href="http://cosmicstatus.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">new status page</a> dedicated to communicating to you any performance or uptime issues.</li></ol> We are grateful for your business and hold ourselves accountable when there&#39;s any issue with providing you the best possible service. Thank you for your patience and support as we strive to help you build apps fast, now even faster. &nbsp;Please feel free to reach out to me personally if you have any questions or comments. Sincerely,Tony Spiro CEO Cosmic <a href="mailto:tony@cosmicjs.com">tony@cosmicjs.com</a>

Blazing Fast Response Times and New Status Page

<img src="https://cosmic-s3.imgix.net/337ce5e0-c87d-11e7-9a3c-5fec67617bf7-Markdown-mark.svg.png" style="width: 300px;" class="fr-fic fr-dib"> Markdown is a great tool in the developer&#39;s tool belt that offers a quick and easy alternative to HTML text formatting. &nbsp;We are happy to let you know that you now have a Markdown Metafield to use for your Cosmic Objects.<a href="https://www.cosmicjs.com/login">Login</a> or <a href="https://www.cosmicjs.com/signup">sign up</a> to begin using Markdown.Simply go to add a new Object or edit an existing Object and click &quot;+ Add Metafield&quot; and notice the latest Markdown option. &nbsp;You have the ability to preview the Markdown as well by clicking the Preview tab.<img src="https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/cosmicjs/e3796360-c87d-11e7-8d35-b9e83a15ddf3-markdown.gif" style="width: 100%;" class="fr-fic fr-dib">Let me know if you have any questions about this new option in <a href="https://www.cosmicjs.com/community">our community</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/cosmic_js" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">on Twitter</a>.

Markdown Metafield Now Available

<img src="https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/cosmicjs/761bc440-c556-11e7-bcbf-794d69923463-builder-bucket-program.jpg" style="width: 100%;" class="fr-fic fr-dib">Developers need time to build. &nbsp;And content editors need time to test-drive a project as it&#39;s being built. &nbsp;For these reasons, we&#39;re rolling out our new Builder Bucket Referral Program which gives you more trial time on your Free Builder Bucket when you invite friends and colleagues to join Cosmic. &nbsp;It works like this: <ol><li>Set up your Builder Bucket which includes a free 14-day trial</li><li>At any point during your 14-day trial, you have the option to upgrade to any paid plan OR send your personal referral link to a friend or colleague</li><li>Once they sign up, you get 14 more days to use your Builder Bucket </li></ol>You can invite as many people as you want and there is no limit to the number of Free trial days you can earn from referrals. <img src="https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/cosmicjs/2163cec0-c4c5-11e7-a035-37d8e491d558-Screen Shot 2017-11-08 at 1.32.49 PM.png" style="width: 100%;" class="fr-fic fr-dib"> For more details and to get your referral link, <a href="https://www.cosmicjs.com/login">login</a> and go to <a href="https://www.cosmicjs.com/account/referrals">Account Settings &gt; Referrals</a>.<img src="https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/cosmicjs/8396d3e0-c4c9-11e7-b3af-7f5642d0f40b-free-bucket-referral-program.gif" style="width: 100%;" class="fr-fic fr-dib"> It is our mission to help teams build apps faster together, and we&#39;re happy to roll out this program to give you more time to get your projects ready for production. &nbsp;If you have any questions about the Builder Bucket Referral Program or anything else, <a href="https://www.cosmicjs.com/community">join our Community</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/cosmic_js" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">reach out to us on Twitter</a>.

Introducing the Builder Bucket Referral Program

<img src="https://cosmic-s3.imgix.net/d20bc9a0-c374-11e7-84d7-69582fe69304-back-to-the-future-white.png" style="width: 100%;" class="fr-fic fr-dib"> We&#39;re excited to announce that Revision History is now available for all of your Cosmic Objects. This means that you now have the power to go back in time to previous versions, save new versions without publishing live and more (click on screenshots to zoom): 1. Objects remain published while you save changes to draft You now have the ability to keep your published Objects while saving new versions to Draft. &nbsp;Many have requested this and we&#39;re happy to now make this possible 😀 . &nbsp;To unpublish the Object, click the new &quot;Unpublish&quot; button. <img src="https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/cosmicjs/63929930-c0cd-11e7-abac-51c52486cebb-revisions-1.png" style="width: 100%;" class="fr-fic fr-dib" data-action="zoom"> 2. View prior changes You can view all prior revisions on Objects (since this release date) by clicking the Revision History modal link. <img src="https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/cosmicjs/01debce0-c0ce-11e7-81b0-47ca78c54390-revisions-2.png" style="width: 100%;" class="fr-fic fr-dib" data-action="zoom"> 3. Rollback to prior changes To roll back to a prior version simply click on a revision and Save Draft or Publish in the Edit Object revision view. <img src="https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/cosmicjs/13cdcd60-c0ce-11e7-8997-97f89cbe6ac3-revisions-3.png" style="width: 100%;" class="fr-fic fr-dib" data-action="zoom"> We&#39;re excited about rolling this out as it makes collaboration between developers and editors that more comfortable. &nbsp;No need to worry about mistakes when the revert button is just a click away.If you would like to join our mission to help teams collaborate around building great products together, <a href="https://www.cosmicjs.com/community">join our Community</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/cosmic_js" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">follow us on Twitter</a>.

Introducing Object Revision History 

<img src="https://cosmic-s3.imgix.net/b5c88d00-bf14-11e7-929e-e520afee8cd7-secondwind.png?w=1200" style="width: 100%;" class="fr-fic fr-dib">In this <a href="https://www.cosmicjs.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Cosmic</a> Developer Spotlight, we sat down with Yew Wee Chua, Chief Technology Officer of <a href="http://www.secondwindnation.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Second Wind Nation</a> whose team has largely focused on data analytics and web development over the last several years. They&#39;re currently building out content-driven applications for teams of content editors with specific areas of focus to contribute content to a more comprehensive publication site. Read the <a href="https://www.cosmicjs.com/case-studies/second-wind-nation" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Second Wind Nation Case Study</a>. Check Yew out on <a href="https://twitter.com/weewey_" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Twitter</a> or <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/yew-wee-chua-7a987495/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a>, and enjoy the Q/A. 1. How long have you been building software? My team and I have been building software for about 2-3 years. Our background is primarily in data analytics and web development. 2. What is your preferred development stack? MERN. MERN stands for Mongo DB, Express.js, React and Node.js. To see all of the tools that Cosmic works well with and supports, check out the <a href="https://www.cosmicjs.com/knowledge-base" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Cosmic Knowledge Base</a>.&nbsp;<img src="https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/cosmicjs/5864c430-bf05-11e7-b4e6-bb80e0778af9-1741229_1.jpg" style="width: 100%;" class="fr-fic fr-dib"><img src="https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/cosmicjs/025cf2b0-bf0f-11e7-929e-e520afee8cd7-Screen Shot 2017-11-01 at 9.14.28 AM.png" style="width: 100%;" class="fr-fic fr-dib"> 3. What past projects are you most proud of and why? Building a web-based search application for a large mining company. We developed and brought it into production within 2 weeks. Additionally it has cool features such as a recommendation
engine based on the user&#39;s search history. I&#39;m proud of it because we only had 2 weeks to bring it to production. 4. Talk a little bit more about your process for building apps. &nbsp;How has Cosmic sped up your time to market for project delivery deadlines? We typically work using the agile scrum method, getting the software requirements from
the business, prioritizing features on the product backlogs, sprint planning and so on. Cosmic has freed us from worrying about the backend CMS and now we spend more time on building the front-end as well as deploying the application.&nbsp;Previously we were using WordPress. WordPress was limiting as whenever we needed new features to be added onto the application, we were required to add additional plugins which result in the clunkiness of the application. Thus we moved away from WordPress
and found Cosmic as our solution for a headless CMS. 5. What are some technologies you are excited about that you are using today, or want to learn more about? We will want to learn more about containerizing our application and employ a continuous deployment of our containerized application
on the cloud. To learn how you can contribute Apps, Articles and Extensions to the <a href="https://www.cosmicjs.com/community" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Cosmic Community</a>, contact us at <a href="mailto:support@cosmicjs.com"></a>
<a href="mailto:support@cosmicjs.com"></a><a href="mailto:support@cosmicjs.com">support@cosmicjs.com</a>.

Developer Spotlight: Yew Wee Chua

We&#39;re excited to announce that we are now expanding our Developer Program to include Premium Apps and Extensions. &nbsp;To kick things off, our first Premium App is now available: &nbsp;<a href="https://www.cosmicjs.com/apps/bootstrap-landing-page">Bootstrap Landing Page</a>. <a href="https://www.cosmicjs.com/apps/bootstrap-landing-page"><img src="https://cosmicjs.imgix.net/6c2ab7e0-b8c0-11e7-9a91-1fa445eca758-bootstrap-landing-page.jpg" style="max-width: 500px;" class="fr-fic fr-dib"></a> We know first-hand the problem of building websites and apps on a time crunch. &nbsp;And it&#39;s always nice to find something pre-built that you can simply pull &quot;off-the-shelf&quot; and customize to fit your needs. &nbsp;The cost savings on development hours makes it a great option and we&#39;re excited to add this option to help teams get projects finished faster. If you are interested in contributing Apps to sell in our Marketplace we would love to work with you. &nbsp;This is an opportunity to get paid recurring revenue every time your App is purchased. To get started offering your Premium Apps and Extensions, login to your account, go to Account Settings &gt; Developer Program and request access.To learn more about the opportunity please email us at <a href="mailto:build@cosmicjs.com">build@cosmicjs.com</a>. We&#39;re excited to see what you build!

Premium Apps

Helping you get where you need to go faster is a top priority for Cosmic. &nbsp;That&#39;s why you&#39;ll notice we recently updated our navigation (main menu and footer links) to help you get to Cosmic products, resources and information faster and easier. <img src="https://www.cosmicjs.com/uploads/f8dc5950-b352-11e7-838a-497b4764a634-new-nav.gif" style="width: 100%;" class="fr-fic fr-dib"> Our simplified main navigation includes our most popular and most important pages: Products, Developers, Pricing and Company. &nbsp; We&#39;ve also added a new hub for our developer documentation: <a href="https://www.cosmicjs.com/docs">https://www.cosmicjs.com/docs</a> <img src="https://www.cosmicjs.com/uploads/04a40370-b351-11e7-aa88-17d06cb0accf-Screen Shot 2017-10-17 at 10.36.42 AM.png" style="width: 100%;" class="fr-fic fr-dib">And finally in the footer, we&#39;ve organized links in a more thoughtful way to help you find what you need faster (see them below).Please let me know if you have any questions. &nbsp;We&#39;re always available to help in <a href="https://www.cosmicjs.com/community">our Slack channel</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/cosmic_js" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">on Twitter</a>.

Navigation Update

You can now add a link for your writers to be able to preview Object content. &nbsp;By setting up your Preview links on your Object Types, your writers will easily be able to preview changes to content in draft or published state. &nbsp;To add preview
buttons to your Objects, simply:1. Go to Your Bucket &gt; Object Type Settings &gt; Preview Link. 2. Add your Preview Link (dynamically add the object slug with the [object_slug] shortcode). &nbsp;If you would like to view Draft status Objects, you will need to make sure your web app queries the endpoint with ?status=all. &nbsp;View the <a href="https://www.cosmicjs.com/docs/rest">API documentation</a> for more information on how to access your Objects in draft status.<img src="https://www.cosmicjs.com/uploads/df9ea630-a83c-11e7-ab7e-25f46d4715c2-preview-link-mark.png" style="width: 100%;" class="fr-fic fr-dib"> 3. Click the Preview button located at the top right in the Edit Object page.<img src="https://www.cosmicjs.com/uploads/e535ec70-a83c-11e7-ab7e-25f46d4715c2-preview-btn-mark.png" style="width: 100%;" class="fr-fic fr-dib"> Then preview the content: <img src="https://www.cosmicjs.com/uploads/3a22ea70-a7b7-11e7-b956-b3101583a440-Screen Shot 2017-10-02 at 4.17.51 PM.png" style="width: 100%;" class="fr-fic fr-dib"> Here it is in Gif format: <img src="https://www.cosmicjs.com/uploads/abc8bb60-a83d-11e7-a69f-b9edbf41fd94-preview-link.gif" style="width: 100%;" class="fr-fic fr-dib">It is our hope that this feature will further help developers and editors collaborate to create great apps and write compelling content. &nbsp;If you have any questions about this feature or other ways to build apps faster and easier using Cosmic <a href="https://twitter.com/cosmic_js" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">reach out to us on Twitter</a> and <a href="https://www.cosmicjs.com/community">join our Slack community</a>.

Preview Link Now Available

We&#39;ve rolled out a few updates that were requested by members of our community. &nbsp;Check them out below:1. Localization We&#39;ve consolidated Objects with multiple locales to appear on the same row with links to each localized Object in the Objects table view.<img src="https://www.cosmicjs.com/uploads/8390fe60-a486-11e7-81e6-db0f42c0a9f7-localization.png" style="width: 80%;" class="fr-fic fr-dib"> 2. Repeater Item Sorting You can now drag and drop sort your repeating items.<img src="https://www.cosmicjs.com/uploads/6f5073e0-a472-11e7-81e6-db0f42c0a9f7-Screen Shot 2017-09-28 at 11.28.49 AM.png" style="width: 300px;" class="fr-fic fr-dib"> 3. Embedly We&#39;ve added <a href="http://embed.ly/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Embedly</a> functionality to our HTML editor to allow you to easily add GitHub Gists, Twitter cards <a href="http://embed.ly/providers">and more</a>.Add a link to the resource using the Embedly icon in the editor: <img src="https://www.cosmicjs.com/uploads/ddd3c600-a472-11e7-9213-cd6969b1c63d-Screen Shot 2017-09-28 at 12.31.02 PM.png" style="width: 80%;" class="fr-fic fr-dib"> Wherever this content goes, you will need to make sure you have the <a href="http://docs.embed.ly/docs/platformjs" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Embedly script</a> installed on your webpage.And it will look something like this:<div class="fr-embedly " data-original-embed="<a href='https://twitter.com/CharlieMack7301/status/912774348750053376' class='embedly-card'></a>"><a href="https://twitter.com/CharlieMack7301/status/912774348750053376" class="embedly-card"></a></div>

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