Big news today! We're delighted to announce Meteor Galaxy, our cloud platform for operating and managing Meteor applications. It's been a long time in the making and today's release is just the first of many exciting developments to come. While there's a lot more work in front of us, we're excited to reach this milestone and share details about our first Galaxy release.
Our mission is to make modern app development radically easier. The investments we've made in Meteor technology, from the first prototype through Meteor 1.2, have all been in service of that goal. By pulling together many of the hard, complicated parts of building an app into an open source platform, we've helped Meteor developers focus on the parts of their app that matter most to them and get them built far faster.
But developing the app is just half the story. Running it scalably and securely in the cloud is just as important. The devops behind that – especially for a modern app that keeps an open WebSocket to each connected client – takes careful planning and work, especially because you can't easily use the tools and techniques designed for an earlier generation of stateless web servers. It's another obstacle to developers who don't have the necessary devops expertise, and yet another maintenance burden for those who do.
Galaxy, designed for these connected client apps, takes care of all the devops for you.
