Meteor Spotlight: Avion

In the fourth episode of the Meteor Spotlight podcast, we chat with our friend James Sear, the co-founder of Avion!

With a combined experience of 20+ years of building digital products, Tim Ramage and James Sear recognized the inadequacy of online tooling available in user story mapping which led them to build Avion - an intuitive and user-focused story mapping tool with real-time capabilities. Meteor gave them the ability to create a fully real-time application with absolute ease.

To learn more about Avion,  what they do, and how they're scaling with Meteor, tune into this episode! We cover everything from their tech stack, new features to come, and how they're scaling with Meteor.

Thanks for listening!

Links:
User story mapping tool
Avion case study
Meteor's website
Meteor Cloud

In this episode, we cover everything that happened in 2021 from releases to Meteor Cloud launch, Push-to-Deploy, NPM installer, Meteor Impact, and much more.

There was a lot to cover on this episode which included:

* Meteor Cloud launch
* Free deploy with shared MongoDB
* Node.js 14 update
* NPM installer
* Meteor Compat Packages
* Meteor Impact/Meteor Hackathon
* Meteor 2.5.1 (M1 support)
* Push-to-Deploy
* Meteor University

Thanks for listening!

Important Links:

Meteor Compat Packages: click here
Node.js 14 update: click here
Meteor 2.5.1: click here
Push-to-Deploy: click here

In this episode, we cover everything from releases to Meteor Meetups, the new 2.4 release, The Meteor Spotlight Podcast, Meteor Impact 2021. 

There was a lot to cover on the open-source side, which included: 

Meteor 2.4 Highlights:

• Newcomers: Meteor NPM installer is now available for all platforms.
• Performance: reify has been updated to v0.22.1 which reduces the overhead of import statements and some uses of export ... from, especially when a module is imported a large number of times or re-exports a large number of exports from other modules. PRs 1, 2
  • reify adds no more than 1s of overhead to import { Web, Add } from '@material-ui/icons/esm/index.js' (edited) 
  • Though a slow mobile browser will have more
• Performance: Support for publication strategies in livedata server #11368
• New feature: Email package now allows setting Email.customTransport to override sending method.
• Update: Apollo skeleton has been upgraded for Apollo server v3
• Update: Typescript updated to v4.3.5

Meteor Spotlight Podcast: 

In our latest episode of the Meteor Spotlight Podcast, we featured our friend Eric Omeig from Boom Learning. Eric Oemig is a former Washington State Senator and the technical co-founder of Boom Learning. His company’s flagship product, Boom Cards, is used by millions of students around the world. Boom Cards are built on Meteor and have been hosting on Galaxy since 2014.

To learn more about Boom Learning and Boom Cards,  what they do, and how they're scaling with Meteor, tune in to the episode! We cover everything from their tech stack, growth during the pandemic, to their journey with Galaxy. 

We also have another episode coming up in a few weeks - stay tuned for more details on that! 

Meteor Impact: 

Meteor Impact will be happening on October 21st and 22nd - if you're interested in being a speaker, please reach out to elysse@meteor.com for more information! 

This year's conference will also include a five-day Hackathon filled with prizes and networking opportunities! The Meteor Hackathon will be held from October 15th to October 22nd (a 7-day event), focusing on building knowledge and understanding in Meteor.js, Meteor Cloud, and javascript. Click here to register for the Hackathon. 

You and your team can build a product with a clear revenue stream, a non-profit, open-source, or anything in between, BUT it should be usable and deployed on Galaxy at the end.

Make your teams and register today as we have limited spots - Click here to register! 

Thanks for listening! 

Important Links: 

Boom Learning Podcast: Click here

Hackathon Information: Click here 

Meteor Impact Conference: Click here

2.4 Release - Blog: Click here 

In the third episode of the Meteor Monthly Spotlight, we sit down with Nick Alt, the Founder and CEO of VNYL. VNYL is a platform that curates and studies your music profile to hand-pick new vinyl albums you will love & they ship right to your door.

In the podcast, Nick explains how VNYL hand-curate 3 records specific to you every month and are based on your particular music tastes. The best part? All of their technology is built with the help of Meteor. To learn more about VNYL, what they do, and how they're scaling with Meteor, tune into this episode! We cover everything from their tech stack, React Native, and how they're growing with Meteor.

Interested in signing up? Click here for a promo code for 50% off your first 2 months! 

Thanks for listening! 

In the second episode of the Meteor Monthly Spotlight, we chat with our friend Eric Omeig, the co-founder of Boom Learning.  

Eric Oemig is a former Washington State Senator and the technical co-founder of Boom Learning. His company’s flagship product, Boom Cards, is used by millions of students around the world. Boom Cards are built on Meteor and have been hosting on Galaxy since 2014.

To learn more about Boom Learning and Boom Cards,  what they do, and how they're scaling with Meteor, tune into this episode! We cover everything from their tech stack, growth during the pandemic, to their journey with Galaxy. 

Thanks for listening! 

Links:

Boom Learning

In this episode, we cover everything from releases to Meteor Meetups, the new 2.3, 2.3.1, 2.3.2 release, as well as Meteor Impact 2021. 

There was a lot to cover on the open-source side, which included: 

Meteor 2.3, 2.3.1, 2.3.2 Highlights:

1. New env variable METEOR_TOOL_ENABLE_REIFY_RUNTIME_CACHE
2. New flag --platforms have been added to the build command
3. Android new artifact format
4. Fixed long-standing bug causing server restarts
5. Skeletons dependencies updated to the latest version
6. Typescript update to 4.3.2

Meteor Meet-ups: 

The next Meteor Meet-up will be happening on July 28th and will be the German meet-up! If you're interested in joining the session, click here for more. As mentioned previously, our meet-ups are remote for the time being until we can transition back into in-person meetings. We'd also love to have more speakers for these sessions, so if you're interested, please reach out to elysse@meteor.com! We'd love to hear from you. 

Meteor Impact: 

Meteor Impact will be happening on October 21st and 22nd - if you're interested in being a speaker, please reach out to elysse@meteor.com for more information! 

This year's conference will also include a five-day Hackathon filled with prizes and networking opportunities! The Meteor Hackathon will be held from October 15th to October 22nd (a 7-day event), focusing on building knowledge and understanding in Meteor.js, Meteor Cloud, and javascript.

You and your team can build a product with a clear revenue stream, a non-profit, open-source, or anything in between, BUT it should be usable and deployed on Galaxy at the end.

Make your teams and register today as we have limited spots - Click here to register! 

Social Spotlight: 

We're highlighting different Meteor applications on our social channels for the weekly social spotlight campaign. This would run cross-platform (all channels) and contains an overview of your company/app as well as links to any specific CTA you'd like. You can fill out this form here if you'd like to be a part of our social spotlight series! 

Thanks for listening! 

We're excited to introduce you to a new series - the Meteor Monthly Spotlight! We'll be featuring different companies in this new series and learning how they're building with Meteor.

In this episode, we're chatting with our friends at Qualia, a digital real estate platform. Qualia has been building with Meteor for some time and raised their Series-D in December of last year. As of today, Qualia has a 500 person team and a customer base of around 1 million. Their products are used to manage a substantial percentage of US real estate transactions. If you recently bought a house (in the US), there's a good chance that the transaction went through Qualia's software.

To learn more about Qualia,  what they do, and how they're scaling with Meteor, tune into this episode! We cover everything from their tech stack, how DDP benefits them, to their journey with Blaze. 

Thanks for listening! 

Links:

Qualia Website

Series-D Announcement 

After taking a little break, we're back full force!

In this episode, we cover everything from releases to Meteor Meetups and our new podcast structure. There was a lot to cover on the open-source side, which included: 

Meteor 2.2 Highlights:

1. MongoDB 4.4.4 updated
2. Typescript 4.2.2 updated
3. Cordova 10 updated
4. Blaze HMR
5. New Operator for MiniMongo
6. Deprecation flag

Meteor Meetups: 

The next Meteor Meet-up will be happening May 26th and will be the German meet-up! If you're interested in joining the session, click here for more. As mentioned previously, our meet-ups are remote for the time being until we can transition back into in-person meetings. We'd also love to have more speakers for these sessions, so if you're interested, please reach out! We'd love to hear from you. 

Meteor Impact: 

Meteor Impact will be happening on October 21st and 22nd - if you're interested in being a speaker, please reach out to elysse@meteor.com for more information! 

New Development Hire: Meteor Software is hiring! If you're a passionate Meteor developer that wants to contribute to Meteor and Meteor Cloud, we'd love to hear from you! Bonus points if you are already a Meteor contributor. See the full job description here. 

We also dive into Verified Accounts on Atmosphere, Meteor Examples, the Meteor Job Board, and much more! 

Thanks for listening! 

We covered a lot of ground in February! On this episode of the Meteor Monthly Wrap-Up, Filipe and Matt discuss developments on the open-source side, including: 

Meteor 2.1 (Node.js security release): Node.js released its update on Feb 23rd, and we released ours just the next day. A trend that we're hoping to continue, especially with security releases. 

New Development Hire: Meteor Software is hiring! If you're a passionate Meteor developer that wants to contribute to Meteor and Meteor Cloud, we'd love to hear from you! Bonus points if you are already a Meteor contributor. See the full job description here. 

We also dive into Verified Accounts on Atmosphere, Meteor Examples, the Meteor Job Board, and much more! 

Our featured Meteor Cloud Feature (featured, feature) is Prerender SEO optimization, which comes standard with applications deployed on Meteor Cloud. There is a server that tries to render your JavaScript application for you in a way that's friendly for SEO at no additional charge! 

Thanks for listening!

In this episode of the Meteor Monthly Wrap-Up, we dive into the two major releases in the past month: Meteor Cloud and Meteor 2.0. 

To kick it off, we discuss the specifics of Meteor Cloud and why we made the changes - which include:

• The thought behind  the  Meteor Cloud design, layout and  new UI
• The return of the free plan and who it's meant for
• What the new Enterprise plan is and what that includes
• Login/Sign-Up with GitHub

The important piece is to highlight the main reason for making these changes: the goal is to make the experience of using our different products (Galaxy Hosting, Meteor Cloud, and Atmosphere) integrated in an intuitive way for developers. 

The other major driver was  to make it easier for new Meteor developers to deploy their applications. Getting  your app in production is such a key component to seeing the power of Meteor; to bring more developers to the platform, it was important for us to improve the experience.  Enter the Free plan and the new shared MongoDB instance!

More information on Cloud can be found here. To get started with using Meteor Cloud for free,  visit our site. 

Next, we covered Meteor 2.0. Highlights include: 

• Hot Module Replacement (not just for React)
• cloud.meteor.com  is built on Meteor 2.0!
• Meteor Create

For more information on Meteor 2.0 and what's coming next, see our blog post. 

If you love Meteor and the updates we've made, spread the word!  Our community has been so great and we'll need your help to bring new developers building and deploying on with Meteor Cloud. 

As  always,  please reach out to us directly at podcast@meteor.com if you have any questions, feedback, or otherwise!