🚀 State of the ARC - July 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. Dive in and discover the latest innovations tailored just for you!

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

☁️ ARC SaaS

1. Decoupled Provisioning: To enhance customization and cater to diverse customer needs, we are decoupling the tenant application provisioning process from its build platform. This will allow users to choose their preferred build platform for executing the provisioning cycle. Users can seamlessly use platforms that comply with their organizational standards, ensuring a flexible and user-friendly provisioning experience. Thanks to Shubham Prajapat and Harshit Kumar for their contribution.

⏳ Coming Soon

Excited to share what we will be serving you soon:

1. Billing Component: We are in the process of developing a versatile billing module that allows SaaS providers to integrate seamlessly with their preferred third-party billing tools from the market. This initiative aims to enhance flexibility and efficiency in managing billing processes, ensuring compatibility with a wide array of industry-leading solutions.

2. Customizable licensing Plan: We're evolving our approach to offer SaaS providers greater flexibility in customizing plans based on licensing options. This empowers providers to quickly toggle features for tenants based on selected plans, ensuring they can tailor offerings to meet diverse customer needs efficiently."

3. Support for Keyclock IDP: We are integrating Keycloak 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, and we will update the authentication service database accordingly to ensure seamless integration and user management.

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🌐 ARC IaC

1. EC2 Management Simplified: The EC2 module streamlines the management of Amazon EC2 instances with Terraform, covering key aspects like instance creation, load balancing with ELBs, and security group configurations. It also supports instance metadata, user data scripts, EBS volume management, and Elastic IP association, ensuring best practices for security and performance. Thanks to Vijay Stephen for his contributions.

2. S3 Bucket Management: The S3 module provides a comprehensive solution for managing Amazon S3 buckets with Terraform. It simplifies bucket creation, supports versioning and lifecycle policies, and offers detailed access control. Additionally, it includes cross-region replication and server-side encryption options to enhance data security and durability. Thanks to Vijay Stephen for his contributions.

3. Kinesis Stream Management: This Terraform module by SourceFuse simplifies the management of Amazon Kinesis streams. It allows for easy creation and configuration of data streams, supports Kinesis Firehose delivery, and offers configurable shard counts, data retention periods, and stream encryption with AWS KMS. Contributed by Mayank Sharma.

⏳ Coming Soon

Get a sneak peek of our future updates:

1. Kinesis Firehose Integration: The dynamic Terraform module will create a Kinesis Firehose Stream and integrates with related resources such as CloudWatch, IAM Roles, and Security Groups. Supporting all destinations and features of Kinesis Firehose, offering comprehensive setup and configuration.

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🔧 ARC API

1. Enhanced Feature Toggle Service: Our feature toggle service now allows you to maintain default values for each feature, enabling more nuanced control beyond simple boolean toggles. This enhancement supports various configurations and use cases, providing greater flexibility in feature management and allowing for dynamic adjustments based on specific conditions or criteria. Thanks to Yesha Mavani for her contribution.

⏳ Coming Soon

Excited to share what we will be serving you soon:

1. 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.

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🎨 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.

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ARC Backstage

There's nothing revolutionary to announce right now. Keep an eye out for more exciting news.

⏳ 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.

2. Sonar Integration: We are working on to integrate 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.

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 😎