Optimizing Business Workflows for SaaS App: A Microservices & Serverless Approach

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Catalyst exposes Zoho’s infrastructure as a serverless platform so external teams can write microservices, use Node 18 runtime, and call prebuilt features like auth, logging, mailing and a smart browse headless-browser manager. Demo shows a ChatGPT-generated Express ticket API deployed via the CLI; the platform auto-spins servers on demand and returns a live URL. Use cases solved: POS eligibility checks (replacing VM farms) and scheduled report generation without fragile headless-browser ops.

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1. 0:00Welcome and icebreaker game
2. 3:41Introduction to session
3. 4:25SaaS and serverless development need
4. 7:55Pre-built vs custom solutions
5. 12:50Zoho’s microservices approach
6. 14:59Introducing Catalyst platform
7. 17:31Catalyst features overview
8. 18:15Demo setup and CLI tool
9. 23:51Closing and Q&A

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