Frontend Deployments Made Frictionless: Hands-On with Catalyst Slate

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Demonstrates Catalyst Slate deploying frontends from GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket with auto deploy on every commit, auto-detecting frameworks (Next.js 12+ supported) and Node runtimes 16/18/20, building then serving static assets via Zoho’s Nimbus CDN and SSR on Zoho serverless. Shows branch-based deployments, separate dev/prod environments, per-deployment environment variables, horizontal scaling with up to 2 GB memory per invocation, CLA for behind‑VPN or self‑hosted repos (CLA for self-hosted), 30/15‑day logs, invocation+buildtime pricing and an extensible free tier.

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1. 0:00Introduction to Catalyst Slate
2. 1:59Setting up the demo
3. 8:14Enabling Slate early access
4. 14:20Overview of Catalyst platform
5. 25:21GitHub repository and roadmap
6. 27:14Deploying a Next.js app
7. 33:47Multiple deployment models
8. 38:14Environment management
9. 40:51Q&A session part 1
10. 48:01Q&A session part 2
11. 57:21Closing and next steps

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