Today’s post is from SnapLogic summer intern, Rishabh Mehan: My name is Rishabh Mehan and I’m currently a student at New York Institute of Technology. I’ve been doing computer programming/software development for 8 years and this summer I’ve been working at SnapLogic as an intern. My main focus has been the new SnapLogic Developer Community, which went live with our Summer 2014 release.
One of the things that excited me the most about what we’re working on at SnapLogic (other than Elastic Integration, Big Data and powering cloud analytics of course) is the fact that we’re setting out to enable our customers with the potential to move to the cloud and expand the kind of data and application integrations that are possible.
Our new SnapLogic Developer Community was created to make it easier for developers to expand the current list of Snaps according to their needs, as well as to have the ability to create a completely new Snap. With a very simple approach, the SnapLogic Developer Community provides a knowledge base and environment to share ideas for developing on our cloud integration platform.
The Developer Community provides a base for collaborative learning, and our team and other developers will always be there to help you, as well as ask you for help. This is how developers work. The current structure of the Community is diversified into three segments:
- Get Set
- Get Started
- Get Collaborative
Get Set
- Brief overview of the architecture
- Introduction to the technology and terminology
- Snaps and pipelines
- Set up the on-premises Snaplex
Get Started
- Set up your developer environment
- Snap Development
- Demo Snaps and guides
- Documentation for your reference
Get Collaborative
- Community forum to discuss your issues
- Post your responses and help others
- Learn about what other developers are doing
After being provisioned as a Developer in your SnapLogic organization, you are all set to enter the Developer Community and go through each and every document available.
Additionally, we have developed easy multi-platform installers for developers, which help in setting up your own on-premises Snaplex and develop without depending on any other resources. The package also provides you with the Snap Developer Kit (SDK) and our Snaps for developers. You can easily reference them, use them and – if you’d like to – modify them.
Here’s an example of a SnapLogic Windows Installer:
All of the documentation will guide you through the process, so even if you don’t know anything about the development of Snaps, you really don’t have to worry. So login and get started today. We’re looking forward to hearing your feedback!
