Box Developers Newsletter: April 2017


Introducing kube-applier: Declarative Configuration for Kubernetes

Declarative Configuration for Kubernetes

As part of Box's ongoing migration to microservices running on Kubernetes, we've built an array of custom tools and services to improve our deployment process. We're happy to announce that we are open-sourcing one of those projects: kube-applier, a service that automatically keeps your Kubernetes objects up-to-date with their declarative configuration files.

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Events

For a complete list of upcoming events, visit our Events Calendar


Virtual API Office Hours

Got questions about the Box API? Join us for an upcoming API office hours sessions on May 8 or May 22 at 1:00pm PST.

Whether you are running into an issue with our API or you want to know best practices for implementing a specific use case, you can ask us anything related to the Box API!

Register Here for May 8  Register Here for May 22

Box Developers Meetup in Austin, TX with Auth0

We've partnered up with our friends at Auth0 to host a meetup at our Austin office on April 28 at 6:30pm. We'll show you how you can use Auth0 and Box Platform to quickly add user management and authentication and secure cloud content management services to any client side web or mobile app using serverless technologies like AWS Lambda!

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Developer Spotlight

To see more about what developers are building with Box, visit our Developer Showcase

Maxwell

Maxwell is a modern mortgage experience that enables mortgage lenders and their borrowers to collaborate more efficiently throughout the home-buying process. Learn how they're leveraging Box Platform to power secure document sharing and collaboration in their application.

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Product Updates

For a complete log of all our recent API changes, please see our API Changelog

Box Platform on the AWS Marketplace

AWS users can now license Box Platform on the AWS Marketplace to use Box Platform APIs in your applications built with other AWS services. Box Platform on the AWS Marketplace is available in a bundle of monthly active App Users, API calls, storage, and bandwidth.

Please note that Box Platform is only available on the AWS Marketplace to new developer accounts. You will need to use a different email address from the address associated with your Box Developer account.

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Updates to Box Platform Pricing

We have introduced a new pricing model for Box Platform for developers that wish to white-label Box content services into their software products. The new pricing model is based on anticipated resource consumption by an application.

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From the Blog

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User Authentication and Management with AWS Cognito

We've created a tutorial to allow you to authenticate and manage Box App Users with Amazon Cognito using just a few lines of code. Using this tutorial and sample code, you’ll be able to setup user authentication for your Box app with AWS Cognito in minutes.

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Add Image Recognition to Your App with AWS Rekognition

In collaboration with Amazon Web Services, we’ve developed a tutorial and created sample code that enables you to upload an image to Box via an app, automatically generate labels using Amazon Rekognition’s image analysis technology, and apply them to your image files as file metadata.

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