🚀 May Product Update: Realtime, pgVector, & So Much More!

See the latest news, features, tutorials, and more from Xano  ‌ ‌ ‌    Hi everyone! I am proud to bring you the May 2024 recap spearheaded by the long-awaited and highly anticipated Realtime. Thank you to all who patiently waited as our team worked tirelessly to bring you this impactful feature. We also added Vector Embeddings to Xano via pgVector, making it more accessible to leverage Xano for AI applications. There are plenty more powerful features and enhancements to get caught up on below. Lastly, let me know if you'll be at No-Code Week in Germany next week so we can connect in person. More details surrounding this event are at the bottom of this email, so check it out! --------------------------------------------------------------- 🌟 Highlights 🌟 🚄 Realtime (Websockets) I'm thrilled to announce the beta release of the highly anticipated Realtime to Xano. Realtime empowers you to build dynamic, live-updating applications with ease. Create real-time notifications, live chat, instant updates, and more seamlessly from Xano. The beta phase is a crucial step towards making Realtime as powerful and reliable as possible. Your feedback will help shape and fine-tune the feature, ensuring it meets your needs and exceeds expectations. Reference the [documentation]( and watch the tutorial below to learn more. [Realtime (Websockets)]( 🚀 Vector Embeddings (pgVector) Vector embeddings, powered by pgVector, enable you to store large numerical representations (embeddings) of data to facilitate efficient references and comparisons of specific points of data. This is particularly useful for machine learning and AI applications. Want to learn more about how to leverage vector embeddings? Check out the [documentation]( and watch the tutorial below. [pgVector]( 🧑‍🏫 New Onboarding Tutorial We're dedicated to education and helping you be successful faster at Xano. We've revamped onboarding with an interactive tutorial designed to teach you how to build in Xano in just a few minutes. So if you checked out Xano before but weren't sure how to get started, [log in]( and reset your workspace to learn what you need to know from the new interactive tutorial. [New Onboarding Tutorial] 📤📥 Data Source Migration Another popular feature request from the community: copy data from one data source to another. Now, you can easily migrate data between data sources. Easily manage a data source migration from the data sources menu to bring live data into test or vice-versa. [Data Source Migration] 🗄️ Microsoft Azure Blob Storage We expanded our Cloud Storage functions library. Now, you can easily leverage Microsoft Azure Blob Storage directly from the Xano function stack! Microsoft joins Google Cloud and AWS as storage options to serve all your file storage needs. Check out the [documentation]( to learn how to get started. 📝 Internal Documentation Working with a team and need to leave details or instructions on a function stack? Or perhaps want to leave yourself notes for when you leave and come back later. Introducing internal documentation which allows you to leave documentation on various workspace objects to easily keep track of what's going on. Just open the settings of any API, function, addon, task, etc. to access internal documentation. [Internal Documentation] 🔏 Sensitive Data Flag All database fields now have support to flag the field as sensitive data. When enabled, this hides the field from showing up in the inputs of your API request history. [Sensitive Data Flag] --------------------------------------------------------------- 🏗️ Other Notable Product Enhancements - [NEW] Set Data Source Function - Enforce which data source your function stack calls outside of setting the x-data-source header or parameter. [Read more](. - [NEW] Branch Name Environment Variable - Add the branch name to your environment variables as $branch. - [NEW] Save Run & Debug Parameters Across Sessions - We expanded this functionality so you can save inputs and auth tokens across sessions for easier testing and debugging when you leave and come back. - Referenced By Panel Enhancements - The referenced by panel inside a database table now has additional filters to narrow your search. - Realtime Message History - Store realtime messages in [history]( (up to 1,000) with easy retrieval for channel listeners (defaulted to off). - Reduced Database Connector Pricing - We reduced the monthly price of the [database connector]( add-on from $99/month to $29/month. --------------------------------------------------------------- 📺 Noteworthy New Tutorials - [Introduction to Building LLMs with Xano](  - Watch the replay of the live workshop where Lachlan walks us through an introduction to LLMs and how to leverage different models with Xano. - [How to Work with Arrays in Xano]( - Learn how to master array manipulation with this detailed guide. - [External API Request / cURL Commands](  - Watch this updated tutorial on how to work with External APIs in Xano. - [Cascading Delete Using Database Triggers](  - Check out how cascading deletes become even easier with one of our newest features: database triggers. --------------------------------------------------------------- 🇩🇪 Xano at No-Code Week Cologne Liz, Developer Community Manager, and I are headed to Germany for [No-Code Week]( Cologne. We'll be presenting, conducting a workshop, and interacting with attendees. If you will be attending please let me or Liz know in the [community]( so we can link up in person. --------------------------------------------------------------- Have feedback on any of these excellent new features or in general? @ me at [community.xano.com]( to let me know about it. Are there other features you're dying to see come to Xano? Add it to our [feature requests]( or upvote it if it already exists there. -- Michael Udinski Developer Advocate Lead  [Twitter]( [Youtuve](  ©2024 Xano Inc. 20700 Ventura Blvd. Ste 210, Woodland Hills, CA 91364 [Don't like these emails? Unsubscribe.]()                              Â