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by jamesmcintyre 1221 days ago
As soon as I saw this I planned on asking in the comments how it compares to Pizzly, great to see that this already awesome project is getting relaunched as a dedicated, OSS startup!

Also, last time I checked out pizzly I do not remember seeing any of the "sync" type functionality and the fact that you've added that recently with Temporal is awesome!

You guys are awesome for putting open-source as a high priority!

Is nango going to have the proxy server functionality? (Also, would be really cool if you had a way to deploy the proxy to "the edge" via cloudflare/deno-deploy/fly.io!)

Best of luck to the nango team!
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rguldener 1221 days ago
Thanks for the kind words!

Yes we are thinking about bringing the proxy back as well. Probably with some added features, such as rate-limit handling and automatic retries (powered by Temporal).

The proxy edge deployment idea is interesting. Would you be calling it directly from your frontend/mobile code? We were thinking most people would want to have the proxy as close to their backend as possible, but maybe we are missing something?

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jamesmcintyre 1221 days ago
Glad to hear the proxy is in the plans!

Yea you're probably right, most applications would best fit the proxy living close to the backend.

One reason to run on the edge would be if the edge "worker" could retrieve the required token(s) from an edge db and attach it as a header to the request going through to the BE app server so that it can then immediately make the requests directly to the 3rd party api. (Though this likely only simplifies the design for the devs a bit and performance is nearly identical)

Another reason, likely less common use case, is if you could keep certain data from 3rd party api's always fresh/cached at the edge. So for instance Cloudflare worker KV store has an api to update records (perhaps from a normal nango server instance that's maintaining updating/syncing the records) so that this data can be "injected" as json into the body of an html response. This is definitely a niche use case though, lol.

Congrats on YC and the launch!

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rangledangle 1221 days ago
Nango is Pizzly.
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