Super fast Hasura BaaS API engine

Kaspar L. Palgi
CrewNew.com
Published in
2 min readNov 21, 2020

Hasura is Backend as a Service that means you get most of your backend API (GraphQL API — the next generation of the well-known REST API) out of the box and back-end development will be INSANE FAST. More than 10x faster in most cases!

Usually BaaS like for example Google’s Firebase means that you get super rapid back-end development out of the box and it’s all already hosted and set up for you for free but once you start getting some traffic you will notice that monthly bills are getting way higher compared to the usual hosting plans. With Hasura Open-Source GraphQL Engine it’s different — you set it all up in your AWS (Amazon Web Services) and enjoy 12 months free tier and pay after that most probably less than $10 depending on your traffic amount of course but many times cheaper to hosted BaaS service providers such as Firebase for example.

At many cases, Hasura gives you out of the box also admin panel to for example manage your users, orders, products, customers, invoices, whatever your app needs admin panel for.

Of course, Hasura isn’t some miracle that solves everybody’s back-end problems at least 10x faster but at CrewNew we use about 70–80% less NodeJS or Laravel for the back-end for the new projects since we started using Hasura.

And programmers behind Hasura are top experts and know what they are doing so you don’t have to pay $100+ hourly rate but get your back-end done by programmers with such rates. They got Feb 2020 also A series funding $9.9m to accelerate product delivery using GraphQL.

Read also, how Hasura saved Cresta $50k>>

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Kaspar L. Palgi
CrewNew.com

Backend programmer and veteran tech enthusiast. Mentoring and writing tech books. Team lead at CrewNew.com / lead developer at Klarity.app