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Appwrite

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Velocity8.8

Appwrite ships platform-grade upgrades while opening direct lanes to agentic coding tools.

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◆Current state
Appwrite is in heavy platform-maturation mode. The most recent month brought database relationships graduating to GA with a 12-18x speed-up, BigInt column support, persistent-WebSocket Realtime, programmatic environment-variable management, Rust 1.83 as a first-class function runtime, and Bun/Deno added as Sites build runtimes. Alongside the runtime work, two threads expand the platform's reach: a new Appwrite plugin for Codex with bundled MCP server and agent skills, and CLI improvements (multi-file config, deployment retention) aimed at infra teams running Appwrite at real scale.
◆Where it's heading
Appwrite is doing the work to move from 'BaaS for hobbyists' into a credible Firebase and Supabase competitor for production teams. Two strategic vectors are visible: backend primitives are catching up (relationships GA, BigInt, Realtime overhaul, Rust runtime), and agentic developer tools (Codex plugin, docs MCP) are being treated as a first-class distribution surface rather than an afterthought.
◆Prediction
Expect more agent-tooling investment — likely first-class plugins for Cursor or Claude Code, plus deeper MCP coverage of project resources — and continued runtime breadth, probably an edge-functions story to catch up to Cloudflare and Vercel.

◆Recent moves

  1. 1d ago

    Announcing Email policies for Appwrite Auth

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  2. 2d ago

    Bun and Deno are now build runtimes for Sites

    Adds Bun and Deno as selectable build runtimes for Appwrite Sites across all Node-based frameworks. Aligns Sites with the multi-runtime breadth already present in Functions and removes a real friction point for teams standardized on Bun or Deno.

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  3. 6d ago

    Announcing deployment retention for Functions and Sites

    Lets teams automatically prune non-active deployment artifacts after a configurable retention window. Operational rather than user-facing, but it directly addresses storage-cost growth for projects shipping frequently — a sign of customers running Appwrite at real volume.

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  4. 8d ago

    Database relationships are out of beta

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    Database relationships graduate from beta to production-ready after a year of work: 12-18x faster operations, dot-notation filter queries across related data, opt-in loading, and clean CSV export of relationship fields. A platform-defining milestone.

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  5. 9d ago

    Store 64-bit integers with BigInt columns

    Adds 64-bit signed integers as a native column type, with min, max, default, and atomic-operator support. Fills a real gap for high-resolution timestamps, large counters, and external IDs from systems with 64-bit keys.

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  6. 10d ago

    Appwrite plugin for Codex

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    Launches a Codex plugin bundling Appwrite CLI skills, every major SDK, guided deployment skills for Sites and Functions, and the Appwrite Docs MCP server — a single-install agentic on-ramp.

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