Introducing the FlowFuse Community Forum

We are thrilled to announce the launch of the Community Forum for FlowFuse. A forum dedicated to empowering developers and enthusiasts to create innovative applications using FlowFuse, Node-RED and related technologies.

Node-RED Community Health

It is often a challenge to measure the health of an open source project, like Node-RED. Individuals can download and use Node-RED without any indication or feedback to their ongoing satisfaction or usage. However, it is still interesting to look at a variety of metrics to understand the size of the Node-RED community.

29 Mar, 2023

IBM Cloud removes Node-RED starter application

IBM Cloud has recently announced that they will no longer be providing their Cloud App Service Starter Kits, including the Node-RED Starter Application.

16 Mar, 2023

Terminology Changes

As a new product in the market, we constantly have to make choices on how to name things. Naming things is hard! As you name a thing, say "Project", it might be suitable now, but the product evolves, and may outgrow the name such that it doesn’t fit anymore.

10 Feb, 2023

Service Disruption Report for January 27th, 2023

On January 27th, 2023, we were alerted to an issue on FlowFuse Cloud where a user was not able to access a newly created Node-RED Project, receiving a 404 error instead. This post examines the issue that was hit, the timeline of events and what we've done to resolve it.

Nick O'Leary

13 Dec, 2022

FlowFuse Inc. becomes a member of the OpenJS Foundation

We're pleased to share the news we've joined the OpenJS Foundation to bolster our support for the Node-RED community.

Nick O'Leary

25 Nov, 2022

Re-spin of Docker-Compose install package

Details FlowFuse v1.1.1

Ben Hardill

3 Nov, 2022

FlowFuse raises $7.25M Seed Round to bring Node-RED to the Enterprise

Since the [launch of FlowFuse][first-deploy] in April 2021 our goal has been to build a low-code, enterprise-ready development platform based on Node-RED. We wanted to make it easier for enterprises to adopt, integrate, and scale Node-RED into their existing environments. We published our [first version][flowforge-01] at the start of this year and have continued the journey to the [launch of FlowFuse v1.0][flowforge-1] just last week. Each of these releases has moved us towards our goal of creating a platform for integrating the IT and OT for all organizations, built around an open core.

ZJ van de Weg

18 Oct, 2022

Scheduled maintenance: Database encryption October 2022

As part of an on-going security review of the FlowFuse Cloud offering we discovered that the backend database was not using encrypted storage. In keeping with industry best practices we plan to migrate the database to a new instance using encrypted at rest storage.

Ben Hardill

27 Sep, 2022

Static Outbound IP Addresses

On Friday last week we updated FlowFuse Cloud to use a static IP address for outbound traffic. This will allow you to predict which IP address your traffic will come from for example when traversing a firewall or accessing a remote database.

Rob Marcer

22 Jul, 2022

Introducing Medium Projects on FlowFuse Cloud

We've added a second size of project to FlowFuse Cloud. A bigger project type with more resources available to it.

25 May, 2022

FlowFuse open for everybody

FlowFuse wants to enable everyone to build workflows in Node-RED. Since announcing FlowFuse Cloud two months ago we've had a waiting list for users to sign up to. That allowed us to control the pace we were bringing new users onto the platform, learning what is needed to scale up our platform and continue to improve our first user experience.

Today we have removed the waiting list. Anyone can sign up to FlowFuse and start a new Node-RED project in under a minute!

ZJ van de Weg

4 May, 2022

Node-RED 3.0 Beta Stack

The first beta of Node-RED 3.0 is here and FlowFuse is ready for you to try it out.

4 Apr, 2022

FlowFuse is accepting customers now

A year ago our CTO, Nick O'Leary, introduced FlowFuse. Since then major milestones have been achieved. As we grow as a company, important steps are taken. Today we make another very important step; we're accepting our first customers.

ZJ van de Weg

23 Feb, 2022

Announcing FlowFuse Cloud

As an open core company, anyone is free to download and install our platform. In many cases this is a great solution, it allows for custom setups in your own environment. We know this isn't for everyone though, some people just want to start building with Node-RED without having to manage their servers.

We are excited to announce FlowFuse Cloud, a hosted Node-RED as a service offering and today we are opening the waitlist.

ZJ van de Weg

8 Feb, 2022

Welcome Joe

Today we welcome Joe Pavitt (@joepavitt3d) as our new Head of UX & Design. This is a key role that will help deliver the awesome user experience of the FlowFuse platform.

Nick O'Leary

20 Jan, 2022