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The Palantir platform is now a fully fledged development ecosystem
Date published: 2024-11-04
The Palantir platform is the Ontology-powered operating system for the modern enterprise, and it now comes with powerful developer tools that allow users to interact with the platform programmatically. Along with existing generally available features, APIs, and SDKs, we have released new beta functionality and will continue to expand our suite of developer tools in the coming weeks and months as part of our commitment to a development ecosystem tailored to your business and operational needs.
Ontology APIs and SDKs
The Palantir platform's foundation as a development ecosystem is the Ontology. With the Ontology, you don’t need to maintain a mental model of tables or data sources; instead, you can think in terms of the real-world objects and concepts that are essential to your operations. This enables a development ecosystem where the objects and methods are your business’s operations, and you can read and write to the Ontology with minimal code.
To leverage the Ontology's robust ability to perform high-scale queries and granular governance controls, we offer Ontology APIs and SDKs that put your organization’s concepts front and center. If you need to manage landing slots at airports, for example, add an Airport object and a landingSlots link to your Ontology, and our SDKs will generate types and functions based on your specific Ontology that can be used in your applications across the platform.
New Palantir platform APIs and SDKs
We have heard substantial feedback from users whose work relies on the Palantir platform, and we are investing heavily in developer tooling to support these users and create new ways to build with the Palantir platform. To facilitate these user workflows, we now offer APIs that enable programmatic management of platform access and the data backing your Ontology, along with existing Ontology APIs.
These APIs include:
Beta platform SDKs are also available for Python ↗️ and Typescript ↗️. These are usable alongside Ontology SDKs with the same Palantir platform clients, but require a Developer Console application that is not bound to an Ontology. Documentation for these beta SDKs is forthcoming; for now, early adopters can use the READMEs in each repository to get started.
On-demand developer support from AIP Assist
AIP Assist is equipped with Developer Assist, a mode designed to provide immediate, tailored assistance to support development initiatives. Starting the week of November 11th, Developer Assist will provide in-depth explanations and examples directly from platform API reference documentation to help developers make the most of our features and APIs. Developer Assist includes AIP Assist's features for accelerating your workflow, including multi-language support, a user-friendly interface, and iterative improvements powered by user feedback.
Modular developer tools
In addition to APIs and SDKs, we offer modular developer tools that will provide you with everything you need to build powerful applications that leverage the Ontology and other Palantir platform features:
- Developer Console: helps users develop applications that leverage the Palantir platform using our SDKs and OAuth clients.
- Web hosting: Allows developers to host frontend-only applications built with our SDKs on the Palantir platform, removing the need for an additional hosting infrastructure.
- Application-specific documentation: Each Ontology SDK application comes with custom API documentation tailored to the SDK content.
- Hosted Git repositories: The Code Repositories application provides a web-based integrated development environment (IDE) for writing and collaborating on production-ready code with a user-friendly way to interact with the underlying Git repository.
- Hosted Visual Studio Code: VS Code Workspaces provides an IDE for writing and collaborating on production-ready code in the Palantir platform.
The modular nature of these developer tools allows users to use what they need and combine it with existing tools and workflows, providing flexibility and promoting seamless integration.
Development roadmap
In the coming months, we are committed to expanding these APIs and SDKs, as well as the tooling surrounding them. Some features coming up in our development roadmap include:
- Developer Console support for managing granular OAuth2 scopes for Platform APIs and Ontology resources.
- An AIP Agents API that will allow users to programmatically build and deploy interactive assistants.
- A Connectivity API to create connections to external systems and set up data imports and exports.
- A Streams API for low-latency use cases, to create streaming datasets and publish records to streams.
To get started with development on the Palantir platform, refer to the Ontology SDK and platform API reference documentation.
API and feature availability is subject to change and may differ between customers.
Introducing cover pages for discoverable sensitive projects [GA]
Date published: 2024-11-04
We are excited to announce the GA release of Project cover pages, available now on all enrollments. The Project Cover Page section offers a Markdown-based rich-text editor for writing comprehensive documentation about the Project.
Cover pages can be configured to be discoverable by all users in the Project's Organization, even in cases when a Project has markings applied to it. Users without access to the Project and its files can still discover and view its cover page. This can be useful for Projects containing sensitive data and applications that should still be discoverable so that relevant users can request access to them.
An example of a cover page for a Project.