My company recently adopted Superblocks three or four months ago. I work in a Cloud Infrastructure team, and our primary use for Superblocks is building internal operations tooling, dashboards, workflows, and access management interfaces. Everything we previously had to build from scratch or manage through a patchwork of scripts and manual processes is now streamlined. Rather than standing up a full backend and frontend application for every internal need, our team uses Superblocks to rapidly connect to existing data sources such as databases, APIs, and cloud services, and then expose control interfaces. This means engineers spend time on complex infrastructure problems rather than building and maintaining internal scaffolding. The three most prominent use case categories are access and permission management, where we request any access in a structured and auditable way. The second category is operational workflows, such as multi-step execution flows tied to human interactions. The third category is infrastructure monitoring and control panels, which are read/write dashboards connected directly to internal APIs and databases. For example, we are using Superblocks for admin access requests. When an engineer or any external team needs admin-level access on a cloud resource or service, they submit a request through a Superblocks-built form. The form captures the requestor, resource, justification, and duration. The request is routed to the right approver, logged to the audit database, and it initially creates a Jira ticket as well. Upon approval, it triggers an automated provisioning action via API. All of the form routing logic, approvals, and audit trail lives inside one Superblocks app. Earlier, the old process involved a Jira ticket, manual Slack approvals, and a spreadsheet audit log. With Superblocks, the full workflow submission, routing, approval, provisioning, audit, and deleting the access after twelve hours was built in under a week. The role-based access layer ensures requestors only see their own requests and nothing else. We used to use Jenkins as a UI for engineers or other teams to raise a form or request any access. If anyone from the outside wanted to create a CNAME in any of the Route 53 zones, we had a Jenkins job for that. They had to fill out the entire form in Jenkins and trigger the job. Since we do not find Jenkins good because it is time-consuming to build anything on Jenkins, we started using Superblocks for that part. I am currently working on a framework on Superblocks where users can perform CRUD functionality of Route 53. Users can create Route 53 zones, either public or private. They can delete or add any record within a Route 53 zone, obviously after a cloud infrastructure engineer approves it.
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My company recently adopted Superblocks three or four months ago. I work in a Cloud Infrastructure team, and our primary use for Superblocks is building internal operations tooling, dashboards, workflows, and access management interfaces. Everything we previously had to build from scratch or manage through a patchwork of scripts and manual processes is now streamlined. Rather than standing up a full backend and frontend application for every internal need, our team uses Superblocks to rapidly connect to existing data sources such as databases, APIs, and cloud services, and then expose control interfaces. This means engineers spend time on complex infrastructure problems rather than building and maintaining internal scaffolding. The three most prominent use case categories are access and permission management, where we request any access in a structured and auditable way. The second category is operational workflows, such as multi-step execution flows tied to human interactions. The third category is infrastructure monitoring and control panels, which are read/write dashboards connected directly to internal APIs and databases. For example, we are using Superblocks for admin access requests. When an engineer or any external team needs admin-level access on a cloud resource or service, they submit a request through a Superblocks-built form. The form captures the requestor, resource, justification, and duration. The request is routed to the right approver, logged to the audit database, and it initially creates a Jira ticket as well. Upon approval, it triggers an automated provisioning action via API. All of the form routing logic, approvals, and audit trail lives inside one Superblocks app. Earlier, the old process involved a Jira ticket, manual Slack approvals, and a spreadsheet audit log. With Superblocks, the full workflow submission, routing, approval, provisioning, audit, and deleting the access after twelve hours was built in under a week. The role-based access layer ensures requestors only see their own requests and nothing else. We used to use Jenkins as a UI for engineers or other teams to raise a form or request any access. If anyone from the outside wanted to create a CNAME in any of the Route 53 zones, we had a Jenkins job for that. They had to fill out the entire form in Jenkins and trigger the job. Since we do not find Jenkins good because it is time-consuming to build anything on Jenkins, we started using Superblocks for that part. I am currently working on a framework on Superblocks where users can perform CRUD functionality of Route 53. Users can create Route 53 zones, either public or private. They can delete or add any record within a Route 53 zone, obviously after a cloud infrastructure engineer approves it.