This document discusses Kuzzle, a digital platform that allows developers to build applications faster. It can be used to build apps like Slack in 1 day or Uber in 4 weeks. Kuzzle is a backend platform for web, mobile, and IoT apps that is multi-platform, multi-protocol, and multi-language. It has seen fast growth as a startup, with 15 employees in 5 nationalities across 3 international offices within its first year. The application development platform market is projected to be worth $4.4 billion by 2020, with backends accounting for $2.9 billion of that growth.