Guides

After you've become familiar with the key concepts of CARTO for Developers, and after your first experiments with CARTO + deck.gl and our APIs, it's time to build complete solutions.

To help you design your solution and understand how the different pieces work together, we've build these complete guides, based on real use cases:

Build a public application

Using CARTO to quickly build a simple and performant geospatial application that everyone in the internet can access

Build a private application

Design and develop an application that only users in your CARTO organization will be able to access, after they log in

Build a private application using SSO

Leverage an external identity provider setup in CARTO to authenticate new and existing users in your private application

Visualize massive datasets

Learn how to visualize massive geospatial datasets in a performance and cost-effective way (up to billions of rows)

Integrate CARTO into your existing application

Learn how to securely embed CARTO into your existing architecture providing fine-grained data access

Use Boundaries in your application

Create rapid aggregation of large data volumes within common or custom geographic boundaries such as zip codes

Avoid exposing SQL queries with Named Sources

With Named Sources, you can ensure your application does not expose the SQL used, maximizing compliance in some setups

Managing cache in your CARTO applications

This guide covers how developers can adjust and manage the cache in their CARTO applications