How Automation Activates Agile

Harsh, yes... but too often true. Certainly, Agile is a great start for business user collaboration to ensure requirements fit, but it depends on Working Software. This is exactly what automation provides: Working Software, Now. Here's how.

Overview

This article illustrates how Automation, coupled with an Agile Process, can dramatically improve time to market, and reduce requirements risk:

Lessons Learned Moving From On-Prem to Cloud Native

Recently, I came across a sample e-commerce application that demonstrates how to use Next.js, GraphQL engine, Postgres, and a few other frameworks to build a modern web application. The application supports basic e-commerce capabilities such as product inventory and order management, recommendation system, and checkout function. This made me curious as to how much effort it would take to turn this application from an on-prem to a cloud-native solution.

The original architecture for this sample app looked like the below diagram. You can start the whole setup in a few minutes following this guide.

Deploying Jamstack Sites to Azure

Azure and Static Web Apps

Azure is Microsoft’s cloud computing service. Developers use it for building and deploying all sorts of applications and services. Many larger organizations rely on their secure, global data centers for managing enterprise applications. But, an increasing number of smaller teams are embracing the platform, especially ones with quick scale in mind.

Recently, Microsoft officially released Azure Static Web Apps at their virtual Code to Scale event. This announcement means that Microsoft users can now use Github CI/CD pipelines and their favorite development tools to deploy static resources and even trigger Azure API functions. 

Top 10 Web Development Trends: How To Stay Ahead In 2021

Due to the pandemic, 1000s of businesses went online to avoid closure and remain competitive on the market. This transition strengthened the contest between companies and tech solutions that include programming languages and frameworks.

So, running a web project has become more difficult. CTOs and Product Owners can feel FOMO (fear of missing out), considering the number of existing tech trends. The high price for any mistake makes them feel a chill running up and down the spine, especially in the case of large projects.

Code or NoCode?

Introduction

NoCode is a great concept that empowers nonprogrammers to build applications without having to become software developers; however, some people believe that NoCode will eventually replace traditional coding (i.e. that you can build anything on NoCode platforms). If you are starting a project with this mindset, you may end up sorely disappointed.

NoCode is a tool that complements traditional coding within the technology stack of an organization. There are certain types of projects that are ideal for NoCode, while others shouldn’t even be considered.

Document Processing: Why and How to Automate

When it comes to winning the race for speed and efficiency, manual document processing is still the Achilles' heel of many organizations. You may have the most sophisticated automatic business process in place, but if you still need human intervention to validate your documents, you’ll always lag behind.

It’s just like the story of the rabbit and the turtle. The rabbit was in good shape to win the race but decided it was a good time to take a nap, allowing the turtle to surpass him. Now think of processes: to submit an expense and get a refund, for example, most steps are automatic, but the validation is still done with human intervention, which will slow the whole process down--that’s the rabbit nap in the story. I know, mind-blowing.

7 Key Node.js Advantages to Develop Scalable Web Apps

Over the years, Node.js has become the go-to technology for building scalable web applications. It has gained enormous popularity amongst developers due to the many significant benefits it offers. With the support of an enthusiastic community, node.js is standing firm with a 51.9% stake as the most popular web framework, according to Stack Overflow’s 2020 Developer Survey

Looking at the rising trend, we are debunking some of the top advantages which make Node.js a popular development choice in 2020.

Top 4 Gantt Chart Solutions for React

React has gained considerable popularity among both web enthusiasts and large enterprises that value high performance and reliable web applications. Currently, there’s no shortage of React components of different levels of complexity. Today, we’d like to shed some light on a specific kind of such tools — React Gantt charts. 

To make this article useful for the broadest possible public, we’ll focus on two types of Gantt charts. First of all, we’ll take a look at lightweight charts that provide basic functionality and can fit small companies. After that, we’ll consider those that offer dozens of features and can be a good choice for large companies. Such management tools suit well for complex projects and help to ensure that no detail will escape the attention of a project manager.