Databases Choosing a Database Without Hype and Buzz The modern informational technology industry is obsessed with hype. You're obliged to pick a new fancy tech or you will be blamed in backwardness and people won't be interested in what you're building. But what is more important: the tools you're using or a product that you make?
Bureaucratic API design... Our software is used in 90 countries (last time I looked). Of course, being somewhat overly pedantic and in wish of control, I built our webshop. In Javascript. Then in
Monaco Embedding Monaco Editor into a Web Application Today, if you want to include a code editing features into your saas project, you don't have many alternatives other than the Monaco editor, a browser-based version of the popular Visual Studio Code editor.
Testing Build It Up, Test It Down Setting priorities is important and inevitable part of a software development process. Balancing development speed and quality is one of the basic compromises that a programmer should make.
Vue Investigating Memory Leaks in Vue Applications With Chrome Memory Tools When you build a complex Vue application consisting of many views with deeply nested components hierarchy, very soon you will encounter memory issues.
QA End-to-End Web Application Testing with New TestCafe Studio A recent beta release of the DevExpress' TestCafe Studio brought us a good opportunity to implement end-to-end testing for our new SQL Studio application. I will explain why TestCafe Studio
Managing cloud infrastructure We are building our upcoming online database manager SQL Studio SQL App on cloud infrastructure. Currently we use Amazon Web Services (AWS) as primary cloud provider and plan to expand
Vue How to Integrate External DOM-dependent Libraries Into a Vue Application Integrating 3rd party libraries into a Vue application is not harder than in any other JavaScript reactive framework. Nothing special with using a single import statement. Integrating a component that
Persistent workspace in SQL Studio When Sublime Text showed up, it was a breath of a fresh air with some unique concepts. Two concepts were game changers for me: persistent workspacesinstant fuzzy searchPersistent workspaces meant
A database with a view Many relational database engines support views. Views can act as a kind of virtual tables and using them can sometimes greatly improve the architecture and the testability of the system,
Security concerns for the cloud infrastructure There is an all-around push to the cloud due to massive simplification of resource management. If done well, it leads to massive costs savings as well. There are many concerns
SPA Balancing Responsiveness and State Consistency in SPA One of the interesting technical challenges to solve when building a modern web application is to achieve acceptable responsiveness for a UI depending on sometimes sluggish API endpoints. User's perception
cloud Reliability concerns for cloud databases More and more businesses are moving their infrastructure to the cloud. It makes a lot of sense, since on-premise infrastructure is often underutilized, maintenance is a hassle and there are
A Case for ORM, a Case Against ORM What Is ORMORM stands for Object-Relational Mapping and it can be simply described as mapping of classes (objects) to database tables. The concept is almost as old as object-oriented programming
C# Improve autocomplete performance with custom binary serialization Using BinaryReader and BinaryWriter for fast custom de/serialization of C# objects
autocomplete Autocomplete response time under 100ms in the cloud A significant part of the perceived quality of the applications we use is responsiveness. Sadly, even for a desktop software, it's a frequent event of UI locking up while certain
database normalization Database normalization What Is Database Normalization? Normalization is a multi-step process used to organize a relational database into tables and columns and to: Eliminate redundant (useless) data.Ensure data dependencies make senseEliminate
Hot Keys and UX of Web Applications When at the beginning of my professional career I meet first true professionals, one thing that I'd noticed was how effective they were with the tools they used. They extensively
Autocomplete in SQL Studio I have wished for powerful and instant autocomplete in SQL editors for a long time. It never came - autocomplete in all database managers is pretty basic. Let's see what
Database tools I want When thinking of a modern development pipeline, I always find database development tooling undeveloped in comparison to what code development tools are offering. We have version control systems, review tools,
State of database management tools Database managers seem to be more or less the same for the past 20 years. They differ in functionality and features, but see one and you've seen them all.
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