Technology as an enabler: Articles based on modern cloud development and app modernization.

Introduction to Model Driven Development

By |2022-10-19T15:05:12+03:00July 9th, 2021|Categories: Model Driven Development, Modern apps|Tags: |

It's 2021, and we are about to send people to Mars. If this is the future, why we still mostly code our apps manually? Everything that can be automated, should be automated in application development. We are moving towards software factories. Model driven development (MDD) is an approach that uses models as a specification of software and transformations of those [...]

Web UIs Done Right

By |2020-12-08T22:55:54+02:00December 8th, 2020|Categories: Modern apps|Tags: |

A quick reminder: Save yourself (and your customer) unnecessary work by spending roughly 100 euros on an application user interface template instead of writing everything by yourselves. You all use UI templates already - right? The artist's vision Projects often start from what I call the "artist's vision" - a visual mock up of the application-to-be. [...]

Tiny Dashboard!

By |2020-09-04T22:37:55+03:00September 4th, 2020|Categories: Modern apps|Tags: |

Isn't this the cutest, tiny 0.96 inch dashboard showing monitoring data you can imagine? On this article we'll be using Raspberry Pi, an OLED display and small python app to get data from Azure App Insights and show it on the tiny dashboard. The Goal I wanted to build an always-on display that would show real [...]

Minimize Azure Web App Cost

By |2020-07-21T14:43:51+03:00July 20th, 2020|Categories: Modern apps|Tags: |

Want to minimize your Azure ASP.NET Core web app cost? How would 9 euros per month sound? Can do, if you don't need fancy PaaS features, and host the app on a virtual machine. Price for production grade App Service starts roughly from 60 euros per month. (Including B1 App Service, SSL cert & Azure DNS). [...]

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