Hello World!
15 October 2021Hello to all the passionate coders and a warm welcome to the World of Flexbase; a world where Coding is Joyful (Yes!!) and gruntwork is minimal! Flexbase is proud to draw inspiration from the following quotes: Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering. – Bill Gates I’m not a great developer, I’m a good…
Flexbase & the art of writing Enterprise Apps – Part 2 !!
13 January 2022Green or Brown – colour doesn’t matter! Impact is the same 🙂 The application landscapes these days is such that there is a constant churn – new applications are being written (greenfield), existing applications are being modernised/extended/integrated (brownfield) with other applications to deliver functionalities. Of course, using Flexbase for building a mission critical Enterprise application…
Digital Transformation to Microservices – The Approach
5 January 2022I will start with a scenario where a large system is being developed for over a decade. With time, it has become a gigantic system with ideas from so many developers from time to time and the team is finding it costly and time-consuming to maintain the system on daily basis. The technology team and…
Flexbase & the art of writing Enterprise Apps – Part 1
4 January 2022I have always been fascinated by the Lego bricks. Yes there was always a ‘prescribed’ way to use it and create the model on the cover. My fascination however was for how much more could be achieved with the very same blocks. I could create towers, walls, forts, buildings, houses, roads, calculators, gardens…from the same…
How Flexbase made me a super coder
12 November 2021I have always been passionate about writing code – don’t know why..! And when I joined Sumeru as a fresher trainee, I was given 3 months of training on C# .net and Flexbase and was soon writing code for an in-house WAF product. I jumped into creating controllers, plugins for validations, queries, working with message…
How not to lose sleep over product customizations & codebases
26 October 2021I once heard Spiritual master Sri Sri Ravi Shankar say: “ Pain is inevitable but suffering is optional”. I could immediately connect with this, as I was struggling to manage the consequences of trying to extend/customize Spaghetti Code, and I strongly felt that much of the struggle and pain was avoidable when it came to Product development…
The Great Migration: Peculiar Complexities of Monolith to Microservices Migration
22 October 2021There are peculiar complexities that threaten the success of monolith to microservices migration projects by making them difficult and costly to undertake. Unfortunately, you cannot hide or ignore these complexities. Even if, somehow, you manage to complete a migration project by evading the complexities, the party wouldn’t last long. You will end up getting haunted…
How to rediscover the Joy of Coding?
15 October 2021The past few months have been an absolute windfall for tech professionals with several companies facing off in a virtual bidding war to hire talent. A friend of mine said – that in Bengaluru, he would need to offer a BMW motorbike as a joining bonus to hire people and of course, the widely reported comment…
Joy of Coding? Where to find it?
15 October 2021As a Sr. developer, I have struggled many hours to put in place processes to keep the database structure and queries in sync with ever-changing customers’ requirements. Despite this, I often found myself spending a lot more time debugging/correcting the distortions that would have crept in while translating customer requirements into tables, classes, and methods.…