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Tips and strategies about performance
The DIY build trap
Choosing DIY in home improvement is often a cost issue. In home improvement, you save on expertise and experience to build cheaper, but that is not really the same in building software. DIY in software still requires experts with experience, so this changes the discussion to a build vs. buy discussion. The build vs. buy discussion is often a business discussion, but in this post, we want to take the engineering perspective.
01/05/2024
We've been nominated for Microsoft Partner Awards
We've just received word from Microsoft that Enterspeed is nominated for the Microsoft Partner Awards 2024 in the "Microsoft for Startups" category. We're so proud ✨
30/04/2024
Eco-friendly CMS: Whys and hows
It's always a nice surprise when you find yourself mentioned in a blogpost you had no idea about 🫡 Especially when that blogpost is a list of inspiration to incorporate sustainability in IT architecture.
The middle layer is the new playing field
Enterspeed can be described in many different ways, and honestly, we do. One of the descriptions we've had mixed feelings for over the years is the term "middle layer", but perhaps it is one of the most fitting descriptions? We see that many web projects include a middle layer in one way or the other. In this post, we will place Enterspeed into the current times of web development mega-trends.
11/04/2024
New partner in new markets 👏
It’s not every day we enter a partnership with one of the major agencies in the North American and English market. Photon works with 40% of the Fortune 100 as their digital agency – and now we’ll help them do exactly that.
Destination Logs: What to do when things go wrong?
Destinations is our name for when you configure Enterspeed to push data to other systems. Since its introduction a couple of years ago, we have seen more and more use. We are now seeing some sophisticated integration scenarios being handled in Enterspeed. And honestly, our tooling for debugging these scenarios was close to non-existent. We are now changing this, which makes us really happy because then our users will be happier (plus we will have fewer support messages...).
New Core Web Vital: Interaction to Next Paint and the Enterspeed Perspective
Interaction to Next Paint measures a web page's responsiveness to user interactions by calculating the time gap between an interaction (tap, click, or keypress) and when the UI is updated. Or put in layman's terms, how sluggish working with a webpage feels.
More glue: Introducing Enterspeed Destinations
We often describe Enterspeed as glue, and we are proud of it. The primary use case for Enterspeed is high-performance APIs, but in the last two years, we have been building a growing number of what we call Destinations. Using Enterspeed Destinations allows you to easily integrate with third-party services such as Algolia or Relewise, or build your own custom integrations using webhooks or an Azure Service Bus.
05/03/2024
New Management App: Same, same, but different
Today, we're thrilled to share a groundbreaking revelation in the Enterspeed universe – it's new, but it's the same, just built differently. Confused? Intrigued? Well, buckle up as we embark on a journey through the familiar yet refreshingly transformed landscape of our trusted Management App companion.
URLs in a composable world
This year marks the 30th birthday of the URL RFC, and a world without URLs is unthinkable. A URL is just a simple text string, but they are the backbone of the internet. One of the fascinating traits of URLs is that they should be understandable to both humans and computers.
27/02/2024
We’ve entered a ISV and Marketplace partnership with Microsoft 👏
This is really awesome! As part of Microsoft's Independent Software Vendor (ISV) program we’ll get still better access to the Microsoft environment and community.
Playing with Enterspeed and Commerce Layer
Commerce Layer has a statement saying that “Headless commerce doesn't have to be hard” and we fully agree on that. So, we decided to try the tools out together
The whys and the why nots of custom code, frameworks, accelerators, and products
Are most companies aware of pros and cons of one concept compared to the others when they opt for custom code, agency frameworks, accelerators, or products? CEO Toke Lund has written a guest blogpost for Alokai.
