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Lightweight External Business Rules

Complex enterprise applications usually come with varying business logic. Such conditions and subsequent system actions, known as rules, are ever varying and demand involvement of domain specific knowledge more than technology and programming. The rules must reside outside the codebase, authored by people with core domain expertise with minimal tech knowledge.

Soham Sengupta Srijeeb Roy
on Dec 03, 2021
DevOps

Faster Financial Software Development Using Low Code: Focusing on the Four Key Metrics

Low code/no code can help firms achieve the four key performance metrics described in the State of DevOps Reports and Accelerate, to achieve a faster pace of software development. Financial services especially stand to benefit from the trend of adopting low code/no code to drive digital transformation.

Tracy Miranda
on Nov 19, 2021
Architecture & Design

How to Not Lose Your Job to Low-Code Software

The uptake of low code software is so strong that it will almost certainly make its way into your organization. Most software engineers shouldn’t be concerned about this because they are good at the things that low code software is not yet good at. The key to surviving and thriving during this change is ensuring that your role encompasses responsibilities that low code can’t yet do.

Doug Hudgeon
on Oct 12, 2021
Development

The Excel Formula Language Is Now Turing-Complete

The Excel team announced LAMBDA, a new feature that lets users define and name formula functions. LAMBDA functions admit parameters, can call other LAMBDA functions and recursively call themselves. With LAMBDA, the Excel formula language is Turing-complete: user-defined functions can thus compute anything without resorting to imperative languages (e.g., VBA, JavaScript).

Bruno Couriol
on Aug 02, 2021
Architecture & Design

Microsoft's Low-Code Strategy Paints a Target on UIPath and the Other RPA Companies

Microsoft is investing big in the low code space and has put together a collection of products that is hard for other companies to match, capped recently by the announcement of PowerFX. The target in their sights is the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) companies such as UIPath, Automation Anywhere and Blue Prism who are closing big deals with big enterprises.

Doug Hudgeon
on Jun 01, 2021
Architecture & Design

Low-Code Platforms and the Rise of the Community Developer: Lots of Solutions, or Lots of Problems?

Low-code platforms are the hottest enterprise software category right now. With the current level of investment, it is hard to imagine a future that doesn’t feature lots of bespoke business apps being built by non-IT staff for use by their teams. Visibility of low code solutions is the key to managing risk.

Doug Hudgeon
on Feb 02, 2021
Architecture & Design

Using a DDD Approach for Validating Business Rules

If the goal is to create software applications that emulate the behavior of domain experts, then the challenge is in capturing and implementing the business rules. This is more a factor of good knowledge management than it is raw coding ability. Following techniques from Domain-Driven Design can provide a structure for effectively validating and implementing business rules in a system.

Fabian Lopez
on Jun 15, 2020
Architecture & Design

Software Architecture and Design InfoQ Trends Report—April 2020

An overview of how the InfoQ editorial team sees the Software Architecture and Design topic evolving in 2020, with a focus on fundamental architectural patterns, framework usage, and design skills.

Thomas Betts Charles Humble Daniel Bryant Jan Stenberg
on Apr 28, 2020
DevOps

SLOs Are the API for Your Engineering Team

SLOs provide a simple common language for evaluating risk in terms of error budgets. SLOs save everyone involved both time and energy, which you can redirect toward more important things, like keeping your customers happy.

Charity Majors
on Oct 19, 2019
Culture & Methods

Waste Not, Want Not: A Simplified Value Stream Map for Uncovering Waste

This article describes a simplified form of Value Stream Maps that makes it easy to visualize bottlenecks and inefficient processes in the software delivery lifecycle. It focuses on the two forms of Lean waste defined as Inventory and Waiting.

J Meadows
on Jul 09, 2019
Architecture & Design

The Many Flavors of “Low-Code”

While the low-code hype often tells how "citizen developers" can create enterprise applications without the need to code, these platforms can serve an important role for professional developers.

Miguel Valdes Faura
on Apr 24, 2019
Architecture & Design

Monitoring and Managing Workflows across Collaborating Microservices

This article argues that you need to balance orchestration and choreography in a microservices architecture in order to be able to understand, manage and change the system.

Bernd Ruecker
on Feb 28, 2019