When you develop applications that are meant to be used by more than one person, you inevitably need to find a solution for managing their permissions. You usually don’t want all the users to be able to use all the aspects of your appli...
Groups
In the IT world, an Identity and Access Management (IAM) group is primarily a management convenience to manage the same set of permissions for a set of IAM users. We can create groups where we define a set of permissions or roles. With th...
Micro Frontends
What is the problem? What is the best way to implement a single page application if the backend is based on the microservice architecture? Make the frontend that can dynamically change its content. Over the time frontend layer, devel...
Events & Actions of Application Platform
In our previous blogs we have mentioned actions and events. Today we will take a closer look at them. You may already know that actions in Petriflow are small blocks of code executed during the lifecycle of the modelled process. Why are a...
PDF Generator
Introduction The world of business cannot imagine office work without PDF format files. After the year 1993 when this format was invented, many tools, which provide features to create PDF files using predefined templates and fillable fiel...
Configurable web application
Introduction What should you expect from this blog? As the headline indicates we work on a concept of a configurable web application. A concept in which you just configure your frontend application in a frontend builder or in a config fil...
Live data application
Introduction We are going to look at our platform from the point of view of the data and how our design choices influence the data that are created. Then we will look at how this data changes when we interact with the application. Lastly,...
Communication of NAE cloud applications
One of our goals in 2021 is to bring Netgrif Application Engine into the cloud and deliver for our customers the best and fastest way of creating process-driven applications. This was not easy with the original way of communication, which...
Structured logs
Naturally collected logs Any application, be it large or small, benefits from collecting information about operations that occur inside of it, most commonly in the form of logs. Our platform is no exception and we too collect and store in...