Engineering
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Introducing Frappe UI 1.0
4 years for a v1 release, how lazy can I be?
Half a billion ledger entries
How a fintech customer pushed ERPNext to its limit
Building great software with agentic coding
Coding using models can take you from 0 to 1 very fast. But what about 1 to 10, 10 to 100?
Advice for college students
Observations from 120 walk-in interviews
Reestablishing Determinism In Test Suite
Why and how we refactored the entire test suite of ERPNext and HRMS
The AI Debates (2026)
AI is here to stay, now what?
Walking through into a Frappe Cloud Incident
How we tackle incidents while giving a RCA to the recent f1-sydney outage.
Announcing Version 16
After two years of active development and a one-month delay, we are pleased to announce the release of version 16.
Tips for hiring Frappe engineers
Hiring good Frappe engineers is not different from hiring good engineers.
Evolving Frappe's ORM for security and flexibility
Story of improving Frappe's ORM over the last four years
Orphan Workers Society
It really takes a village of workers to make our servers slow.
Are the Deers Chaotic?
Every river connects to the ocean.
Will AI go the 3d printing way?
Just like today, 20 years ago another technology had promised to revolutionise an industry. But what really happened?
Beating Redis with a Dictionary and Redis
It's caches all the way down.
Frappe Studio: Behind the Scenes
How the POC for Frappe's Visual App Builder was built in under 2 months
Class-Based Client Scripts for Frappe CRM
You wanted customization in the new apps, we listened.
Giving Back to Our Dependencies
Our small contribution towards sustaining open-source ecosystem
MariaDB Physical Backup & Restoration
From 20-Minute Waits to 30-Second Backups: The Power of Physical Backups in Frappe Cloud
Balancing the costs of count(*) and UX
Just how bad is "select count(*)" and can we control it?
Microbenchmarks Considered Useful
Microbenchmarking gets a bad rep, but there are certainly good use cases for it.