Engineering
Posts filed under Engineering
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.
If You Wish to Truly Understand Frappe's Scheduler, You Must First Invent the Universe
Like an apple pie, many things that seem simple at first are extremely complex; it's just that we choose to ignore the complexity for practical purposes.
Getting insights from raw data
In this article, I talk about my experience with a complex analysis and how I am trying to make it easier for the future.
Writing composable software
The only way to write maintainable large and complex software like Frappe Framework and ERPNext is to make it "composable".
Reducing Memory Footprint of Frappe Framework
At Frappe we serve 7000+ sites. Changes we made last year dropped memory usage of Frappe deployments anywhere from 10-35% depending on the configurations.
Introducing DoppioBot Template: Build AI Chatbot Experiences for Frappe
DoppioBot brings ChatGPT to Frappe's desk interface, powered by Frappe's Custom Page feature and React.
Integrating Frappe Backend in NodeJS Applications & Serverless Functions (incl. Firebase Cloud Functions)
In this tutorial, we will use the Frappe JS SDK to integrate our Frappe Framework backend in NodeJS applications. We will also see how to use the SDK in Firebase Cloud Functions.
Building An eBook Store on Frappe: Part 3, Interactivity & Deploy
In this final part, we will add interactivity to our eBook storefront, do some polish and deploy it to Frappe Cloud.
Building An eBook Store on Frappe: Part 2, Payment & Delivery
Learn how to programmatically send emails in Frappe. Also, we will learn how to integrate the Razorpay payment gateway from scratch.
Building An eBook Store on Frappe: Part 1, Building The Storefront
Let's build an online store for listing and selling eBooks using Frappe Framework, Bulma & Razorpay
Make
With so many software applications, tools and components available for free, why bother making new ones?
Astro Powered Web Portal in Frappe Apps
Let's learn how to use Astro (along with TailwindCSS) to build more sophisticated portal pages in your Frappe sites.
MongoDB Powered DocTypes in Frappe Framework
In this tutorial, we will learn how to use MongoDB as a datasource for our DocTypes, using the power of Virtual DocTypes.