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Thoughts and ideas on how to build tools, automate workflows and speed-up the workplace.
What is a Database Schema?
Your app’s database schema is absolutely central to its functionality, performance, and success. In fact, this determines just about every aspect of how your finished app will work. As such, knowing how to create an effective schema is critical when building any kind of tool. In this guide, we’ll cover everything you need to know. We’ll start with the basics, including what a schema contains, before moving on to more specific details you need to know when working with different kinds of databases.
Ronan McQuillan
May 22, 2022
Public forms - how to build a public form in minutes
What is a public form A public form is a digital form that is accessible to anyone on the internet. The difference between a public and private form is the access level. Private forms are only accessible to predefined users behind a secure log-in. Public form examples There are many examples where a user may want to create a public form. I’ve listed a few of these scenarios below: A public survey.
Joe Johnston
Apr 20, 2022
20 Free App Templates from Budibase
Recently, we’ve been quietly building a suite of free, ready-to-use app templates. Of course, we’re biased, but we think Budibase is the best way to build custom internal tools and web apps. What better way to prove it than building them ourselves? Our mission is to help developers build incredible tools from scratch, in as little as five minutes. By creating a range of pre-made templates, we’re giving our users an extra shortcut to building amazing custom apps.
Ronan McQuillan
Mar 24, 2022
Budibase’s public API is now available
Today, we are launching one of our most requested features - our new public API! When you sign up for Budibase, you get a low-code platform with an internal database, external data connectors (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MSSQL, Oracle DB, Airtable, MongoDB…), user management, free SSO, drag and drop GUI for building UIs, powerful prebuilt components, free SSO, an automation interface (like Zapier) and now a flexible public API to interact with.
Joe Johnston
Mar 14, 2022
Building a CRUD app with Budibase and Next.js
In this example, we will build a small CRUD app that allows users to view sales records and create new ones. We will use the power of the Budibase backend and its public API to connect to a Postgres database, display sales records, and create a form to create a new sales record. Rather than defining your database connection, table queries, security, REST API in Next.js, we can instead utilize Budibase to simplify our backend.
Michael Drury
Mar 10, 2022
What is Vendor Lock-in & How Do You Avoid It?
In large organizations, vendor lock-in is one of the key barriers to adopting newer, better technologies. This leaves you stuck using subpar tools, even when you know there are better solutions out there. For example, you might decide that a tool no longer meets your needs, but the costs of upgrading it might simply be too high. Of course, this is deeply frustrating. Lock-in also has serious consequences for your profitability, security, and operational efficiency,
Ronan McQuillan
Mar 2, 2022
Building a Process Improvement Plan using Low-Code Tools
Businesses face a more competitive environment than ever before. Often, efficient operations are the difference between success and closing your doors. Knowing how to create and implement an effective process improvement plan is critical. It doesn’t matter if you run a massive enterprise or a skeleton-staffed startup. Streamlined, effective business processes are essential for maintaining profitability. Inefficient processes lead to wastage, miscommunication, and unnecessary risk. The trouble is, these costs are relatively hidden.
Ronan McQuillan
Jan 27, 2022
November 2021 Release
In November, Budibase launched out of beta! The response from our community was amazing, and over 5000 new accounts signed up to Budibase. If this wasn’t enough, we’ve found time to release a number of new features: Budibase Blocks Blocks are predefined sets of components that streamline the design process within Budibase. Before blocks, creating a list of searchable cards took 10 minutes; with blocks, this process takes under 1 minute.
Joe Johnston
Dec 3, 2021