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Rule-Based vs Role-Based Access Control
How you control user access to your app has a huge impact on its performance, security, and usability. Today, we’re going to explore the differences between rule-based and role-based access control, the two predominant systems for modern applications. Despite their similar names, rule-based and role-based systems differ greatly, in terms of both technical implementation and business-level considerations. However, both offer high levels of security and usability. As such, the key decision points are often largely operational, relating to how the systems are maintained and administered.
Ronan McQuillan
May 23, 2022
What is Data Access Control | In-Depth Guide
Data access control is a crucial element of any information security strategy. Companies today face a more complex regulatory environment than ever when it comes to protecting personal data. However, this must be balanced with the need for efficient, data-driven decision-making. As such, how users are assigned access to data across your organization has enormous implications. Today, we’re going to cover everything your need to know about data access controls, including the theory, the specific methods available to you, and how to create the right framework for your needs.
Ronan McQuillan
May 23, 2022
Data Sources for App Projects | Ultimate Guide
When building a web app, your choice of data source is critical. Deciding how and where to store, access, and manipulate data is fundamental to every successful app project. Today, we’ll be looking at everything you need to know to get this decision right. We’ll start with the basics, including what a data source is, the different ways web apps access data, and how this fits into your wider app architecture.
Ronan McQuillan
May 22, 2022
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