4 Tips for Getting More Value Out of Your Custom Software Application
While custom software applications never last forever, there are things you can do to ensure you get the most value out of them.
MercuryWorks January 24, 2023 No Comments
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Looking for a no-politics zone to do your best work? Mercury is the place for you.
What kind of projects will you work on?
- Internal business applications/system for a regional logistics company
- Data dashboards, drill down business intelligence reports and reporting for global professional services firm
- Web, Mobile and collaboration applications for the Southeast’s fastest growing commercial real estate firms
- Progressive Web Application (PWA) for one of the nation’s leading furniture retailers
- Ecommerce, operational management and transactional reporting system for a funded late-stage startup
- PWA Applications for Fortune 50 consumer products field workforce
- Data dashboards, drill down business intelligence reports and mobile reporting for global professional services firms
It all starts with the web.
If there is one platform we are most rooted in, it’s the web – modern responsive techniques are our stock in trade. If you know these technologies, you can make it anywhere.
HTML5It all starts with clean, semantic, standards-based markup. Local storage, geolocation and native media players are some of our favorites.
CSS3
Separating content from presentation with judicious use of SASS use (mixins, partials and variables) keeps our UIs robust. And BEM’s not so bad, either.
JavaScript
Bundlers and transpilers like WebPack and Babel support our use of the latest JavaScript and versions of React, Angular and Knockout libraries.
Data makes the world go ‘round.
Robust data layers go a far way in these parts – without them we just have websites, not web applications.
SQL ServerSQL Server, whether on prem, installed on IaaS VMs or consumed via SQL Azure provides the hearty data storehouse we need for scalability and rapid querying.
MySQLIt’s not all about SQL Server if you want to get relational with it – MySQL definitely show up around the Mercury shop, too.
MongoWe have much love for Structured Query Language but NoSQL is cool, too. And there’s nothing like Mongo for a document database, if you ask us.
Application and services layer bring data to the surface.
Application code, service layers and even middleware are big parts of what we do around here. We like to keep the business logic clean and separated and our services RESTful.
.NET and C#C# and the .NET Framework are old friends of ours – while not as trendy as the JavaScript frameworks it’s hard to do better when you need to roll business logic, marshal data or automated processes.
MVCWebForms and ViewState are history – you won’t find them around here. But if you want to roll with .NET then MVC is your friend – and it’s good for JavaScript development, too.
WebAPIYa, we went the WCF route. Then we simplified with WebAPI and never turned back.
NodeLow overhead and thin requirements – there’s a lot to like about Node. And there’s nothing like being able to share JavaScript between the data, application and interface tiers.
This is how we roll.
GitflowDistributed version control, with branching strategy, for the win.
Continuous Delivery / DevOpsBuild, integrate and push to testing, staging and production environments on every code commit.
Azure / Amazon Web ServicesDeploy to the cloud.
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