Category: performance

May 1, 2024

The insanity of SSR (Server-Side Rendering) for Enterprise apps

Recently, we talked to a prospect who was building an ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) front-end, and found out that they were doing it in an SSR framework. This is insane.  Truly and completely nuts.  To set the stage for this discussion, there are two basic models: An SSR framework renders the content shown to the end user on the server. ...

Categories performance/Industry/SmartClient/SmartGWT/Technology

November 27, 2023

Multi-Record Editing in SmartClient

Multi-record editing is often a complex process involving tracking and managing pending edits across multiple records. It encompasses several data management concerns. They include temporarily storing and merging edits server-side, ensuring optimal performance, addressing potential collisions, and even applying distinct styling for edited values. It also requires cleaning up any temporary storage used on the server.  By leveraging the extensive...

Categories SmartClient/dashboard/performance/Technology/Tools/Tutorials/UI

February 16, 2023

Best Practices for Business Logic Validation

Validation is a critical aspect of any web application, especially in true web applications that offer advanced functionality for sophisticated users – people who use the application continuously, all day. Validation in such applications is often very complicated: validation rules may involve multiple related entities and complex conditional logic – it’s not just “integer greater than zero”. At Isomorphic, we...

Categories Technology/Industry/performance/SmartClient/UI

December 15, 2022

Optimizing Web Applications vs Web Sites

Most of the time, when you read advice about optimizing your web properties, the advice is provided without making a distinction between building a web site vs building a web application. This assumes that the approach to optimizing a basic web site – for example, a site showing off an artist’s portfolio – is basically the same as that for...

Categories SmartClient/Industry/performance/Technology/UI

December 8, 2022

Fallacies of React: Why so many React projects fail

If you use React, it’s easy to hire experienced developers, and you can use the best components available from a variety of sources, right? Wrong. Unfortunately, this is not at all true, for two main reasons: To be clear: React is a solid technology, and there’s nothing inherently wrong with it. The problem comes from misunderstanding the nature of React....

Categories SmartClient/Industry/performance/Technology/Tools/UI

November 21, 2022

Why Everything Is CRUD

Many web frameworks have very advanced support for the so-called “CRUD” operations, that is, Create, Retrieve, Update, Delete, also known in SQL as Insert, Select, Update and Delete. Often, when developers see the CRUD features in these frameworks – like data grids that know how to perform CRUD operations, as in SmartClient – they react by saying: well, that’s great...

Categories performance/Choice/Industry/SmartClient/SmartGWT/Technology/Tools

August 26, 2022

Web Application Optimization: Why Most Advice Is Wrong

Most of the advice you run into regarding web application optimization is not only wrong, it’s what I call catastrophically wrong, meaning that it: That’s a big claim, and I will back it up. Before we begin, we need a clear definition of performance for a web application.  Only with a good definition of performance in hand can we begin to discuss web application optimization, what’s wrong with so...

Categories Choice/performance/SmartClient/Technology/Tools

November 7, 2019

Lessons learned from a prospect’s evaluation

We recently talked to a prospective customer about SmartClient. After all the usual introductions, they probed into the capabilities we offer, architecture, performance, etc. Then, we talked about how they would evaluate SmartClient. They planned to use an example of a text input field their UE team had designed. It was very nice. It had all the states you would...

Categories performance/UI

July 30, 2019

Feel the need for speed?

These days, the speed with which information is delivered is crucial to business and customer success.  For example, to: Live stream stock market price movements to capitalize on fluctuations Monitor time-series performance data to ensure your data center runs smoothly Send messages and collaborate instantly In these types of scenarios, querying static data to get the answer is just not...

Categories DevOps/performance

June 27, 2018

Performance tips from the experts

If your web apps are slow, nobody will want to use them. It is as simple as that. Capabilities such as adaptive filtering, lazy rendering, and of course the architecture of SmartClient mean that if you have selected our platform, you’ve already put your best foot forward. But, of course, taking a wrong turn during development can still quickly degrade...

Categories performance