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Risks when your low code app becomes too complex

Edmundo Lopez Bobeda, Ph.D.
Date : February 16, 2022
Categories : Language engineering
Tags : Tools

Low code sounds like a great idea but there are some caveats. One of those problems are that applications, over time, tend to grow in features, complexity, and corner cases. IT professionals have the tools to deal with such problems, for example: version control continuous deployment/continuous integration unit testing production, staging, and development environments refactoring The risk that you might encounter when creating a low code application on some platform is that your application becomes so large and complex, that you end up needing this kind of tools in you low code application platform.

What is being done with low-code in the industry?

Edmundo Lopez Bobeda, Ph.D.
Date : February 14, 2022
Categories : Language engineering
Tags : Tools

You might have heard of the term low-code, specially if you read this blog. But what can be done with low code? Can I use a low code solution that is already in the market, or should I create my own solution for my business needs? Let us try to answer these two questions.

Who is your DSL for?

Edmundo Lopez Bobeda, Ph.D.
Date : February 11, 2022
Categories : Language engineering
Tags : Developers

When you are thinking of creating a DSL (or custom low-code/no-code app, if we use the trendy terms of the day). It is important to think of who your user will be and how do you plan to improve his life. There are two main target groups that you can consider: developers, and well, non developers.

Ledger: A DSL for accounting

Edmundo Lopez Bobeda, Ph.D.
Date : February 7, 2022
Categories : Language engineering
Tags : Example

Ledger is a Unix command line tool to do double-entry accounting using only text files. I personally use this tool to manage my personal finances, but since this blog is about Domain Specific Languages, in this post I focus on the domain-specific language used by this tool to model the general ledger used in accounting.

How DSLs can remove the bottleneck from the development team

Edmundo Lopez Bobeda, Ph.D.
Date : February 3, 2022
Categories : Language engineering
Tags : Emf ,Eclipse ,Metamodeling

In his book, The Goal, Eliyahu M. Goldratt presents a way to optimize a plant using his Theory of Constraints. This book lays out the concepts that later will inspire the agile methodologies, which is applying the Theory of Constraints to the development of software. The book The Phoenix Project relates the concepts explained in The Goal with IT and software development.