As developers, we strive for efficiency – not only in our code, but also in the software development process itself. One way to achieve this efficiency is to avoid redundancy and prioritize code reuse, so that we do not end up reinventing the wheel. Two tools that we have in our arsenal to achieve ...

Time is money. Something that I still don’t get is that many Java developers spend a lot of it (time and money) while waiting to see their latest code changes in action. JVM is known for its great peak performance when serving large numbers of users, but our tooling isn’t by default that well ...

Proper use of multi-factor authentication could stop most of the cyberattacks we see today, yet adoption remains low. Good security is usually at the expense of convenience, and multi-factor solutions that are easy to use are hard to implement. Fortunately, technology can be used to offset this ...

Your developers write comments appropriately; you avoid deeply nested loops; and you make a point of detecting and removing duplicate code. Your team does these things, without hesitation, because everyone knows it makes your application easier to maintain. But how is your team making your ...

You should have heard about the log4j security issue by now. Vaadin or typical Vaadin applications are not affected by the recent log4j vulnerabilities (CVE-2021-44228 and CVE-2021-45046). But we felt that it is important to summarize and reflect what these vulnerabilities may mean for Vaadin ...

Spring Boot is a preconfigured version of the Spring framework that makes it easy to create stand-alone, production-grade applications. Spring Boot is a backend framework that has become a major player in the enterprise Java ecosystem. It lets Java developers start building web applications ...

Vaadin Studio is our experimental extension for VS Code. With this project, we are aiming to bring faster development times for applications made using Vaadin Fusion. Faster development times In Vaadin Studio you can see the output of your UI template in a preview tab, and any changes to your ...

Improving a web application’s performance becomes more important as the number of concurrent users the application has. There are several reasons to enhance the performance of your web application, even if you do not have a huge amount of concurrent users. Here are a few of the benefits of doing ...

In this webinar, Leif Åstrand, Product Architect here at Vaadin, discussed the complexities of building modern web applications. He challenged the notion that endpoint APIs should be managed by backend development teams, by making the case for the Backends for Frontends (or BFF) pattern. You can ...