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What is a Serverless Database? + 8 Picks for 2024

The rise of serverless databases has been one of the major shifts in how we build software over the past few years. In fact, they’re increasingly becoming a core part of all sorts of application projects. See, when we build any kind of solution, a big portion of the cost is the infrastructure we use to store and host relevant data. This also has an outsized impact on the quality and success of whatever we’re building.

Ronan McQuillan

Oct 13, 2023

How to Build an Employee Onboarding App in 7 Steps

Finding and hiring quality talent can be a lengthy, expensive process. So, once they’ve signed on the dotted line, we want to get our new colleagues up and running as quickly as possible. Today, we’re showing you how to build an effective employee onboarding app. The tricky thing is that onboarding new hires brings along a whole swathe of administrative work - like introducing them to their new coworkers, getting them set up on our internal IT systems, and ensuring that they’ve read all of the relevant documentation for their role.

Ronan McQuillan

Oct 10, 2023

Budibase is ISO 27001 certified

Today, we’re excited to announce we are officially ISO 27001:2022 (ISO 27001) certified. This further strengthens our commitments to security in Budibase’s low-code platform. We’re committed to keeping your data safe: ISO 27001 provides a framework for establishing, implementing, operating, monitoring, reviewing, and maintaining information security controls. We’re committed to ongoing compliance: As part of our adherence to ISO 27001, we’ll continue with ongoing surveillance audits. What is ISO 27001? To obtain the certification, we underwent rigorous audits performed by an independent third-party auditor, NQA , who evaluated the effectiveness of our Information Security Management System (ISMS) implementation across various domains.

Joe Johnston

Oct 4, 2023

September 2023 Product Update

The September release is here and it comes with a number of crowd-pleasing, community-driven changes that will improve the app building and access experience: Retain user & table data when overriding applications We’ve been asked time and time again for the ability to update an application without impacting the user or data tables. From today, you can import applications, while retaining these artifacts. User columns now available (and updates to the user table) The user table as you know today will still exist, but in a read-only format.

Joe Johnston

Oct 1, 2023

10 Strategies for Simplified Data Management

Businesses today deal with larger, more complex data sets than at any point in history. Obviously, this brings huge benefits. At the same time, it introduces swathes of new challenges. These include inefficiencies, unnecessary risks, poor oversight, and a whole host of other problems. One approach to solving this problem is simplifying data management. See, the problem isn’t so much the data itself, it’s how we build processes and operations around it.

Ronan McQuillan

Sep 29, 2023

8 Admin UI Design Tips

Designing admin UIs is a part of the app development process that’s quite easy to overlook. In fact, in many cases, it’s a bit of an afterthought. This is a big mistake. Providing sleek, efficient user experiences for your app’s admin functions is just as important as it is with any other functionality. Today, we’re drilling into some concrete strategies that you can use to craft effective, professional app screens for your admin users.

Ronan McQuillan

Sep 29, 2023

8 Microsoft Access Alternatives

For a lot of businesses, finding a suitable Microsoft Access alternative for their needs is becoming pretty urgent. See, Access has been rumored to be reaching its end-of-life for a few years now - although Microsoft hasn’t unveiled any formal plans for a retirement party. Even so, in 2023, Access feels like a bit of a product of a bygone era. Not to be outwardly critical, but in the age of cloud computing, low-code development, DBaaS tools, and even AI, it’s tough for legacy platforms to keep up with the needs of modern businesses.

Ronan McQuillan

Sep 29, 2023

What is a Transactional Database?

Transactional databases are some of the most foundational and ubiquitous tools around. In fact, for countless IT teams, this is the default model for data storage. But, in recent years, the size, scale, and complexity of businesses’ data assets have exploded. In turn, it’s become more important than ever to choose the right data management tools for specific applications and use cases. This means that we need to have a realistic, clear grasp of the respective pros, cons, and core tenets of different models - including transactional systems.

Ronan McQuillan

Sep 29, 2023