Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) is a standard for business process modeling that provides a graphical notation for specifying business processes. BPMN makes it far easier to collaborate in a cross-functional manner, as it bridges the gap between developers and business specialists: Business specialists work on the process definition, while developers enrich the BPMN with technical bindings. A BPMN-compliant workflow engine directly instantiates new process instances based on a provided definition.

HATEOAS is a feature of the REST application architecture that allows you to navigate REST APIs just as easily as you can navigate websites. You can use HATEOAS to follow embedded URIs pointing to other resources to explore and interact with an API. This blog post explains HATEOAS in more detail and covers what we encountered while working with it.

Content management systems (CMS) have been affected by huge changes in recent years — among them is the emergence of headless CMS tools. We recently decided to use headless CMS for a new feature of our internal app, and after looking at the many options, we landed on Strapi. This blog post will outline what headless CMS is, why we chose it, what led us to Strapi, and how we use it.

RabbitMQ and Google Pub/Sub are both powerful and reliable message queue implementations, and if you need to pick one of them for your Google Cloud Platform (GCP) project, the choice may not be simple. We recently started on a new project where we narrowed down our choices to these two products. This blog post is the second part of the summary of our analysis and our choice.

RabbitMQ and Google Pub/Sub are both powerful and reliable message queue implementations, and if you need to pick one of them for your Google Cloud Platform (GCP) project, the choice may not be simple. We recently started a new project that required a message broker integrated into the solution, and although there are several choices on the market, we quickly narrowed down our options to these two products. This blog post is the first part of the summary of our analysis.