Our 2nd year in review: keep flowing!

Another round around the sun, another term ended, and here we are still moving on. A lot of things happened since this team was created, and many of them last year. Here’s a quick review of what we did:

Traveling

Let’s start with one of the best experiences we got the chance to share as a team. We had the opportunity to visit the northern hemisphere to meet our friends at Vaadin’s main HQ.

While we were there, we shoot some awesome pictures, visit some interesting places and had the amazing chance of getting to know all of the experts behind the company that is responsible for this great open source framework.

Sharing

Talking about Open Source, we continued to support our community, and created a special section in our web site to group all of the projects that we maintain.

We worked hard to develop a bunch of interesting projects, giving away our best effort to make them production ready, so anyone can use our technologies in their projects, and participate with us actively so they can improve over time.

One interesting project to mention, was a small PWA application that displayed the results of the Football Worldcup in real time, showing how to integrate several technologies, so similar projects can be built using this a kickstart.

Learning

Delivering intelligence is not an easy task if you don’t find a way to expand your knowledge. We take this statement seriously: we schedule one learning day each week, so we can watch, learn and discuss about many technologies, methodologies, frameworks, languages, etc.

Here’s a list of the subjects and some interesting links for you to watch if you’re curious:

• Understanding Machine Learning
• Refactoring To A System Of Systems
• Tensorflow: Getting Started
• Microservices With Spring Boot
• Clean Architecture: Patterns, Practices, And Principles
• Mastering Git
• How To Create Components For Vaadin 10?
• Vaadin 8 Crash Course
• Introducción a Vaadin 10 en español
• Docker
• Implementing DDD with the Spring ecosystem
• REST beyond the obvious – API design for ever evolving systems
• Simplification and Automation in Java: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
• Vaadin 10 Elements API
• Bootiful Testing
• Mastering JPA Performance
• Benefiting from Java 9 Improvements
• Ten Common Mistakes Made in Functional Java
• DDD Today - Modeling Uncertainty
• Vaadin 8: Application Lifecycle
• Majestic Modular Monoliths
• How to take great Engineers & make them great Technical Leaders
• Effective Unit Testing
• Spring Framework 5.1 on JDK 8 & 11
• Hexagonal at Scale, with DDD and microservices!
• Live-Coding Web Apps (PWAs) - Without Frameworks 
• Java Performance Puzzlers 2018 -- New Performance Puzzles
• Keeping Up with Java
• Pushing boundaries of types with modern Java

Writing

Having the opportunity to learn, and code, one final step is to share some of this knowledge, so we wrote some interesting articles about specific subjects, here’s a short list:

• Vaadin Widgetset compiling: Tips & Hints
• ComboBox lazy loading with REST API in Vaadin 8
• Vaadin 10 + Spring Demo application: World Cup Russia 2018 stats
• Planning your SCM strategy
• Creating a Vaadin Flow Server-Side API for a Javascript component

Speaking

But that is not all. We organized a talk in one of the most important universities in the area: Universidad Nacional del Litoral.

The chosen topic was to explain what is all the fuzz about Vaadin 10 and Web components.

You can find more information about it in our blog.

Delivering

We finished some interesting projects for new customers, growing our portfolio. Here is a summary of them, but with the promise that we will expand these experiences later in our site:

• We continue working as consultants for big medical software implementations in U.S., and also giving technical and architectural support for big companies all around the globe.
• Full SCM implementation for a customer in Colombia, that involved the installation and configuration of several servers, testing the entire stack, training several areas and finally taking care of every detail while going to production
• Development support for a big application related to job openings, of a customer from Buenos Aires, that involved working with email marketing campaign tools and invocation of REST-APIs
• Vaadin 7 to 13 migration, of a web module of an ERP software of a company from Rosario - Argentina

Networking

We continued sharing everything in our social networks, now you can find us in:

• Linkedin
• Instagram
• Twitter
• Facebook

So that’s it, we are really happy with our results, so let’s finish with this quote from Albert Einstein:

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.

In our case we will keep flowing. Thanks for reading!