Blog

Customer Success Story: OpenMRS

Published on 2024-09-24.
Florian Rappl
Florian RapplSolution Architect
Spotlight on one of our projects in the area of frontend architecture.
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Customer Success Story: Medical Platform

Published on 2024-09-23.
Florian Rappl
Florian RapplSolution Architect
Spotlight on one of our projects in the area of scalable portal solutions.
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Page Improvements

Published on 2024-08-30.
Florian Rappl
Florian RapplSolution Architect
The story on how we improved the lighthouse score of our homepage.
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Feed Service

Published on 2024-07-15.
Lothar Schöttner
Lothar SchöttnerFounder and CEO
A primer on what a micro frontend discovery service is and how the Piral Cloud Feed Service helps you.
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Top 10 Micro Frontend Anti-Patterns

Published on 2024-03-20.
Florian Weininger
Florian WeiningerSenior Solution Engineer
Lists some of the most problematic points happening in real-world projects involving micro frontends.
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CSS in Micro Frontends

Published on 2023-06-21.
Florian Rappl
Florian RapplSolution Architect
Covers strategies that can be used to use CSS effectively in micro frontends.
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Versioning Web Components

Published on 2022-09-01.
Manuel Römer
Manuel RömerSoftware Engineer
How to allow multiple versions of a library shipping web components to be used in a single application.
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Docker Content Trust on ACR with Azure Pipelines

Published on 2022-08-02.
Oliver Starke
Oliver StarkeSolution Architect
Enabling Docker Content Trust to improve reliability and security for your Docker images published from Azure Pipelines to the ACR.
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Hosting static webapps in the Piral feed service

Published on 2022-04-01.
Finn Fiedler
Finn FiedlerSoftware Engineer
A guide of how to set up static web apps with the piral feed service
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Automate End-to-end testing in large-scale enterprise software

Published on 2021-12-20.
Finn Fiedler
Finn FiedlerSoftware Engineer
The article describes the challenges that you have to take when writing and maintaining E2E tests for large scale enterprise software
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Writing modern CI/CD Pipelines with Azure DevOps

Published on 2021-12-17.
Florian Rappl
Florian RapplSolution Architect
A quick run through using Azure DevOps Pipelines.
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Building a Netflix Clone with Piral

Published on 2021-03-19.
Dante De Ruwe
Dante De RuweTrainee
An extensive sample application composed with our microfrontend framework.
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Readers List of 2020

Published on 2020-12-31.
Florian Rappl
Florian RapplSolution Architect
A list of my blog posts from 2020 worth reading.
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An Introduction to Azure Front Door

Published on 2020-10-26.
Jens Thirmeyer
Jens ThirmeyerSolution Architect
Azure Front Door offers fantastic speed with a minimum of effort. It helps you to provide globally available, swift, and secure web applications.
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COVID19 - Our Retrospective

Published on 2020-05-22.
Florian Rappl
Florian RapplSolution Architect
As for everyone, COVID19 also represented some challenges for smapiot as a company.
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Dockerize Your Entire Solution

Published on 2020-03-20.
Jens Thirmeyer
Jens ThirmeyerSolution Architect
"How can I run an entire solution on every platform?" - An introduction to Docker Compose.
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Get Your IoT Devices Connected to Azure

Published on 2020-01-23.
Jens Thirmeyer
Jens ThirmeyerSolution Architect
“How can I get my device securely online?” - An introduction to Azure IoT Hub.
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Microfrontends - Catalyst for Digital Transformation

Published on 2019-12-11.
Florian Rappl
Florian RapplSolution Architect
At smapiot we bet on microfrontends - for some good reasons that we want to outline and present.
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How We Built smapiot.com

Published on 2019-10-19.
Lothar Schöttner
Lothar SchöttnerFounder and CEO
A recap on how we designed and built "smapiot.com" from scratch to reflect our principles and our values.
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Recruiting at smapiot

Published on 2019-09-16.
Birgit Kindermann
Birgit KindermannBusiness Administration
In this post we outline how we do recruiting and what you need to do to be fully prepared for interviews at smapiot.
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Azure DevOps Little Helper

Published on 2019-08-23.
Florian Rappl
Florian RapplSolution Architect
We build a useful Azure Function to automate the common task of updating project references within Azure DevOps.
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End-To-End Testing in Azure Pipelines

Published on 2019-07-28.
Florian Rappl
Florian RapplSolution Architect
We look at running End-To-End tests in an Azure Pipeline using the Nightwatch.js framework with TypeScript.
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SmartHome Chat Bot

Published on 2019-07-05.
Florian Rappl
Florian RapplSolution Architect
We utilize the Microsoft Bot Framework in conjunction with LUIS to make a Node.js powered bot available online via an ASP.NET Web API proxy. A software mock for the smart home system is supplied. Likewise a tutorial for a hardware mock using the CC3200 and / or sensor tags is provided.
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