Posts by Johan den Haan
About Johan den Haan
As Mendix’s chief technology officer, Johan leads the company’s overall technical strategy and research & product development teams. Johan speaks regularly at technology events and is a renowned blogger on a range of topics, including PaaS, Model-Driven Development, Scrum, cloud computing and software engineering. He earned a Master of Science in Computer Science with a specialization in Information Architecture from the Delft University of Technology. Keep in touch at @JohanDenHaan.
Posts by Johan den Haan
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Data Hub: The Low-Code Approach to Data Integration
Low-code meets data integration with our all new Data Hub. Empower anyone to discover, understand, and use the right data at the right time in your applications.
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Low-Code Principle #9, Community: The Power of Connection
Read how app development platforms that endure never stop evolving, and how only a committed, energized, active community of users can sustain that growth.
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Low-Code Principle #8, Governance & Control: Good Guardrails Make…
With technology continuously evolving at a breakneck pace, the need to keep a grip on the architecture, tools, and human component is greater than ever.
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Low-Code Principle #7, Experimentation & Innovation: Fearlessly…
Innovators need to experiment, explore, and create without fear or compromise. Development tools need to be nimble, smart and affordable to support them.
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Low-Code Principle #6, Multi-User Development: It takes a village to…
Multi-user development is critical for a low-code platform, enabling diversely skilled teams to collaborate without compromising performance or capability.
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Low-Code Principle #5: Openness, Or, No App Is An Island
So you want to build the next great app for your global enterprise or to launch your start-up? Openness is a key app development platform feature you’ll need.
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Low-Code Principle #4: The Cloud, Key to Smart Apps and Easy…
Soon, we won’t even be able to imagine life without the cloud. Read about Principle #4 of Low-Code, The Cloud, to see why cloud is so important to low-code.
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Low-Code Principle #3: Agile Methodology & Low-Code, BFFs
Ross and Rachel. Soup and sandwich. Low-code and Agile. Another one of history’s great parings. Read our blog about the #3 Principle of Low-Code: Agility.
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Low-Code Principle #2: Collaboration, Where Innovation Happens
The second principle of low-code application development, collaboration, is inseparable from the first principle, but warrants its own discussion. Read how.
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Low-Code Principle #1: Model-Driven Development, The Most Important…
In a previous post, we introduced the nine principles fundamental to low-code application development. Read more about the first: Model-Driven Development.
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Introducing the Low-Code Manifesto
Greetings from the front lines of software development! Meet the Mendix Low-Code Manifesto and read our 9 essential principles of low-code app development.
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Low-Code Is Grown Up and Leading Us to the Future
Mendix World 2019 was a hit. Read Mendix CTO Johan den Haan’s thoughts on the event, the growth of low-code development, and what this means for the future of business.
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The Benefits of Low-Code Application Development
Learn the key capabilities of Low-Code Platforms and why the need for them is greater than ever. This blog compares low-code development to traditional app development and details the benefits of low-code.
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Mendix and Siemens to Re-define the Future of Application Development
2 years ago, in June 2016, we shared a vision with the world that highly influenced the direction of the application development market. Today, we take another big step to follow-up on this vision.
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How to Build an IT ‘A’ Team During a Skills Crisis
Lennox Brown, CIO at Analogic, faced the challenge of hiring a development team during a skills crisis. Learn how he overcame this challenge by creating a new kind of IT team.
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Dispelling 5 Myths of Low-Code App Development
Beyond the need for speed, there are various other benefits of low-code development, but many are still skeptical. In this article, we will dispel the five myths of low-code app development.
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Introducing AI-Assisted Development to Elevate Low-Code Platforms to…
Introducing Mendix Assist, the first AI-assisted development approach built into a low-code application development platform. Learn the three main ways enterprises will benefit from Mendix Assist.
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The Case for Strong Leadership in Agile Teams
Our CTO, Johan den Haan, discusses what the term “leadership” means in the context of agile teams and how to build strong, high-performing teams.
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The Sessions Every IT Leader Should Attend at Cloud Foundry Summit…
Our CTO shares the six sessions every IT leader should attend at the Cloud Foundry Summit in Boston next week. Learn about the conversations he is most excited to participate in.
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Mendix 7 Atlas Release: Bringing Design Thinking to Low-Code App…
Presenting the Mendix Atlas Release. Read more to learn about the three new elements that seamlessly integrate to empower developers and the business to embrace a user-centric approach to UI design.
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Mendix and Microsoft Azure: A Complete Cloud Stack to Power Digital…
Today, we announced support for Microsoft Azure and the availability of the Mendix platform in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. Before
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New Releases: Application Quality Monitor, Offline mobile…
See what new features are available in the latest Mendix release. Highlights include Mendix Application Quality Monitor, offline mobile improvements & more.
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Introducing Mendix 6: Offline Mobile, Model API, Application…
The Mendix 6 release makes it even faster and easier to build modern, multi-channel applications that are connected, intelligent, adaptive and always on.
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DX Release improvements, Performance, Free Edition, App Store support…
Highlights of the Mendix August 2015 release include DX Release improvements, performance enhancements, Free Edition, App Store support and more.
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Drive Digital Innovation with the Mendix DX Release
The Mendix DX release helps enterprises drive digital innovation through a new UI responsive framework, OData support and a free full-production edition.
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Performance Optimizations, List Operations, Glyphicons, Java 8 and…
Mendix CTO Johan den Haan shares highlights from the latest Mendix release.
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One-Click Deployment of Mendix Apps to Cloud Foundry-Based Cloud…
The new Mendix release includes new features that tighten our integration with the Cloud Foundry ecosystem.
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Code Share for Rapid Developers, Decimals, and Integration…
The new Mendix release includes Model Share, which allows rapid developers to share fully functional application models on the web with one click.
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Mendix January Release: MySQL, Rapid Developer Efficiency, Open Source…
The Mendix January release includes App Services enhancements; improved App Store integration with GitHub; optimal page reloads for better UX & more.
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Get Up, Stand Up: Why the Daily Scrum Works
The Daily Scrum The Daily Scrum is probably one of the most well known Scrum “ceremonies”, often it is the
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Mendix October Release: Frictionless Delivery of Enterprise Mobile…
The Mendix October Release provides a frictionless experience for rapid development, testing and publishing of hybrid mobile apps. Learn more.
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Mendix August Release: Mendix Open Sources App Components and Adds…
The Mendix August Release includes GitHub Integration to Community App Store , advanced memory analysis, extended web service support & more.
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The Mendix July Release: RESTful APIs across the Mendix App Platform,…
See what’s new in the Mendix July Release, including several new APIs plus other usability and integration improvements from the past few months.
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Self-Service Online Academy, Automated Testing, App User Management,…
It’s summer in Rotterdam, but that doesn’t prevent our engineering team from delivering great stuff with this month’s release. Here
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The Mendix May Release: Hot Deployment Gets Hotter, Usability and…
See what’s new in the Mendix May release. Enhancements include even hotter deployment, Run Configuration Editor usability, and Excel export/import for user stories.
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The Mendix April Release: REST, Hot Deployment and More
The Mendix April Release is live and includes several security, performance and UI modeling enhancements as well as a great addition to our App Store. Read this post for a summary of these new features and enhancements.
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The Mendix March Release: AppCloud and Community Edition, New User…
The Mendix March Release includes the AppCloud, a service layer that brings together end-users, developers, data, apps, and content in a single cloud environment; a free Community Edition for building and deploying apps for up to 10 users; and more.
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Short Month, Big Features: Introducing The Mendix February Release
The Mendix February Release is live, and we’ve boxed and shipped some great features, including 1-click “view app” experience, App Services file support, UI Snippet improvements and Multi-select capability for drop-down search fields.
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The Mendix January Release: Starting 2014 with a Bang
We hit the ground running this year! I’m happy to present the first Mendix release of 2014: the January release. It includes numerous improvements in all aspects of our platform, mainly based on feedback from our community.