Introduction After years of working on SaaS platforms, we have realized that SaaS on-boarding is one of the most critical initiatives you can take on. This article will help you craft better on-boarding experiences for customers. At HyperTrends, we build custom SaaS solutions for B2B and B2C customers. A mentor of ours used to call it the Path-to-Wow. We want … Read More
Successfully Managing Large Software Development Projects
We at HyperTrends manage some seriously complex projects. Some of our projects span multiple years and across teams in different regions. Here are some of the tips we use to make Software Development easy for us: By following these strategies, you can effectively manage large-scale software projects and deliver high-quality products on time and within budget. Define Clear Goals & … Read More
The Joys of Event Storming
Event Storming is a process of RAPIDLY MODELING a COMPLEX SYSTEM. The Problem Statement Do you feel the need to deconstruct complex systems? Do you find it hard to effectively capture the features, the use-cases and scenarios in your systems? Do you find it hard to identify the boundaries between various departments and their sub-systems? Do you find it challenging … Read More
Teams Development – Developer Experience
If you’re looking to build Microsoft Teams Apps, whether they are Tabs, Bots, Message Extensions or Webhooks, Microsoft has done a great job with their documentation. You can find some pretty rad documentation here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/platform/mstdd-landing You can even find a cool Adaptive Card Designer here: https://adaptivecards.io/designer/ We have built some seriously complex Teams Flows that require custom OAuth integration with … Read More
What do those Availability 9s mean anyways?
Have you ever been responsible for designing highly scalable web applications or SaaS Platforms that cannot have any downtime? Or have you, like us have been involved in DR (Disaster Recovery Planning) for Cloud Platforms? Well, we help Enterprises both large and small with their Cloud Architecture Strategies and it is absolutely important to know a few things when it … Read More
Enabling Sudo/God Mode In SaaS Platforms for elevated permissions
One of our fellow CTOs asked us a question recently, “Say you’re using a 3rd party Identity Provider for User Account Management and there are operations that require a SUDO/God mode with elevated permissions assertions (maybe via SMS verification or some other form of assertion such as re-entering the password). How do you do it?” This is a very good … Read More
Why you should get rid of home-grown password systems immediately
While Application Security is a complicated issue and deserves a playbook of its own, software development companies and developers alike should start taking the first steps in the forefront of application security, and that involves, getting RID of homegrown password systems.
ASP.NET Core Development Rocks – 2020 Stack Overflow Survey
ASP.NET Core Development Rocks! The StackOverflow Survey ranks it as one of the most loved frameworks. Even above ReactJs and we totally get it!! At HyperTrends, we perform all of our front-end Web Application Development using ReactJs. However, when it comes to the backend REST APIs, C# and ASP.NET Core take the coveted number 1 spot. We are also heavily … Read More
6 things to consider before you make that NoSQL Decision
Too often, we get customers asking us if they should utilize the popular NoSQL Databases such as MongoDB, Cassandra, DynamoDB etc. for their Custom Software Development needs instead of relational databases such as MySQL, SQL Server, PostGreSQL etc. We always answer the question with, “It depends.” And follow up with another question, “What outcomes are you looking for?” See, we … Read More