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Mendix & GenAI: From Builder to Conductor - A 2025 Retrospective and Roadmap for 2026

Mendix & GenAI: From Builder to Conductor – A 2025 Retrospective and Roadmap for 2026

Mendix & GenAI: From Builder to Conductor – A 2025 Retrospective and Roadmap for 2026 The holidays are behind us, and 2026 is officially underway. Hopefully, you had some time to recharge and reflect during the break. But now that we are back at it, this isn’t just a standard retrospective. While 2025 was the […]

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From Microfoam to Microflow, Part three: Brewing Data into Dashboards

From Microfoam to Microflow Part three: Brewing Data into Dashboards Debugging an Espresso Machine Finally, the moment was there to test the entire setup. Two weeks ago, when I hooked up all the components to the Gaggia Classic, it was showtime for the MQTT configuration. At first, everything looked promising—the Gaggimate connected nicely to my

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From Microfoam to Microflow, Part two: Continuous Espresso Deployment

From Microfoam to Microflow Part two: Continuous Espresso Deployment Installing the Gaggimate Pro & Brewing in the Cloud A few days after hitting “publish” on Part 1, a small package arrived from Italy: my Gaggimate Pro modification kit. This is the point where curiosity meets commitment. If you read the first post, you’ll know I

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From Microfoam to Microflow, Part one: Goodbye Isomac, welcome Gaggia!

From Microfoam to Microflow Part one: Goodbye Isomac, welcome Gaggia! If you had told me five years ago that I’d be working my head around water temperature, extraction pressure, and brew ratios, I would’ve laughed and reached for a cup of Nespresso coffee. But things change—especially when you discover the joy of a well-brewed espresso

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DeepClone Demystified: A Guide for Mendix Developers 

As Mendix developers, we often encounter scenarios where we need to duplicate data, whether it’s copying an object for a new record, creating a template, or preserving an original state before modifications. The Community Commons module, a staple in the Mendix Marketplace, offers a powerful tool for this: the DeepClone Java action. Unlike a simple

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Hackathon Recap: How dsm-firmenich Is Revolutionizing the Shop Floor with Generative AI and Mendix 

Imagine a future where engineers on the shop floor solve technical issues within minutes using AI-powered applications. That future? It’s already here.  On October 16th,  dsm-firmenich’s Digital & Tech’s Low-Code Chapter led by Anouke Tielens-Coenegracht, in collaboration with The Orange Force, hosted an innovative hackathon, focused on making life easier for shop floor engineers by

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No Deploy Fridays podcast with Freek Brinkhuis & Paul Ketelaars

They can build apps, widgets, Java actions, play FIFA, and in recent times also have become podcast hosts! Our colleagues Paul Ketelaars and Freek Brinkhuis have launched their new podcast show called No Deploy Fridays. This podcast is all about the technicalities of the Mendix Low Code Platform. Are you interested in learning more about,

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No Deploy Fridays at CrowdStrike and the Mendix Marketplace update lifecycle

If you are reading this title and think CrowdStrike, don’t you mean that old-school shooter game everyone was playing in the early zeroes? You might want to open a random news website and start reading. Or let me at least give you a small digest.  Last Friday (19th of July) cybersecurity company CrowdStrike rolled out

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