I was recently in Helsinki, giving a talk at a QlikDevGroup event. Great event, great crowd. The topic was SenseOps and Butler SOS, and I showcased the lamp above as an example of a funky, but still relevant way to monitor user activity in a Qlik Sense Enterprise environment. A
I got somewhat distracted from the idea of breaking up the existing Butler software into smaller, stand-alone micro services. Or rather, an idea came to mind. An idea too good not to explore… The healthcheck API of Qlik Sense provides basic metrics for both the Qlik Sense engine itself,
Teaser video: Realtime reload dashboard Just to get your interest – this video shows what Butler-MQTT can be used for. All the pieces are included in the Github repo. The concept of a reload dashboard can be very useful if you have long running (hours!) reloads. Instead of relying on
Developing apps on Qlik Sense is lots of fun, but also poses some challenges. The look and feel of your Sense apps is really important when it comes to end users’ first impressions of Sense. Digging deeper into the possibilities of Sense, extensions are an interesting way to enhance the
For some time I have been thinking about how to improve the Sense development process as a whole. There is a lot of gathered experience and best practices from the wider software development community, but how can we apply this to Qlik Sense development? Some initiatives are starting to appear.
In a large Qlik Sense installations you are likely faced with a high number of reloads every hour. But some apps are more important than others – those apps should reload immediately when triggered. The alternative is that those important apps end up being queued after ongoing long running tasks – not
And guess what? I am one of them! 🙂 I value this quite high. Being part of the 2016 Luminary program too, I know how much value it brought both in terms of great networking opportunities with fellow Luminaries (and others), as well as more and closer contacts with Qlik themselves.
For a long time I wanted to learn more about client side development. Javascript, CSS, reactive frameworks etc – all those concepts that make today’s web sites tick. I really think backend developers can benefit from having at least a basic understanding of how the front-end works – this will
A quick note before the weekend: Version 1.1.0 of the app duplicator for Qlik Sense was just release on GitHub, feel free to check it out. Main features of the new version are * https is now mandatory * Logging all requests to files on disk * Improved stability and better
I worked on a small node.js server during the past couple of weeks. The idea came from the fact that 1. I over and over again find myself creating Sense apps that are almost identical, and 2. people starting out as Sense developers spend too much time learning the
Running things on Apple hardware here, all those Windows-only software packages are a somewhat of a pain… As good as they are, both Qlik Sense, some of the vendor specific embedded software IDEs and other need-to-have software are Windows-only. VirtualBox to the rescue. It is free
Such a simple thing – but oh how useful. One of the recent versions (3.0? 3.1? 3.1.1?) of Sense added much improved syntax color coding of the load scripts, as well as autocompletion of function names, field names, variables etc. What might seem like a small change