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One more tool in the tool kit. We have alot of requests for basic CRUD apps against simple data sources for internal use. That's a great Power App. It frankly doesn't make sense to develop a new React or vanilla JavaScript UI for something like this.
I do not, however, buy the citizen developer hype. Even with low code tools, its incredibly beneficial to have a basic grasp of object oriented programming, basic data architecture and design.
I think for now, the hurdle will be the dev who thinks everything needs to be coded out, vice the other extreme. It's all about the best way to solve the problem at hand.
...which is funny, honestly, because even "coding things out" in modern frameworks often means starting with a fully functional CRUD app if we're talking a server side language framework like .NET or Rails. The real bang from my perspective, like I said, is when we're building a UI and connecting to an API. Power Apps takes care of all the logic, prevents errors from mismatched data types, the wrong meta data etc, and also makes those mundane but tedious styling issues on the front end much easier with drag and drop elements.
I'll go with fad for ds/de.
It's good for business users to pull stuff together quickly but tends to be difficult to maintain, debug, etc.
I see it like wix.com I’m sure it’s great of you want to make a personal blog for your cat pictures, but if you are trying to build the next big streaming service like Netflix or the next Call of Duty game to reach millions of global players, you might need a little more code than wix.
Yes to this 👆🏼 The low code tool I work on is customizable up to a point - it’s built to be a business tool, not be a cool modern consumer platform. As a designer this can sometimes be painful expectation setting for our customers.
I think it depends on the scope and scale of the use case. I do think low-code/no-code solutions will be around for awhile because they allow businesses to sort of level the playing field. I suppose we'll have to wait and see how it pans out, though.
My full time is developing and provisioning access to enterprise low code platforms. It’s all back office CRUD apps but some projects do enable a lot value. It still helps a ton to have basic understanding of logical flows and database basics. Overall I think it’s here to stay, the tools I really like now are on the low code side. You can do a lot with an API and built in formula/ scripting engine.
It depends on the scope and scale of the use case
I've worked with a few low code/no code places - the adoption rate is pretty high, but not sure how long they have clients for
I see it like wix.com I’m sure it’s great of you want to make a personal blog for your cat pictures, but if you are trying to build the next big streaming service like Netflix or the next Call of Duty game to reach millions of global players, you might need a little more code than wix.
I work for a low code tool specifically for enterprise and we’ve been around 10+ years at this point. I would say the sweet spot for us is digitizing paper processes (or just folders of spreadsheets) for specific teams within orgs that have a lot of red tape. We would never replace their IT department and that’s not the goal.
Tools like ours that let you build business apps tend to be stickier the longer you use them - so a lot of our customers have been around a long time and up sell is consistent for us - they add new users or convince another location or team to hop on.
I do feel like we’ve proved success at scale in ways as we have become mission critical software for entire departments of very large organizations but in those cases the team usually has a very good governance plan in place and several technical admins who can build quickly.
I would generally agree that citizen developer is a bit overhyped - while we would love for that to be an audience and do invest in it, the initial set up for most customers can be complex and usually requires a lot of hand holding from our implementation team.
I agree that the citizen developer is overhyped. In my opinion it should be phased out of companies because of the lack of governance around potentially critical back office processes. Particularly if you work in a complex matrix organization, if your citizen dev leaves, the process could fall into mismanagement or deprecate relatively quickly and disrupt time sensitive workflows.
I consulted for a company that custom developed (mainly in .Net) over 250 small scale applications and interfaces due to the lack of governance around IT strategy and business process. They wanted to redevelop many of these in the Mendix platform and it cost them a lot of money to document each application in order to rationalize the value of each process - we found that most of these applications were low value and should be retired or consolidated based on the modernized IT strategy.
Low code is the future, solving 80% of a problem with no code isn’t useful. You have to have the last mile of customization still be accessible via programming…
Hybrid models are going to be more popular. You can look at azure data factory and some of the stuff databricks is doing
Modern equivalent of learning an excel macro. I think it’s a solid foundation for people within the business to get better/more dynamic insights, but I don’t think it’s replacing anything in the long term.