Hiren is CTO at Simform with an extensive experience in helping enterprises and startups streamline their business performance through data-driven innovation.

Product Engineering

5 Signs that Scaling Frontend is a Challenge for Your Organization [Infographic]

3 mins read
13 Sep, 2021

Scalability is no joke, and it certainly demands the combined efforts of many teams to keep a system running smoothly. With rapidly growing businesses and expanding teams, organizations often have a tough time scaling up their applications and maintaining consistent UI behavior. This infographic will help you determine if it's the right time for your organization to scale frontend.

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Experience Design

What Are Design Systems And How They Help Building Frontend Architectures

8 mins read
23 Jul, 2021

Companies struggle to deliver a consistent user experience across the frontend as they scale. Design systems have turned out to be a boon for such teams as they lend coherency to user experiences across frontends. In this article, you'll learn about the variations of design systems employed by organizations worldwide and their specific characteristics.

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Product Engineering

Ending Monorepo Vs Polyrepo Debate

6 mins read
22 Jul, 2021

Monorepo vs polyrepo is increasingly becoming an ongoing debate among frontend teams. In this article, we take you through the pros and cons of both these approaches. You'll get to know about the use cases suitable for each of these approaches and have a better idea as to which one you should employ.

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Experience Design

How Paypal, Walmart, and Farfetch Leveraged Component Reusability to Scale Frontend

4 mins read
21 Jul, 2021

Component reusability is one of the common buzzwords in application development, which decides the extent to which a component can be reused within an environment. For starters, it eliminates code duplication, helps maintain consistent structure across different frontends, improves application development efficiency, and makes code testing better.

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Experience engineering

Building a Scalable and Maintainable Front-End with Component-Based Architecture

4 mins read
20 Jul, 2021

In 2013, Facebook introduced ReactJs and changed the way developers built front-end applications. With its Component-Based Architecture (CBA), developers could divide the application features into smaller pieces and then encapsulate them to form autonomous and independent systems. Over time, using Component-Based Architecture for designing and developing the front-end applications became best practice as development teams realized its benefits.

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Experience Design

Composing UI to scale – How Dazn, Vonage, and SmallCase do it.

4 mins read
19 Jul, 2021

Micro frontend architecture presents an efficient way to scale frontend. However, frontend teams often find themselves confused as to which micro frontend composition technique to employ. In this article, we assess all three composition techniques taking examples of companies using them. Keep reading to find out which strategy is most suitable for your organization.

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Experience Design

How to Align Your Front-End Team Structure with Architecture

6 mins read
18 Jul, 2021

Scaling up from a startup is a major transition for any organization. It is no secret that a company's engineering culture plays a crucial role in achieving the required scale. Companies generally follow various models/methodologies under the software development life cycle (SDLC) to modify the development culture. However, developers can get clogged in dependencies and tedious discussions with other departments without the practice of responsibility and ownership.

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