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The Portofino Survey 2022
A collection of questions about the usage of ManyDesigns Portofino in the wild, to better tailor development efforts.
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Which version of Portofino do you use the most?
5.2.x
5.x before 5.2 (e.g., 5.1.3)
4.x
Other:
Clear selection
How would you describe Portofino?
A tool for quickly prototyping applications
A tool to easily create complete applications
A tool to easily create forms/user interfaces
A tool to easily create APIs
A model-driven application/API builder
A low-code platform
Other:
In which application domains do you typically employ Portofino?
Accounting
Banking/Financial
HR or resource management
Management, control and auditing
IT systems integration
Quality Assurance
Energy
I'm not using it in production
Other:
What's the size of the company or organization where you're using Portofino the most?
500+ employees
100-500 employess
10-100 employees
Less than 10 employees
I use it as a solo developer/freelance
I use it as a student
I use it as a hobbyist
Clear selection
What do you use Portofino for?
Rapid prototyping
Development of internal applications and tools
Development of minor projects for customers
Development of major projects for customers
Other:
What's your profile and role in your organization?
Junior developer
Senior developer/architect
Data Scientist
Database Administrator (DBA)
Operations
Management
Other:
Clear selection
What kind of UI do you use with Portofino?
The Angular UI that comes with Portofino 5
The Stripes MVC UI that comes with Portofino 4
A custom-built web UI using Angular
A custom-built web UI using React
A custom-built web UI using other technologies
Native mobile UI
Native desktop UI
No UI, only API calls
Other:
What kind of authentication/authorization do you use with Portofino?
Built-in: Apache Shiro with users and groups in the database
Enterprise Single Sign-On
OAuth2 (e.g. Google, Facebook, ...)
Cloud services (e.g. Amazon Cognito)
LDAP/Open Directory
No authentication/authorization
Other:
Which database(s) do you typically access with Portofino?
PostgreSQL
MySQL/MariaDB
Oracle
SQL Server
Cloud databases (e.g. Amazon Redshift, Snowflake etc.)
NoSQL databases
No database at all
Other:
What do you like about Portofino?
Ease of use, simplicity
Developer productivity
APIs: easy to extend and adapt
APIs: easy to integrate into complex solutions
Robustness and security
Choice of technologies
Testability
Ease of deployment
Ease of upgrading
Beautiful UI
Open Source – Business Model
Frequency of updates
Documentation
Other:
What do you dislike or fear about Portofino?
Difficulty to use, complexity
Reduced developer productivity
Poor APIs: difficult to extend and adapt
Poor APIs: difficult to integrate with other solutions
Brittleness, bugs, poor security
Choice of technologies
Poor testability
Difficulty of deployment
Difficulty upgrading
Bad looking UI
Open Source – Business Model
Rarely or untimely updated
Documentation
Vendor lock-in
Other:
Where should more development effort be spent in your opinion?
Documentation, tutorials, videos
Improving the wizard
Fixing bugs
Improving security
Microservices and Spring Boot
Integrations (e.g. with SSO)
Writing tests
Technology upgrades
Focusing on REST APIs
Accompanying tools (e.g. CLI, test framework, etc.)
Improving the Angular UI
NoSQL databases
IDE integration
Other:
Are you aware of the following resources about Portofino?
Instructional videos
GitHub wiki
Mailing list/Google Groups
Gitter chat
Commercial support
API documentation (Javadoc)
API documentation (OpenAPI/Swagger)
"Awesome Portofino" related projects collection
Third-party tutorials, articles, videos etc.
Other:
Where do you find the documentation most lacking?
Getting started, tutorials (video)
Getting started, tutorials (articles)
Development guides (video)
Development guides (articles)
Testing guides
Deployment guides
API reference
Cookbook, practical recipes
High-level description, best practices, architecture
Insights into the model-driven nature of Portofino
Other:
Where did you learn about Portofino?
Colleague
Article
Video
Social media (e.g. LinkedIN)
Word of mouth
Other:
Would you recommend Portofino to your colleagues?
Yes
No
Clear selection
Do you consider the adoption of Portofino in your organization a success?
Yes
No
I didn't manage to have it adopted
I don't use Portofino within an organization
Clear selection
Notes, observations, critiques
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