If you're a coder, how often do you think about how your code actually runs? The answer is possibly never. We are all multiple layers of abstraction away from the reality of the runtime.

We created a Python script to summarize Claris FileMaker Stats.log data more efficiently. The results prompted further insight into performance discrepancies, optimizing the cache size and cache hit percentage for FileMaker Servers..

Beezwax is proud to sponsor Vienna Calling 2025, June 5-7, featuring open discussions and workshops on Claris® FileMaker® development. Vincenzo Menanno from Beezwax will present 'Till Technical Debt do us Part!' emphasizing the importance of managing technical debt for agile solutions. The conference includes contributions from global developers and sponsors like Claris, an Apple company.

Vincenzo Menanno from Beezwax presents 'Modernizing Code - Maintaining Your Investment' at Elevate FM 2025 in Toronto on May 26, 2025. The presentation focuses on the importance of maintaining and adapting FileMaker solutions over time to reduce technical debt.

With FileMaker 2024 (v21) Claris unveiled powerful features aimed at enhancing data management and security. This blog post series covers ongoing advancements in FileMaker's Data API (FM DAPI), focusing on REST and cURL, which offer developers greater control and flexibility in their applications. We're providing a tutorial file, bzTrainer-FMDAPI, to help you learn and experiment with various REST and cURL functions using FileMaker's Data API. Enjoy exploring!

FileMaker Server v21.1 (2024) enhances plug-in capabilities by enabling notifications of changes to database schema and scripts via JSON payloads. The bBox plug-in, supporting multiple languages and systems, processes these notifications through Syslog, DuckDB, or OData methods. Each approach varies in configuration complexity and data handling efficiency.

FileMaker Pro 21.1 enhances AI capabilities with semantic search for images and text, adds security updates, and improves script controls. It streamlines layout management and file handling, and overall introduces more than 300 impactful features.

bBox version 1.05 introduces schema change notifications, a new Ubuntu ARM binary, and DuckDB integration, replacing SQLite functions. This free utility plug-in enhances FileMaker solutions, supporting multiple coding libraries. Updates include Python 3.13 on macOS and JQ 1.7.1.

EngageU, the largest Claris / FileMaker Developer conference in Europe, takes place in Malmö this November 17th-19th with Claris as primary sponsor, and Beezwax as exhibitor and sponsor. At EngageU, Vincenzo Menanno delivers sessions on building great solutions and utilizing InspectorPro for diagnostics and in-depth analysis. The conference attracts top partners, developers, and community leaders focusing on innovation in Claris and FileMaker platform development.

If you go looking for a FileMaker script step called Perform Script on Server on Server, you are not going to find it.

Christos Savva from Beezwax presents at the Bay Area FileMaker Developer Meetup on integrating Python with FileMaker. He'll highlight use cases in data analytics, IT automation, and AI + ML. Attendees will learn integration methods, and see an example FileMaker integration, bzPython-FM.