Regular maintenance of Linux servers is crucial for security and performance. Monthly updates and backups help protect against vulnerabilities and ensure system reliability. For FileMaker and web applications, updates can enhance performance and provide new features. Local and offsite backups and real-time monitoring are essential for data protection and prompt issue resolution.

With FileMaker 2025 or version 22, we now have a new way to interact with data. So let's set the stage.

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.

Web development is nothing like it used to be. Nowadays it's way more complex, there are lots of moving pieces, and it's quite hard to get started.

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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.

A recent addition to FileMaker Server is a feature called 'schema notifications'. These actually cover a broader area then the name implies, essentially any database modifications if they aren't modifying a file's data.