The Zentered Blog

The latest news and other posts from Zentered.

Quill Accounting dashboard showing account balance, VAT balance, revenue and expenses chart, and upcoming accounting dates for Cyprus

Building Quill: AI-Powered Accounting for Cyprus

We built an AI-powered accounting platform tailored for Cyprus. Here is the story of what we built, how we built it, and what we learned when well-funded competitors entered the market.

Patrick Heneise

13 Mar 2026

Patrick Heneise

9 Sep 2025

Orchestrating GitHub with Terraform

Using Terraform to manage and automate GitHub repositories, teams, and permissions.

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Patrick Heneise

21 Nov 2023

Building Open Communities with GitHub

A concept for building open communities with GitHub and GitHub Actions

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Patrick Heneise

6 Oct 2023

Time Series Data with TDEngine and GraphQL

Collecting and querying time-series data from IoT devices with TDEngine and GraphQL

Patrick Heneise

25 May 2023

GitHub (Preview) Deployments with Google Cloud Platform

Create and managed GitHub Deployments and Environments with Google Cloud Build and Cloud Run

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Patrick Heneise

25 Nov 2022

Environment Variable Management with Terraform and Google Cloud Secrets Manager

Using Secrets Manager to synchronize local environment variables with Google Cloud

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Patrick Heneise

18 Jul 2022

Fastify DX and SolidJS in the Real World

SolidJS ranked #1 in the 2021 "State of JS Front-End Frameworks", so we wanted to see what the fuzz is about and tried to build a real application with it.

Patrick Heneise

1 Apr 2022

MDX 2 with Next.js and Embed Components (ESM version)

Markdown for the component era.

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Patrick Heneise

4 Mar 2022

Issue Ops Meet Event Management

An engineering approach to event management for technical user groups.

Patrick Heneise

28 Dec 2021

Authenticated requests with Vite + React 18 + Hummingbird Swift API

Setting up a React 18 Single Page Application with Vite tooling and Next.js-like routing pattern, including authentication with Auth0 and API requests.

Patrick Heneise

27 Dec 2021

Deploying a Swift API on AWS Elastic Container Service with CodePipeline

We wanted to see how to get a Swift API running on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Easier than said, we quickly realized there are a lot of different products needed in AWS, so we created a new Terraform project to consistently re-create the environment.

Patrick Heneise

30 Nov 2021

Deploying a Swift API on Google Cloud Run with Google Cloud Build

Recently we started a Swift API proof of concept and wanted to see if we can deploy the service with "the tools we know" from Node.js: continuous integration in the cloud and deployment to serverless / managed k8s platforms. TL;DR: It works! And very similar to working with Node.js services.

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Patrick Heneise

29 Nov 2021

Getting Started with Swift on Server

Swift on Server has been around for a few years now, and Swift is an interesting language to learn for mobile development. It feels quite similar to JavaScript with the new async/await features and is easily readable.

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Patrick Heneise

23 Nov 2021

Serverless v3.0.0

Cloud Native from source to production with semantic-release and conventional commits.

Jan Hagelauer

26 Oct 2021

Hardening GitHub Actions in Private Repositories

Security measures for GitHub Actions.

Patrick Heneise

22 Sep 2021

Set up an Async Fastify App with Jest

Proof of concept to test a Fastify App which uses asynchronous plugins.

Patrick Heneise

14 Jul 2021

Running a Next.js Site on Cloudflare Pages

Step by step tutorial on how to deploy your website on Cloudflare Pages.

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Patrick Heneise

24 Jun 2021

Product Docs Alongside Product Code (with Next.js)

If you have an open source project on GitHub and want a separate company or project website, a common problem to solve is: where do you version control and how do you present your docs?

Patrick Heneise

22 Aug 2020

Universal/Isomorphic Web Apps on Google Cloud Run

We'll demonstrate how to run a JavaScript application on Google Cloud run with Server Side Rendering (SSR), a global Content Delivery Network (CDN) on Google Cloud Run (fully managed).

Patrick Heneise

31 Aug 2018

Going Serverless, without serverless.

Automated deployment of serverless functions with Cloud Build.

Dmitry Zaets

14 Jun 2018

Serverless Sales Automation

How to capture and organise your customers with Typeform and Infusionsoft.

Patrick Heneise

13 Jun 2018

Our First Retreat

Our experience organizing a company retreat.

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Patrick Heneise

16 Apr 2018

GitHub Pro Tips for Projects with Multiple Repositories

GitHub Pro Tips for Projects with Multiple Repositories. A good practice when working with multiple services in the same project is to create a new repository for each service. And since GitHub changed the pricing from “per repo” to “per user”, companies were not restricted to 10 repositories any longer to save money.

Patrick Heneise

13 Apr 2018

How to manage multiple repositories

Today we’d like to share a few more helpers from our toolbox. We already shared our Makefile for Node.js Developers some time ago, these tools require the Makefile to be set up.

Patrick Heneise

23 Mar 2018

Serverless v2.0.0

serverless on steroids with semantic-release, automated continuous integration and automated deployments to Google Cloud Functions.

Patrick Heneise

13 Feb 2018

Service to Service communication with Hemera and NATS

How to increase scalability, performance and maintainability of your software.

Patrick Heneise

25 Jan 2018

Makefile for Node.js developers

Andreas Möller recently posted his Makefile for lazy developers approach for PHP developers, which motivated me to publish our Node.js Makefiles and the story how we got there.