Mendix Community South Africa

Details
Choosing between enumerations (enums) and master data (reference entities) for dropdowns and selectors in Mendix directly affects maintainability, flexibility, and performance of your application. In this session, we’ll guide developers, architects, and project leads through the trade-offs of using enums versus master data, helping you make data-model decisions that align with both short-term deadlines and long-term scalability.

We’ll explore:

• The conceptual difference: enums as design-time, code-defined lists versus master data as runtime-editable entities
• How each approach impacts deployments
• Performance considerations when loading static enums versus querying reference entities
• Real-world scenarios: when a small, unchanging list makes enums ideal, and when business-driven lists call for master data
• Best practices for modifying, and extending dropdown values without excessive maintenance overhead
• A live demo showing the benefits of both

Agenda
8:30 Welcome and coffee
9:00 Talk
9:45 Coffee & socials

Location
272 West Ave, Centurion, Gauteng

About Mendix Meetups
The Mendix Community Meetups are about meeting other makers, knowledge sharing, and learning something new.
The content of the meetups are not about:

• Sales
• Marketing
• Recruitment

To learn more about the meetups or if you want to organize your own meetup, contact the Community Team at community at Mendix dot com.

Event-driven architecture (EDA) promises flexibility, scalability, and real-time responsiveness—but it also comes with its own set of challenges and trade-offs. In this insightful and candid session, Nico Mouton takes us on a journey through the highs and lows of implementing EDA in real-world Mendix applications.

From the elegance of loosely coupled systems to the chaos of debugging asynchronous flows, Nico unpacks the good, the bad, and the downright ugly of event-driven design. He’ll explore how Mendix developers can harness EDA to build responsive, scalable apps—while avoiding common pitfalls like event storms, data inconsistency, and spaghetti logic.

Agenda
8:30 Welcome and coffee
9:00 Talk
9:40 Coffee & socials

Location
TBA

About Mendix Meetups
The Mendix Community Meetups are about meeting other makers, knowledge sharing, and learning something new.
The content of the meetups are not about:

• Sales
• Marketing
• Recruitment

To learn more about the meetups or if you want to organize your own meetup, contact the Community Team at community at Mendix dot com.

Description
What changes when a Mendix app runs in infrastructure you control? This talk traces the journey from first principles—what “private cloud” means and why teams choose it—through the nuts-and-bolts of running Mendix on an Azure AKS cluster. We’ll stay high-level, surfacing the decisions you’ll face rather than prescribing a single path.

What we'll explore:

• Clarifying private-cloud drivers: security, compliance, data sovereignty, isolation.
• Where Mendix Public Cloud hands you speed, and where a private cluster hands you control.
• The building blocks that turn AKS into a Mendix landing zone: Operator, Gateway, ingress, storage, and registries.
• From Studio Pro to Kubernetes: how packages move, what Helm does behind the scenes, and where GitOps or CI/CD can slot in.
• Operating day-to-day: monitoring, logging, scaling, and backups—with a live metrics demo to show what’s possible beyond Public Cloud dashboards.
• Common first-deployment pitfalls and the guardrails that prevent them without over-engineering.

Walk away with a mental map of the terrain, a shortlist of trade-offs to discuss with your platform team, and the confidence to start prototyping Mendix in your own AKS cluster.

Agenda
8:30 Welcome and coffee
9:00 Talk
9:40 Coffee & socials

Location
TBA

About Mendix Meetups
The Mendix Community Meetups are about meeting other makers, knowledge sharing, and learning something new.
The content of the meetups are not about:

• Sales
• Marketing
• Recruitment

To learn more about the meetups or if you want to organize your own meetup, contact the Community Team at community at Mendix dot com.

Full Title
AI as a Collaborator, Not a Feature: How Mendix’s Maia Brings AI Into Your Development Process

Description
In modern application development, AI is no longer just a futuristic buzzword — it's becoming an everyday partner in how we build. With Mendix’s built-in AI assistant, Maia, developers can now accelerate design, logic creation, and troubleshooting directly inside the Studio Pro environment.
This session is tailored for Mendix developers, architects, and team leads who want to understand how to effectively leverage Maia to improve productivity, reduce friction, and elevate app quality during development.
We’ll explore:

• What Maia is and how it fits into the Mendix ecosystem
• Real examples of using Maia to write microflows, generate expressions, and model domain logic
• Limitations and considerations: where human oversight still matters
• How Maia shifts the developer's role from task executor to solution architect
• Strategies for prompt design and iterating with Maia for better results
• A live demo showcasing Maia assisting with real development tasks

Whether you’re new to Mendix or leading a seasoned team, this session will help you rethink how AI can support your development workflow — not as a novelty, but as a powerful collaborator.

Agenda
8:30 Welcome and coffee
9:00 Talk
9:40 Coffee & socials

Location
Comotion's offices: First Floor, De Ville Shopping Centre, 36 Main road, Durbanville 7550

About Mendix Meetups
The Mendix Community Meetups are about meeting other makers, knowledge sharing, and learning something new.
The content of the meetups are not about:

• Sales
• Marketing
• Recruitment

To learn more about the meetups or if you want to organize your own meetup, contact the Community Team at community at Mendix dot com.