The Enterprise Web Library (EWL), together with its tailored infrastructure platform, is a highly opinionated foundation for web-based enterprise software.
It is bedrock in a land of relational databases, big forms, and line-of-business applications that must be maintained for ten years or more.
EWL is open-source software, released under the MIT License.
The Library
EWL is built on the .NET platform and gives you a full development stack:
Application frameworks for web applications, background processes, and background workers.
A data-access layer supporting SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, and soon PostgreSQL.
A core library that handles document manipulation, credit-card processing, email templating, and other business features.
The Platform
Automate your infrastructure while avoiding cloud vendor lock-in with the following:
A Terraform configuration that creates cloud VMs for your live server(s), build server, and test/staging servers if you need them.
The EWL System Manager, which provisions these servers and automates your builds, deployments, database migrations, backups, application monitoring, etc.
Where It Fits
Our Values
Productivity over performance and scalability: We measure performance in developer hours, not rendering milliseconds. This library is designed for the 99% of apps that are not Facebook—apps that will never need to scale beyond what a single database server can handle.
Opinionated design: We save you from a thousand inconsequential decisions so you can actually get work done.
Continuous adaptive maintenance: We follow up new features with breaking changes (and migration instructions) so that every time you upgrade, you know your app is using our best ideas. We lead you into the future instead of providing the false sense of security that is backward compatibility.