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Power Platform systems that hold up under real load.
I'm Duarte Clemente, a civil engineer turned Dataverse architect and founder of Simple Smooth Safe. I design and build Dataverse and Code Apps systems that keep working after the demo is over — when the data grows, the users multiply and the integrations pile up.
Most recent: a document system for a 200+ person CPA practice — more than 3 million files, 15 Dataverse entities, MVP in about a month.
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Building a 3M-File Document Management System on Power Apps Code Apps: What the SharePoint Connector Doesn't Tell You
Nearly every typed SharePoint connector action broke on the way to three million files. What broke, why, and the REST passthrough, retry policy, and business-key join that fixed it.
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When Copilot Studio is over-engineering
Copilot Studio is a suspension bridge. Most of your requirements are streams — and a form plus a flow crosses them just fine.
Recent Posts
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A layout change should not be a release
SSRS and Word templates are the two print paths Dataverse already gives you, and both fail the same load test.
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Five Gotchas That Make a Power Apps Code App Actually Run
Code Apps feel like plain React until five undocumented runtime quirks turn a working local build into a blank screen in the host.
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Graph's Convert-to-PDF Doesn't Return a PDF
Microsoft Graph's convert-to-PDF returns a 302, not a PDF — and if your HttpClient follows redirects, it leaks your bearer token.
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A Time Clock That Catches Labor Issues Before Payroll
Anyone can build a clock-in button. The real engineering is watching active shifts as they run, so a missed break is a flag today, not a payroll surprise in two weeks.