Trends

Accessibility

Accessibility is too expensive, prevents a fancy design and supports only a small group of users? If you're working in software development and your focus is on web accessibility you're probably only too familiar with this kind of prejudices. We advocate a different approach and show why investments in accessibility pay off eventually. Because by focusing on the users, it creates the foundation for a better user experience and thus for successful software products. (Microsite in German)

Cloud Migration

Cloud migration is the process of moving workloads, data, applications, and processes to a cloud environment. In most cases, resources are moved from an on-premises data center to a cloud vendor. Sometimes the shift is from one cloud provider to another. The reasons for this are manifold. Some companies hope for reduced costs, some for more flexibility, and sometimes regulations force you to use more than one cloud provider. From Legacy to Cloud Native: We compiled what needs consideration.

Data Mesh

Many organizations have invested in a central data lake and a data team with the expectation to drive their business based on data. However, after a few initial quick wins, they notice that the central data team often becomes a bottleneck. Is Data Mesh the better approach?

MLOps

Too often "like in the wild 80s": In Machine Learning applications, deployment and operations are broken over the knee. However, this does not have to be the norm! On our topic page, we summarize everything that needs to be considered when deploying and operating Machine Learning systems.

Self-contained Systems

An architecture that focuses on a separation of the functionality into many independent systems, making the complete logical system a collaboration of many smaller software systems. This avoids the problem of large monoliths that grow constantly and eventually become unmaintainable. Over the past few years, we have seen its benefits in many mid-sized and large-scale projects.

Service Mesh

A service mesh is a dedicated infrastructure layer that adds features to a network between services. It allows to control traffic and gain insights throughout the system. Is it the indispensable infrastructure for a landscape of Microservices?