Blog & Articles

Rich code documentation with Jekyll

Static site generation is a perfect fit for publishing documentation. In a recent project, we chose to use a combination of Jekyll and NGINX to build and host the documentation. In this post, I show how to process and include other types of assets.

Code knows no gender

Girls’Day - Braucht man den eigentlich noch? Immerhin stehen Mädchen heute zwecks Berufswahl eine Vielzahl an Informationsquellen zur Verfügung: von zahlreichen Internetseiten, über Podcasts bis hin zu Vorbildern im persönlichen Umfeld. Ein Blick auf die Zahlen in unserer Branche aber verrät: Ja, den brauchen wir. Denn nur 25 Prozent aller Informatikstudierenden sind weiblich. Da liegt die Vermutung nahe, dass es mehr Aufklärung, Information und auch ein wenig Werbung bedarf, um mehr Mädchen für die Softwareentwicklung zu begeistern. Wie wir den Tag in Hamburg gestaltet haben, was wir gemeinsam mit den Girls erreicht haben und die eine oder andere lesson learned – darum geht’s in diesem Blogpost.

Customer-specific documentation with Jekyll

Was macht ein Trainee bei INNOQ?

Ein halbes Jahr lang lernte ich INNOQ kennen und bin nun fest angestellt. Dies ist ein Artikel über meine Trainee-Zeit und was ich dabei alles gelernt und umgesetzt habe, weil mir Verantwortung dafür gegeben wurde. Dieser Artikel handelt auch davon, welche Chancen INNOQ für jeden Menschen bereithält, wenn man sie nutzt. Überzeug Dich selbst, warum.

Data Mesh: Decentralized Data Analytics for Software Engineers

The decentralized data architecture approach Data Mesh is designed to enable developers to independently perform cross-domain data analysis.

Querying DNS and LDAP Using JNDI

What Is JNDI Actually?

TypeScript – Taming the Complexity of JavaScript

TypeScript celebrates its tenth anniversary in 2022. A good reason to look back at its beginnings – and to provide beginners with everything they need to know for working with this programming language.

INNOQ and Family

Is it possible to successfully combine a family and a consulting career? Here at INNOQ we think so. Three of our employees report on how and why this works well.

Continuous Deployment mit GitOps

Next Please!

Despite modern multicore processors, website code usually runs in only one thread. True parallelism therefore does not exist, but a clever programming model still allows “asynchronous” code that is not processed linearly.

Managing Kubernetes Resources with Kustomize

Helm is the de-facto standard for managing groups of Kubernetes resources that belong to an application as a package. It comes with its own ecosystem to build, configure and distribute these packages. In some cases, this is an appropriate approach but sometimes we just want to manage our resources as yaml files and need a simple way to slightly modify the resources for different environments. In this article we will have a look at how Kustomize can help us with this.

Fairness and Artificial Intelligence

Why Metrics Are Not Enough

Processing JSON in Java

In contrast to many other programming languages, JDK for Java does not provide an out-of-the-box solution for the reading and writing of data in JavaScript Object Notation (JSON). So we have to find a suitable library for performing this task. In this article we therefore look at a selection of appropriate libraries.

CORS extension “Private Network Access”

Chrome rolled out the “Private Network Access” extension for its CORS handling. Let’s try to understand the why and how this is affecting us.

Eine kleine Geschichte über Qualität…

…die entfernt auch mit Software zu tun hat

Ethics and Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence is forcing its way into many fields of application. Now it is important that it works in a responsible, secure, and transparent way. The regulation of AI systems is a legal, societal, and technical topic that demands broad awareness and that will become increasingly important in the years to come.

Principles of technical documentation

This article collects fundamental requirements for technical documentation, especially software architecture documentation, together with ideas how to satisfy those.

Libraries for command-line applications

Processing arguments and options in Java

Awesome presentations deserve beautiful code

Occasionally we need to put parts of our source code onto slides for presentations. The common presentation programs (such as PowerPoint or Keynote) fail miserably at this task because they interpret code as normal text. Syntax highlighting is lost, as are indentations. It looks lousy, and it’s no fun. This post introduces carbon.now.sh, a quick and free solution, created by the awesome people from @carbon_app.

MLOps and Model Governance

MLOps and model governance are often viewed as separate processes. And yet they rely heavily on one another. In this article we therefore propose the integration of these frameworks and explain the most important principles and technical components of MLOps and ML model governance.

Cloud Security

Wie schaffe ich Sicherheit in einer Cloud-Umgebung?

Iterierst du noch, oder streamst du schon?

Worin unterscheiden sich Streams und Iteratoren in Java? Man sollte denken, dass beide Ansätze dafür gedacht sind, Dinge wiederholt auszuführen, und dass Streams nur eine komfortablere Art und Weise sind, den Algorithmus auszudrücken. Die beiden APIs unterscheiden sich aber in mancher Hinsicht. Ziel dieses Artikels ist es, die beiden Ansätze zu vergleichen – zum einen mit Blick auf die Ergonomie eines Beispiels, zum anderen auf funktionale Unterschiede bei der Parallelisierung und Mutabilität.

A Comparison of Java HTTP Clients

In addition to databases, communication via HTTP to other services is nowadays found in almost every project. A large number of libraries have been built within Java that can be used for this purpose. In this article we will take a closer look at four of these candidates and see in which aspects they differ from one another.

Authoring Markdown with Zotero - My Workflow

Combining simple writing with powerful references

Die ökonomischen Vorteile von User Experience Design

Eine positive User Experience erreicht niemand auf Anhieb. Doch es lassen sich schon durch wenige einfache Maßnahmen enorme ökonomische Vorteile erzielen.