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Is Platform Engineering the new DevOps?

When companies transition to the cloud, they anticipate an improved developer workflow, shorter release cycles, and more robust end-to-end team responsibility. However, even after the admin team delivers the new platform with all its capabilities, software teams may hesitate to adopt it and assume responsibility. But why? Is it not every developer’s desire to control the process from committing code to deploying it to production? One possible explanation is a lack of emphasis on the developer experience during platform conceptualization. This article aims to identify common issues and explore whether platform engineering can help to address them.

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Willkommen im Himmel

Der Weg in die Cloud ist für Unternehmen mit einer existierenden IT-Infrastruktur nach wie vor mit viel Skepsis verbunden. Neben Fragen zu Sicherheit und Datenschutz steht auch meist im Raum: Bringt die Nutzung der Cloud auch einen Mehrwert für das Unternehmen, für das Produkt und für diejenigen, welche an dessen Lebenszyklus (Design, Entwicklung, Betrieb etc.) beteiligt sind? Neben der Bereitstellung von Rechenkapazität bieten die „Big 3“ (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure) Dienste und Produkte an, welche genau diesen Mehrwert schaffen können. Der nachfolgende Artikel soll dazu ermutigen, diese Dienste zu nutzen, um den meisten Profit aus der Cloud ziehen zu können.

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Concise Documentation – Revisited

The Architecture Communication Canvas

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Paradoxical Safety

Psychologische Sicherheit ist ein heikles Konzept. Einerseits ist es in aller Munde und jeder dieser Münder hat eine Meinung dazu. Andererseits ist es praktisch sehr schwer zu realisieren. Ein Aspekt, der in Hinsicht auf psychologische Sicherheit schief laufen kann und wie man mit diesem umgehen kann, soll hier beleuchtet werden.

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Remote Mob Programming

The entire team is sitting in an online meeting and developing software together. One person types the code while the others discuss. Sound strange? That is remote mob programming, an exciting style of work for distributed teams. Read on to learn what it’s all about and which advantages and disadvantages you can expect.

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What is a Data Product?
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Improve your CSP with Style Nonces in Angular 16

What to do, to enable your Angular application to use style-src: nonce in a CSP for stricter security rules

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A natural language calculator

In my prior post I’ve written about how to run a chat with a large-language-model on your PC. This time I want to focus on scripting this with Node.js and letting the AI- and the “normal”-world interact with each other.

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Safety, Energieeffizienz und User Experience

Standardisierte Qualitätsattribute von Softwaresystemen

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Accessibility on the Web Part 2

Not just the structure and technology of a web application can be designed for superior accessibility, so can its content. An example demonstrates how this is done.

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Retrospektiven - Teil 7

Wir schließen den Kreis mit einigen Tipps zur Facilitation von Retrospektiven.

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How we cut our website’s carbon emissions in half

Decarbonising innoq.com

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Retrospektiven - Teil 6

Diese Blogpost-Serie fasst meine Erfahrung als Facilitator mit mehreren Remote-Teams in Software-Projekten über eineinhalb Jahre zusammen. Ich stelle Ihnen meine Grundsätze und alle Formate vor, die ich bislang entwickelt habe.

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Does BI Software Make Sense for Development Teams?

Time is a valuable asset, and it is easily consumed by the analysis and preparation of data. In other words, there may be good reason to come to grips with BI software.

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Accessibility on the Web Part 1

Creating a Web Application

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Retrospektiven - Teil 5

Diese Blogpost-Serie fasst meine Erfahrung als Facilitator mit mehreren Remote-Teams in Software-Projekten über eineinhalb Jahre zusammen. Ich stelle Ihnen meine Grundsätze und alle Formate vor, die ich bislang entwickelt habe. Hier kommt nichts von der Stange. Versprochen.

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Was ist ein Data Contract?

Ein Data Contract definiert die Struktur, das Format, die Semantik, die Qualität und die Nutzungsbedingungen für den Datenaustausch zwischen einem Datenanbieter und seinen Konsumenten. Es ist damit ein zentrales Werkzeug, damit sich Teams über Daten-Schnittstellen verständigen können und somit Stabilität, Datenqualität und Nachvollziehbarkeit in der Datenarchitektur gewährleisten.

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Clientseitige Speichertechnologien im Browser
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AI Tools in Business Environments

Currently, the importance of AI tools is growing at a breathtaking pace and has also gained importance in the general public. More and more companies and organizations are relying on the advantages of artificial intelligence to improve their processes, increase their productivity, or better serve their customers. AI tools are able to reliably analyze data, recognize patterns, and make predictions that can already surpass human abilities in some areas. This makes them a valuable tool for optimizing business processes and developing innovative products and services. It’s no wonder that the demand for AI tools has exponentially increased in recent years and will continue to grow.

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Build an internal development platform

We are currently breaking down our software into smaller pieces, such as SCS or microservices, and deploying them on cloud platforms to take advantage of their elasticity and flexibility. However, as our technology stack grows more complex, it has become increasingly challenging for our development teams to focus on business goals while also meeting operational requirements. In order to streamline the development process and provide easy self-service options, we are exploring the implementation of an internal development platform. To address these challenges, we have identified several open-source projects that can be integrated into our platform to enhance the development experience. Although this list is not exhaustive, it provides a solid foundation for creating a more effective platform. Our aim is to help development teams stay focused on business goals by minimising distractions and addressing operational needs.

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Retrospektiven - Teil 4

Freie Fragen & 5 Why

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Evolving software like an orchardist

Software systems are usually larger, overgrown structures that developers need to bring back into shape after some time. However, creating an overview of the sprawling conglomerate of software components is challenging, let alone developing a clear plan for moving on. This blog post uses analogies from pruning apple trees to show developers how to evolve their software systems using a value-based approach.

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Drawers for Product Owners

The duties of the Product Owner role are a regular topic of discussion. Because the role is understood in a variety of different ways, new and different terms are regularly encountered. It is time to take a different view that considers the relevant context.

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Retrospektiven - Teil 3

#3 - Universelle Kategorien

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Retrospektiven - Teil 2

Diese Blogpost-Serie fasst meine Erfahrung als Facilitator mit mehreren Remote-Teams in Software-Projekten über eineinhalb Jahre zusammen. Ich stelle Ihnen meine Grundsätze und alle Formate vor, die ich bislang entwickelt habe.