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Build an internal development platform
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AI Tools in Business Environments

and which also make your everyday life easier

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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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Retrospektiven - Teil 4

Freie Fragen & 5 Why

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Drawers for Product Owners

One role, different meanings

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Retrospektiven - Teil 3

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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Retrospektiven - Teil 2

#2 - Visuelle Abfragen

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Running an AI Chatbot on Your Own PC
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An Introduction to TLA+ and Its Use in Parties

TLA+ is a system for modeling all possible states of a system. On this model, you can then verify certain properties of this system. Smart people can use this to check that their thread scheduling runs all threads equally, or that their work queue will never overflow. In this article, we’ll try and verify the fraught process of ordering pizza for a pizza party as a small introduction to the concepts and syntax of TLA+.

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Retrospektiven - Teil 1

Was macht eine gute Retrospektive aus?

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Draw The Diff
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Babylon as a Feature

The Tower of Babylon is a myth meant to explain why the world’s peoples speak different languages. In modern IT systems, it’s often a requirement to support multiple languages. Such internationalization (i18n for short) is a tough challenge – and this post describes a simple solution to just the tiny part of multilingual documents. Our solution combines the simplicity of the plain-text format AsciiDoc with a simple yet versatile build script to support multiple languages (like EN and DE) and multiple output formats (like PDF and HTML).

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Assessing the Sustainability Impact of Startups

A Guide for Entrepreneurs

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Property-based Testing with “fast-check”

1000 in one blow

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How to Encrypt a File on the JVM

You’ve got a secret password and some bytes you’d like to encrypt. JVM has all the tools you need to get it done.

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Why Your Team Needs Data Products
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Creating data products with Terraform on AWS
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Tracing in verteilten Anwendungen

Nicht nur, aber auch durch die DevOps-Bewegung machen sich Teams heute neben der Fachlichkeit vermehrt Gedanken um den Betrieb ihrer Anwendungen. Ein großes Thema ist hierbei Observability, also einen Einblick in den aktuellen Zustand des Systems zu haben. In dieser Kolumne betrachten wir mit Tracing einen der drei Bereiche von Observability und lernen anhand eines konkreten Beispiels, wie wir diesen umsetzen können.

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Automated code maintenance with OpenRewrite (Part 2)
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Automated code maintenance with OpenRewrite (Part 1)
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Kustomize Enhancement with KRM Functions

For a while, Kustomize has offered the possibility to extend its functionality with plugins that can be implemented in different ways. A new way is to use KRM functions that are not proprietary and can also work with other tools.

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Round-robin coding

Code handover in mere seconds with the mob tool

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Container-Images mit Buildpacks erzeugen

Also, wat is en Buildpack? Da stelle mehr uns janz dumm

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How to use Apple Shortcuts to integrate GPT-4o in macOS and iOS

Apple Shortcuts is a powerful app that lets you create custom workflows with multiple steps using your apps and content. You can also use it to interact with web services and APIs, such as OpenAI’s Chat Completions API for GPT-4o, which can generate text completions for any prompt or task. Yup, the thing that’s behind ChatGPT.

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Blueprints

How objects work in JavaScript