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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 accessible web applications is possible with only a small amount of additional effort and native HTML elements. This can be demonstrated by an example application.

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Retrospektiven - Teil 5

Zerstören & Ein Tag für die Tonne

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Clientseitige Speichertechnologien im Browser

Ein kurzer Überblick über diverse Technologien zur clientseitigen Speicherung von Daten und Zustand im Browser

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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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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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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

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

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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Retrospektiven - Teil 1

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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Running an AI Chatbot on Your Own PC

Llama.cpp, gpt4all and others make it very easy to try out large language models. Here’s a short guide to trying them out under Linux or macOS.

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Why Your Team Needs Data Products
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Draw The Diff

Software developers have an idiosyncratic penchant for boxes and arrows. Back when we used to go to the office we penned them on whiteboards. Later, as the force majeure accelerated the digital transformation of our economies, we drew them online.

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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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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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Property-based Testing with “fast-check”

It isn’t exactly news that developers have to write not only code but also tests. Nevertheless, many find this to be burdensome and monotonous work. Plus, it is far from guaranteed that unit tests actually cover all the border and non-border cases. A modern approach is property-based testing, which consists of specifying an abstract condition that is then automatically checked by the test framework.

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How to Encrypt a File on the JVM
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Creating data products with Terraform on AWS

Have you heard of data mesh? Are you intrigued by its potential but uncertain how to get started building data mesh and data products? If so, this article outlines a potential approach and delves into the key concepts behind it!

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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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Modules – Microservices – Monoliths

Microservices were supposed to solve every architectural problem conceivable. Not too surprisingly, that was not the case. Now themonoliths thatwe have been developing for decades are supposed to be the solutionagain. Inthis discussion, the foundation for developing complex software systems has been forgotten: Modularization, which is far more important than the question of monoliths vs. microservices.