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Chief Technologist at Novatec. Opinions are my own. I like tech, software and food. Not in that particular order.

Stuttgart
Joined November 2008
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German discount grocer Lidl built their own cloud infrastructure because of German data laws, and now has a ~$2B revenue business selling it to others (a la AWS) They spent $700M acquiring an Israeli cyber security company (XM cyber)
Lidl becoming a cloud infra provider wasn’t on my 2024 bingo card.
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Nobody got fired for buying Terraform
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Teams under ZIRP: - One eng manager - One prod manager - One agile coach - One scrum master - One program manager - One product marketer - Two UX people - Three engineers Teams now: - One eng manager - One UX - Six engineers Guess who moves faster.
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🛠️ Ever dealt with glitches in your SaaS app where actions yield unexpected results? That can be a transaction isolation issue. I blogged about transaction isolation, how it works in Postgres and how to use the right isolation to build better apps: thenile.dev/blog/transaction…
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🏆 Check out the top 5 videos for November 🏆 Head over to youtube.com/DevoxxUK to give them a watch 🔸Design Patterns Revisited in Modern Java by @venkat_s 🔸Java's Hidden Gems: Tools and Libraries by @johanjanssen42 🔸Exception Handling in Functional and Reactive Programming by @venkat_s 🔸Project Loom & Kotlin: Will Coroutines become obsolete? by @urs_peter 🔸Java performance on Kubernetes by @barraganc
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Very much this ⬇️
The never-ending methodology debates are exhausting. “Agile or Waterfall? “Are we doing Scrum correctly?” “Should we use Kanban instead of Scrum?” I often wonder if the people debating these things understand the problem we are trying to solve. bdfinst.medium.com/5-minute-…
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Software development speed, matters, we want to create software quickly and efficiently, and the assumption that this comes at the expense of high-quality software or high-end software development is simply a mistake.
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Big moment for @novatecgmbh 🤗 @csh_0711 is welcoming @venkat_s as keynote speaker for out conference - Novatec Summit. I'm all excited. #wecelebrateknowledge
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🚀 Only 1 DAY until Novatec Summit 2023 - THE IT event of the year! Join us on November 9th for insights, tech trends, and networking galore. 🤝 Don't miss out, register now at novatec-gmbh.de/novatec-summ… 🌐💻 #NovatecSummit #ITConference #WeShareKnowledge #TechnologyTrends
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Only 3️⃣ days left until the #NovatecSummit! Join us on November 9th in Leinfelden-Echerdingen or online for 4 exciting tracks and a keynote speech from @venkat_s. 🙌 🔗 Register now: bit.ly/3PFkPzL #WeShareKnowledge #TechnologyTrends #Event #Networking
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For the 3rd time this year I am on the same conference agenda as one of my biggest idols - @venkat_s 🤩 So after @DevoxxUK and @Devoxx Belgium it is now the Novatec Summit - happening in a week from now - all for free! Register today!👉: novatec-gmbh.de/novatec-summ… #NovatecSummit
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Hast du schon von Docker und Kubernetes gehört? Wenn nicht, wird es höchste Zeit! 🚀 Unser Trainer @maeddes gibt einen Crashkurs in #Docker & #Kubernetes vom 21. bis 23.11.23 in Kooperation mit der #HeiseAcademy. 📝 Jetzt anmelden: bit.ly/3s7MO3d #DevOps #Training
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We have to remember that what we observe is not nature herself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning. -- Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976)
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Don't miss out on our Novatec Summit on Nov 9th, 2023! Our Track B speaker lineup is 🔥! Elevate your IT skills with captivating talks from industry experts. 🗣️ 📝 Sign up now: bit.ly/3EMAW9v #NovatecSummit #ITSkills #SpeakerLineup #ITConference #Event
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Avoid chains of synchronous calls in a microservice architecture : Self-contained service pattern bit.ly/2pyzHrt
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📢 1 month to go! Join us at Novatec Summit on November 9th, 2023! 🚀 Explore Agile Insights, UX Mastery, and Engineering Evolution. Don't miss this IT event of the year! Save the date! 🗓️ #NovatecSummit #ITConference #WeShareKnowledge #TechnologyTrends #TechCommunity
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Let's talk about the latest technology trends and methods of #SoftwareEngineering at our #NovatecSummit. 💻 In @venkat_s keynote “This Ain’t Your Parents’ Java” we'll dive into some recent changes in Java that are both fun and powerful to use. 🚀 📩 bit.ly/3PFkPzL
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Let’s do this! Join me at 11:30 in room 1811 for my talk about high-performance tems! @xpdays_de #xdde23
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