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Directed Speed (a.k.a Velocity) - Product Development

Velocity is an established term within Agile teams, however not fully understood, with different pitfalls. Velocity requires consistent and concrete targets.

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Deploying your Docker Container via Azure DevOps to Azure Cloud

Starting on a new side-project, I decided to go with the full Azure experience. AzureDevOps has become a daily tool for me and in addition I always containerize my applications (no more version,

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Sharing Business Logic between Services while maintaining Atomicity

Recently I was comfronted with an interesting case. How do you call multiple Services (stateless) from 1 controller while maintaning atomicity of the transactions? Overview In most of my projects, I emply the

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Lazy Load iFrames

Since 02-March-2019 I am mainting this blog post "Track of the Day", which as you have guessed, I post 1 track every day. At first this was no big deal, however

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Zima Blue 💙❌🤖

Recently Netflix released its unique anthology title "Love, Death and Robots". It was a total of 18 different styled and themed short animations, providing a feast for your eyes and mind.

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Setting up an online PopUp Store - Part 2 - It's all about costs

On the previous post we discussed the general approach and tactics around setting up and selling the products. As many have mentioned in different social media (Reddit, Indiechakers, Twitter) the key is low

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Setting up an online PopUp Store - Part 1

We are setting up an online pop-up store. But before that we do some math, explore ad tactics and more!

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Launching a product? The pyramid leading to its success

For the past 4 years I have been following the makers, startups and so on communities that launch products in success or not. I have no concrete data and all my conclusions are based on empirical data. I have generated a pyramid, outlining the 3 different aspects that can result in success.

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3 Project development fallacies that we make.

I came across this comic from Toggl in which it shows the creation of earth from the point of view of a Programmer. I will be adding the comic at the bottom. While

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Freestyler Arose from the Grave for YUGO?

My main source of new music is still youtube. Their algorithm sometimes takes you down a weird rabbit hole that many times creates an amazing journey with a treat in each step. Recently,

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Track of the Day 🎵❤️

Daily listing of favorite music track for each day of life.

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HONDA e Prototype - Urban Car

We got the first look on the Honda EV Concept car back in the end of 2017. It quickly became one of the most talked concept cars. However, how did it last the

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The Factory Berlin, a review from an old member.

Factory Berlin is an international community of innovators – the brightest minds from tech, politics, art, and science together into one collaborative ecosystem. If you are familiar with the Factory of the old, jump

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Why Tech Recruiting Sucks or Why do I keep answering what is a SQL Inner Join

It is a fascinating year, with a lot of progress in multiple sectors, AI, electric cars, Smarter cities and almost having a plant on the Moon. However, bluetooth connectivity and tech recruitment have

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moovoo

Why Moovoo? Why not Netflix or Mubi?

We live in the age where content is everywhere and available to us anytime. You can choose from Netflix, AmazonPrime, Hulu, Mubi and so many more services to give you content. The problem

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startups

I was asked, how to setup a web app fast?

Setting up a whole new project, requires quite a few steps such as domain, host, code, user communication, tracking, design. It might seem like an extensive list but that is until you know which tool to use and how to combine them.

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Why companies like Uber give Credit Cards?

You have been using your airline issued credit card for the past few years because it gives you back free miles. However you dont use it just to purchase tickets for yourself, maybe

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How to Setup a Company in Germany for English Speaking People.

Setting up a company may appear tricky not only for foreigners but for natives as well, in almost every country. A quick google search of “How to setup a company in Germany” yields

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The Data Sharing Economy 🌑

In the past few years, our economy has greatly shifted towards a Sharing economy.It is now common to share our flats, cars or bicycles.

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