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Why simple uptime monitoring beats complex enterprise solutions for side projects. A reflection on finding the right balance between monitoring sophistication and actual needs.
Exploring effective documentation methods in the age of AI agents: contextual code comments, minimal steps to runnable code, and decision logs for both human and AI consumption.
Custom Django website for a kindergarten with secure file sharing, efficient media delivery using nginx X-Accel-Redirect, and cost-effective hosting on Hetzner Cloud.
Let’s explore how DORA for Devs applies Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to transform dense regulatory texts into an interactive chatbot, enabling meaningful discussions within a developer context.
Bruno in the Adopt tier of the ThoughtWorks Technology Radar. The hype train has no brakes!
I tried a Postman alternative and was impressed by how easily some problems could be solved when the business model doesn’t get in the way.
Having never been truly satisfied with Docker for Desktop on macOS, I came across Orbstack through a tweet and decided to give it a try.
Over the past three years, I have enhanced Go services and mentored developers in a corporate setting. I improved performance, implemented best practices, and created blueprints for scalable development, enabling the team to deliver robust, maintainable services efficiently.
The Metaverse is largely quite unfamiliar to me. However, Gather stands out as an exception as a communication platform. At EntwicklerHeld, we used it daily, which helped to mitigate the effects of the pandemic to some extent and made remote work more bearable.
I share my experience of discovering and falling in love with Go through my first project: developing a web backend for seminar management.
Multi-faceted consulting engagement combining process analysis, DevOps training, and infrastructure implementation for S-Messenger and HaspaJoker projects, demonstrating how external expertise can drive organizational transformation.
Portfolio overview showcasing the evolution from student developer to consultant and entrepreneur across diverse projects spanning backend systems, cloud infrastructure, full-stack development, and DevOps transformations.
Frontend development of a Grafana-like visualization system for industrial sensor data, building an Angular component library with configurable widgets and dashboards for Elco Industry Automation.
Building a REST API with Django REST Framework to automate mail system provisioning through Ansible, demonstrating the power of API-driven infrastructure automation.
Consulting project analyzing and implementing proof-of-concepts for dynamic configuration reloading of Spring Boot applications in Kubernetes using ConfigMaps and Events API.
Building scalable cloud infrastructure for distributed groundwater calculations at TU Dresden using RabbitMQ, optimized worker nodes, and modern DevOps tooling.
Securing €125,000 in EXIST startup funding as co-founder, learning the critical importance of market validation and structured mentorship in the transition from student to entrepreneur.
My first Django project: extending a seminar management platform for Der Paritätische, discovering Django's powerful ORM and testing framework, and beginning the collaboration with my future EntwicklerHeld co-founders.
DevBoost project building terabyte-scale sensor data infrastructure with HBase, experiencing early Docker and cloud-native technologies, and learning the critical importance of NoSQL query pattern design.
DevBoost internship developing parameterizable UI tests with natural language composition, where I first explored frontend testing and met my future EntwicklerHeld co-founders.
Year-long BMW internship as Lead Developer for a research project bringing wearable devices to production workers, learning that stakeholder communication and simplicity often matter more than technical sophistication.
My first Go project: building a seminar management system with Johannes Tandler, transitioning from Java to Go, and learning valuable lessons about how go works.
My first job as a software developer at the EXIST-funded startup Monkey Works: implementing industrial control interfaces with OPC UA, experiencing Scrum for the first time, and learning the fundamentals of product thinking.