Commerce & Customer Experience

3 steps for optimizing operating costs in retail

Like any retail business owner, you understand the importance of optimizing the operating costs of your store and freeing up capital that can be used to develop your venture further. The tricky part is knowing how to optimize operating costs without passing the expense onto your customers. First off, what exactly are operating costs? Simply […]

August 22, 2022

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Strategy & Transformation

How trade fairs change

Every year, around 160-180 national and international trade fairs take place in Germany alone — and the number excludes regional events. Up to 2020, the headcount estimation lied around 180,000 exhibitors and ten million visitors every year. This year, with around 297 trade shows, many of the trade shows postponed to 2021 will take place, […]

August 18, 2022

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Frontend & Mobile

Food for Thought: Why is Rxjs unreadable?

RxJS has become quite popular in the frontend field, and a lot of people use it in combination with React and VueJS. Nonetheless, fully diving into the reactive approach of RxJS can yield a lot of unreadable code. Let’s explore why that is the case. RxJS has the concept of an observable, which gives us […]

August 16, 2022

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Strategy & Transformation

Bridging the gap between the online and offline parts of a store

This time, we gathered speakers who have comprehensive experience in retail. They shared their insights on how technology and innovative concepts can embrace the omnichannel experience and drive the company’s overall growth. Innovative eCommerce in retail speakers: Natalia Tokarz, a product owner of the CCC mobile app, coordinates mobile commerce development from networking and […]

August 9, 2022

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Data & Platforms

Data platforms in the Cloud – Focus on the use case teams!

If one had to describe the current hustle and bustle of the digital and IT teams of many medium-sized and large companies in a short statement, it would probably read something like: “Data & API Platforms all over the place! And that is good and right. Because with these platforms, companies can perform several important […]

August 8, 2022

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Close-up view of a modern building facade with angled, overlapping metal beams and glass windows, creating a geometric, abstract pattern—reminiscent of the clean lines and structural clarity found in well-designed software architecture using Java and ArchUnit.
Testing & Quality

An introduction to ArchUnit

In our day-to-day project work we write Unit Tests, Integration Test, etc. to test our business functionality. But what if we could apply the same principles to test our architecture? That is where ArchUnit comes into the picture. ArchUnit is a Java testing library which lets us make assertions on our code’s structure, relationships and […]

August 8, 2022

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Testing & Quality

On Testing

I have seen strong obsession with terminologies when it comes to testing, like integration tests versus unit tests, should there be mocks in unit tests and so on. Working with people who care to improve is a bliss. Nonetheless, being too focused on those concepts might not be a good idea. The essence of testing, […]

August 3, 2022

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Commerce & Customer Experience

Fashion tech companies catapult the industry into rapid growth

If you had to rate how much you care about fashion on a scale of one through 10, with one meaning it might as well not exist and 10 meaning you can’t live without it, where would you fall? Even if you couldn’t care less, you need to know that the fashion sector is one […]

July 25, 2022

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Data & Platforms

Architecture as Code using C4 + PlantUML

What is Architecture as Code? For more than 4 years I’m a big fan of Simon Brown’s C4-Model and its implementation Structurizr. In short from his homepage: The C4 model is an “abstraction-first” approach to diagramming software architecture, based upon abstractions that reflect how software architects and developers think about and build software. and about […]

July 5, 2022

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