Online secondhand clothing is the fashion industry’s hottest trend
Fast fashion has revolutionized our approach to shopping. Since we can get a new T-shirt for the price of a McDonald’s sandwich, we get rid of worn-out clothes and quickly replace them with new ones. However, the low price of a T-shirt has a hidden cost. Cheap clothes can destroy our planet and our health. […]
July 4, 2022
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Data & Platforms
How to save 500 person-days per year using Intelligent Document Processing
Quick call-back: Cloudflight AI Patterns We have observed that many already see Artificial Intelligence as a key technology. However, the actual use in companies or the implementation projects currently started or planned do not yet reflect this. Reasons often cited are budgets or lack of time, which is a one-sided view and does not take […]
June 28, 2022
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Testing & Quality
Cypress testing enhanced by Cucumber
In the previous post, I introduced you to the basics of Cypress. It owes a part of its popularity to customization possibilities that can improve the overall development and testing experience. One of my favorite tricks is enhancing Cypress with Cucumber. It closes the gap between technical and business people involved in the project and […]
June 27, 2022
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Testing & Quality
Run, Cypress, run!
Testing with Cypress is fun – let’s start from there. The tool itself is modern, fast, and reliable. It has comprehensive documentation and was built to cover most of the pain points other automation tools of the past had. It’s open-sourced and with all that in mind, it’s understandable why Cypress is a popular choice, […]
June 27, 2022
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Data & Platforms
Hibernate Optimistic locking with Spring Boot
Optimistic locking is a concept to avoid concurrent changes on the same data. To be more precise: It’s not about preventing concurrent changes (this would be pessimistic locking), but to allow and detect those changes happening at the same time and avoid concurrent modification. There are several articles out dealing with this topic. Some examples […]
June 21, 2022
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Strategy & Transformation
From commodity to individual – successful differentiation of AI projects
AI as a game changer in industry – forward-looking, autonomous, strategic New, intelligent AI applications are more in demand than ever for digital business models and processes in German companies. Text, pattern and speech recognition of data, as well as image & video recognition, among others, are playing an increasingly important role. Especially the evaluation […]
June 21, 2022
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Commerce & Customer Experience
New technologies in the FMCG industry and how to implement them
Technology ages like milk. Simply put, they don’t age well. That’s why the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) industry is at the forefront of innovation by discovering new solutions and applying them in business. All across the market, we can see examples of digital transformation aiming to optimize business and outmaneuver the competition. You can benefit […]
June 16, 2022
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Commerce & Customer Experience
5 tried-and-tested eCommerce platforms for fashion
Do you know what industry was dealt the heaviest blow during the COVID-19 pandemic? You guessed it. It’s the fashion industry. Clothing production in Europe decreased by 37% in 2020, and sales fell by 43% compared to 2019. Sounds catastrophic, doesn’t it? The effects of the pandemic didn’t affect all fashion businesses to the same […]
June 9, 2022
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Backend & Architecture
How to track changes, stay agile and sane at the same time
The Intro Welcome! If you are a software developer you might have encountered similar feats to what I am about to describe. Maybe you wondered if you really found the best solution. I will put code (SQL, Kotlin) only in the chapter about The Fight. In case you do not feed computers with commands for […]