A quick REST API with microservice frameworks — For quite some time now I had the wish to checkout some of the newest and most famous web frameworks. In this article I want to take a look at DevEx for the following technologies. The Web-Frameworks I want to have a look at: Go with Gin Gonic Java with…

A practical guide on how to embrace the back-end — Motivation Have you ever interviewed or talked to someone who has three years of front-end experience and now wishes to go full-stack? The market is tough, trust me. I have seen many take on different paths from DevOps Kubernetes Certificates to Cloud Serverless Programming, but somehow most don’t end up being…

Making frontend apps manageable and independent — Motivation If you have been following the frontend community for some time, you will notice quite a lot of attention towards the term “Micro-frontend”. More and more solutions are trying to support this architectural approach. It’s about splitting a front end app up into individual and independent “micro frontend apps” that…

How Empathy and Communication will ensure your success — Motivation When it comes to newly assumed responsibility, it can often be very difficult to find the balance between leadership and collaboration. I had the pleasure to gain a lot of management experience and speak to many skilled managers about teamwork and come to the conclusion that empathy & communication is…

Developer Experience Is About Making Your Developers Happy. — Motivation Have you noticed how everyone values and focuses on great User Experience? Of course — every company wants to make sure their product delivers a great experience for their users. But what about the experience for the developers of these amazing products? I am speaking about the whole flow of the…

Why Scrum is not the golden ticket to great software development — Motivation I am sure you have heard the never-ending debates of how to organize development teams for years now. The rage is real — and it does not seem to stop. Being a technical consultant, I witness how many clients do not understand why things are not working out, although they…

Responsibilities & expectations of a technical consultant — Motivation I am sure many people in the tech industry have been asked or asking themselves a similar question. In this article I am exploring my answer to what this term stands for. Many call themselves technical because they work closely with software engineers or tech teams — but that answer…

Make sure your user interface aligns with your design guidelines — Motivation I am pretty sure you have already heard about visual regression testing at some point. My team and I try to include this important testing aspect in most our projects. This article aims to show you how we use UI testing in Cypress to run visual regression tests without any…

A guide to automated testing for React with React Testing Library, Cypress & Cucumber — Motivation The frontend is the client-side part of your application. Everything that is visible to your users is part of the frontend. To put it in other words — frontend testing is about graphical user interface (GUI) testing. So you get a better picture, if you are developing an online shopping platform, frontend…