PinnedWhat leaders can do if your team culture and values are in flux.Rapid response when your values are at risk — We have a very diverse team in terms of gender, color, age and nationalities which we are very proud of and know about the importance of our values to keep this team performing without any hassles. It happened during a virtual retrospective, where one of our team members has put…Leadership3 min read
PinnedHiring Strategies for scaling start-upsI used to be in a position where I took over a position as a CTO with a team of 6 people. The vision for the company was clear: Growth and build a Platform. I had a look at our current staffing which was based on a feature team with…Scaling3 min read
PinnedEvolutionary architecture during M&ADuring my time as a CTO in a growing med-tech start-up, I have experienced a couple of situations, which led to certain team setup and architectural decisions. I can’t say, they were all right, but I want to share my key learnings from those situations. If you face yourself within…Engineering Management3 min read
Published in ITNEXT·Jan 29, 2021Use Puppeteer and Nodejs to take screenshots and PDFs — as a ServiceDid you ever thought of a simple solution to create screenshots programmatically? — As a developer I wanted to create a simple service which creates dynamic websites and have them easily sharable via screenshots and PDF. …API4 min read
Published in ITNEXT·Jan 2, 2021React-static app testing with Cypress — Tutorial Part IVAs we now have a beautiful but simple app in place, we want to add some content to it and test it, whenever we receive a new pull request. We’ll also remove the old progress page for a News area. Content We’ll make use of react-statics feature to get content during…React Static9 min read
Published in ITNEXT·Dec 17, 2020React-static PWA — Tutorial Part III03 React-Static-PWA As we now have an App and Continuous Deployment in place, we want to improve our app by adding PWA Capabilities. …Progressive Web App8 min read
Published in ITNEXT·Dec 17, 2020React-static app deployment and CI — Tutorial Part II02 React-Static-App with Firebase and CI As we have our finished app ready to be deployed, we will deploy it to firebase with Continuous Integration (CI) from Github and also create preview branches whenever we create a Pull Request, that we can verify the latest changes. Firebase setup Create a free Firebase…Firebase4 min read
Published in ITNEXT·Dec 15, 2020Bootstrap your App with react-static and grommet — Tutorial Part I01 React-Static-App This is the first part of a series to kickstart your app development for your company or project with react-static and for the UI, it uses grommet. Later in this series, we will deploy the App to Firebase, add CI to have each commit directly published on our target environment…Development8 min read
Published in ITNEXT·Nov 4, 2020Event driven updates with Firebase Functions triggered from Firestore updatesImage a typical scenario, where a User would initiate an Action from the Frontend which would trigger an update on an administrative data set. Of course, you could do the update straight ahead within the operation but could lead to longer operation time or even cause errors. It should be…Firebase Cloud Functions2 min read
Published in ITNEXT·Sep 10, 2020Getting Code Coverage through integration Tests in NodeAbout 2 years ago I started a project which I had to rapidly develop due to time constraints. The project itself went from a CLI tool backed by a file db into a web app with an API powered backend but still a file db. …Nodejs2 min read
