This post is an introduction to Serverless computing - often called Functions-as-a-Service. I will explain, why this is indeed the Hot-Stuff(tm) and introduce you to AWS Lambda. We will build a completely serverless application that exposes 'Hello World' as a Lambda...
What up! Since we recently had a Code&Play on Smart Contract development with Ethereum it was about time to move the tests for our lottery contract to the truffle development framework structure. And since we are hipster coders, we additionally configured Travis...
So, last week I visited the IoT Tech Expo Europe in Berlin[1]. The conference was running for two days offering a wide range of all kinds of IoT stuff - socializing time with a nice, cold beer included. To be more specific there were 3 main focus areas: IoT:...
Null is sometimes considered the billion dollar mistake. One could argue about this forever, but certainly, null has lead to a lot of awful code. Most functional programming languages offer a concept called Option or Maybe to deal with the presence or absence of a...
Java 9 is on it's way and with it - maybe - Project Jigsaw. Project Jigsaw adds modularization to Java, which will change the way we write Java code. The recent public review ballot for JSR #376 (the Java Platform Module System, or JPMS for short) however produced a...
This post explores Terraform from a beginner's perspective. We'll look at the problem Terraform solves and what it's distinct features are. By using some rather simple examples we'll get a good feeling of how to use it in real life. We will build a running EC2...
In the last couple of years different companies tried different means for improving company culture.We at Senacor face basically the same challenges as non-consulting companies.Meaning: too much to do and not enough time to play, learn, innovate. So, in 2016 we tried...