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I got the opportunity to attend an offsite event organized by a client. We learned and shared our experiences, our problems, with the motive of finding a way to work more effectively together, be it technical or process related.There were posters of superhero movies with our faces morphed on it.

Devcon, a developer conference is a platform where you and your colleagues can share knowledge with like-minded IT specialists. The focus is on trends and the latest software development technologies. Multiple technical are presented by renowned international and national speakers who also share the

So, I recently finished a course about Kubernetes (and Docker and Google Cloud): Scalable Microservices with Kubernetes. Unfortunately, it's only been a couple of days since then, and I'm already not exactly sure about what I learned.

The past week we visited Elasticon 2018 in San Francisco. In our previous blog post we wrote about the Keynote and some of the more interesting new features of the elastic stack. In this blog post, we take one of the cool new products for a spin: Canvas.

At Luminis Arnhem we are currently working together with Nedap on the MACE project, a prototype implementation of a site access control system. In the MACE scenario, the users can access a physical location/open a door using a digital identity card on their mobile device.

Kafka Streams is a lightweight library that reads from a Kafka topic, does some processing and writes back to a Kafka topic. It processes messages one by one but is also able to keep some state. Because it leverages the mechanics of Kafka consumer groups, scaling out is easy.