Christoph Neijenhuisincommercetools techThe heat is on: My learnings from our Engineering offsiteAt the beginning of 2020, I organized an offsite for 15 Scala Engineers. A few weeks later, our CEO asked everyone to temporarily work from…Jul 15, 2022Jul 15, 2022
Christoph Neijenhuisincommercetools techStaff and Principal Engineers: why do we need them now? (Part 2)When we designed our tech leadership track, we looked at our internal requirements and at what others in the industry are doing. Our needs…Mar 28, 20221Mar 28, 20221
Christoph Neijenhuisincommercetools techStaff and Principal Engineers: why do we need them now? (Part 1)An evolution log of how we built our Tech Leadership track, from the early stages of a ‘Tech Lead’ to introducing Staff and Principal…Mar 14, 20221Mar 14, 20221
Christoph NeijenhuisWhat F1 champ Max Verstappens driving style can teach you about leadershipMax Verstappen, the current Formula One champion, was interviewed about his driving style: “Well, I don’t think I actually have one.”Jan 16, 2022Jan 16, 2022
Christoph Neijenhuisincommercetools techBest Practices for handling API ClientsWe recently re-designed our API Client UI from scratch. In this post, I want to share best practices on handling Access Secrets, and how…Aug 20, 20181Aug 20, 20181
Christoph Neijenhuisincommercetools techWhy we’re investing in the CloudEvents specificationI’m thrilled to announce that we’ve released support for CloudEvents 0.1! The specification is an effort by the Cloud Native Computing…Aug 7, 2018Aug 7, 2018
Christoph Neijenhuisincommercetools techgzip on AWS Lambda and API Gatewaygzip is a compression format widely used over HTTP for text-based files like JSON, HTML and CSS. Depending on the repetition in your data…Nov 16, 20172Nov 16, 20172
Christoph Neijenhuisincommercetools techTakeaways from Serverless Conf NYC `17The 5th Serverless Conf took place in New York last week. It was the first one I attended (most likely not the last one, though!) and I was…Oct 18, 20171Oct 18, 20171
Christoph Neijenhuisincommercetools techCustomizing a BaaS API, ServerlessA hosted Backend-as-a-Service can be a great time- and cost-saver, because one doesn’t have to do Ops. However, unlike in a self-hosted…Feb 20, 20171Feb 20, 20171
Christoph Neijenhuisincommercetools techWebhooks: The Devil in the DetailsWebhooks seem to be such a simple solution for callbacks: Send an HTTP request. Receive an HTTP request, do something, and return 200…Dec 7, 20162Dec 7, 20162
