Do you know how many Sushi restaurants exist in Manhattan, New York? It’s 67 in total. Try to Google it, you won’t easily find the number. Even more complicated to find a complete list of them. There are various map services out there that provide APIs to retrieve such information…

My programming journey started all the way back in 1997. It’s been over 25 years since. The first programs I made were all on Windows 95 and Windows 98. Keep in mind that at the time I was 12 years old. An age that many kids in the era started…

Imagine an app with which a user can arrange a video chat with an expert from a variety of countries. The user pays an hourly rate and the expert receives 80% of that. The app company itself will keep the difference as a fee for providing the platform. If the…

I think Java is probably one of the best programming languages to have ever existed. The Java programming language is a poster child of object oriented programming. You can build once and run it anywhere. When Java saw the light of day in the 90s, it became popular quickly. I…

I was at an evening reception in Germany together with people from the German software community, business owners, government and associations. Beside interesting discussions, I met a couple of people from organizatiojns participating in the GAIA-X initiative to build a European alternative to American cloud providers such as Google, Amazon…

Back in 2021, my cofounders and I started a business to simplify building internet booking experiences. We think that online booking for hotels and vacation rentals is broken for both consumers and producers and created LODGEA as the Shopify for hotels and vacation rentals. It includes a fully flexible geospatial…

My relationship with relational databases relates back to the late 90s. It was part of my first steps with computers and programming, became an essential part of my formal education and studies as a software engineer and constantly followed me through my professional career. I almost crawled through the entire…

The ability of AWS to provide almost infinite resources is great and you shall never consider resource constraints when building cloud native applications. However, there’s the economic factor and no one has infinite budgets. I recently reduced my company’s AWS bill for a set of accounts by 65% which is…

Last summer, I knew it was about time for a new car. I had driven gasoline powered BMWs over the years and enjoyed them a lot. My parents and my brother however switched to Tesla entirely in the past months. I was uncertain about electric cars and didn’t really know…