Currently on my mind

Gamification is a word I hear all around currently, and I like it. For me personally taking everything far too serious gamification is a great tool to stay in balance with my stress. Hopefully it will help me last a few more years :-). In services I use I also like gamification, who doesn't want a fun user experience showing there is some thinking and depth behind. Fun doesn't mean non-professional as it used to when I was a kid - meeting greyish robot-like-people at the bank or watching the news. But what about your own company, could it gain from introducing a little more gamification? Will it make people more engaged and involved? Currently I hear about several companies introducing loyalty programs for their employees. As an employee you will earn loyalty points based on your actions and your result (I assume it's based on your team/group result so it doesn't make a nursery for individualism on behalf of creating together). I guess it will be used both as...

      We all start there, with the famous Monolith Architecture. Why? Because it’s easy, it’s fast, it suits our needs just fine. Remember the first rule when distributing your systems – “Do NOT distribute your systems”, until you need it, then “Do NOT distribute your systems”, unless you really really really need it. So the Monolith is the perfect start for any start-up and can suit your need for a very long time, potentially forever.   So why bother understanding what Microservices is all about? There might come a day, when you feel you grow out of your Monolith. The size of your organization has grown quite a lot, your dev department is getting bigger, perhaps dev centers separated geographically. All you know is that growth is the only thing that will stay stable for the near future. Sooner or later I think you will start to see the typical signs of you outgrowing your Monolith (if not – congratulations, please tell me and the world how you did it); You s...

Finally it's time for Netlight Edge Conference 2015. Next weekend in Munich it will be a fact, hosted by our local Munich office.  I love the day since it gives me time to reflect and goes perfectly hand-in-hand with my own personal purpose of being part of creating the digital future we all live in together with other talented and passionate people - how we travel, how we communicate, how we amuse ourselves, how we grow and develop - in other words how we live our lives. This day we're spending with all of our offices and our clients, our friends - together we really make a difference. Full schedule see http://www.edge-conference.info/ Highly interesting topics of the day are Welcome Your Hosts: Sanna Cedergren, Dominik Habersack, Mandus Engman How wearable technologies and innovations will shape the future of mobile payments Jörn Leongrande, Executive Vice President Mobile Services at Wirecard AG Use of big data in the transformation of B...

Edge Academy takes place all over Netlight - our own intimate technology festival that for many of us is the true highlight of the year. As always the program with all the highly current and engaging sessions are stunning, a fantastic smorgosbord ready to be served. To the question "what does Netlight do?" the program of Edge Academy, see below, will serve as an answer better than many others. As always, as a genuine consultants we do what is important to our clients and what is hard and challenges ourselves. Edge Academy is made by us consultants, for us consultants. Based on our shared engagement in ourselves, in each other and in our clients.  Out of "We serve nothing but provide everything" and " Boid in Control " we get Edge Academy. http://academy.netlight.com/ Monday Architecture and Object Oriented Design With Solid Principles and Onion Architecture (Sth) Azure Services Overview With Real Life Examples (Sth...