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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...

Boid is a legendary AI program from the 80ies. It is about emergent systems, i.e. self-organising organisations, where the whole is greater that the individuals, but the individuals are in command. Boid is short for “bird-oid”, i.e. bird robot, and simulates bird flocks. In a flock every boid decides which direction to take based on simple principle guidelines. Every boid is also paying attention to the group and thereby something greater emerges. One boid can get the entire flock to change direction, but no boid is leading the group. One boid or several might be at the front pointing out the direction, but they can also retire into to group and the group decides whether they follow or not. If no boid was flying the flock wouldn’t get anywhere. If all boids were flying independently of each other, they would be alone. If no boid took the lead the flock would eventually crash. In Command is an encouragement to everyone to take command to handle every situation yourselves. Becaus...