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Team PITAugust 13, 2024About the development of genAI assistants AskARev and Searchbuddy
18Find out (in a very special way) how the PIT team at Otto Group data.works developed the generative AI-based products AskARev and Searchbuddy.ArchitectureDevelopmentOperations
StefanieSeptember 28, 2023How to setup a Kanban board in Jira using sub columns
28In this blog post I want to share the evolution of our Kanban board in Jira and how we worked around the missing feature of sub columns.ArchitectureDevelopmentWorking methods
BirgitJuly 28, 2023Why using API Guidelines is a good idea
03Working according to a standard... really? Come on – software developers know how to build APIs. Besides, they want to stay flexible and have neither the desire nor the time to plough their way through some endless set of rules. And even if you've read them, that doesn't mean you agree with them. Fair enough. Nevertheless, there are a few challenges to overcome in software development, especially when working in autonomous teams and when you're dealing with business growth. This post offers an insight into how we at OTTO came up with our own API Guidelines and implemented them successfully.ArchitectureDevelopmentWorking methods
MarcoJuly 04, 2022OTTO's future-ready Event Exchange Platform – with Apache Kafka
017When we launched our platform implementation back in 2018, we jointly committed to creating state-of-the-art software aligned with thoroughly modern and proven practices. First off, we deep-dived on modern software architectures including Event Driven, Microservices, Distributed Systems, Cloud Native and DevOps – which resulted in a couple of positive architecture decisions.ArchitectureWorking methodsCloud- July 07, 2021
Cloud-native SAP operation in the Otto Group
00My last blog article "Pimp my SAP ERP" was about how to give old SAP systems a front-end based on modern Web technologies. This blog article will be about how to operate these monolithic SAP systems ourselves in a modern and agile way using the resources of the Google Cloud Platform.ArchitectureDevelopment - March 16, 2021
Frontends with Microservices
30Over the past few years, microservices have grown into an established architectural approach. They are now so well established and tested that the hype is over, and enough experience is available on the benefits, limits, advantages and disadvantages. This article highlights the advantages or promises of microservice approaches that can be fulfilled when frontends are also considered.ArchitectureDevelopment - February 04, 2021
SLIM: Hydrating cloud native CI/CD pipelines to securely access GCP projects
00Only too often generating and copying keys around is the way to go to talk to APIs for example from inside a container. This technique has many disadvantages from a security standpoint. The situation becomes especially crucial when privileged keys are involved, for example when used inside of CI/CD pipelines to roll out infrastructure as code. In this article our secret-less-identity-management system is introduce, an alternative approach to how we provide an identity to our CI/CD pipelines without sharing secrets but based on their context.ArchitectureDevelopment - MarcoNovember 01, 2020
OTTO and cloud computing – a wrap-up of my personal cloud strategy experience with OTTO
00OTTO's history of using data centers is long and full of anecdotes. When I myself joined OTTO in 2009, most cloud providers were still in their fledgling state and cloud computing was far from being state-of-the-art for running heavy workloads.ArchitectureDevelopment
