News 2008
January / February
| Project Management | Scrum | We gave a series of talks for our clients on our experiences with agile methods of software development and project management. Scrum was of particular interest here. |
| Lectures | Computer Networks | We collaborated with the Hochschule München to give a series of lectures on computer networks in the Summer term 2008. |
| Data Center | Hardware Evaluation | We deployed extra specialists on a client's project concerned with the roll out of a high availability data center. For this we developed highly complex IP address migration scenarios and included hidden dependencies in our analysis. We tested thoroughly and enhanced the client's BGP setup. In addition, we evaluated using fast available COTS hardware rather than the standard more expensive solutions which have long delivery lead times. |
| Enterprise Backup | Perl | We supported a client's enterprise backup infrastructure by refactoring and consolidating a vast number of monitoring scripts. We used Perl::Critic to ensure that the system was state of the art and introduced a substantial number of extensions. |
| Modularization | Java EE | We assisted a client modularizing a legacy music download platform based on Java EE. A service oriented approach was introduced for inter-module communication. Within the individual modules there was a high degree of decoupling achieved through using Spring IoC and AspectJ. The changes introduced significantly increase the maintainability, flexibility and testability of the code base and allow for a seamless upgrade of the technology stack in use. |