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Soe vastuvõtt TNG Eesti (=Welcome to TNG Estonia)
On 1 June 2022 we founded our first subsidiary in the Baltics. Starting now, we are delighted to be able to provide our clients with high level services and colleagues with projects in Tallinn, Estonia. If you want to become part of TNG Estonia, you can find the job ad here.
New and Old Faces at our Summer Retreat
In addition to our Big Techday and the big summer party, our annual summer retreat also took place in July. The event is held as a bar camp and all colleagues can contribute ideas, plan and discuss the strategical development of the company. The beautiful Alpine setting plays backdrop to a host of activities, from alpaca hiking to white-water rafting, through which it's just as easy to make new acquaintances as it is to see old faces again. We're already very much looking forward to the summer retreat in 2023!
BTD 22 - Registration opened!
Registration for our Big Techday 22 is open! We look forward to welcoming you on 15 July at Motorworld Munich.
Membership in the German-New Zealand Chamber of Commerce
We are happy to now be a member of the German-New Zealand Chamber of Commerce. TNG ANZ keeps growing. In June, we will have eight employees in Australia. In an interview, our colleague and Managing Director of TNG ANZ Michael Fickinger talks about TNG's motivations to expand to the other side of the globe and gives advice for other companies planning the same.
TNG Karlsruhe opened!
On April 1st, we opened our new office in Karlsruhe! Our wifi and coffee machine are already up and running. We are happy to have found a very nice office at RaumFabrik Durlach.
Do you also want to enjoy this view? Let's get in touch.
TNG Follows The Sun
TNG is becoming more and more international! True to the motto "Follow The Sun", a second TNG colleague moved from Germany to the other side of the globe at the beginning of January to support our Australian branch. The subsidiary was founded in April last year and is now fully established. As of the beginning of March, a total of four employees will be working Down Under - and we are still expanding.
The pandemic has permanently changed our working environment and significantly accelerated the trend towards remote work. The shift to telecommuting has taught us that we can work together successfully from multiple locations. An international company has some benefits: "Follow The Sun" is not only the motto of our two German colleagues in Melbourne, but also one of the main reasons why TNG has chosen Australia as a location. Due to the time difference, we are able to create a global knowledge workflow in order to provide software development and DevOps services to our clients around the clock. In addition, the location creates the possibility for us to expand into the ANZ market and transfer our experience and success in Germany to this market. We are excited to see what else the future holds!
Security as a Serious Game - Elevation of Privilege online
Without any doubt security is important in software development. At the same time the topic is usually not a core competence of development teams, but is audited by individual, usually external experts. These audits often happen at the end of the development process, contrary to the agile approach. In order to protect systems against attacks early, continuously, and efficiently, potential threats should be considered regularly and counteracted accordingly already during the development process.
The serious game "Elevation of Privilege", developed by Microsoft, helps integrating threat modelling into the agile development process at an early stage and creating awareness for security issues. In the game, with the help of playing cards the development team thinks from the attacker's perspective and thus identifies threats before they actually arise. And it's fun!
An open-source online version is available so that distributed teams can also play the game. TNG colleagues play a major role in developing it using JavaScript, React, and the boardgame.io game engine: https://github.com/tng/elevation-of-privilege.
You would like to try out the game and look for a moderator? Feel free to contact us at info(at)tngtech.com.
TNG out and about
2021 - another year of digital innovations. In the second half of the year our employees continued to participate in several virtual lectures and conferences where they could exchange viewpoints, further their own knowledge, and share their know-how with others. Two topics, "deepfakes" and the impact of neural networks on our world, continue to enjoy great popularity and were presented by three of our colleagues at various events such as the IT-Days and DevDays Europe. In autumn we were represented at the Flink Forward Global conference with the presentation "Using Flink SQL on Ververica Platform". In addition, our colleagues were once again delighted to welcome a very interested audience at Developer Week, one of the largest independent developer conferences in Europe. At the end of the year, TNG presented "The making of VimR" at two conferences and gave a short demonstration of the app.
ArchUnit - Open-Source Library for automated Architectural rule testing
The open-source library ArchUnit was first designed by our colleagues a few years ago and has been under continuous improvement ever since.
By using ArchUnit it is possible to enforce architecture rules for Java and Kotlin applications via automated unit tests. It makes for a simple and quick way to check whether, for example, dependencies between packages are allowed, or whether naming conventions are adhered to. In addition, it motivates regular discussions on architecture rules and thus helps to keep documentation alive. Especially in bigger teams with faster turnover of members and extensive code, this can be of great help.
Our colleague Peter Gafert has published an article in the current "Java Magazin" (issue 1/2022) on the introduction of ArchUnit into the architecture process in a team.
More information at https://www.archunit.org/
TNG again among Bavaria's Best 50
TNG was honored again this year as an especially fast-growing, owner-operated medium-sized company, receiving the Bavarian Best 50 award. We are delighted to receive this distinction, which is about economic stability and being future-proof in addition to growth. Thanks to all our colleagues who made this success possible.