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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.

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.

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 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.

On 24 September 2021, we celebrated our 14th Big Techday for the 14th time - this year as a hybrid event partly on site in Munich and partly online. The lectures by TNG employees and renowned external experts covered a number of exciting topics from science and technology: not just information technology, but also about physics, mathematics, culture and sport. At the Big Techday, participants learned about quantum computing, microservices and data warehousing, but also about mountain bike racing and hydrofoil catamarans.
You can find many of the presentations here as videos. For an overview of all the speakers and the content of the presentations, go here.

Our location in Hungary is growing and growing. We now have 12 colleagues on site in Budapest. So far they have been working exclusively from home but now they also have the option to bring some variety into their daily routine: We have a new office in a coworking space in the very center of Budapest which is well worth seeing!

Think the ABC Conjecture is too abstract and incomprehensible? Not if you explain it with Lego bricks and lots of blue dots! If anyone can make complex mathematics understandable, it's Matt Parker: Youtuber, standup mathematician and speaker at this year's Big Techday. In his video, he makes the ABC conjecture accessible to non-mathematicians. The idea and visualisations were provided by our colleagues Sebastian Stamminger and Daniel Pape. "It was really cool to work with Matt. When do you ever get the chance to meet a real YouTube star?" says Sebastian. The result of the collaboration is this video. And not only that: under Daniel's guidance, one of our interns also developed a browser programme with which you can find your own ABC triples. Take a look and try it out.

Last weekend, after more than 2 years, the Interalpen Hotel Tyrol opened its doors again for TNG and our first ever autumn retreat - of course with a strict hygiene concept, and as a 2G event (participants must be vaccinated or recovered). As always at our retreats, work and leisure went hand in hand. In small groups, we programmed and developed exciting features for our customers in hackathons and in various leisure activities, some of us climbed the Hohe Munde mountain in Telfs, learned to play golf or worked out in fitness classes. Most importantly however, we finally got to see each other in person again.

Do you want to be a part of our annual Big Techday? This year, it will take place in a hybrid form. If you want to join us online there is no need to register.

More information on www.bigtechday.com

Today marks a very special anniversary: one year ago, the first colleague started working for TNG abroad. Now, things look quite different - we now have a total of 17 colleagues working outside Germany. Our branch office in Budapest is growing particularly quickly. We are happy to announce that 3 new colleagues are starting in Hungary today. This is the first time we have broken the barrier of 10. Üdv a TNG-nél - Welcome to TNG!