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One of the exciting statistics on digital sustainability revolves around the energy efficiency of programming languages. The most well-known paper on the subject gives the impression that some programming languages could be up to 80 times more sustainable than others. But is that really the case? In this blog post, I will clear up some myths about digital sustainability and show what really matters.

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Methodology

Building an organisation around self-organising teams can be a challenge – especially for management. In my blog post, I will explain what tasks managers have to tackle when building a project organisation with self-organising teams.

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Methodology

In this blog post, I will show how you can harness the power of Aleph Alpha’s ‘Luminous’ series of large language models for automated document processing. I will present detailed use cases and explain how Luminous efficiently, accurately and cost-effectively enables the extraction of information from documents.

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Industries

23.05.2023 By Maximilian Hammes, Jonas Schnorrenberg and Stephen Lorenzen

Gas prices – a new ‘low’ has been reached

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Although gas prices are currently low, a warning has been issued against being too optimistic, as Europe could be facing more challenges. In this blog post, we will explain which factors are behind the drop in prices and how this development should be classified.

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Industries

22.05.2023 By Christopher Krafft

A protocol stack for narrowband IoT (part 2)

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While the first part of my blog series focused on the technology of NB-IoT, the second part will discuss the technical aspects of using it, as the advantages of transmitting data using narrowband IoT are quickly squandered if it is used incorrectly.

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Methodology

19.05.2023 By Manuel Tilgner

Terraform for enterprise projects

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This post describes a template for complex Terraform projects. Such projects often take place in an enterprise context and tend to span multiple accounts, regions, services, even clouds. The template relies heavily on Terraform modules, YAML files and Terragrunt.

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Industries

17.05.2023 By Maximilian Hammes, Jonas Schnorrenberg and Stephen Lorenzen

The path to climate neutrality – Costa Rica as a role model?

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Costa Rica is a pioneer in climate neutrality and offers impressive measures to protect the environment. In our blog post, we will take a closer look at the impressive measures Costa Rica has taken to become climate neutral and explore the question of whether Germany can learn from Costa Rica in order to achieve its own climate goals.

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AI

Large language models (LLMs) such as Aleph Alpha or OpenAI are shaking up the world. ChatGPT has sparked discussions about AI. While AI models make life easier, they also pose new challenges. However, not only can we use LLMs to gather information, but we can also use them to make decisions for us and ask them for help. But how reliable is this technology and would we trust it with a human life? I will answer these questions in my blog post.

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Software Development

11.05.2023 By Björn Thalheim

ATDD on Spring Boot with Cucumber

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Developers are quite familiar with unit testing, even with integrative approaches like @SpringBootTest. But many lack a clear design/development/test strategy and stick to their preferred programming language. Acceptance Test Driven Design (ATDD) is a structured approach to designing your tests and programme from the outside in, focusing on larger blocks of functionality rather than individual classes. This blog post shows how this works.

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