From July 10th to the 11th I took part in the Hackathon HACK|BAY which was organized by the tech incubator Zollhof in Nuernberg. Even if I participated in several coding challenges and a company internal Hackathon, this was my first Hackathon with a jury and multiple competing teams. The event was sponsored by several local companies and they presented challenges in the following topics: Connected City , Machine Learning , and Industrial IoT....

Today I want to inform you about one of my latest milestones as a software developer and convince you that you should do the same: Joining Stack Overflow to answer questions. As a developer, you learn quite early to appreciate the support you get from Stack Overflow. Most of your daily coding problems can be solved with the help of this page. When I have a problem I normally grep the error code (if it exists) or try to explain my current issue and paste it into Google’s search bar....

From the 14th to the 16th of November I visited the Container Conf 2017 in Mannheim. This conference focussed on the Docker container technology and the ecosystem around Docker. In this blog post, I’ll summarize the top five pieces of advice I learned at this conference as a Summary of the Container Conf 2017. The conference was structured into two parts: conference days and workshop days. On the 14th and the 17th of November, we were able to visit ten different full-day workshops about Kubernetes/Docker/DevOps/Microservices ....