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Im TechUp We at b-nova embody innovation to the core and as such, we organize a so-called TechUp, a in-house tech radar session, every week. In those sessions, we evaluate promising technologies for its potential and functional suitability. Once evaluated, we bring our insights into a written form which constitutes the main share of our blog content. Therefore, we render our in-house research open-source and available to our customers.

Let us level up together in our technological awareness. In this way, we ensure to keep our mental toolbox up-to-date with the latest developments in the world of tech. We eventually manage to stay equipped with the cutting edge of technologies and tools. As our customer, you will be presented with battle-tested, yet modern technology that will leverage lasting, sustainable solutions.

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Tech up with us! Every week is a new opportunity to learn something new.

Dev Containers package and standardize the complete development environment with all necessary tools, plugins, IDEs, and dependencies. In this TechUp, we want to take a closer look at Dev Containers and go through a few hands-on examples.

GPTScript revolutionizes the use of LLMs through intuitive, natural language-based scripting. It enables the automation of complex tasks, data analysis, and seamless integration with traditional scripts like Bash and Python. User-friendly and versatile, GPTScript expands the possibilities of intelligent automation and AI-driven workflows.

devfile.io - An open source platform that automates and standardizes development environments! With Devfiles, consistent and reproducible setups can be created effortlessly, drastically reducing development time.

Amazon PartyRock Playground is a platform provided by AWS where users can experiment with Bedrock, a foundational tool for application development. It offers hands-on experience to acquire in-depth knowledge and skills.

Runme transforms your standard documentation into interactive manuals that function like a terminal. This allows users to interact with the documentation in a practical way and ensures that information is always up-to-date and relevant.

Daytona is a platform for managing development environments that acts as an enterprise solution and offers an alternative to GitHub Codespaces to increase productivity and efficiency in the development process.

JDK 22 is out, we want to take a look at the most important features like statements before the super constructor, unnamed variables & patterns and scoped values.

This article demonstrates how to manage different event types within a single Kafka topic using a Quarkus application. It covers setting up a schema registry, Kafka broker configurations, and a user-friendly Kafka UI interface to highlight the benefits and challenges of this architecture.

We take a practical look at CloudEvents, the latest graduation from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Learn how this standard simplifies event processing in distributed systems and what benefits it offers for developers and IT architects.

Pydantic is a Python library for data validation that uses Python type hints to check the structure and type of data. It generates validation errors for missing or incorrect data.