Wednesday July 12th 2023
When you clean the kitchen well you sometimes come across things, but a flock of sheep was unexpected. Last Axini Week took on a woolly edge. During such a week, the whole team hacks on innovation or cleans up things that slow us down. In the process, we display a surprising amount of social behavior
This was a cleanup week, so no wild product features:
- On our platform there are partially diverse modeling languages and test engines for technical systems (messages, interfaces, timing) and administrative systems (data, decision logic, calculations). We have increased the consistency between these, which reduces maintenance. In the process, we secretly added a feature for more flexible administrative testing with wildcards.
- We increased the efficiency of our CI/CD build and integration pipelines by looking more closely at when something should be built (difference detection) and increased the effectiveness by more and more robust automatic acceptance testing.
- We could already deploy customer environments fully automatically, for example from a backup. Now this can also include a GitLab instance for customers who want to perform model reviews with it, for example.
- As Axini, we are moving to GitLab for our entire DevSecOps process after extensive research. We put developer happiness first (hello Azure DevOps!). As our first project, we migrated our ISO27001 ISMS, going straight into certification.
And then there were those sheep.... They turned out to live peacefully next to the Amstel River just a stone's throw from our office. In the green oasis of Amstelsport, besides archery (without sheep) and traditional pizza baking, we did the Sheep Herding I workshop. Speaking of team spirit, they are truly inseparable. A challenging exercise in staying calm during ad hoc group coordination with various tasks. They kindly laughed at us and made us work hard. It was quiet for a long time....
P.S. Want to become part of our very opinionated herd? We still have space! Contact us