Nils Balkow-Tychsen

Lead QA Engineer at Humanitec

Nils is Lead QA Engineer at Humanitec. He is working in software testing for more than 20 years, in different industries like finance, games and developer platforms. He specialized in test automation for web apps based on Microservice Architectures.

Robot Framework: The Key to Improve Testing

The Robot Framework is a generic open source automation framework for acceptance testing, acceptance test driven development (ATDD), and robotic process automation (RPA). In the article, we describe the key benefits to using this framework for test automation.

February 27, 2020

Nils Balkow-Tychsen

How to set up a simple Kubernetes cluster on Google Cloud Platform

Learn how to set up a simple Kubernetes cluster on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and deploy your first containerized web application.

February 6, 2020

Florian Lipp

Learnings from Implementing Github Social Authentication

Learn the benefits of social authentication, how it works, and challenges Humanitec faced when implementing it with GitHub. In addition, find out why automation is a critical part of testing social authentication.

January 23, 2020

Nils Balkow-Tychsen

Managing environments for more than one service or app in a Kubernetes cluster

Increasing numbers of services in a cluster can quickly lead to versioning dependency hell. Learning how to manage those environments properly will save users from problems when testing.

January 21, 2020

Chris Stephenson

Kubernetes environments management basics

Before you can make the most of your Kubernetes environment, you need to understand some basics. This includes understanding what an environment is, why you need more than one, the common cluster challenges that many developers face, and the basics of managing a Kubernetes environment.

December 20, 2019

Chris Stephenson

Velocity Conference Berlin 2019 - A Brief Recap

The Velocity Conference took place in Berlin from 4 to 7 November 2019. We at Humanitec are very proud to have exhibited with a booth on the main floor. Here are our highlights of the conference.

November 18, 2019

Florian Lipp

Speed up DevOps with the Humanitec Internal Developer Platform (IDP)

Working with microservices architecture across multiple stakeholders and with no DevOps can be challenging. One of the first users of the Humanitec Internal Developer Platform (IDP) - Backend Developer Ralf and Product Manager Domile - share their experience managing a Field Force Management application through the Humanitec IDP.

November 13, 2019

Ralf Kostulski

Quo vadis - Where enterprise software is heading (3/3)

This article looks further into where enterprise software is headed arguing that only if we reuse and share code and make this type of sharing work across stacks and framework we will be able to control the problem at hand - being 500k, or even more, developers short by 2020.

May 15, 2019

Kaspar von Grünberg

Goodbye stone age —Technical breakthroughs in enterprise software development (2/3)

This is the second article of our series on the future of enterprise software development. It focuses on the four technology trends underpinning the new revolution in enterprise software development‍.

May 3, 2019

Kaspar von Grünberg

Microservice Flex Patterns

This article focuses on how you as a developer can gain a lot of flexibility to design an application the way you want by using logic-driven services.

April 4, 2019

Greg Lind

UX Process Need for Speed

This article focuses on the challenges that UX designers face while conducting user research for enterprise apps and describes how Humanitec, with the Walhall platform, can help with accessing real user feedback early enough.

March 7, 2019

Joy Mwihia

From monolith to microservice — from ancient Rome to the Victorian age (1/3)

This is the first article of our series on the future of enterprise software development. It looks back at the evolution of enterprise software development and predicts what is the next big thing in the field.

February 26, 2019

Kaspar von Grünberg

Testing in Microservice Architectures

Software built in microservice architectures provides great opportunities for testers but also come with some challenges. This article describes 8 main parameters to successful testing of microservices.

February 19, 2019

Nils Balkow-Tychsen

Setting up service-oriented teams in a microservice environment

In 5 years, 5 computer science students will be able to build a fully fledged ERP enterprise-grade in 5 weeks. Exactly, how the business wants and needs it. Wondering how are we going to achieve this? This article looks into the Humanitec' s 5–5–5 foresight and how to get there.

January 29, 2019

Dr. Christoph C. Richter

Your Open Source

This article explains how Humanitec is building an open source platform and license that lets the developer share their applications openly, while still retaining ownership.

November 21, 2018

Greg Lind

Update and insert auto-generated code to existing Typescript, HTML and JSON files with Angular schematics Pt.2

Insights on how to add auto-generated code to different 3 file types (TypeScript, HTML, JSON) by leveraging the power of angular schematics.

October 30, 2018

Aziz Haddad

Update and insert auto-generated code to existing Typescript, HTML and JSON files with Angular schematics Pt.1

Insights on how to add auto-generated code to different 3 file types (TypeScript, HTML, JSON) by leveraging the power of angular schematics.

October 30, 2018

Aziz Haddad

The Problem with Community Editions and Open Source Licenses

This article focuses on the positive and negatives of the current definition of “Open Source” and how opening up the definition could lead to more opportunities for developers to make a living from their code.

July 20, 2018

Greg Lind

Continuous Delivery on Kubernetes

Environment Management

Deployment Automation

Nils Balkow-Tychsen

Robot Framework: The Key to Improve Testing

How to set up a simple Kubernetes cluster on Google Cloud Platform

Learnings from Implementing Github Social Authentication

Managing environments for more than one service or app in a Kubernetes cluster

Kubernetes environments management basics

Velocity Conference Berlin 2019 - A Brief Recap

Speed up DevOps with the Humanitec Internal Developer Platform (IDP)

Quo vadis - Where enterprise software is heading (3/3)

Goodbye stone age —Technical breakthroughs in enterprise software development (2/3)

Microservice Flex Patterns

UX Process Need for Speed

From monolith to microservice — from ancient Rome to the Victorian age (1/3)

Testing in Microservice Architectures

Setting up service-oriented teams in a microservice environment

Your Open Source

Update and insert auto-generated code to existing Typescript, HTML and JSON files with Angular schematics Pt.2

Update and insert auto-generated code to existing Typescript, HTML and JSON files with Angular schematics Pt.1

The Problem with Community Editions and Open Source Licenses

Professional Services

Product

Documentation

Company