In 2010 I spoke at a new conference that Sergi Almar was organizing in Madrid about Spring. At that time it was mostly focused on Spanish attendees, and quite small. Over the years the conference grew larger and larger, moved to Barcelona and became the biggest community-driven Spring conference in Europe, and probably the world, […]
Top take-aways from TEQNation
Last week, on May 15, I had the pleasure of attending the TEQNation conference. While I had been to this NLJUG event before, it felt like my first time again. Not only because of the amazing new location—the industrial chic De Fabrique—also because it’s my first time attending as a budding programmer. Although, given the […]
Double proud
Silence before the storm moment. 0800 on our new 3rd floor, all fresh, all new. The room for the masterclass was ready, tables, chairs and as we’re in Amsterdam: lots of coffee. Test the projector, plenty of post-its, all sharpies in place. The start of a masterclass that we do more and more: explaining Artificial […]
Unit Testing Source Code: Verifying Axon Event Upcaster Consistency
In our last project we used a JUnit test to check consistency of all code concerned with Axon event upcasting. We think this is interesting as we basically unit test source code rather than class behavior. In this blog we describe how we implemented it and conclude with a short evaluation and we list alternative […]
Game of Thrones Network Science
“Did you know? You are just six handshakes away from meeting the President of the USA.” I am not sure when I first heard this statement, but it sure is a captivating premise. I have heard it many times since, cited as a fun-fact at family birthdays by semi-knowledgeable uncles or as super inspirational introductory […]
Exploring textual data with Topic Modelling and Topic Coherence
At Trifork Machine Learning we help companies to innovate by exploring how Machine Learning can help them in their business. Many of our clients have large amounts of textual data that we want to make sense of. This blog post showcases how we can apply Topic Modelling to automatically extract valuable information from real data. […]
Experience Magenta
“Can you help my VP to better understand the importance of people over tech?” Interesting question from one of my old managers. Sure, if I can help, happy to have a coffee. Interesting setting, outskirts of Cologne, Germany. New building, all ornaments pink. Pink like my gin. We started with a coffee, and I asked […]
Using AI to boost Contact Centre performance
Machine Learning Engineer of Trifork, Daniel Middelhede, shares details of an exciting project at Trifork. The following blog post is based on an interview with Daniel. Recently, while working on a project for a customer with more than 4 million clients, Daniel and his Machine Learning colleagues at Trifork had a flash of inspiration. The […]
Distributed Tracing in an Axon Application
The Giftcard-demo demonstrates Axon Commands, Events and Queries either together or in a distributed fashion. Now with the tracing extension, these messages and context information can be visualised to get insight into the application behaviour. Requirements to run the demo You will need git, docker and maven. We will checkout out the code, build the […]
The best version of you
Facebook showed me the success he had. All photos of smiling people, distant travel, children with straight teeth, impressive cars. And over the years we met and talked about work. Great guy, smart, very much goal driven, a road warrior like myself. So when he called to tell me they were in the middle of […]