“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 […]
Spring Framework: Becoming the source of modern Java
A retrospect with Trifork’s CTO of Enterprise Application Development Joris Kuipers It may be surprising to realise that it’s been 16 years since the Spring Framework was first released. From its beginnings as an inversion of control container shared with a tight-knit community, Spring has evolved to a fully-fledged ecosystem of its own. No longer […]
Retry functionality in a reactive programming context
Reactive programming can be used to solve a lot of different use cases. Forinstance, reactive programming can be really helpful for cases where timing is an issue. An example of such a case is retry logic with delay or backoff functionality. Let’s have a look at some different implementations using Project Reactor (https://projectreactor.io) for Java. […]
The Tunnel is the Illusion
It started as a fairly typical technical project. They had heard about Machine Learning and wanted to first know what it is. So none of our usual business first themes, just straightforward machine learning and what you can do with it. Our CTO and team again did a great job and it resulted in the […]
Leaving a Java legacy behind
As with a house, software applications require maintenance too. Otherwise, you risk the digital equivalent of rot: bit-rot. Often, the maintenance is done like with a house: Superficially to make it look nice again with a new look-and-feel, a new colour scheme (a paint job) and a few new stock photos. But every once in a […]