Engineering Blog
Stories from our daily work.
SAP LeanIX Engineering Values
The values that we live by and strive for at SAP LeanIX.
The Art of Stickiness
How to build good habits that last. Maybe.
How to learn "touch typing" after decades of typing oddly
... a supposedly fun thing I'll never do again?
Handsontable - what you won't find in the docs
Handsontable is a JavaScript data grid framework which we at SAP LeanIX use to build table experiences. Learn what challenges you might run into when implementing advanced usage scenarios with Handsontable and how you can tackle them.
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs for SaaS Products
Discover a new model of prioritization, inspired by Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, to successfully build SaaS products.
Rescuing a legacy Angular application
Story of how we reliably migrated a legacy Angular application in a short time.
Engineer to Evangelist - Embracing the Unknown in a New Role
Join me as I share my journey from lead engineer to developer evangelist, navigating the exciting unknowns and diving headfirst into the world of LeanIX and EA.
PostgreSQL Index Creation - How it works
Understand index creation in PostgreSQL, and how to decide how to build it.
My way back from management to coding
Transitioning from Engineering Manager to Developer - My story about a year as an Engineering Manager and why I stepped back
Empowering Women in Tech, Insights from the Summit
This article highlights key insights from the Women in Tech Summit, focusing on empowering women in the technology industry.
How to keep the Engineer in the Engineering Manager
Learn how to balance your schedule so that you can contribute to your team's code as an Engineering Manager.
How to arrange GitHub actions to improve feedback cycles
Learn how one of our engineering teams reorganized their GitHub workflow to improve their developer experience. The main focus was to separate concerns, reuse Docker test containers, and shard tests for parallel execution.
The secret superpowers of introvert leaders
Exploring the unique strengths and challenges of introverted leadership, and how it can foster an impactful and deeply reflective management style.
How Code Coverage can be useful
Brief discussion about how to use code coverage to achieve more reliable services.
TypeScript's Generics and Advanced Function Types
How we create flexible and type-safe code environments using generics and advanced function types.
Type Manipulation in TypeScript
How we use inherent typescript features to enhance type safety and our developer experience.
90 days as Engineering Manager
From a Developer to Manager - My first 90 days
Building an AI Assistant for Onboarding
And why we’re not launching it
How we incrementally ship features in LeanIX VSM
In this article, we explain how we use LaunchDarkly in LeanIX Value Stream Management (VSM) to control the availability of new features for our customers.
Guideline to basic java.time date/time classes
When and how to use which of the time classes in the java.time package: An attempt to provide some useful and easily understandable help. Find your way through the time classes even if you're scared to read their lengthy documentation!
How to set up your organization for effectively using Sentry
A walkthrough for Sentry and processes around it
Building a Sustainable Future with Green Software Engineering
This article helps you realize the need for green software engineering and how it can help build a sustainable future
The Road Less Travelled: My Journey to Software Engineering
This is a story about overcoming the challenges of switching to a career in software engineering much later in life from an unrelated educational and professional background.
Learnings of implementing an event processor service in an event-driven environment
This article discusses the implementation of an event processor service and the learnings gained by solving multiple typical challenges that can arise when working in an event-driven environment.
How good is enough? AI vs. human code
This article compares the solutions of different AI engines and human engineers to coding challenges.
A tool overview for generating CycloneDX SBOM
This article gives a comparative view of popular SBOM extraction plugins so that you can make an informed decision
How can Data Science benefit from Software Engineering
A quick introduction to a small machine learning example illustrates how best practices from Software Engineering can help processes in Data Science
How to set up a python service in 2022
This article highlights packages and tools we use in our machine learning team when we kickstart a new python service.
NG-DE 2022: A summary of the talks presented at the Angular conference in Berlin
Read summaries by one of our engineers of some of the talks presented at the NG-DE conference in Berlin this year
Knex.js promise resolution decoded
This article explains some details on the Knex.js QueryBuilder interface and their impacts.