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Contract Testing with Pact and Kafka

At VoloIQ, we place great emphasis on ensuring the autonomy of our teams and the uninterrupted availability of our services to our users. To achieve this, we have adopted a modular architecture consisting of self-contained verticals that are seamlessly integrated through messaging via Apache Kafka. Learn how we utilize Pact to test message-based interactions between these modules, thereby ensuring flawless integration of all verticals.

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October 6, 2023

Searching an internal Knowledge Base with OpenAI and Azure Cognitive Search

An overview of how we used Azure OpenAI Service and Azure Cognitive Search to build a LLM enhanced search for our internal knowledge.

March 6, 2023

So You Want to Be a Safety-Critical Software Developer?

January 26, 2023

Bridge Testing: A Holistic Approach to Testing a Micro-Service Architecture

Learn about bridge testing and how it provides a safe, reliable, and fast way to ship new features to production in a micro-service architecture!

October 19, 2022

Ready for Takeoff with Data Mesh

Find out why we've chosen data mesh to support our data journey, and enjoy stories about the good old greenfield.

August 30, 2022

Welcome to the Volocopter Dev Blog

To share the lessons we have learned in our software development environment we created this blog - read here about the why and what

August 30, 2022

How We Didn’t Build a Framework Agnostic Design Library

We want to employ our own design library for VoloIQ. Wouldn't it be cool to be independent of the framework? Yes. So why are we not writing a framework agnostic library right away? Read on to find out!

Data and us

Searching an internal Knowledge Base with OpenAI and Azure Cognitive Search

An overview of how we used Azure OpenAI Service and Azure Cognitive Search to build a LLM enhanced search for our internal knowledge.

Writing Software

So You Want to Be a Safety-Critical Software Developer?

Writing Software

Bridge Testing: A Holistic Approach to Testing a Micro-Service Architecture

Learn about bridge testing and how it provides a safe, reliable, and fast way to ship new features to production in a micro-service architecture!

Data and us

Ready for Takeoff with Data Mesh

Find out why we've chosen data mesh to support our data journey, and enjoy stories about the good old greenfield.

General

Welcome to the Volocopter Dev Blog

To share the lessons we have learned in our software development environment we created this blog - read here about the why and what

We and our users

How We Didn’t Build a Framework Agnostic Design Library

Writing Software

Getting started with Kotlin

We recently added a new language to our portfolio: Kotlin. To help developers understand this language, we created this short tutorial.

We and our users

Design Library Strategy: Taking off With Chakra UI

We decided to implement our design library with Chakra UI. This is how we leverage its features without melting it into our library's API.