Christoph Neijenhuisincommercetools techThe heat is on: My learnings from our Engineering offsiteAt the beginning of 2020, I organized an offsite for 15 Scala Engineers. A few weeks later, our CEO asked everyone to temporarily work from…6 min read·Jul 15, 2022----
Christoph Neijenhuisincommercetools techStaff and Principal Engineers: why do we need them now? (Part 2)When we designed our tech leadership track, we looked at our internal requirements and at what others in the industry are doing. Our needs…6 min read·Mar 28, 2022--1--1
Christoph Neijenhuisincommercetools techStaff and Principal Engineers: why do we need them now? (Part 1)An evolution log of how we built our Tech Leadership track, from the early stages of a ‘Tech Lead’ to introducing Staff and Principal…4 min read·Mar 14, 2022--1--1
Christoph NeijenhuisWhat F1 champ Max Verstappens driving style can teach you about leadershipMax Verstappen, the current Formula One champion, was interviewed about his driving style: “Well, I don’t think I actually have one.”4 min read·Jan 16, 2022----
Christoph Neijenhuisincommercetools techBest Practices for handling API ClientsWe recently re-designed our API Client UI from scratch. In this post, I want to share best practices on handling Access Secrets, and how…4 min read·Aug 20, 2018--1--1
Christoph Neijenhuisincommercetools techWhy we’re investing in the CloudEvents specificationI’m thrilled to announce that we’ve released support for CloudEvents 0.1! The specification is an effort by the Cloud Native Computing…4 min read·Aug 7, 2018----
Christoph Neijenhuisincommercetools techgzip on AWS Lambda and API Gatewaygzip is a compression format widely used over HTTP for text-based files like JSON, HTML and CSS. Depending on the repetition in your data…4 min read·Nov 16, 2017--2--2
Christoph Neijenhuisincommercetools techTakeaways from Serverless Conf NYC `17The 5th Serverless Conf took place in New York last week. It was the first one I attended (most likely not the last one, though!) and I was…5 min read·Oct 18, 2017--1--1
Christoph Neijenhuisincommercetools techCustomizing a BaaS API, ServerlessA hosted Backend-as-a-Service can be a great time- and cost-saver, because one doesn’t have to do Ops. However, unlike in a self-hosted…5 min read·Feb 20, 2017--1--1
Christoph Neijenhuisincommercetools techWebhooks: The Devil in the DetailsWebhooks seem to be such a simple solution for callbacks: Send an HTTP request. Receive an HTTP request, do something, and return 200…5 min read·Dec 7, 2016--2--2