Author: Benjamin Kowatsch
Bidirectional Power Transfer for a Smart Load Management for Electric Vehicles
Abstract The global expansion of electromobility is progressing rapidly. The chinese city of Shenzhen has the world’s first and largest fleet of electric buses with more than 16,000 buses. A gigantic charging infrastructure for 5805 electric buses was established to cope with this. It reaches peak loads of 464.4 megawatts which is an enormous challenge…
Consensus protocols – A key to cluster management?
blogpost In these times, applications require increasing robustness and scalability, since otherwise they will collapse under the burden of the vast number of users. Cluster managers like kubernetes, Nomad or Apache Marathon are a central factor of this resilience and scalability. A closer look at the insides of cluster managers reveals consensus protocols to be…
Web Performance Optimization for Continuous Deployment – Move fast and don’t lose performance
The performance of websites today is a decisive factor in how many users visit them and thus how much money can be earned from them. The impact of this fact is further enhanced by the widespread use of mobile devices and the speed of the mobile Internet. To counteract the development of heavyweight websites, web…