Category: System Designs

End user monitoring – Establish a basis to understand, operate and improve software systems
End user monitoring is crucial for operating and managing software systems safely and effectively. Beyond operations, monitoring constitutes a basic requirement to improve services based on facts instead of instincts. Thus, monitoring plays an important role in the lifecycle of every application. But implementing an effective monitoring solution is challenging due to the incredible velocity…
RUST – Safety During and After Programming
Summary about Rust and how RustBelt has achieved to prove its safety with mathematical concepts.

Safety and protection of autonomous vehicles
Autonomous cars are vehicles that can drive to a predetermined destination in real traffic without the intervention of a human driver. To ensure that the car gets from A to B as safely and comfortably as possible, various precautions must be taken. These precautions are explained in the following sections using various questions and security…
The new CI world, Wrapping it up with Git
Welcome to part 6 – Man we are on a writing flow! – of our blog posts series. After all the coding done in the last parts, let’s take a more laid back look at CI and Git. Nowadays many agile teams work with Git and Feature Branches. A developer works with on a feature…

Continuous Integration & Deployment for a Cross-Platform Application – Part 2
In the first part we pointed out how we set up the infrastructure for our CI system. Now we would like to explain how we build a pipeline for our cross-platform application and what features of GitLab CI we made use of.
CI/CD with GitLab CI for a web application – Part 3
Hosting your own GitLab server Some users might have concerns regarding security using GitLab for a variety of purposes, including commercial and business applications. That is, because GitLab is commonly used as a cloud-based service – on someone else’s computer, so to speak. So setting it up for running it on your own server is…
CI/CD with GitLab CI for a web application – Part 2
GitLab Our first approach was to use the existing GitLab instance of HdM for our project. For them, a shared runner was already defined on which we could run our jobs, so we were able to focus on the CI process itself. This plan worked out at first. We simply defined build and test jobs,…
CI/CD with GitLab CI for a web application – Part 1
Introduction When it comes to software development, chances are high that you’re not doing this on your own. The main reason for this is often that implementing components like UI, frontend, backend, servers and more is just too much to handle for a single person leading to a slow development process. So, you have to…

Continuous Integration Pipeline for Unity Development using GitLab CI and AWS
This blog entry describes the implementation of a Continous Integration (CI) pipeline especially adapted for Unity projects. It makes it possible to automatically execute Unity builds on a configured build server and provide it for a further deployment process if required.
