It's not all about engineering! That's quite a statement from a software engineer, but I do believe that's a true fact\nin our life as professionals: sometimes you really need time to hack things together. We just had our fourth Hackathon\nover the last weekend and though I could not contribute to it actively with a project of mine it was a tremendous amount\nof fun!
\nUnfortunately, the BBQ we were hoping to have got cancelled due to bad weather conditions - thunderstorms showering\nBerlin repeatedly during the two days and the first night of the event. We had a fallback plan of course, so we simply\nresorted to it, with a massive pizza delivery ordered for dinner. If I were superstitious, I would likely expect at\nleast some bad luck from a date like Friday 13th...
\nThe start of the event is marked by a very informal pitch of project ideas from all the teams, that happened in one of\nour lovely kitchens in our Berlin Headquarters. I cannot make it to the meeting, but thanks to Lukas this moment is\ndocumented in pictures I can enjoy later during the day.
\nAfter the presentation the vibe of the Hackathon starts to percolate through the whole department, with groups of people\ndiscussing the nitty-gritty details of their plans: people start grouping around whiteboards, chatting in a kitchen over\na coffee or a cup of tea. Countless hours of hacking follow, seldom interrupted by breaks and further cross-team chats,\nuntil those three delivery guys make it to Engineering, carrying three huge piles of hot pizzas. Most participants leave\nbefore eleven, just a couple of hours - and of course a few drinks - after dinner.
\nDay two doesn't start with the best premises either: one of the entrance doors got broken, forcing everybody to find\ntheir way in through a secondary door most people were unaware of until this very moment. When they finally make it,\nthey find a nice breakfast provisioned by this guy, earlier in the morning: bread, butter, berries jam, mortadella,\nprosciutto and salami... that's what you get when you send the Italian guy out for the groceries...
\nBack to work, one more day of hacking. Hours fly by and in the afternoon everybody starts to look tired, with people\nleaving a few at a time when they either reach their goals or simply drop the towel. The last man standing leaves the\noffice at 9 pm, when I finally lock the door behind me and leave as well. We won't meet at the office on Sunday, though\nfurther remote work is allowed, for the overly-committed.
\nThe weekend is over, we are back to work. As the day is getting closer to its end, I see a few colleagues around the\noffice working on their projects presentations - the election of the winning teams is about to happen. We gather again\nin a meeting-room and groups take turns at the beamer, showing everybody else the best of their hacks. We all enjoy\nseeing our colleagues presenting implementations ranging from innovative to crazy and from business-focused to\nfun-making: cloud-based real-time analytics of business events, The-Matrix-style error logs visualization,\n\"The Mini Kevin 500\" - ok, this one would take some time to explain, in a nutshell, it's a hardware monitoring tool\nnamed after our CTO - and, to our greatest delight, somebody built a 3d printer for our office!
\nWe do our usual voting by popular acclaim and the winners finally get some brand new Nerf guns, the well-deserved prize\nfor their efforts!
\nSo once again, it’s not all about engineering, but also making crazy ideas become real and most importantly have fun\ntogether. And that’s why AUTO1 is such a great place to work!
","fields":{"slug":"/one-more-hackathon-at-auto1/","tags":["auto1","engineering","social","culture","hackathon"]}},"categoryArticles":{"edges":[{"node":{"id":"a34b3781-aea3-55c9-b730-6e611a223ff2","frontmatter":{"category":"Social","title":"Back to Social Life at AUTO1 Tech","date":"2023-08-25","summary":"A hybrid social life has begun in the spring of 2023 after the pandemic. We have experts at AUTO1 Tech that have been invited to different public speeches.","thumbnail":null,"authorName":"Yi-Wen Fang","authorDescription":"Executive Assistant Tech","authorAvatar":null,"headerImage":null},"html":"A hybrid social life has begun in the spring of 2023 after the pandemic. We have experts at AUTO1 Tech that have been invited to different public speeches.
\nOn May 25th 2023, our Director of Software Quality Assurance, Alexander Gyulai, gave a session on the topic of MODULAR AUTOMATION at TEST AUTOMATION DAYS 2023, where networking with software testing professionals and learning from the world’s leading test automation experts.
\nHe focused on topics of scaling, architecture and collaboration in automation testing. And the details covered in
\nHow and why to move common components into modules and how to re-use it across the company.
\nHow did we scale testing of our platform with 700+ services and hundreds of releases per month.
\nSetup release and distribution process of the automation modules
\nIntegrate platform modules into automation components
\nBesides technical advantages, he also shared how this approach improved collaboration and communication between developers and quality assurance engineers.
\nFabian Schomm-von Auenmüller, Head of Data Platform, was interviewed in July by the Data For Good Podcast, which is hosted by Zuma, a recruitment agency focusing on data technology professionals in Berlin.
\nIn this interview, Fabian focused on the monitoring and assurance of data quality within data pipelines. He explained that data observability encompasses processes from logging to monitoring, alerting, and ensuring data quality throughout its lifecycle. Fabian emphasized that catching data issues early is crucial for maintaining trust and preventing downstream problems. He recommended initiating data observability practices as early as possible and discussed tools like Elementary that integrate well with DBT (Data Build Tool). He highlighted the benefits of having explicit tests to validate assumptions and being prepared for failures. Fabian anticipates that future trends in data observability might involve leveraging AI and machine learning for pattern recognition and anomaly detection, ultimately enhancing the quality and reliability of data pipelines.
\n\nWe are proud of Alexander and Fabian and their works that provided an insight to the everyday projects and challenges the Technology team at the AUTO1 Group manages. We hope you find these as interesting as we do. We all grow along with the company, as does our data and infrastructure. Let’s work SMARTER instead of harder!
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\nIt's been a while, right? Let's pick up where we left off...
\nOur second Tech Talk took place in February at Maze, an event space fashioned after the Berliner spirit. Antonella and Alexander attracted almost 100 people with their promise of delivering amazing content, while having two different tracks allowed for the exposure of the participants to other vital parts of a tech start-up/unicorn.
\nThis event, the second in a series of events meant to promote local growth and accelerated learning, is now available for everyone to enjoy, on Youtube, along with the slides from the presentations.
\nAntonella Zagaria - Localisation in an ever-growing startup\n\n
\nAlexander Gyulai - SHIFT your testing gear\n\n
\nAs always, sign up on our community page on Meetup.com to stay up to date and be amongst the first to find out when our next event is going to be. And it might be sooner than you think ;)
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\n\n
\nAs always, sign up on our community page on Meetup.com to stay up to date and be amongst the first to find out when our next event is going to be.
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