September 7, 2020
In our first blog post on CQRS/ES, we briefly explained this architecture pattern, outlined the specific project context in which we found ourselves and also went into the specific reasons that led us to this pattern.In this blog post, we will go deeper into the technical details and how we applied CQRS/ES in this legacy […]
Technology
August 21, 2020
In this series of blog posts, I want to talk about the CQRS/ES (Command Query Separation with Event Sourcing) architecture pattern and specifically how this architecture pattern can be used in a legacy system. The essence of CQRS is simple: where before there was only 1 service there are now 2: 1 service optimized for writing the […]
Technology
May 28, 2020
Hi, I’m Arne Van Gestel and from 2nd March 2020 till 29th May 2020 I was an intern at JIDOKA, my internship assignment was the research of augmented reality. But what is augmented reality? Wikipedia says the following: “Augmented reality of AR is a live, direct or indirect, image of reality to which elements are added […]
Internship, Technology
May 19, 2020
Huh? JIDOKA? What? I am Charlene Asvestas, a graduate student at PXL. I study Business and Languages with the option Human Resources. And yes, I was also an intern at JIDOKA, so welcome to my blog. Then you start wondering how an HR student ended up at an IT company? Well, as everyone knows, we […]
Human Resources, Internship
April 22, 2020
A long time ago in a JIDOKA office space not so far, far away, a certain idea came to live after an interesting discussion with the JIDOKA DevOps team. The idea consisted out of the possibility to build a Kubernetes cluster on Azure with the sole purpose of acting as a test environment for some […]
Cloud, DevOps, Technology
April 10, 2020
Giving the important message to stay home I must say, the past few weeks haven’t been easy. In the weeks before lockdown we already started feeling the extra pressure and large attention from the news, social media, the government… on how companies should organise themselves in the upcoming and deal with the fast-moving CORONA crisis. […]
Human Resources, Technology
March 6, 2020
When we heard JIDOKA was organising a Hackathon we immediately knew which challenge we wanted to solve. Said challenge kept rearing its head during internal projects: “Who are you and what are you allowed to do?” Context Every internal JIDOKA app had its own identity and access management system, some more advanced than others. Our […]
Hackathon, Security, Technology
February 28, 2020
A quick introduction on Ruben Pieters, one of our interns. He’s a student at Thomas More, Interactive Multimedia Design. During his internship Ruben will work, together with another intern, on upgrading our internal coaching tool. He’s a full stack developer and always on the hunt for a new adventure. Bringing ideas to life, designing and […]
Human Resources, Internship, Technology
February 27, 2020
At the end of November last year, JIDOKA organised a hackathon from Friday evening after work until Sunday in the late afternoon. Together with 2 colleagues I formed 1 of the 7 teams that participated. The subject that we chose is something that almost every developer in the world has some sort of problem with: […]
Hackathon, Technology