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The Confluence Graveyard: How to Turn Scattered Data into AI Intelligence
May 2026Stop drowning in fragmented data and start building actionable intelligence. Learn how a specialized AI workflow can transform scattered documentation into a structured "source of truth," moving beyond simple search to enable deep organizational reasoning.
- AI
- Claude
Building an iOS app in just a day
May 2026Discover how AI shifts the development process from mere coding to rapid requirements engineering and architectural sparring. This article explores a real-world experiment of building a functional, AI-powered iOS app.
- AI
- Claude
- OpenAI
Splitting a 20+ Year Old Monolith
June 2024How we decomposed a decades-old monolithic application into focused services — without derailing ongoing project delivery.
- Architecture
- Engineering Leadership
- Legacy Systems
- Spring Boot
Merging Frontend Teams Without Breaking Them
January 2024When merging frontend teams, the hardest part isn't the tech stack — it's getting teams to actually want to make it work.
- Frontend
- Engineering Leadership
- Micro-Frontends
- Change Management
Building a Design System Across Teams
January 2021How we built a shared design system for all IONOS customer frontends — and what it took to make UX and engineering actually share ownership of it.
- Design Systems
- Frontend
- Engineering Leadership
- Web Components
Third-Party JavaScript — The Right Way
August 2017Five rules for writing JavaScript that runs safely inside someone else's website — learned from building integrations at 1&1.
- JavaScript
- Frontend
- Web Development