Author: MartijnVeldkamp

  • Technical Debt and how to solve it

    Image borrowed from https://saveyourdollars.com/10-important-strategies-for-paying-off-debt/ Technical Debt and how to solve it /A Martijn Veldkamp /A October 31, 2022 As promised in my earlier blog. I will try to write more often and will write about Changing the Process or the Implementation and Technical debt. Technical debt? What is that? It is a phrase from the…

  • “Simplify, then add lightness”

    “Simplify, then add lightness”

    “Simplify, then add lightness” This famous quote is from Colin Chapman. It was his philosophy, somewhere in 1950 way before ‘minimalism’ became fashionable.…

  • Software as an Onion (SaaO)

    Software is like an onion. Your team’s code is one “layer” in this onion. There are layers below you (which you rely on), and layers above you (which rely on…

  • myEinstein

    This year’s Salesforce Dreamforce conference started rather big with the announcement of my Einstein. The news spread quickly through the massive crowd of 170,000 plus attendees at Dreamforce 2017 and was met with equal levels of enthusiasm and scepticism. The Einstein machine learning platform has been updated with new predictive insights and chatbot capabilities. In…

  • Oracle in the Cloud is busy, very busy

    http://www.pic2fly.com/Ancient+Greek+Oracle%27s.html Oracle in the Cloud is busy, very busy /A Martijn Veldkamp /A April 19, 2017 Apiary Oracle’s first Cloud move this year was to buy Apiary, an enterprise API specialist. Apiary provides hosted tools to build, test and monitor APIs working with REST protocol. It had three funding rounds totaling 10 million dollars. The…

  • Human Error -> Root cause AWS S3 outage is found

    Human Error -> Root cause AWS S3 outage is found

    Human Error -> Root cause AWS S3 outage is found Martijn Veldkamp "Strategic Technology Leader | Customer’s Virtual CTO | Salesforce Expert | Helping Businesses…

  • AWS’s S3 outage

    AWS’s S3 outage

    AWS’s S3 outage Martijn Veldkamp "Strategic Technology Leader | Customer’s Virtual CTO | Salesforce Expert | Helping Businesses Drive Digital Transformation"…

  • „Hoe vind je het zelf gaan, Buurman?”

    „Hoe vind je het zelf gaan, Buurman?”

    „Hoe vind je het zelf gaan, Buurman?” Martijn Veldkamp "Strategic Technology Leader | Customer’s Virtual CTO | Salesforce Expert | Helping Businesses Drive…

  • Design Thinking and Agile

    The Interview: We Are Same-Same, But Different Design Thinking and Agile /A Martijn Veldkamp /A February 18, 2017 Is it same-same but different? When to use one or the other How do we determine which frameworks, organisational models and activities will get us from the products and services of now to those of tomorrow? I…

  • Amazon disrupts again

    Amazon is now testing a store in Seattle where customers can walk in, take food off of the shelves and leave, without the hassle of having to wait in line. This new service is called AmazonGo, and it uses Amazon’s “Just Walk Out Technology”. Is this the result from Lean, checkout waste removal? Or Design…