At bevuta, Christian has been moving between software development, mobile app releases and classic ops work for over 10 years. Thanks to remote work, he is considerably more involved with family life – and he is free to choose where to live.

Why go to the office when your work fits on a laptop? Our colleague Martin started at bevuta in 2021 and was completely home office based from day one. In the interview, we talk about self-motivation, location-independent working, the role of gestures and facial expressions in communication and the saving grace of Sanity Talks.

In our frontend team, our software developer Michael was instrumental in developing the nora emergency call app. In our interview, we talk about small talk, joint team activities, scheduling lunch breaks and about the challenge of concluding the home office workday.

Felix has worked on behalf of bevuta on a software program that’s currently on its way to Jupiter. In the interview, he recounts why he prefers his home office for focused working and why intellectual work in particular requires a lot of flexibility.

Our designer Ute and her husband Lars both work at bevuta – and live just under two hours' drive away from the Cologne office. In our team interview Ute tells us about her remote work experience. She talks about the privilege of location-independent work, the challenge of remote communication and about motivation created by trust.

Lars is a requirements manager at bevuta and worked mainly from home right from the start. Being interrupted less often when working remotely is an efficiency win in his eyes. In this interview, he chats about the office grapevine, timetables and asynchronous work.

In April 2023, the ESA’s JUICE mission begins. On its long way to the moons of Jupiter, the spacecraft will also have bevuta software on board. That’s because our colleague Felix Winkelmann worked on the project for many years. We talked to Felix about what it’s like to work on software for a space flight project.

When the pandemic hit, our requirements manager Clemens felt isolated and shut in at his home office. Today, he loves the flexibility and autonomy remote work offers. In our interview, Clemens talks about video vs. phone calls, the impact of flexible work schedules on productivity, and why exciting tasks are worth way more than any control mechanism.

Alex moves to a different flat every few weeks, but she still works the same job. With us. In our team interview, we talk about isolation in lockdown, communication after working hours and the impact of different time zones on work routines. And about the effect it has on team dynamics if everybody is working from home.

Successful remote teamwork needs the right attitude – and the right tools. In the third part of our remote teamwork series we talk about the software that enables us to communicate efficiently in a team, to exchange ideas, coordinate and work together at least as efficiently as we would in the office.

Can you live in different cities, countries and even on different continents and still work together as one team? Of course you can – wonderfully so! In this second part of our series of articles, we talk about how remote teamwork works for us, how we use the strengths of this workspace model and how we meet the challenges.

Even before we sent the entire team to their home offices in March 2020, remote work was an established part of our company DNA. And since then, we've continued to hone our distributed, location-independent collaboration. In this series of articles, we'll talk about how we experience remote, virtual teamwork and how we handle it in practice. And we'll start with the pros and cons of working from home.

Access won’t be continued. You can hear rumors about the MS database app on a regular basis. Businesses could seriously suffer from the consequences if those rumors ever become true. Here are six good reasons to start thinking about alternatives.

Pablo Beyen, who today has already been the CEO of bevuta IT for 18 years, explains why Innovation and Visions play a big part in the pursuit to constantly develop technologies and maintain a competitive society.

Ruby's "Refinements" feature allows us to change the behaviour of existing classes and selectively enable it for any scope, which we demonstrate by implementing a "use strict", as known from JavaScript.

With the right tools, secure password management doesn't have to be a burden. This blog post shows a fast, secure and easy way to manage your passwords from the shell.

Using Gitlab with Ansible to deploy your software. The second part has finally emerged.

A group of three bevuta developers traveled to Berlin to attend this year’s EuroClojure which took place there on July 20th and 21st. As always, the two days (and nights) were brimming with informative and inspiring talks both on and off the stage. Here’s our report on it!

In 2015, we were working on a customer project in conjunction with the Amazon API worked. In the course of this, we have encountered some hurdles. We help users through these hurdles and pitfalls of the Amazon API.

In this article we show how one can use PostgreSQL's ENUM types in Clojure via clojure.java.jdbc.

The decimal-to-binary game introduces people that are not too familiar with IT and how computers work in a playful way to the binary numeral system.

This article is the first part of a series which will show you how to deploy your GitLab CI pipeline artifacts using Ansible. GitLab CI is the Continuous Integration solution shipped with GitLab which builds your projects automatically. Combining it with Ansible, a simple, yet powerful provisioning/deployment automation solution, will give you easy-to-use Continuous Delivery. We will start with the big picture of all involved physical and technological machinery, come up with a plan on how to add proper Ansible support to all your GitLab projects and walk you through a step-by-step implementation of the plan.

A group of four bevuta developers (including one of our apprentices) traveled to Bratislava to attend this year’s EuroClojure which took place there on October 25th and 26th. As always, the two days (and nights) were brimming with informative and inspiring talks both on and off the stage. Here’s our report on it!

Many people are using "the Cloud" quite naturally. But it seems that most people do not really know what it actually means. The "Cloud" is something abstract, doesn't denote a thing really, but many. This article wants to shed a light on the various subject-specific and technical aspects from the perspective of an engineer and entrepreneur: the question what the different kinds of "Cloud" really are technically speaking to economic risks and chances as well as the question of the security of (personal) data.

This post will introduce you to a new clojure core library that will be part of the Clojure 1.9 release called clojure.spec. After a short introduction it will go into detail on how we use it for some non-trivial applications like specifying, validating, and handling HTTP URL query parameters.

It is 2016 now, and blogs are no longer a hype. But maybe this is just a reason more to start a new one now. The medium is not fresh and shiny any longer, but it still has it’s raison d'être.