MobiLab Blog

Knowledge sharing drives progress in our ever-evolving industry. In our MobiLab blog, we share knowledge and insights on Cloud Integration, Software Engineering, Data Ops, and MobiLab life.
Harmonizing UX and Scrum in an Agile World
Explore the harmonization of UX and Scrum for agile product success. Discover efficient processes, collaboration, and insights in this blogpost.
January 6, 2024
Archivum | Performing Blockchain Magic
Find out more about Archivum's most innovative feature: Blockchain magic! In this blog post, you get to peek behind the curtain and get a closer look at our archiving solution's inner workings!
February 18, 2022
Archivum | Leveraging Cold Storage
This is a blog post about the way MobiLab's archiving solution Archivum smartly utilizes different storage tiers (as well as the thought processes behind creating the feature itself!)
June 4, 2021
Archivum | A Cloud-Based Archiving Solution
This is a blog post about Archivum, MobiLab's first own product. It covers the experiences during development and its features as well as the thought processes behind each of them.
April 16, 2021
MobiTalk | A Virtual Voice Assistant for MobiLab
We recently developed voice assistant software that enables us to virtually answer questions from employees who are new to Germany.
March 31, 2021
A Primer into Cloud Adoption | Part 1
MobiLab is specialized on Cloud Integration (bringing together Cloud Adoption and Data Integration). As such we support our customers to transform into a cloud native organization and operate with their full data potential anytime & anywhere.
March 5, 2021
Elements of Cloud Governance
This is the first post in a series of posts detailing our shared experience in developing and implementing Cloud Governance models.
February 1, 2021
A Proper Kubernetes Readiness Probe with Spring Boot Actuator
The most common mistake for Kubernetes probes implementations and how to prevent it with Spring Boot Actuator.
April 28, 2020
How to Build A Managed Cloud Data Service
We recently worked on providing a self-service cloud platform that enables companies and end-users to install complex tools (e.g. MongoDB, InfluxDB, etc.) with just a few clicks.
March 25, 2020
Simplified Registration & Check-out
We redesigned the registration and checkout flows in the Vapiano App to make guests enjoy their experience in the Vapiano restaurants even more.
March 24, 2020
Stash! SDK
We are open sourcing our Payment SDK - Stash!. It supports 3 payment service providers, handles 3D Secure 2, and includes a UI for both Android and iOS.
December 20, 2019
Experience on building a data integration platform
Data Integration Platform helps organisations deliver master data reliably to all of the consuming systems. The platform removes the implementation and maintenance problems caused by the compounding number of integrations between data providers and consuming systems.
April 17, 2019
A Practical Technology Stack for Developing Multiple Interrelated Universal Web Apps
In one of our current projects, we are developing, testing and deploying several next.js React & Redux universal web apps in a mono-repo. Using lerna, we have an easy time managing interdependencies and versioning our apps. We’ve built a design system based on atomic design that helps us organize code and assure consistency across the apps. We implement all our UI code with styled-components.
March 27, 2019
Estimations: Predicting Small Parts of the Future (Part 2)
Estimates done by software engineers are in most cases still superior to other methods. With sufficient information, they can be accurate enough to be useful. Expect some over-optimism and overconfidence.
February 18, 2019
Estimations: Predicting Small Parts of the Future (Part 1)
Estimates done by software engineers are in most cases still superior to other methods. With sufficient information, they can be accurate enough to be useful. Expect some over-optimism and overconfidence.
February 11, 2019
Vapiano’s Food Ordering Gone Mobile
Ordering food has never been easier - we at MobiLab moved it to a whole new level. By using the Vapiano app with just a couple of steps, you can now get your favourite meal delivered directly to your table.
January 15, 2019
Automatic Login Using Deep Links on iOS
In this blog post we will demonstrate how to make the transition from one mobile app to another mobile app as seamless as possible. The technique we show is also applicable when migrating users from a web app to a mobile app.
September 11, 2018
Devoxx 2017 Belgium: My top list of videos
Last month, I was at one of the biggest conferences of JAVA world – Devoxx Belgium. As a software developer, it was a big chance to attend presentations and talks from big names like Venkat Subramaniam, Brian Goetz and Mark Reinhold.
July 5, 2018
Collected Thoughts on Devoxx 2017
As you might already know, every October there is a yearly Java developer conference called Devoxx held in Antwerp, Belgium. This year, thanks to my company, I had the chance to attend it with a colleague. In this post, I will be telling, strictly from my viewpoint, about my impressions about the conference, the community, what the “hot topics” are, and the general direction into the Java world is going.
December 21, 2017
Releasing Butler – Client For Jenkins
Not long ago, we released Butler – Client For Jenkins, a new mobile Jenkins client for the iPhone, supporting 3D Touch and many other features designed to make using Jenkins on mobile devices a smoother, more enjoyable and more productive experience.
February 3, 2017