Sven Haiges, Author at SAP Customer Experience Labs

About Sven Haiges

Sven is a maker at heart and loves to connect things. In his role as Senior Technology Strategist at SAP Customer Experience Labs he is constantly researching and prototyping emerging technologies and tries to drive adoption to SAP's products and solutions by using these new technologies for prototypes and proofs of concept (POCs). Sven believes in a playful approach for learning, loves flashy projects and is happy to share his insights at conferences around the globe. @hansamann

Jul 01

Exploring the Hasura Open Source GraphQL Engine

I've looked quite a bit at GraphQL in 2019 and I still believe it is an essential part of modern architectures. It allows a diverse set of clients to query and modify your backend system and provides exactly the data that is requested. In addition, GraphQL can be used to... read more →

July 1, 2020
Sven Haiges
GraphQL, hasura, postgreSQL, serverless, webhooks

Jun 26

Dynamic Content Creation for Social Media Sharing

We've touched on social commerce and social media a lot lately, for example in the OnSite Optimization blog post that I wrote. I also mentioned very quickly a feature that I implemented as part of this research: the capability to dynamically generate the preview image. This turns out to be... read more →

June 26, 2020
Sven Haiges
dynamic content, microbrowsers, node-canvas, preview

Jun 18

Snap Lens Studio – AR for the masses

You might also be stuck at home (thx Corona) and probably find yourself in way too many Zoom meetings these days. It's just natural that we try to explore how we can augment our video-conferencing to have some fun while we are in this situation. Snap, the company behind the... read more →

Jun 10

The Corona-Warn-App with Thomas Klingbeil

Along with several partners, SAP has been developing the “Corona-Warn-App” – Germany’s official mobile solution for contact tracing. The app is meant to help limit the spread of COVID-19 by anonymously tracking who users come into contact with and alerting them when one of these users has tested positive. Collaborators... read more →

June 10, 2020
Sven Haiges
App, BLE, bluetooth, co-innovation, contact tracing, Corona-Warn-App, coronavirus, COVID-19, Mobile

May 28

Web Components with Peter Muessig

This episode is for all our developers out there... For the uninitiated, Web Components are a set of features that provide a standard component model for creating web pages and applications, allowing for encapsulation and interoperability of individual HTML elements. By now most frontend web frameworks such as Angular, React... read more →

May 28, 2020
Sven Haiges
future web development, Web Apps, web components, web platform