About Sven Haiges

Aug 07
Jul 10
the things node - brezn for scale

The Things Network

If you have listened to the last episode of Labs Talk, you'll roughly know what The Things Network is all about. It's a global community of IoT enthusiasts - it's all about connecting "your thing" to "your application". The Things Network uses LoRaWAN, which simply means that you can deploy... read more →
May 15

GraphQL on Kyma

Now that we've looked at the fundamentals of GraphQL and also have gone through some practical GraphQL exercises, I wanted to share some thoughts about how Kyma and GraphQL can be used in combination to create a flexible and extensible API layer for enterprise applications. Kyma is an open-source project... read more →
May 07
Apr 30

GraphQL: REST in peace!

I agree, GraphQL is not exactly the new kid on the block. Dating back to 2012, developed at Facebook, it looks like we've missed quite some development. But for those of you that know GraphQL, I guess we can agree that it just recently picked up a lot of traction...... read more →
Jan 17

STEAM Kids

Have you heard of Steam Kids? It's an SAP Hybris educational initiative. In a nutshell, we've taken our knowledge around coding & hardware and worked on a day-long workshop program for kids. The tool we decided to use is the Calliope Mini, a microcontroller board similar to Arduino that focuses... read more →
Aug 04
Jul 31
Jul 25

Web Push Notifications – Part 2 / technical

For this post, I assume you've read my post from yesterday about a small ordering prototype that we've created using web push technology. We've learnt lot's about recent technologies such as browser notifications, serviceworkers and push-messaging, which we're sharing in this post. (more…)