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Dorien Jorissen

In software development, assumptions can have a serious impact and we should always be on the look-out. In this blog post, we talk about how to deal with assumptions when developing software. Imagine…you’ve been driving to a certain place A place you

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Dorien Jorissen

ACA does a lot of projects. In the last quarter of 2017, we did a rather small project for a customer in the financial industry. The deadline for the project was at the end of November and our customer was getting anxious near the end of September. W

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Gregory Van Dorpe

OutSystems: a catalyst for business innovation In today's fast-paced business landscape, organisations must embrace innovative solutions to stay ahead. There are a lot of strategic technological trends that address crucial business priorities such as

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Dorien Jorissen

Suppose you’re a Product Owner in an Agile delivery team, ready to get working on your product. In order to do that, you’ll need to give your development team a goal and a list of things to work on. If you use SCRUM as the framework, you’d call that

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Dorien Jorissen

Estimating the effort necessary to develop certain functionalities when writing software gives your customers some certainty and predictability. That being said: making software development estimates is usually not the most popular part of a develope

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Kris Vandebroek

Destroying complexity one Epic at a time Remember the Atari classic Asteroids? If you’re familiar with it, you might already feel a twinge of nostalgia. If not, here’s the picture: You’re in space, piloting a ship surrounded by massive, slow-moving a

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Peter Claassen

In June 2023, four ACA colleagues participated in the Foundations Day of the multi-day event of Domain-Driven Design Europe (DDD Europe). At the Meervaart theater in Amsterdam, they attended various talks offering a practical perspective on DDD conce

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Dorien Jorissen

An anthology of painful truths (and how to cope) Rookie mistakes As with many Product Managers I know, the job was handed to me like a hot potato on a burning silver platter. By lack of other volunteers. By accident. And with little context. Moreover

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Davy Steegen

In this blog post, I would like to give you a high level overview of the OAuth 2 specification. When I started to learn about this, I got lost very quickly in all the different aspects that are involved. To make sure you don’t have to go through the

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Kamen Zhekov

Today’s web applications and websites must be available 24/7 from anywhere in the world and have to be usable and pleasant to use from any device or screen size. In addition, they need to be secure, flexible and scalable to meet spikes in demand. In

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Pieter Swennen

Developing applications is becoming easier and easier thanks to the rise of things such as low-code platforms. However, for fully-fledged developers too, it’s easier than ever to start creating all kinds of applications thanks to platforms such as Fi

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Tim Van Laer

Apache Kafka is a highly flexible streaming platform. It focuses on scalable, real-time data pipelines that are persistent and very performant. But how does it work, and what do you use it for? How does Apache Kafka work? For a long time, application