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Sustainability in IT is no longer a niche topic. More and more IT managers are making a public commitment to reducing the environmental impact of the IT for which they are responsible. This blog post provides an overview of specific aspects that should not be missing from a holistic green IT strategy.

.NET applications use threads to execute their work instructions. A thread pool bottleneck (also known as "thread pool exhaustion") occurs when a thread is requested from the thread pool but this can no longer provide one. In my blog post, I show you the problems associated with this and how you can analyse and solve these problems.

In recent years, the Internet of Things (IoT) has been on everyone's lips, promising to revolutionise the way we work and live in all industries. IoT devices, sensors and networks have been hailed as "the next big thing". But as with any technology trend that is heavily hyped, the question arises: is the Internet of Things dead? I answer this question in my blog post.

Metadata-driven data pipelines are a game changer for data processing in companies. These pipelines use metadata to dynamically update processes instead of manually revising each step every time a data source changes. As with data pipelines, metadata maintenance can be a bottleneck in the maintenance and further development of a pipeline framework. In this blog post, I use practical examples to show how the Jsonnet template language makes it easier to maintain metadata.

In an increasingly complex and individualised world of healthcare, the demand for personalised solutions in health insurance is growing. The introduction of customised offers not only has the potential to increase customer satisfaction but also to optimise the entire customer journey. In this blog post, I explore how these individualised approaches are changing the interaction between insurance companies and policyholders and what impact they could have on the future of healthcare.

The Cucumber Framework is a powerful open-source tool that is used as part of Behaviour Driven Development. By using a common language, it enables collaboration between non-technical and technical team members. This blog post provides an overview of the basic concepts and features of the Cucumber Framework.

Sustainability is crucial for the long-term success of companies. ESG factors have become a key evaluation criterion for companies and investors. In my blog post, I show why taking ESG factors into account is not only ethically but also financially relevant. A holistic ESG approach not only promotes the growth and stability of companies but also has a positive impact on society.

Large Language Models (LLMs), above all ChatGPT, have taken all areas of computer science by storm over the past year. As they are trained on a broad database, LLMs are fundamentally application-agnostic. Despite their extensive knowledge, however, they have gaps, particularly in highly specialised applications, which in the worst case can only appear to be compensated for by hallucinations. To reduce this risk, "Retrieval Augmented Generation" (RAG) has been established.

The degree of digitalisation in facultative business is still significantly lower than in other areas of the company, even among the largest reinsurers. The reason lies in the nature of the business: it works with few, highly individualised contracts - but business processes that work with a high degree of standardisation and large volumes are best digitised. With the latest advances in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), the tide is turning: new solutions can be a game changer to increase the efficiency and quality of facultative underwriting and make data available for other applications.