AI & the other side of the coin

Have you ever wondered who owns the content that you prompted and which is then provided by ChatGPT or other AI-based writing tools? Who owns the copyright? How do big players like Google or Microsoft handle this situation?   But first things first. Almost every country has published its own copyright law or regulation regarding […]

Unlocking success: our ongoing user research adventure

We hope to inspire and help you avoid common pitfalls when starting with product discovery. To provide valuable insights on this broad topic, we will cover everything from the organizational challenges, setup, interviewing, analysis, and sharing insights. Today, we start with ‘Why’ and explain the reasons why we embarked on our journey of continuous discovery […]

Events vs commands in asynchronous communication

To summarize: In an event-driven architecture, components communicate asynchronously by sending each other event messages. Instead of having a component that commands other components and keeps track of the system’s overall state, each component that listens to an event knows exactly what to do when it occurs. The events drive the process. This architectural style […]

The LLM hype and the job of the data scientist

I recently came across a Reddit discussion about how the LLM hype destroys data science and felt a lot of empathy related to what’s going on in terms of hiring here at viesure. For one of our projects, we want to use a Large Language Model (LLM, the technology behind ChatGPT or Bard) to search […]

Providing sensitive information to applications in Kubernetes environments using init containers

The challenge We need to pass sensitive information like secrets, certificates, API keys, etc., to applications that are using Kubernetes (Google Kubernetes Engine in our case) as their orchestration environment. This information needs to be stored in a secure place and must not be committed to any source code repository used for our GitOps approach. […]

Implementing an annotation-driven GDPR cleaning service

A common problem in applications and services dealing with personal data is not only how to efficiently and reliably store the data, but also how to get rid of it once the related user decides to delete their profile. With the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR, also known as DSGVO in Austria), there’s a strict […]

Reducing costs in cloud environments

Cloud infrastructures come with a multitude of advantages when compared to on premise hardware. Apart from the added flexibility, resilience and agility when designed correctly, cloud infrastructure also bears the possibility to optimize costs based on actual usage, shared resources and free tier options. In this article we will show you how we achieved a […]