About us A Day In The Life Of A Scrum Team "The agile scrum" is one of the more successful organizational frameworks and fundamental to our ability to deliver products reasonably within time, with the user on center stage.
30secondsessions 30secondsessions: IoT Tech Expo Europe Recap Find out how we got on attending the IoT Tech Expo Europe, which took place earlier in November in Amsterdam.
culture Why we invest time in Google My Business (and ditched Facebook) Cloudoki is not known for digital marketing, but in the background we spend a lot of time automating our marketing process. We assumed that social media would be our primary outlets... until we started to discover some alternatives.
30secondsessions 30 SecondSessions - IT Spree Cloudoki was present last week at IT Spree, organised by the city of Ghent, to tickle a group of about 80 youngsters' curiosity in tech...
PO A day in the life of a PO - day nine For about 8 years, I had the intense pleasure of working as a seasonal Festival Stage Manager. (compare) Welcome to project Utop.ia Day nine Nine used to be my
OAuth2 API Authentication patterns This article will break down some of the common Authentication patterns we come across on a regular basis.
SaaS Open letter: Spotify PRO Hi Spotify, We'd love to tell you about a use-case that's out there. We've been avid Spotify premium users for a multitude of years and love everything about the product
PO A day in the life of a PO - day three So far, I haven't seen any project in the wild ran by an exemplary scrum team configuration. What one does, is cross fingers and hope for a team representing all
PO A day in the life of a PO - day two If all the required talent is already in your team, what's your unique selling proposition as Product Owner, you ask? The Guardian of the Roadmap is the best answer I
PO A day in the life of a PO - day one You are about to read a fictionalised story. The journey to be described is not based on a single job, rather a collection of past experiences, sugared with the odd hat tip to more experienced product owners.
culture A day in the life of a Scrum Team At Cloudoki we develop projects with our own scrum methodology. The agile scrum is an organisational framework that allow us to deliver products on time and user focused. This guide is based on our collective experiences.
KMOP We just became "state approved" Advisors, what now? This morning, we found that e-mail in our mailbox that will make a bigger dent then anticipated when we requested it: "The organisation Lab Gent bvba is registered as
Laravel Release: FrontQueue The Laravel Queue foreground jobs extension. Cloudoki just released a brand new package, all MIT. With FrontQueue one can expand and improve the Lumen and Laravel built in Queue to a frontend-enabled driver, required for the 3 Layer architecture. Next to the added features
Mass processing files What to do when you have 500GB+ worth of files to process? Reserve a couple of nights to let the inner autist out Find a job-student for monkey labour Start CLI scripting A collection of useful scripts: Back up Make sure you only work
Release: Cloudoki Guardian As extension to the Oauth2 Stack, Guardian provides internal Authorisation scopes for Laravel. This package is usable in multiple Laravel versions. Right now, however, the Guardian package is only tested
SQL A Simple Autistic SQL trick Ever had that sickening feeling that after a Database efficiency cleanup, your ID's are no longer in line with the actual amount of records? Congratulations, you have autistic tendencies! (We have a club) Set @a = 0; update tablename set id=@a:=@a+1 order
Release: Oauth2 Stack Oauth2 Stack Cloudoki just released a brand new package, all MIT. With the Oauth2 Stack one can integrate the complete Open Authentication 2.0 flow in a single require. The
Nginx Use Lumen as API Framework Disclaimer: we at Cloudoki think profoundly API-centric. The API is what defines your project. By upgrading the API to the center piece of your application environment, you by definition improve
Nginx Nginx Configuration We love Nginx, if only for it's small footprint. It became our HTTP server of choice, even for light CDN web apps or Wordpress and Ghost websites. As with every
Nginx Nginx on Ubuntu As quoted in our parent article, Nginx is our thing. In order to create similar working environments on both your local machine as your server(s), we've written 2 sibling
Nginx Nginx on OSX As explained in our parent article, we love Nginx. In order to create similar working environments on both your local machine as your server(s), we've written 2 sibling articles
BackboneJS Create a Frontend App in Backbone We’ll be making a Superadmin Account Manager as P.O.C. frontend app. The goal of this application is to manage our accounts and users. This post will cover
Nginx Set up your Local Battleground There is no such thing as always online. As any seasoned developer will second, domesticated or not, you need a local environment to develop. The bigger and more versatile your
Tutorial 3 Layer Architecture There is a magical creature we've been chasing throughout multiple projects, plotting and planning with some beautiful minds, and it has a name: The 3 Layer Architecture. In short, the
Nodejs Brew it, goddamnit* * You’ll thank me later. If you own a mac and are an aspiring coder, get HomeBrew. And Xcode. But this post is about brew. Homebrew installs the stuff you
