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March 28, 2021 3 mins read
General

Joining ThePowerMBA

Recently, I have decided to join ThePowerMBA program. Since quite some people have asked me why I chose to attend the course, here is my answer.

ThePowerMBA in a Nutshell

ThePowerMBA program is a roughly one-year long online course that gives a broad overview over a variety of topics:

  • Business model innovation
  • Testing business ideas & lean startup
  • Business and marketing strategies
  • Leadership
  • Entrepreneurship & fundraising
  • Digital marketing
  • Finance & accounting
  • HR & talent management

The topics are taught in so-called microlearnings which are basically videos of ~15 minutes length every day. Some of the videos are in a more educational format, which means that ThePowerMBA staff walks through and explains the theory behind a concept. After the theory there are always interviews with entrepreneurs from big startups that have actually implemented them and walk you through how they did it and what was important to them. So hands-on experience with the theory from people of have walked the walk first hand.

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January 06, 2021 7 mins read
Engineering

Integrate Klaro Consent Management

Klaro is an open-source and simple consent management platform to make a website GDPR compliant. If you happen to serve traffic to European users then you should definitely check whether your website needs to be GDPR compliant as well. While this is not going to be a legal blog post we will see how we can use Klaro to enforce a high level of user privacy on a website.

Disclaimer: This blog post does not contain any legal advice. Please do consider a lawyer with experience in privacy to see if your website needs to be and is GDPR compliant once you implemented it.

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June 16, 2020 2 mins read

A Deep Dive into DevSecOps: My Conversation on the Security-Insider Podcast

In a recent episode of the Security-Insider Podcast, I, Fabian Keller, delve into the transformative impact of DevSecOps on IT system security and discuss the balance between safety and security. Listen to the full episode for insights on the benefits of rapid iteration cycles, the importance of a security-oriented mindset, and the role of threat modeling in proactive security planning.

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May 31, 2020 9 mins read
Engineering

5 Useful jq Commands to Parse JSON on the CLI

JSON has become the de facto standard data representation for the web. It’s lightweight, human-readable (in theory) and supported by all major languages and platforms. However, working on the CLI with JSON is still hard using traditional CLI tooling.

Lucky, there is jq, a command-line JSON processor. jq offers a broad range of operations to transform and manipulate JSON based data structures from the command line. Looking at the documentation however reveals an overwhelmingly huge number of options, functions and things you can do with jq. This blog post shows 5 useful jq commands that you really need to know.

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