Timeline

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2024
2023
December
We organised our first hackathon in cooperation with the student council for computer science at the University of Augsburg. makandra wishes you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2024!
November
We have opened our new YouTube channel.
October
We were at the Hackerkiste 2023 and were able to meet many of you.
July
We are happy to host our first summer party for our costumers in the new office. We also officially celebrate our move into TONI Park with family & friends.
June
Due to our long collaboration with Studyflix, we are updating our case study on our cooperation.
May
We were guests at the job fair bonding in Erlangen and are happy about the many interesting conversations at the Pyramid in Augsburg.
April
We visited the CONTACT company contact fair in Ingolstadt and our CEO Thomas also hosted a talk at the university in Aalen. Our ops were also represented with three exciting talks and their own booth at the Linux-Infotag in Augsburg.
March
We hosted a new Full-Stack-Hour on Kubernetes: running different workloads.
February
We finally moved into our new office at TONI Park!
January
For one of our customers we develop a platform for Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of products.
This year, we received the award as one of the Top Companies 2023 from kununu again.
2022
December
makandra wishes you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2023!
November
We visited the WiMa congress in Ulm and had many interesting conversations with students from the region.
October
This year we were once again partnering with the Hackerkiste. In addition to presentations on topics such as IoT, web or IT security, this time the event was concluded with a Secure Coding Tournament.
September
We present our four core values that define makandra.
August
In our new case study, we provide insights into the relaunch of ICAR.
July
We are this year's "client" for the software project of the University of Augsburg. The students learn a development process in a hands-on way and realize a project for us. After the interim presentations, we enjoyed cold drinks and food with the students and exchanged some ideas.
We visited the Kontaktpunkt job fair in Konstanz and were also able to attract students from the Lake Constance region.
June
Our CEO Thomas was a guest on the Working Draft podcast to talk about his expertise in Infrastructure as Code.
May
In May, makandra was represented at two job fairs – finally in presence again! With our new booth we visited the Allgäu University Fair in Kempten and the Pyramid Augsburg. There we talked to many interested students and are now looking forward to receiving applications.
April
We are now offering a new trainee program for DevOps Cloud Engineer (m/f/d). More information can be found at start.makandra.de.
March
We relaunched and redesigned the website of the International Commission for Alpine Rescue (ICAR). We also host the site.
February
We were named one of kununu's Top Companies 2022.
January
We support the largest German recycling company with software development and consulting services to improve their route planning.
We talked about fixing flaky end-to-end tests in Ruby at our Meetup format "Full Stack Hour".
2021
December
makandra wishes you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2022!
With the release of Rails 7, our service Rails LTS now also supports Rails 5.2.
November
As of now, we are hosting boxbote.de on our infrastructure. The Augsburg-based start-up delivers food and merchandise from local retailers in an environmentally friendly way by bicycle.
October
We are once again partner at this year's virtual Hackerkiste. The format combines conference and hackathon and covers topics around web development, IT security, IoT and many more.
September
We launch a multi-site CMS for a large German corporation just in time for the start of the IAA.
August
We create a landing page for our offer of a customized consultancy software.
July
In our new case study, we provide insights into the relaunch of cheapenergy24.
June
We can proudly say that Unpoly 2 has been released! This release features countless new features and API improvements, unlocking many use cases that were not possible with Unpoly 1.
May
We are kicking off a collaboration project with Augsburg University of Applied Sciences in which social work students will test and evaluate our chat software for online counseling.
April
At RailsConf 2021 we speak about stress and burnout in open-source projects.
Speaking at the first Augsburg "Tech Community", we show reasons for the growing popularity of DevOps in software operations.
March
With our "DevOps as a Service" offering, we support developer teams with infrastructure and operations expertise.
February
We support a startup from the healthcare sector in the further development of an app for digital therapies.
January
With the development of the central web and communication platform for a large German corporation, we are starting one of our largest and most comprehensive projects to date.
2020
December
We develop a customized software for internal processes for planning, budgeting and accounting for the Landesverkehrswacht Sachsen.
November
We demonstrate our DevOps know-how and advise a large German corporation on all aspects concerning the migration of its infrastructure to AWS.
October
We host this year's virtual hackathon "Symbioticon 2020" of the Sparkassen Finanzgruppe.
We are participating in the "Nowtonext" Startup-Accelerator program in Augsburg and advise and coach digital startups.
September
We are very happy that Audi AG has once again won the NetFed Media Relations Benchmark 2020 with the Audi MediaCenter and is thus awarded for the best press website among 60 major German corporations.
August
We relaunch cheapenergy24! The personal change assistant for electricity and gas got a new design in the frontend and a completely digital handling of all processes in the backend.
June
With the JugendNotmail we win another user of our live chat software.
May
We migrate the app of a sports and wellness provider (heiaheia) previously hosted on AWS to our makandra OpsComplete infrastructure.
April
We advise an international bank on setting up an AWS cloud infrastructure for an innovative, digital customer app.
March
We are developing a web-based live-chat for Deutsche Aidshilfe.
February
We're performing a technical due dilligence of a large Ruby on Rails project. Our report contains detailed assessment of code quality, test coverage, deployment, external interfaces and operations.
January
We expand ourselves in the area of cloud services and will offer customers comprehensive consulting and technical support for cloud projects.
2019
December
After 10 years of makandra we renew our appearance with a new logo and CI.
We launch a new application for Deutsche Verkehrswacht to offer safe driving trainings.
November
With a new trade fair appearance, we are represented at the job fair akademika.
September
We are part of the second Augsburg Cloud Breakfast and give a talk about the background of deciding to integrate the G-Suite as part of our workflow.
August
The e-Learning-Plattform Studyflix gets new developed features successfully released.
May
10 years makandra! Together with our families we celebrated our 10-year anniversary in a festive setting. In doing so we were recalling the development of our company over the last years and looking back with pride upon over a 100 projects which we have successfully realized since our foundation.
For a major German corporation, we have developed a tool to help their internal press communication. It's completed perfectly on time.
This year, we are the “the client” for the software project 2019 of the university of Augsburg. Students will learn a real development workflow while developing a tool for the clearing of open source licenses.
We are part of the first Augsburg Cloud Breakfast. Thomas gives a talk about “vendor lock in in the cloud”.
April
After 2016, Audi wins the NetFed Media Relations Benchmark for a second time with its Audi MediaCenter. According to NetFed, Audi has the best press website out of 75 press websites of big German corporations.
March
The 36th Web & Wine event was, again, a huge success! Guests enjoyed discussing latest trends in web development and new technologies, supported by tasty beverages and delicious finger food. As a sponsor, makandra had the opportunity to provide a short introduction of Ruby as a programming language.
February
It was lovely! With our service Rails LTS we sponsored and co-organized Ruby on Ice 2019 at lake Tegernsee. The many international attendees and escpecially the in the Ruby scene well-recognized keynote speakers made this event a real highlight.
2018
December
Relaunch of the e-learning platform Studyflix. In multi-day workshops the requirements were collected and first mock-ups were created. Afterwards, we completely redesigned the website. Soft launch 4 weeks before deadline.
We support the first Hackathon at the OpenLab Augsburg. In a comfortable and creative ambience we build some ESP8266-based remote controlled robots and implement a JSON-API for playing field monitoring.
October
We give guest lectures about automated software tests and testing of distributed systems at the University of Augsburg.
We present a lightning talk "Advanced Intrusion Detection with Suricata" at the AUXINNOS conference in Augsburg.
Our product Rails LTS now also supports Rails 4.2, in preparation for the release of Rails 6.
September
Audi presents the full-size electric SUV e-tron on www.e-tron.audi. We built and run the micro site and gave support during the live stream.
August
We relaunched the newsroom of one of Germany's top automotive enterprises. Contents from the previous platform were fully migrated into the new application. It is hosted on our proven, high-availability hosting setup.
May
We finished another migration of a customer application to AWS. We're using Cloudformation templates to easily reproduce the whole setup and additionally have some documentation of the infrastructure versioned in our Git repositories.
March
Our product Rails LTS version 2.3.18.19 is now able to be used with Ruby 2.3. This means a large performance increase for Rails 2.
February
makandra successfully completed a TISAX VDA ISA 3.0 security audit. TISAX is the most important IT security standard in the automotive industry. We are now offically certified until end of 2020 and offer TISAX-certified hosting and operations in Germany. The TISAX certification is strongly related to the ISO 27001 certification. That confirms our ongoing striving for security as an essential part of our business culture.
January
Together with Ruby Berlin e.V. we're organizing Ruby on Ice 2018. Ruby on Ice is the first and only Ruby conference in southern Germany and the Austria and Switzerland region. We're sponsors of the conference as well.
We're taking over hosting for the career portal KAP.WWU of the University of Münster. As usual, we're hosting on a redundant high-availability cluster. KAP.WWU is powered by Elasticsearch, Ruby, Rails, and uses the Single Sign On capabilities of the University of Münster. Rails LTS ensures security for the Rails framework.
2017
December
Further development on a backend API that is used in a mobile app for the real estate sector. We're using Ruby, Swagger, PostgreSQL and more. It runs on Amazon EC2 and other AWS services.
Development kick-off: We're re-launching a complex newsroom for a DAX corporation that will have a scalable newsletter, uses Elastic and SSO. For preparation we've passed a security audit (VDA ISA 3.0) and have completed an open source license check.
November
Launch of "Verkehrswacht-App" which is used to request, plan, budget, and bill grant funds for the Deutschen Verkehrswacht e.V. in Berlin. Over 600 local units all over Germany, 16 units acting for the federal provinces as well as the headquarter of the Verkehrswacht are going to work with the Ruby on Rails based system we built. We've handed over the application on time and on budget and have completed training for the employees in Berlin.
September
We're welcoming the 75th customer of Rails LTS.
August
We're finally in "legaltech"! We're starting development on a project with a large German law firm. The application is pushing digitalization within the transportation / aviation / logistics sector.
July
We're migrating a large API infrastructure running on Amazon Web Services that utilizes over 35 EC2 instances, uses RDS for database services as well as ElastiCache (Redis). We're using Puppet to manage the infrastructure together with automated and extensive monitoring using Icinga/Nagios. Additionally, we're using Cloudwatch to monitor the AWS infrastructure.
We're now hosting frustfrei-lernen.de on our highly-available, fail-safe cluster.
June
Audi MediaCenter wins the German award for online communications.
We're developing another influencer ranking tool for a German car manufacturer.
May
We're starting development on an application for the Deutsche Verkehrswacht e.V. (an agency for road safety in Germany). This was our first participation in public tendering procedures and we've won straight away. In November 2017 we are going to deliver an application which maps the complex processes of the Verkehrswacht into a web-based application.
January
Deutsche Bahn (German railways) is migrating all their infrastructure to Amazon Web Services. We're part of the consulting teams at DB Systel and decide which applications are able to be migrated, how the architecture looks like, plan the migrations and carry them out.
2016
December
We're taking over managed hosting of Audi Technology Portal
August
We've built a new video player for Audi MediaTV. The old Flash-bashed player was not up to today's standards any more. Additionally, a design rebrush according to the new Audi corporate design was required. To coincide with the start of Audi Summit 2017 in Barcelona the player was launched, tested and found stable for the large event.
Audi Germany wins the NetFed Media Relations Benchmark 2016. According to NetFed, Audi has the best press website out of 75 corporate press websites, ahead of The Coca-Cola Company, followed by SAP SE, Robert Bosch and Porsche.
July
#AudiSummit in Barcelona: We've implemented the design for the summit website and took care of the live stream.
June
We are taking over managed hosting for studentensteuererklaerung.de. The company behind this, wundertax GmbH, allows easy yet secure submission of tax returns for different target groups such as students, fire fighters, soldiers and so on. From now on we are taking care of the secure operation of the wundertax infrastructure.
May
We're building a backend-based system that uses the YouTube API. That's about all we're allowed to say. :-)
April
A long-time customers of us is using EC2 on Amazon Web Services. We're part of the infrastructure team and support the daily operations. Up to 350.000 visitors use the platform simultaneously, which has to use auto-scaling on AWS to handle the load.
March
We've relaunched the Newsroom of R+V Versicherungen. The newsroom aggregates all news and interactions from different social media channels and features those on the newsroom. We've supported the project from start when we acted as technical advisor. We've implemented the software and are running the platform on our managed hosting infrastructure since launch.
We support Homify with their Ruby-on-Rails application on Amazon Web Services from now on. Development is done inhouse by homify - we care about the AWS infrastructure and help the developers as an outsourced SRE team.
February
We advise BE MATE in Barcelona regarding code quality and their path to relaunching their platform.
January
We're migrating a large API landscape for a German media company from an in-house data center to AWS, redesigning the components for redundancy where reasonable using AWS components such as ELB, EC2, RDS, ElastiCache and S3. We're also responsible for operations going forward.
2015
December
A long-term customer entrusted us with the development of a client- / browser-based tag-editor with JavaScript.
November
Audi MediaTV is the central video platform of Audi Germany. Live-events as well as footage videos are streamed from the site. We've integrated the platform into Audi MediaCenter which was built by us.
We start a cooperation with Siemens.
October
CodePen is a well-known platform amongst the development community. We're helping the CodePen team with scaling their codebase.
September
We've sold our job portals to ICTJOB Deutschland GmbH from Stuttgart.
August
We've helped to digitize the business processes for Pura Gebäudereinigung, a building cleaning company. From now on, facility managers of Pura are going to use tablets to document and organize customer interactions. The Pura backoffice is able to monitor all collected data in real time.
July
We have been entrusted to refactor and enhance a Ruby application which synchronizes videos with Youtube.
June
We've refactored Appointment Reminder which is a project by Patrick McKenzie (Kalzumeus Software).
May
We're launching a web-based automated influencer ranking platform. The app quantifies influencer distribution reach, quality and impact of brand influencers.
April
One of our hosting customers hits >1000 requests per second on a single virtual host on our load balancers. We've been hosting the backend API for quite some time already and have helped them scale the setup over time.
March
The Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy has invited us to join a panel discussion about cloud and IT security at CEBIT.
February
makandra is entrusted with refactoring and further development of a HbbTV application. We're reusing large parts of the code and improve redundancy to achieve TV-level-availability requirements (>99,999%). We're maintaining the solution after the re-launch. To ensure exact timing with TV signal we receive signals directly from TV operations via Moxa NPort devices that tunnel RS-232 over TCP. We haven't been closer to real TV signals :)
January
We start development of a custom application for a large building cleaner to abolish unnecessary and error prone exchange of paperwork.
2009
February
Founding of makandra.
makandra GmbH
Rails development & operations
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86159 Augsburg, Germany