The maritime sector in Finland plays a crucial role in the country's economy, with numerous vessels visiting its waters annually. These large ships arriving to Finnish waters participate in Vessel Traffic Services and are subject to numerous laws, practices, and responsibilities.

Time and again it happens that we start to build something small, then later we expand it and realize that it grew too fast and uncontrolled. And now is a mess, an uncontrollable big ball of Mud, so to speak. Sadly, this has happened more times we can count despite our best efforts and intentions. Migrating workloads or building cloud-native software of enterprise-scaled proportions often falls victim to this outcome. And something like this is likely to happen when you build your infrastructure without a proper Cloud Governance model.

In this blog post, I will be discussing security in DevOps and how it might seem challenging for some, but it is just as much of a routine as anywhere else. I’ll show some good practices for teaming up DevOps and security and some statistics about the current situation of security in Cloud-native environments that can aid you in the cooperation of security and DevOps.  

Over two and a half years ago I got an interesting assignment to start my client's test automations for mobile applications  practically from scratch. By choosing test automation tool for IOS-side to differ from more common Appium + Robot Framework, led me to a lonely but fruitful learning path with Apple's Xcode IDE and XCTest library.

How can you select just the right robotic process automation (RPA) technology for you? Is there an option for large commercial technologies – say an open-source solution? In this text, we compare commercial and open RPA technologies to help you make an easier choice.

The future lies in multi-talented teams. A multi-talented team accepts a challenge and builds a product or service, all the way from an idea to production, without any middlemen. A dream or reality? Read and decide.

In spring 2019, Siili launched Siili One, its new subsidiary, which employs experienced software specialists who need a challenge. Siili One means a return back to the roots of Siili – to a risk-sharing salary model. Its purpose is to find the right talent for the right project at the right time, without any unnecessary fuss. In this text, I will tell you what Siili One means for employees, partners and customers.

Even though subcontracting is common in the software industry, it is not much talked about and it is underrated. In this article, I will discuss how software companies can use subcontracting as a tactical tool – successfully and ethically while avoiding general pitfalls.

Many of us programmers have a curious personality. New things are like a toy box to us: we just have to open it and explore. However, daily life is not always like that. Instead of looking for new things we can end up repeating routines. When I noticed that I was getting into a rut, I started to fight against it by actively developing myself.