Although, as an expert in information management, he is primarily involved in data warehousing and business intelligence, in recent years, he has also been fascinated by programming languages for children such as Scratch. Read the article by Petr Hájek that summarizes his experiences and impressions from teaching a programming course for children in collaboration with makeITtoday. Many years ago, I got the …

This post isn’t a textbook on data vault modelling. It’s a reflection on what data vault methodology is good for and why it’s worthwhile to take another look at it today. At the very end of the last century, two strong opinions emerged on the structure of data warehouses. Bill Inmon defined the basic principles of data warehouses (subject-oriented, time-variant, non-volatile, and integrated) …

We interviewed our long-time colleague Martin Hlavatý, who has worked at Profinit as a developer, analyst, and team leader and now is our delivery manager. How does he view Profinit, what motivates him to succeed, and how does he think Profinit differs from other companies? How long have you been working for Profinit and how did you get here? I started …

Go to the website ockovani.opendatalab.cz to get an overview of the openings to get vaccinated against COVID-19. The goal of the application is to give Czechs a quick overview of vaccination capacity, which, until now, hasn’t been available anywhere. The application was developed by Marek Sušický and Jan Staněk from OpenDataLab, the joint workplace of the Faculty of Information Technology of …

Build once, deploy many is an essential principle of software development. The main idea is to use the same bundle for all environments, from testing to production. This approach enables easy deployment and testability and is considered a fundamental principle of continuous delivery. It is also part of the twelve-factor methodology. As crucial as it is, it has not received significant …