Part 3: Architectural principles of the Assimbly project — The Assimbly project is creating an open integration stack with modules that are: Open source Vendor Independent Multi/Hybrid-Cloud Service-Orientated Function-Orientated Modular API-Based Low-Code These are all the trends we identified in the previous part. As we saw in the first part, the architecture of Assimbly is built in much like…

Part 2: Architectural principles of the Assimbly project — “The process of technological development is like building a cathedral. Over the course of several hundred years new people come along and each lays down a block on top of the old foundations, each saying, ‘I build a cathedral’. Next month another block is placed atop the previous one. Then…

Part 1: Architectural principles of the Assimbly project — At the height of its power, the Athenian Empire began building the Parthenon. This was almost 2500 years ago. The building still stands today: The building is a miraculous engineering achievement. Even in ancient times, its architectural refinements were legendary. Although it is an engineering feat, the basic principles are…

Introduction — This blog series is a deep dive on the architectural principles behind the Assimbly software project. It reflects both the current situation, while at the same time it’s a vision for the future of the project. …

Part 1: A short analysis of the car market — People fall in love with each other. Half of the books and movies are about how we fall in love. The other half about broken love... People are endlessly complex with all kinds of colors. It’s easy and hard at the same time to love someone. But sometimes we don’t…

Part 9: A short analysis of the car market — What’s the ideal mean of transport? This seems like an obsession of mankind the last two centuries. There are heavy debates on the perfect way of transportation, whether it’s by car, bike, plane or train. Before that, there wasn’t much to get obsessed about. Either you were on foot, by…

Part 8: A short analysis of the car market — Cars seem like the perfect case for limited artificial intelligence. Firstly cars are expensive products, so you pack it with sensors, cameras, Lidars and processors. Also, roads and traffic seem like are very specific use case. When I told my colleagues in 2015 that within ten years we would have…

Part 7: A short analysis of the car market — You can say that that German car design is boring, but you can just as well say that it exudes class. Or you can say that it’s design is uncreative, or that’s recognizable. Whatever you say about the design of German cars, you can’t say they aren’t successful with it…

Part 6: A short analysis of the car market — The UK Automotive Industry has a long tradition and is very much alive. There is a lot of technological knowledge in the UK. English brands have a unique position in the high-end market of today. An industry with independent British carmakers, making cars from design to delivery however exists no…