Hi, I’m Ralf and I help quality conscious software teams to deliver more reliably, make better predictions, and to progress at a more sustainable pace.

Ralf Westphal

The Elm Architecture Flow

What does the Elm Architecture look like? That’s what I immediately thought, when I started to read about the language. Currently I like Elm quite a bit because it makes it so easy for me to do some application programming with HTML UIs. I never…

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Ralf Westphal

Leiden an selbstverschuldeter Komplexität

Komplexität bewältigen ist ja gerade Thema. Jedenfalls in meiner filter bubble. Was können, sollen, müssen Unternehmen und Manager tun, um mit der ganzen Komplexität außen und innen fertig zu werden? Erfolg, vor allem wirtschaftlicher, also finanzieller, will ja gesichert, nein, auch noch gesteigert werden selbst…

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Ralf Westphal

Get Elm up and running

I’m infatuated with Elm right now. A functional programming (FP) language to make HTML frontend development easier. Read about Elm’s virtues at the official Elm homepage: elm-lang.org. In this article I don’t want to introduce you to the language. When you come back I’d rather…

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Ralf Westphal

Let's play Lean

Have you ever wondered what’s meant by „lean production“? It’s supposed to improve how stuff gets produced, be that shoes, cars, or even software. Production is supposed to flow smoothly. In order to accomplish that, lean thinking revolves around removing impediments of any kind and…

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