Overthinker's Thoughts on software design, artificial intelligence, and socio-technical systems.
Alexander Heusingfeld

Why Small Experiments can help to overcome Innovator's Dilemma

What’s in it for me as a reader I’ve been thinking about this topic since my article on Innovation Tokens [1] in 2016. In past articles I often used the term Small Experiments. I connect a lot of semantics to that term which is all about enabling innovation in larger organisations which might otherwise struggle with Innovator’s Dilemma. I wa... Read more

Owncloud 8 upgrade to 10: how to skip Major Versions

The Problem In case you also come into this great situation "I upgraded my Ubuntu to 16.04 LTS and suddenly my owncloud installation is a mess", don’t panic. I’m about to share my mess with you so you can pick the perils. It all started with Ubuntu 14.04LTS an innocent do-release-upgrade …​ which didn’t want to... Read more

Article on Innovation Tokens at jaxenter

The article I wrote on "Innovation Tokens: Hilfsmittel bei Informatikerromantik und Technologie-Überflutung" which was published in the German "Business Technology" magazine, has just been republished on jaxenter.de! You can find it at https://jaxenter.de/innovation-tokens-50334 in German language. Read more

Per request debugging with Log4j 2 filters

I wrote a post on the innoQ blog about "Per request debugging with Log4j 2 filters". The bare minimum that should be available are the application’s log messages, so that’s probably the simplest thing to start with. From what I saw, in most production environments log output is unfortunately reduced to the absolute minimum for the sake of ... Read more

Migrate Owncloud from PostgreSQL to MySQL

I am running a self-hosted owncloud instance for more than a year now. Back in August I decided to setup a new Ubuntu 14.04 server at home and tried to run owncloud with a PostgreSQL backend - which turned out to be a bad decision. Quite often I noticed the following error in my owncloud.log file: {"app":"index","message":"Doctrine\\DBAL\\... Read more