Blogging at MMS Technology
Tags: blogging, technology, people, community
Published: 2024-01-30 09:28:40


_Daddy? How are the little blog entries made?_

## About Communities

Blogging about blogging - I love this kind of meta stuff.
But what I love even more are communities. Passionate, enthusiastic people, sharing an area of interest. It doesn't matter how junior or senior someone is, what experience they have, or if they are just at the beginning of their journey. The key aspect is only passion.

We always had strong communities at MediaMarktSaturn. Be it interdisciplinary departments passionate for their solution, matrix-organized chapters excited for their stack like backend developers or frontend hippies, or cross-functional renegades rehearsing the uprising to establish _GitOps_.
But recently we lifted this community thing to a new (meta) level.

Officially founded by engineers and supported by the top management, we proclaimed a company wide _Engineering Community_.
There are over 600 people in, who joined of their own accord, helping each other and discussing topics.
As always, there's much less folks very active, but enough to build at least some crews like "API", "Backend Engineering", "Cloud" or "Frontend something".

## Outreach Activities

A thing that became clear to us, at the latest when we got renamed to "MMS _Technology_": There's a lot we have to offer.
So we aligned and established a lean process for different kinds of outreach activities like speaking on meetups or conferences.
But preparing for a conference talk is high effort and not only because of that a seldom event.

What about all the goodies that happen to us and that are achieved by us day by day? Those _little_ things that literally drive us nuts hours and days till we figured out how easy it was after you know how.
Those solutions we built for problems which peculiarly hit us as first persons ever, at least according to the known internet.

## Finally: Blogging

Guess I'm not the only one who sometimes thinks: I have to talk about... or at least write about _this_.
And guess what? Of course there are lots of people by my side who have value to share.

You think retail business is boring? Fun is what we make of. And we _make_ great solutions using hottest technology, in nearly every discipline available on the free market.

## Processes

Long story short: At MMS Technology every person is encouraged to write about tech. There's a very lean approval process, that is (of course) Git based. You take the template, fill in your text and create a pull request.
A group of outreach reviewers - ordinary people, just sharing their passion for tech, who are familiar with our communication guidelines, validating that you don't disclose (real) secrets and consulting you in case of obscurities.
After the pull request got approved and merged, a little _GitHub Action_ publishes the article to _medium.com_ and you're done.

## The Beginning

Why am I telling you all of this? Because I love communities. And communities share and profit from each other. I'm absolutely convinced that everyone has valuable things to share - except for our security guys, they have vulnerabilities to share 😉.
Blogs do not need to be novels - in fact, short and precise findings or insights are the best content to provide - not like this text here.

So - happy to read you soon.

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