Category: ottonova
Introducing the ottonova Tech Radar
We always promoted openness when it came to our tech stack. The ottonova Tech Radar is the next step in that direction. What is the Tech Radar? The ottonova Tech Radar is a list of technologies. It’s defined by an assessment outcome, called ring assignment and has four rings with the following definitions: ADOPT – Technologies we…
Recruiting Backend Engineers at ottonova
Here are some words about how the Backend Team goes about finding new team members. We want to do our part and share with the Community, as well as provide a bit more transparency into ottonova and how we are building state-of-the-art software that powers Germany’s first digital health insurance. This article covers what we…
CTF Writeup: Capture the TI-eRx
A few days back, the gematik – the organisation responsible for the secure network infrastructure (called telematic infrastructure or TI) of health actors – held their first CTF. The background of the CTF was the e-prescription which publicly insured people in Germany may now use to get their medicine without the need for a prescription…
Continuing our Hackathon tradition
At ottonova, we have taken the challenge of bringing a slowly moving and mostly antiquated business, the one of health insurance in Germany, into the 21st century. For over three years already we’ve been offering our customers not only competitive insurance tariffs, but also the digital products that go along with them. All this to…
php.barcelona
I and the rest of the PHP engineers at ottonova, had the pleasure of attending the PHP.Barcelona Conference in November this year. It was a great experience, spanning over two full days. I’ve put together some quick and biased notes about the presentations. Here it goes… Day 1 Opening Keynote – Rasmus Lerdorf Really uplifting…
Our Android App’s Permissions Explained
Permissions Starting with Android 6 (Marshmallow), Android has been improving and shaping permissions, adding more control to users and a better overview of what apps do with those permissions. App permissions are going in a direction of more transparency and security. Still, it’s not always easy to understand why some permissions are needed some times.…
The QA Engineer position at ottonova
We would like to use this article to give some insights on the QA Engineer position here at ottonova and to answer This article gives some insights on the QA Engineer position here at ottonova. Since the position can be interpreted quite differently we want to answer some common questions. Here we go. 1. Is…
Welcome to our ottonova.tech blog!
Hello everybody, with this post we want to kick off the ottonova.tech blog and also explain what it’s for. With this blog we sincerely want to give you insights on how we create the software and platform behind ottonova. The first newly founded private health insurance in a long time. We are assembling a strong…
