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In today’s economic environment, effective SaaS (Software as a Service) management can be a game-changer. In a series of LinkedIn posts, Andi, our CTO, dove into our SaaS management strategies. Let’s take a closer look at these strategies, from welcoming new tools with open arms to mastering the art of negotiation. Roll Out a Welcome Mat At FINN, innovation and autonomy go hand in hand. We believe in giving teams the freedom to choose the tools that best suit their needs....

Documentation can oftentimes come as an afterthought. At FINN, technical writing is set up as docs-as-code approach to be closely aligned with new developments in the Tech teams. But how can you elevate documentation further and ensure that the audiences’ needs are served? How do you align priorities and document the most impactful things? We are trying to get answers to these questions and more by sitting down with Kosara Golemshinska, Technical Writer at FINN, who started her tech writing career at FINN and is continuously shaping user-centric documentation....

Welcome to your monthly round-up in the world of documentation from the Tech Writing team at FINN! Recommended reads The best things we read last month 🤩 Expectation management for API products - setting yourself up for (developer) success Szabina Oláh explores the four types of expectations relevant for APIs and offers tips on how to understand and meet them. What the “Cobra Effect” Says About API Metrics Matthew Reinbold offers practical advice on avoiding proxy failures when selecting metrics to measure the business impact of your APIs....

Introduction In this post, I’m going to show you how we monitor our Make instance at FINN as a Make Enterprise customer. I’ll run you through why we monitor our instance, how the technical setup works, and how Datadog helps us to stay on top of problematic Make scenarios. Background At FINN, we use Make extensively to help us automate business processes. We are one of Make’s biggest customers, with about 3,500 active scenarios, running for a total of about 20,000 minutes (or 13....

Building proficient data teams and providing them with the right technical tools is crucial for deriving analytical insights that drive your company forward. Understanding the skills, technologies, and roles at play forms an essential part of this process. This post offers an overview of these key components shaping a ‘Modern Data Stack’, which you can use to guide your hiring and strategic planning. Context and Background The strategies shared in this post are drawn from a successful initiative at FINN, a German scale-up....

Welcome to your monthly round-up in the world of documentation from the Tech Writing team at FINN! Recommended reads The best things we read last month 🤩 Are your Google Docs safe from AI training? “With AI continuing its slow rise to prominence, consumers are concerned their personal content is being used to train Google’s generative service.“ Discord is not Documentation And neither is Slack. FreeBSD Journal DE May/June 2023 24...

Welcome to your monthly round-up in the world of documentation from the Tech Writing team at FINN! Content highlights June saw three entire articles go live, courtesy of our wonderful FINNies 🥳 Driving the future of mobility with an AI Hackathon at FINN From tech hypes to autonomous leadership: an interview with FINN CTO Andreas Stryz Running Steampipe on AWS Fargate At FINN, we believe in being customer-first. That applies to external and internal customers....

Are you using Steampipe to query your cloud services, such as an Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment? Are you using the results for reporting, security checks, governance or other important tasks in your organization? And are you tired of having to run those queries from your local machine or an AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance? In this blog post we’ll delve into running Steampipe directly from inside AWS itself, without setting up an EC2 instance....

Starting out in engineering can be both thrilling and a bit daunting. How to distinguish one tech hype from the next? What to do with those tricky career decisions that will inevitably come your way? Fear not, we’re here to help! We sat down with Andreas Stryz, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and co-founder of FINN, who has extensive experience as an engineer and in technical leadership. He shares his thoughts on the power of giving autonomy, the impact of no-code tools, and focusing on the tech you love....

How do you get a bunch of disruptive minds together in a (virtual) room to build innovative AI applications? Organize a hackathon! During the FINN feat. AI Hackathon held on May 30, participants embarked on a one-day challenge to generate measurable business impact by leveraging AI to solve problems. Solutions developed ranged from automated vehicle damage recognition and GPT-4-powered dynamic car pricing to a bot to answer queries about vehicles directly from Slack....