On Friday, September 20th, Honeypot is joining Greta Thunberg’s global climate strike. As a developer-focused job platform, we are keenly aware of the role that technology plays in our lives and in our world. When it comes to climate change, tech (and more specifically the developer community) provides some of our greatest hopes for lessening humanity’s overall impact.

In preparation for the strike, we spoke with two Honeypot clients, tado° and Lana Labs, about their thoughts on tech and climate change. Environmental activism may not be the first thing that jumps to mind when you hear home heating or process mining–but perhaps it should be. These two forward-thinking companies show that there are many ways to use our modern tools to make a positive difference. Read on to find out how they do it!

At Honeypot, we are committed to actively promoting women in tech. Our 2018 Women in Tech Research Report revealed how far we, as an industry, still have to go. But small, consistent steps lead to big change. To celebrate International Women’s Day we asked several of members of our team to tell their personal story. Be it in Talent or Customer Management, Marketing, Product or Data, the women featured here are creating impact and showing the power of a diverse workforce.

About a month ago, Cologne hosted it’s annual Pirate Summit, also known as “Europe’s Craziest Startup Conference”. This unique conference hosted more than 650 founders, 200 investors, attendees from over 70+ countries, and a fire-breathing mechanical horse:

Dutch tech company Bynder began life as a side project in a web agency. The difficulty of image-transfer led the founders to develop their own digital asset management software, which today is used by more than 150,000 brand managers, marketers and creatives globally. We talk to Bynder CTO, Roland Keijzer about their modern tech stack and the joys of having offices in three of Europe’s coolest cities, Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Barcelona.

Kerry Wu is Senior Tech Industry Analyst at CB Insights, a technology market intelligence platform. Kerry leads CB Insights’ autotech newsletter and mobility research, tracking startup developments, investments, and emerging business models across the automotive, transportation, and logistics industries. In this interview, Kerry talks to Honeypot about the state of AutoTech in America and Germany and what strategies large automakers are employing to attract software developers.

It is beyond doubt that 3D printing technology is revolutionary with regards to its applications. From science research to open source prosthetics, nearly every industry is finding useful ways to utilize the technology. We interviewed developers from 3D Hubs, one of the leading 3D printing companies in the Netherlands, based in Amsterdam.

Scout24 operates leading digital classified platforms, including AutoScout24 and ImmobilienScout24, in Germany and other selected European countries. We talked to Luiz Scheidegger, Head of Technology - Core Experience, and Boris Danne, Business Development Manager, from AutoScout24. They filled us startup life, the demand for software developers in Munich and how it feels to be part of one of city’s biggest tech successes.

Andy Smith is CTO at Wercker, an Amsterdam-based tech company providing a continuous delivery system using containers. Andy joined Wercker two and half years ago and oversaw the transition of the platform from LXC to Docker. When hiring developers, Andy pays special tribute to open source contributions, valuing a broad portfolio of open source projects.

Faced with the closure of his previous startup, Nico Ulbricht began searching for new job opportunities in Berlin and came across Honeypot. Following a call and a code review, Nico became visible to companies on Honeypot:

Harry Roberts is an award-winning Consultant Front-end Architect who helps organisations and teams across the globe to plan, build, and maintain product-scale UIs. A Google Developer Expert, he writes on the subjects of CSS architecture, performance, and scalability at csswizardry.com; develops and maintains inuitcss; authored CSS Guidelines; and Tweets at @csswizardry.

Michael Kugele has been involved in the Berlin startup scene for more than 15 years, joining as a developer in the early days of both Rocket Internet and Project A Ventures. Today Kugele is CTO at Nu3, where he is responsible for a team of 10 developers, 6 quality assurance engineers and 4 product managers.

Enrico Zimuel is an Italian open source developer working on the Zend Framework and Apigility projects. He is a TEDx speaker, an author, a blogger and a big fan of PHP 7. We chat to him about life as an open-source developer and his feelings on the future of PHP.

Ubilabs are specialists in interactive map applications. The Hamburg-based company is continuously pushing the boundaries, from mapping Yosemite’s iconic El Capitan to creating a Street View of the world’s largest model railway. At the technical helm is Martin Kleppe, Head of Development and a passionate developer and active member of JS community.

Community Devs is a series of interviews with developers working in Europe’s startup hubs. Our first interview is with Oleg Ilyenko, a Scala developer based in Berlin. He is creator of Sangria, a Scala GraphQL Implementation. Honeypot will be hosting a GraphQL meetup on May 11th.

Onefootball provides live scores, news, statistics, videos and live audio broadcasts to football fans in more than 200 countries.We sat down with Grzegorz Krumpholz, the CTO of Onefootball to discuss microservices, migrating to Golang, Wisła Kraków and preparing for the surge in users during the 2016 Euro Championships.

After a busy and enjoyable HRinTech event at Zalando last week, Honeypot hit the bar.* *And the light reminded him of the American realist painter and printmaker, Edward Hopper. We can’t disagree with Honeypot on this point…

Mail.Ru launched in 1998 and today is the largest email service in Russia. As of October 2015, it had 62.6 million monthly users. The email service delivers 600 million messages per day and has a data storage of over 30 petabytes. At Highload 2015, we sat down and chatted to Dennis Anikin, the Director of Engineering of Cloud and Email Service. He told us about Mail.Ru’s plans to migrate their email service and the advantages of Tarnatool, their open-source NoSQL database management system.

Christian Rebernik is CTO of Number26. Prior to joining Germany’s first digital bank, he was CTO at Zanox and Parship. We met Christian at the Data Natives conference in Berlin and discussed Number26’s tech stack, why its easy to attract developers to FinTech and the company’s plans for new features.

According to Kevin Goldsmith, VP of Engineering at Spotify, the Swedish music-streaming mammoth’s success all comes down to its team culture. We sat down with the Carnegie-Mellon educated, Chicago-native at MobiConf Krakow. Over a weak coffee and prior to a strong vodka, he told us all about the fine balance between autonomy and chaos, preserving start-up culture in a large organizations, his escape from Microsoft and why failure is all part and parcel of the life of a continuous improvement organization.