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Trends and Challenges 2023

Janus Boye in Interview

Our Year 2022

Growth, crises and further development - that's how Christian and Chris sum up their year 2022 at byte5. An interview.

Our Year in Review

What has been keeping us busy internally as Team 2022? A look back at the highlights.

Umbraco 11

Just in time for 01 December, there is news for the Umbraco community. We have summarised the most important news.

Testing With Laravel PEST

Our Meetup in October was all about testing. Our PHP developer Alexander dealt intensively with Laravel PEST and delivered interesting facts about testing.

Mountain Summit 2022

On September 27, the Austrian PIM platform hosted its eighth annual partner event in Salzburg. Chris and Marcel were among the participants.

Umbraco Version 10

Umbraco 10 was released just in time for Codegarden 2022. Everything about the most important changes in the new version of the CMS can be found here.

The Developer’s Diary Part 3

In our new series "The Developer's Diary" we give you an insight into the everyday life of our colleagues. In the coming weeks, Marcel, Laurens and Marlon will take you to Carrera.

Copetri Convention 2022

After a break of more than two years, our event budget was used again: Jessie, Chris and Lea visited the Copetri Convention.

byte5 in Austria

After the first subsidiary of byte5 was founded in 2021 with byte5 live GmbH, growth will continue in 2022.

Full Text Searches with Laravel Scout

At the Laravel DACH Meetup in May, Jure Knezovic addressed a simple, driver-based solution for full-text searches in Eloquent models.

Headless Commerce

In times of growing competition and increasing user demands, headless commerce supports companies with enormous flexibility. Read more about this here.

Telescope & Laravel 9.0

Just in time for the start of spring in March, we kicked off the 2022 Meetup season with our two speakers Marcel Wege and Joshua Blum. You can find the recap here.

Act to Accelerate

As part of the Act to Accelerate, together with the Microsoft partner network, we are making an important contribution to the sustainable growth and digital development of Germany as a business location.

Release Time

After 17 months of waiting, Laravel 9.0 was released on 8 February with many useful and exciting new features. An overview can be found here.

Trainings by the Diamond Partner byte5

A big part of the cooperation with our customers is the transfer of knowledge. For this reason, our experts offer technical training for all interested persons, both in projects and in cooperation with the training provider GFU Cyrus AG.

What's New in the Umbraco Universe

After an eventful 2021, Umbraco CEO Kim Sneum Madsen announced the realignment of the vision for 2022 to 2027 and the goals for the coming 12 months. A summary of the most important points.

Trends & Challenges 2022

As in every year, digital pioneer Janus Boye answers our questions at the end of 2021: What can we learn from 2021 and what trends await us in 2022?

Our Recap 2021

Technologies, partnerships and an outlook on 2022: Christian Wendler and Chris Köhler in an interview in the second part of our annual review.

Our Recap of 2021

As 2021 draws to a close, so does an eventful year. In all the hustle and bustle, let's take a look back at the past 12 months. A recap of the year from the team's point of view.

Great Place to Work® Certification

After receiving the award, byte5 can officially call itself an "attractive employer" since December.

A Chat With Laravel Founder Taylor Otwell

During the Q&A with Taylor Otwell at the last Laravel DACH Meetup, participants took the opportunity to ask their personal questions. The answers can be found here.

The Developer’s Diary Part 2

In our new series "The Developer's Diary" we give you an insight into the everyday life of our colleagues. From now on, they will report at regular intervals on updates, but also on successes and challenges in their projects. There are also interesting technological and methodological insights.

New Name, New Subsidiary

In October, the name and business purpose change: byte5 digital media GmbH becomes byte5 GmbH. In addition, a 100% subsidiary for events is created with byte5 live.

140 Million US Dollars for commercetools

Series C Funding Round Secures Support From Tech Investor Accel

Hybrid Work

Early birds, night owls, childcare, hobbies - all factors that speak against the typical nine-to-five job with a fixed workplace. That's why hybrid working models have been discussed since the Corona pandemic at the latest - and have been a reality at byte5 since 2018. An interview with Jessica Mai.

Umbraco 9

With version 9, Umbraco is ported from .NET 4.x to .NET 5.0. With the new development, V9 also achieves platform independence for the first time, which enables hosting outside of Windows (IIS) on other operating systems.

The Developer's Diary: Part 1

In our new series "The Developer's Diary" we give you an insight into the everyday life of our colleagues. In the coming weeks, Marcel, Laurens and Jure will take you to Carrera.

Matt Brailsford in Interview

In this interview, , the eight-time Umbraco MVP winner shares insights on Vendr, planned developments, and his enthusiasm for working in the community.

New Core Technology at byte5

The platform for Product Information Management (PIM) enables the efficient administration of a wide range of data and impresses with its high user-friendliness and its open source character.

Laravel Eloquent: simple, clear, fast

At the 14th Laravel Meetup Germany, the focus was on Object Rational Mapping (ORM). The use of Laravel Eloquent makes it easier to work with databases - without SQL.

Cloud Solutions in E-Commerce

The use of cloud solutions in e-commerce is worthwhile both for the operators and for the visitors to the shops, who benefit from performance, security and so on.

Umbraco Codegarden 2021

After the world's largest Umbraco CMS Conference 2020 had to be cancelled due to Corona, the event will take place virtually in 2021 from 9 to 11 June. byte5 as Umbraco Gold Partner will also take part.

Mission Critical Business Projects

At byte5, we are committed to the use of open source technologies. Especially in mission-critical web projects, their use provides important competitive advantages.

17 Years byte5

In 2021, byte5 celebrates its 17th birthday. On this occasion, together with founder Christian Wendler, we take a look back - and into the future.

News from the Meetup Community: Laravel Octane, Nova und Statamic

Enormous speed with Octane as well as time and cost savings for both developers and customers with the CMS Statamic in combination with Laravel Nova - that is what the 13th Laravel Meetup Germany was all about.

The Sustainable Digitale Transformation with IOTA

IOTA: the distributed ledger technology (DLT) made in Berlin reaches a new milestone with the Chrysalis update. Even more than before, IOTA enables resource-saving digital transformation - anything but a matter of course, as a look at the Bitcoin blockchain shows.

High Speed with Laravel Octane

Since April 2021, the beta version of the first-party package Laravel Octane is available. For high-performance Laravel environments, this means: enormous speed.

Max Planck Society: A Self-Service Portal for Managing Authentication Procedures

With a new self-service portal, byte5 enables employees of the Max Planck Society to manage authentication options.

Livewire and Inertia in Comparison

At the 12th Laravel Meetup Germany we got insights into serverless deployment with Vapor and state-of-the-art UIs with the frontend variants Livewire and Inertia.

Saving Costs and Time: Laravel Brings New Efficiency

Time efficiency in development means cost savings for companies. New extensions make the PHP framework Laravel even more efficient.

Laravel Meetup Germany

Our new online event series kicks off in mid-April with Laravel Meetup Germany. Laravel founder Taylor Otwell will also be attending the meetups on a regular basis.

Laravel Trainings by the German Diamond Partner

As the only German Laravel Diamond Partner, byte5 has been offering Laravel training courses for IT specialists in cooperation with GFU AG for several years – even in a remote manner during COVID-19.

Umbraco: Review 2020 & Outlook 2021

What’s new at Umbraco? This is our look back on a turbulent 2020 and an outlook on what to expect in 2021.

byte5 Is Now a Laravel Diamond Partner

The new year brings new partnerships: byte5 is now one of 6 Laravel Diamond Partners worldwide. This was preceded by a longstanding Emerald Partnership.

Trends and Challenges 2021

Digital pioneer Janus Boye shares his insights into the lasting effects that the COVID-19 pandemic has already had on the working world and the digitisation of the workplace. He also reveals what corporate culture could look like in 2021.

A Year Full of Dynamism

No standstill: byte5 was not able to maintain the upward trend of recent years in terms of growth, but COO Chris Köhler is really quite satisfied with 2020 considering the special circumstances.

Trend Shop 2021: the Carrera webshop developed by byte5

E-commerce is now booming more than ever. With carrera-toys.com, a webshop developed by byte5 has now been named a Trend Shop 2021 – by Computer Bild magazine and statistics platform Statista.

We Are byte5 ... Laura Vogt

Everyone in our team contributes to making byte5 the company we all love: with their personality, their knowledge and their individual competences. In our team series, our employees introduce themselves – this time, it’s content manager Laura Vogt.

Carrera

In this project, commercetools and Findologic make for a conversion optimisation of the Carrera web shop. The result: state-of-the-art e-commerce.

Laravel 8 Is Here!

Today, the Laravel headquarters released their latest major version: Laravel 8. We have summarised the most important innovations the PHP framework’s 8th version holds for you.

We Are byte5 ... Dennis Zille

Everyone in our team contributes to making byte5 the company we all love: with their personality, their knowledge and their individual competences. In our team series, our employees introduce themselves – this time, it’s senior dev Dennis Zille.

Growing in Times of COVID

The corona pandemic brings with it an increase in digitisation projects. That is why we are looking for new team members to support our team. Our two openings at the moment are senior web developer & project management as well as web designer (m/f/d). Our new video shows you what working at byte5 looks like!

How Corona Is Making Businesses Rethink

The COVID-19 pandemic is causing a boom in e-commerce. What does this mean for companies that primarily rely on stationary retail?

LEW Lechwerke: Online Customer Account

With its latest project based on the Microsoft stack, LEW Lechwerke relied once again on the expertise of byte5. Within a few months, a cooperative and agile team created a user dashboard for customers.

commercetools Is a Leader in B2C, According to Forrester

After commercetools had already been recognised as particularly strong in the B2B area in the Forrester Wave Report, it was now given the highest honour of “Leader” in B2C.

Unlimited Paid Vacation: a First Assessment

It has been one year to the day that the byte5 unlimited paid vacation model was launched. Have there been any positive surprises? Negative developments? And will the management stick to the model?

New Name, Same Strengths: Kentico Xperience

Kentico CMS is now Kentico Xperience. As the name changes, the product remains the same. For customers that means: continuing fast, straightforward and modern web solutions.

byte5 Is a Contributing Gold Partner

With the introduction of the Contributing Gold Partner badge, the Umbraco HQ honours the top leading companies that are Umbraco Gold Partners. One of the 26 Contributing Gold Partners is the oldest German-speaking Umbraco Gold Partner byte5.

Welcome to byte5 ... Jure Knezovic

In this blog series, the newest members of our second family introduce themselves. Today: Laravel developer Jure, who moved from Croatia to Germany especially for his job at byte5.

commercetools Is a Strong Performer in the Forrester Wave Report

Just like Adobe and other industry giants, the current Forrester Wave Report names commercetools one of the best B2B commerce suites on the market and awards the German commerce platform the second highest rating, “Strong Performer”.

The MVP and Umbraco Award Ceremony 2020

Tomorrow would have been the day: the first day of Codegarden. But then along came Covid-19 and the HQ had Codegarden cancelled. The Umbraco Awards, which are otherwise awarded on the Codegaden stage, are this year given out in a live stream on YouTube. Don’t miss it!

Welcome to byte5 ... Janosch Wann

In this blog series, the newest members of our second family introduce themselves. Today: Laravel trainer and junior dev Janosch, the first to be brought into the byte5 team through the talent bonus.

Well Set-Up Despite COVID-19

The spread of COVID-19 has a tremendous impact on restrictions in our work and personal lives. The byte5 management responds to this with transparent communication and face masks for the entire team. As for the course of business, there are no major effects to report.

Performance and UI that Spark Joy

With its latest version, Ucommerce gives us a stable, modern platform that impresses us with its great performance. When will it be released? Today!

Real World Content Modeling

With his new book, the renowned content strategist Deane Barker provides a successful guideline for CMS evaluation with a focus on content modeling.

Everything Is New on byte5.de

Modern, high-performing and clearly structured: This is our new website. Welcome!

Welcome to byte5 ... Jessie Mai

In this blog series, the newest members of our second family introduce themselves. Today: employer branding and recruiting specialist Jessie Mai.

Umbraco-Festival Deutschland 2020 Cancelled

Given the current situation, we have decided not to host the German Umbraco festival this year. Here's everything you need to know.

LEW Lechwerke: Cloud-Based High-Performance with React and Umbraco

byte5 realised the conceptual and technical re-development of the corporate website. Umbraco and React were used on the technical side, agile methodologies and Scrum on the organisational side.

Of Milestones and Future Plans

Tillykke med fødselsdagen, Umbraco! The day before yesterday, the Danish CMS turned 15 years old. We take a look at what has been achieved so far and what is planned for the future.

Team Growth Thanks to a Tip from a Colleague

At byte5, colleagues become friends – but also friends become colleagues! We reward Trish who brought her good friend Janosch into the byte5 team with a € 2000 bonus. An interview with the two friends.

Welcome to byte5 ... Trish Muth

In this blog series, the newest members of our second family introduce themselves. Today: Web designer Patrizia, who everyone affectionately calls Trish or Trishi by everyone.

We Are Two-Time Microsoft Gold Partners

This month, Microsoft awarded byte5 the double gold partnership. The decisive factor in this was the cloud competencies that byte5 has demonstrated in its customer projects for years.

Welcome to byte5 ... Louay Jebran

In this blog series, the newest members of our second family introduce themselves. Today: Our trainee, Louay Jebran, who had to drop out of his studies in his home country Syria and has now gained a foothold at byte5.

Content Will Still Be King

As at every turn of the year, digital pioneer Janus Boye gives us an assessment of the past year’s developments and an outlook on the upcoming year.

Patch available for new security vulnerability

After a security vulnerability in Umbraco 7 became known, a patch was officially made available. You can find out here whether your Umbraco project is affected.

byte5 Honoured with Gold Award

The byte5 trust movement was recently honoured with the New Work Star in gold. We celebrate this with a video about our company culture!