Welcome

Welcome is a company that has been specializing in data engineering, cloud migration, microservices, consulting, development, and workshops since 2014. The company develops comprehensive data processing solutions for businesses across various industries and provides custom-tailored, affordable migration plans for secure cloud solutions. Welcome ensures frictionless migration of monolithic IT systems to modern microservices and serverless architecture. They offer a full spectrum of development services, covering the entire product life cycle, and provide lean, practical training delivered by experts both remotely and onsite. Welcome relies on Extreme Programming (XP) for fast and effective software delivery and uses state-of-the-art technologies like Kafka, Kubernetes, Terraform (IaC), and Elasticsearch. The company focuses on building scalable platforms using functional programming and DevOps paradigms. Welcome operates offices in Berlin, Cologne, Bavaria, Paris, London, and Istanbul, and is fully powered by green electricity, avoiding clients in the fossil fuels, military, and surveillance industries. They provide in-depth knowledge of modern data technologies, automated processing in Big Data environments, and scalable data center operations in cloud (AWS, GCP) and hybrid environments. Welcome adopts a strict ‘no bullshit’ approach to software development, avoiding unnecessary bureaucracy and ceremony. They have implemented a near real-time anomaly detection solution for Siemens Energy using Apache Kafka and Apache Spark, supported PAYONE in the design, operation, and implementation of the CBIS platform for unified reporting and streaming, and implemented a scoring solution for Elvah using real-time and historic session data for charge points in central Europe. Welcome offers workshops on various topics including Kubernetes, Large Language Models, Kafka, Apache Flink, and Apache Spark, and provides consulting services such as architecture and code audits, rescue squads for tech debt, and collaborative design workshops. They emphasize the importance of security in cloud migration, integrating robust security measures into strategy, development, and implementation, and use Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to build reproducible, deterministic, and automatable data platforms.