Brainfood Talks

I Joked About This on Stage — Then McKinsey Got Hacked

When McKinsey's AI platform "Lilli" was breached in March 2026, 46.5 million chat messages and 728,000 confidential files were exposed — not through sophisticated AI manipulation, but through unauthenticated API endpoints and basic SQL injection. In this post, Keno Dreßel argues that the real lesson isn't about AI security. It's about old engineering failures meeting a relentless new class of attacker.

Microservices: From Entities to highly independent Customer Journeys

Avoiding the distributed monolith by designing around customer journeys

SQUER

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How to effectively prepare for meetings

How to be a time-saver rather than a time-stealer

Julian Tandler

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Our Top Tips On How To Build Your Agile And Lean Organization

Agile and Lean ways of working are proven tools for better value creation.

David Leitner

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Stop Overusing the Outbox Pattern

In many scenarios, the Outbox Pattern can be replaced with simpler and more performant patterns to keep your system in a more elastic and resilient state.

Christoph Havlicek

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Monolith Migration Strategies

Many complex monoliths become legacy. Specialized migration patterns enable us to systematically refactor them.

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We joined the Berlin's Group openFinance Advisory Board!

Joining Berlin’s Group openFinance Advisory Board gives us the opportunity to contribute to pan-European haromonisation by evolving openFinance standards. Read below to learn more about the goals of openFinance.

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Boost efficiency through a composable banking system

We are pleased to announce our partnership with Mambu, an innovative SaaS cloud banking platform. Read below to understand why we are so excited about it.

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From Idea to Product in 2 Days

We launched one of the first COVID-19 apps in Austria to create awareness about the pandemic. From idea to launch in two days.

Manuel Klein

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Real life Product Owner challenges

This article deals with two real life product owner challenges which I observed quite frequently. Here is how I tried to tackle them.

David Leitner

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Bridging the Gap between Gatsby and Open Graph Images

Derive and generated Images for the Open Graph Protocol directly from React Components within your Gatsby Project.