— Drive the Private NWs Growth with its Fully-Managed Mobile Core NW SaaS —

CEO Erlend Prestgard of Working Group Two As, Oslo, Norway and President Kengo Asano of Mitsui Knowledge Industry Co., Ltd. Minato-ku, Japan, agreed on an MoU on providing WG2’s fully-managed Mobile Core NW SaaS product to accelerate the Private Networks business in the Japanese market.

A timer is a cornerstone of any software that communicates over the network. There are plenty of implementations that provide a timer facility. Most of them are in memory and will lose scheduled timers should the application crash. In this blog we discuss durable Kafka timers that do not depend on in memory state. By design we shall assume 1 second resolution of these timers.

last hackathon i did setup a mqtt integration towards wgtwo's apis to enable call notifications via my ikea trådfri bulb so i can finally notice my wife calling me. the bulb changes color when my phone is ringing and when I am in a call, without me needing to install anything to my phone.

At WG2 we’re coming close to having everything running in Kubernetes, which means that almost everything we deploy needs to be pulled from a registry. We have run our own local registry for some time now, to host both locally-built images and cached images from Docker Hub.

I have always struggled with company HR policies that make me not feel trusted. Why don’t HR and/or management trust who they hire? Why create HR processes for the very few people who don’t behave? Shouldn’t processes be designed for the vast majority of people who are to be trusted? I just don’t get it. If you are given freedom it comes with a lot of responsibility, isn’t that rather implicit?

this week we started off with a three days hackathon!

Every quarter wgtwo holds a three day hackday. Hackdays are a great way for everyone in the company to work together in creating new innovative solutions for every day problems.

I will try as best as I can to give an explanation of what happens when you send an SMS from your phone.

Disclaimer: Telco stuff is hard.

Also disclaimer: this blog post will also contain alot of ackronyms, after all, it is telco.

Aaand down the rabbit hole we go...

This blog post will cover technology driven products that rely on telecom infrastructure, and not price plans, bundles, or marketing gimmicks. Anyone who has created a product and brought it to market more than once will tell you that it is hard.

One of the goals of wgtwo is to enable operators and third parties to build products and services for the “core network” of the telecom stack. In short, this means providing API access to a subscription’s telecom functionality (messaging, calling, etc). In this article we will show how we built VoiceBox, a Voicemail forwarding application.

There are many different Erlang formatters, and as a hack day project I investigated which options exist for us at wgtwo. There are two main alternatives, but sadly both have problems. I've also briefly looked at an Erlang linter.