As much as some people like to believe that Silicon Valley is the centre of the universe when it comes to tech, the encouraging truth for Europeans is that investments are at an all-time high and the state of the European tech scene is the strongest it has ever been.

18… That’s the number of emails I’ve received so far today from companies updating their privacy policy and terms of service. For what it’s worth though, I’m not complaining. I mean, all these privacy updates are in our best interests as consumers and web users, right? Plus we sent out our own GDPR email last night so we’d hate to be hypocrites! 😂

Calling all frontend developers, GraphQL experts and fellow tech enthusiasts, can you believe it’s already been one whole year since GraphQL Europe 2017!?

That’s right peeps, GraphQL Europe 2018 is just around the corner (June 15th to be precise) and we can hardly contain our excitement!! Prepare to be blown away by our speakers’ in-depth knowledge of GraphQL, ready yourself for some amazing encounters and get yourselves pumped up for the mandatory closing ceremony rap battle.

Back in 2004, a Google search of the term “employer branding” would have yielded 3000 hits. Today that number is well over 2 million.

Employer branding is quite evidently gaining greater strategic importance with each passing day, but what’s it all about exactly?

Home to a host of startup hubs, angel investors and seasoned tech companies, Germany’s tech scene has grown considerably over the last few years to become one of the most prominent in Europe.

The way we do business is changing and more and more of the modern workforce is being made up of engineering talent, much to the delight of job-seeking programmers.

But what does that mean for tech salaries in Germany? How much can a software engineer earn in Germany in 2018?

As a bunch of self-confessed tech addicts, there’s nothing we love more than to dissect the latest GitHub repositories in search of interesting open source projects, and we’re constantly amazed at the sheer volume of new additions and the united manner in which the dev community gets behind them.

So, what open source projects are making waves in the tech community in 2018?

Running a developer conference is challenging. Really challenging.

But I’m lucky. I ran GraphQL Europe 2017 with a team of four people who care deeply about GraphQL and were determined to create a special event.

This article is a guide - and a reflection - on what it took for us to plan, organize and execute Europe’s first GraphQL-dedicated conference. We got a lot of help along the way and my intention is to opensource the knowledge we inherited, picked up and learnt.