Onepoint Group’s 2025 Advent of Tech!
This year, the Onepoint Group’s Advent of Tech calendar is taking on a whole new dimension. Every day until Christmas, we’ll be sharing an article written by one of our collaborators from both sides of the Atlantic.
This special edition, initiated by our Tech.ops Associate Benjamin Marsteau, brings our community together around a shared spirit: learning, sharing, and celebrating innovation, more and more each day.
See what’s featured for the day
Put Some Love Into Your Product: Is the MVP Outdated? (Article in French only)
The classic MVP is no longer enough, giving way to the Minimum Lovable Product—a first version that builds user attachment from day one by emphasizing emotion, quality, and meaningful details. This approach reshapes user engagement and inspires teams to go further. A sharp read for anyone rethinking how they design products.
An article by Sofia Krari, Associate Tech Studio
Hibernate: The Tuning Art That Turns a Slow Java App Into a Fast One (Article in French only)
With proper tuning, Hibernate can turn a slow Java application into a highly efficient one. By optimizing queries, mappings, and data loading strategies, developers can eliminate major bottlenecks and restore smooth performance. A must-read for anyone looking to get the most out of their Java stack.
Make Your AI Prompts Collaborative with VS Code and Promptitude
A well-organized prompt library can turn your AI interactions into an efficient and collaborative workflow. By structuring prompts in Markdown files synced via Promptitude inside VS Code, teams can access standardized prompts, iterate on them, and reuse them seamlessly. The result: more effective AI assistants, reduced friction, and a productivity boost across the whole project.
Can We Still Test Like Beizer? (Article in French)
This article revisits Boris Beizer’s foundational definitions of software testing and compares them with modern approaches such as TDD and BDD. By revisiting the distinctions between unit, component, integration, and system testing, it highlights how Beizer’s conceptual clarity stands in contrast to today’s ambiguous terminology.
The Secret GCP Workshop: How to Outsmart Christmas Bandits (Article in French)
This playful article uses the metaphor of Santa’s workshop under attack to explain how to secure workloads on Google Cloud Platform. Through IAM, VPCs, firewalls, and the Security Command Center, it highlights the shared responsibility model and shows how access control, isolation, and security monitoring are essential to protect cloud environments.