Why we are transitioning to Microservices
... and why it might not be right for you. In this post, we’ll share why we decided to transition, the challenges we faced, and how to decide if microservices are the right choice for your use case.
sold
lots
lots
placed
bids
bids
active
bidders
bidders
High performance,
built from scratch
The AURENA platform transforms the experience of a live auction into a thrilling online auction event. Accessible for everybody, easy and fun to use for auction newbies and experts likewise.
Customer facing
single page application
- Highly interactive user Interface
- Simultaneous bidding on up to 96 lots
Real-time
communications
- Instantaneous live updates on every lot
- Up to 1 million updates per minute
Lightning fast
navigation
- Built for highest degree of interaction between bidders
- Optimized for browsing 1000s of items
Multi-layer
caching technology
- High-performance AuctionEngine
- Up to 50 bids per second per lot
A team of creators
and entrepreneurs
We are a small but growing team and we all share the passion for user excitement. We focus on skills and mindset, not on titles or hierarchies.
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AURENA Tech
24.03.2025
Why we are transitioning to Microservices
... and why it might not be right for you. In this post, we’ll share why we decided to transition, the challenges we faced, and how to decide if microservices are the right choice for your use case.
18.12.2024
Angular Graz Meetup: Inspiration from leading minds in the Angular world
In building any thrilling experience, it’s important to have the best tools for the job. Patrick and Martin from our Engineering team attended the latest Angular Meetup in Graz to scout some more “power tools” for our development toolbox.
13.11.2024
Testing United Conference: Unleashing the Power of AI in QA
QA Engineer Iana and her colleague Sara report their insights from the latest Testing United Conference with the main topic “AI Augmented QA".
25.10.2024
Art Director Veronika Micheli joins AURENA Tech
Welcome, Veronika: Our new Art Director is here to elevate AURENA's corporate design.
21.08.2024
AURENA Tech Team Event 2024
Three days of fun, culinary delights, and new experiences: This year, our AURENA Tech Team Event took us to some incredible locations throughout Styria.
19.06.2024
AURENA Tech strengthens its Backend team
Martijn Lammaing joins as Senior Backend Engineer to further enhance the AURENA auction platform.
04.03.2024
AURENA Tech Winter Games 2024
Having successfully found snow and ice, we spent a fun day together in the Styrian mountains.
08.01.2024
AURENA Tech welcomes new team members
We are happy to welcome two new colleagues to our engineering team: Frontend Lead Patrick Niebrzydowski and Senior Frontend Engineer Dmytro Barylo.
28.12.2023
AURENA celebrates milestone with 200,000 bidders
Andrea Brezina was the lucky one to register as our 200,000th bidder - AURENA welcomes her with a gift voucher just before Christmas.
20.10.2023
Meet our Backend Lead Christian Prohinig
After working for companies like Bitpanda and Dynatrace, Christian Prohinig now joins the engineering team of AURENA Tech as Backend Lead.
22.08.2023
AURENA Tech Team Event 2023
Amazing weather, amazing locations, and – most importantly – amazing people: Two days of culinary delights, adventure, and relaxation in Austria.
04.07.2023
Happy birthday aurena.at !
On the 4th of July 2018, we launched our platform aurena.at. Five years on, we are celebrating a success story with our team and more than 170,000 bidders across Europe.
24.04.2023
Marathon vs. sprint: two concepts to reach a goal
In our software development process, we are used to doing sprints. Now two of our team members took part in the London and Vienna City Marathons. They share their experiences and draw parallels between sports and software development.
23.03.2023
From Bitpanda to AURENA: Oliver Tulla joins as Frontend Lead
AURENA Tech strengthens its frontend team and is happy to welcome Oliver Tulla, formerly working for Bitpanda, as a Lead Developer.
06.03.2023
AURENA Tech Winter Games 2023
In our latest team activity, we came together for a fun day in the Austrian mountains.
02.03.2023
“QA needs to be part of the software development lifecycle from the start”
Our QA lead Tatjana Statescu explains how we established a comprehensive QA process at AURENA Tech, what our testing strategy looks like, and discusses the key factors for a successful quality assurance team.
19.12.2022
Design and Build Efficient GraphQL
How we make use of Typegraphql, Field Resolver, and Dataloaders.
15.12.2022
AURENA Tech Xmas Party 2022
Our remote Christmas Party has become a popular tradition to spend some fun time together.
17.10.2022
JavaScript State Machine for Microservice Orchestration with XState
We have started using XState to build our saga orchestration, and it’s made it so much easy to understand what is going on with service coordination.
08.09.2022
Mobile application end-to-end test automation using Robot Framework
Teaching a robot to use a mobile phone: Learn how we write end-to-end tests for mobile applications.
25.08.2022
AURENA Tech Team Event 2022
The AURENA Tech Team Event 2022 brought together our team members from different European countries for two exciting days in Austria.
28.06.2022
Impressions of the AWS 2022 Berlin summit
Our DevOps Engineers report on their experience at the Amazon Web Services conference.
20.04.2022
Let's break the Vegas rule
Our Scrum Master GO shares her insights and main take-aways from the Atlassian Team ´22.
28.02.2022
AURENA Tech strengthens its DevOps team
We welcome Junior DevOps Engineer Danijel Maraz as the newest member to the AURENA Tech team.
20.12.2021
My conference experience: Agile Testing Days 2021
Our QA lead Tatjana shares her highlights and main takeaways when attending the Agile Testing Days 2021.
17.12.2021
Welcome onboard: The AURENA Tech team is growing
We are happy to welcome a new Scrum Master, Junior QA Engineer and UI Design Lead to the AURENA Tech team.
09.08.2021
Hey Robot, run my tests!
Learn how we run test suites on-demand from Gitlab CI, and how we trigger them from different pipelines and from Slack.
01.07.2021
Team activities: Racing Experience
The whole AURENA team enjoyed a special in-person event at the Red Bull race track.
03.05.2021
Smoke Testing with Jest and GraphQL
One important capability in our QA strategy is to run smoke tests against remote service endpoints, to check that they are healthy. In this article, we share our approach, walking you through some examples.
12.04.2021
Our approach to Gitlab runners
Until recently our engineering team was exclusively using Gitlab shared runners for our CI/CD pipelines. While they did (and partly still do) get the job done, recent outages have made us aware of how critical functioning CI/CD is to us in our day-to-day work.
23.09.2020
Welcome aboard: Meet QA lead Tatjana Statescu
QA is a cornerstone to ship reliably working products that exceed user expectations. Tatjana is going to build up our competence center to bring quality assurance at AURENA Tech to the next level.
27.04.2020
IaC: AWS CDK vs. Terraform
If you are interested in the difference between IaC tools, check out our comparison of AWS CDK and HashiCorp Terraform.
12.03.2020
Meetup: Confident Angular testing and insights into Ivy
#AngularGraz goes Leoben: Great talks and helpful insights in Angular Ivy and Testing in Angular, hosted at the AURENA Tech office.
03.03.2020
From Apple to AURENA: Matt Pearce joins digital unit
To accelerate the expansion course, AURENA is bringing the recruiting and IT specialist Matt Pearce from Great Britain into the team.
28.01.2020
Serverless: successful start for a new Meetup series
Our first Serverless Meetup in Graz was a blast and a worthy beginning of a series of events about serverless technologies.
20.11.2019
User excitement: How to compete global players in eCommerce
"Design the user experience first": Tech Director Jürgen Blematl talks about the key success factor of the AURENA auction platform at the World Usability Congress.