In Data Analytics, there’s one phrase I hear over and over—so often it’s become a reflex: “We need clean data before we can do anything.” And honestly, over the years I became really annoyed by the sentence. Don’t get me wrong: “Shit in, Shit out” is true. But could we please not always operate in […]

I just read an article on InfoWorld, that Microsoft rolls out Agent 365 ‘control plane’ for AI agents. The description sounds quite well what an enterprise needs in terms of compliance and security:

On October 20th, quite some parts of AWS went down (AWS Outage Analysis: October 20, 2025, What caused the AWS outage – and why did it make the internet fall apart?). I don’t follow thouse outages very intensly, but the last such outage I remember(!) was end of February 2017 with the big S3 outage […]

When people talk about Generative AI, the focus is usually on: But what I am missing a lot in those conversations are: If there’s a user interface: And the elephant in the room:

For years, whenever someone asked me what I do, I described my projects and activities, like “I worked on a cloud migration, reduced technical debt, refactored systems to be cloud-native, designed environments for scalability, cost effectiveness and security, …”. But I could never express in a TL;DR what I really...

AI chat tools are a remarkable invention. Their rapid adoption speaks for itself: instant access to information, tailored feedback, and the ability to explore ideas or discuss one own thoughts or questions without friction – never before did we have such opportunities. But this power can come with a risk. The...

I just attended an event where Casey West also demoed some stuff. Just now I found his blog at https://caseywest.com as well. And scrolling through, I saw his post A Call for More Tech Leadership from 2015 where he writes: Don’t promote your most talented technologists into people management. Promote them into...

We often see and hear a lot of hype and – unfortunately – enshittification when it comes to GenAI. Despite knowing that there are indeed some valuable use cases for the application of AI to solve some issues, I rarely read about a employee friendly adoption of GenAI. The article AI for Network Managers: Leading […]

Today morning I read a really nice article / blog post “The Day My Smart Vacuum Turned Against Me“. The whole story is about a guy who disallowed his smart vacuum cleaner to access the internet. After a while it failed, got repaired, failed again, got repaired and after all stopped working. TL;DR: seems like […]

Problem: Windows automatically goes to dark or light mode, no matter what is set in the system settings. Even worse: when you change the mode in the system settings, windows switches back after a few seconds. Solution: Check if you have MS PowerToys installed (and very likely updated recently) and disable “Light...

We hear a lot about the bad side of AI Code Generation etc. But there are also quite some good sides that should not be ignored. Kickstart Configs When I started more and more #Selfhosting, I used GitHub Copilot and Mistral to write my docker-compose files in order to learn how they worked. Sure, I […]

With growing amount of running selfhosted services, it becomes a bit tedious to keep track of new software releases. Luckily, GitHub offers RSS Streams for Releases and Tags (and some more). By adding those streams to the RSS reader, I see it in my RSS feeds when I have to take action. The relevant URLs […]