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Recommended read: Frictionless – About Eliminating Development Friction
I just read Martin Fowler’s blogpost and foreword to Frictionless by Andrew Harmel-Law. The book’s core idea is simple but powerful: How do we make developers truly efficient? Not by adding more processes, tools, or meetings, but by removing the friction that slows teams down and using smart metrics. I put it on my reading…
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I break things … Google Veo
Recently I had the opportunity to test the new Google AI-Video generator powered by Veo 3(.1). The demo was truley impressive and scary at the same time! And then we were able to test it ourselves …
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A sentence about Data Quality that I missed for over a decade
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.”
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o365 “control plane” for AI Agents coming
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:
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AWS, Azure, Cloudflare – who’s next?
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…
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What I am Missing in Most GenAI Conversations
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:
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The Architect I Never Knew I Was
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 did. My official title “Senior…
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Why Your Favorite AI Tool Might Be Isolating You
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.
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Don’t promote your most talented technologists into people management
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 technical leadership roles…
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How to guide your teams to use GenAI effectively while avoiding the pitfalls
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…