~9 Min. Lesezeit ~9 min read 7 Min. reading time With the GA release of Amazon S3 Files in April 2026, cloud architects now face a three‑way choice among AWS file systems. S3 Files lets you mount S3 buckets directly as an NFS mount point—without the EFS premium, but with different trade‑offs. When S3 Files is the economical choice, when EFS… » Article
~13 Min. Lesezeit Since Databricks acquired Neon in May 2025 and revised its usage-based pricing in August 2025-offering compute at 15 to 25 percent lower cost and storage at 80 percent reduced rates-platform teams across DACH are reevaluating which Postgres architecture can effectively support AI agent workloads. What advisory teams observed in mid-sized DACH organizations throughout 2026 reveals… » Article
~10 Min. Lesezeit 8 min Reading Time The Synology DS1525+ is no longer just a conventional NAS. With Container Manager, Hybrid Share, and an AMD Ryzen V1500B processor, this 5-bay device bridges the gap between local storage and cloud infrastructure. Starting at €730, Synology delivers a unified platform combining backup server, Docker host, and hybrid cloud gateway in… » Article
~6 Min. Lesezeit ~6 min read 4 min read The European Commission confirmed on March 30 that attackers had compromised its public web infrastructure hosted on Amazon AWS. More than 350 gigabytes of data is said to have been leaked. It is the second security incident within 30 days – in February, work devices belonging to senior staff had already been… » Article
~7 Min. Lesezeit ~7 min read 5 min Reading Time Last year, a DevOps engineer friend called me at 2:17 a.m. on a Tuesday – right after his first on-call night. Slack alert: “CRITICAL – API Gateway Response Time > 5s – Production.” He stared at a Grafana dashboard with 14 panels – and understood only three. No one had told… » Article
~5 Min. Lesezeit ~5 min read 3 min Reading Time AI-generated Terraform code is faster to write than to read – exactly what makes it dangerous. Teams delegating their Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) authoring to Copilot, Cursor, or Claude gain velocity but lose their mental model of infrastructure. The Comprehension Gap widens with every accepted suggestion – and only reveals itself when an… » Article
~11 Min. Lesezeit ~11 min read 7 min read Most enterprise AI stacks are over-engineered contraptions: thousands of tokens in system prompts, multi-stage RAG pipelines, hard-coded business rules, and manual code review acting as the bottleneck. That approach worked when models hovered around 85 % accuracy. With every new model generation the balance shifts—and complexity becomes the drag. Four concrete audit… » Article
~6 Min. Lesezeit ~6 min read 3 min Reading Time Guest author: Thomas Joos, IT journalist & analyst | In collaboration with Kontron / Profil PR Automated stores and micro markets only function if the backend IT runs flawlessly. Edge computing makes these concepts possible in the first place – and simultaneously reduces reliance on cloud connectivity. TL;DR ☁️ Edge over… » Article
~8 Min. Lesezeit 4 min Reading Time IBM acquired HashiCorp for $6.4 billion. Terraform now operates under the Business Source License (BSL). And OpenTofu – the open-source fork – has seen 300% annual growth, reaching 9.8 million downloads to date. For cloud architects and DevOps teams at DACH-region enterprises, the question is no longer whether to reassess their… » Article
~10 Min. Lesezeit 7 min Reading Time As of March 2026, Ingress-NGINX is officially end-of-life. No patches, no security updates, no bug fixes. The Kubernetes project has retired the world’s most widely used Ingress controller. Roughly half of all cloud-native environments are affected. Anyone who doesn’t migrate now is running internet-exposed workloads with an abandoned component. TL;DR 🚨… » Article
~10 Min. Lesezeit 7 min Reading Time The database server has been down for 40 minutes, management is asking for the third time when operations will resume, and Friday night’s backup is the only lifeline left. Anyone who’s experienced this scenario knows: it’s not a question of if an outage will happen, but how quickly the business can… » Article
~9 Min. Lesezeit ~9 min read 7 min Reading Time One in three companies in Germany is already spending more on cloud-based AI services than originally budgeted. The cause isn’t poor planning – it’s a structural issue: AI workloads behave fundamentally differently than traditional cloud applications. Organizations relying on conventional cost-control tools quickly lose grip on their IT spending. TL;DR 💸… » Article
~7 Min. Lesezeit 7 min Reading Time Starting March 15, 2026, TLS certificates will be limited to a maximum validity of 200 days. In 2027, that drops to 100 days – and by 2029, the final limit will be just 47 days. Organizations manually managing 1,000 certificates today face an operational crisis: up to 48,000 hours of certificate… » Article
~8 Min. Lesezeit 5 min Reading Time AI initiatives in manufacturing companies typically don’t fail due to a lack of technology, but because of a structural weakness rarely discussed openly: fragmented information processes. Strategy documents are written, roadmaps defined, pilot projects launched – and yet, initiatives stall at the proof-of-concept stage. TL;DR 🔍 Many AI and digitalization initiatives… » Article
