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I write about technical decisions, architecture patterns, and lessons from practice, with a particular focus on traceable delivery and production-ready systems.
AI and the Joy of Programming
Published on October 14, 2026
Coding agents are changing our work rhythm. How do we preserve room for creative work and the joy of development alongside reviews and context switching?
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A Separate Software Version for Every Customer?
Published on October 04, 2026
Customer-specific software raises a long-term question: How can improvements stay shared while operations and isolation meet each customer's needs?
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GitOps, Infrastructure as Code, and AI Agents Are a Dream Team
Published on March 13, 2026
Why IaC + GitOps make AI agents truly effective for reproducible infrastructure debugging.
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Trunk-Based Development: What About Unfinished Features?
Published on February 23, 2026
Merge unfinished features, disable them with flags, and cleanly decouple release from deployment.
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Feature Branches vs. Trunk-Based Development
Published on February 19, 2026
Why long-lived feature branches become expensive and Trunk-Based Development reduces friction.
Read article Why I Discuss Event Streaming Early in Distributed Systems
Published on February 15, 2026
Event streaming is less about tool hype and more about an architectural pattern for decoupled, evolvable systems.
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Off-the-Shelf Software vs. Custom Software: Costs Follow Process Complexity
Published on February 05, 2026
It is not just about build vs. buy, but about how much processes can be simplified.
Read article Ingress-NGINX discontinued since March 24, 2026: What operators should do now
Updated on July 16, 2026
Ingress-NGINX has been discontinued. Why a migration to the Gateway API should now be planned systematically.
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More Microservices with Less Manpower
Published on November 14, 2025
Maintenance effort increases not only with the number of services, but also with technological diversity, coupling, and a lack of automation.
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Software Architecture for Productive "Vibe Coding"
Published on September 24, 2025
How clear architecture makes AI agents more efficient and how Hexagonal Architecture helps with AI-assisted development.
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Building a Read-Only Replica in AWS China
Published on February 01, 2024
Adapting infrastructure for AWS China with Terraform, EKS, and streaming-based replication.
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Winner of the Porsche DigitalFamily Hackathon
Published on January 16, 2024
Assistant for the automated development of cloud infrastructure in AWS.
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Live Polling Software for an Event
Published on July 03, 2023
Experimental live polling software for approximately 300 participants using WebSockets and Redis fanout.
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