Zeitgeist of Bytes

in 1865, economist Willian Stanley Jevons observed something interesting. as steam engines became more efficient at burning coal, the total coal consumption increased, not decreased as expected.

I’m tired of sovereignty discussions that stop at “where is the data stored?”

It becomes increasingly simpler to create custom little apps with tools like Claude, Gemine and co.

Agentic AI is redefining the infrastructure standards that we just got used to.

I’m extremely tired of this sovereignty discussion.

The Commodity Paradox Something quietly remarkable happened in 2025: the most advanced AI models in the world started to look alike.

At the center of this ecosystem lies an, let’s call it “interesting”, pattern: the same money appears to be circulating between a handful of players, creating what critics warn could be the largest financial bubble since the dot-com crash of 2000.

For a long time, the narrative has been that if you want privacy and data sovereignty, you have to sacrifice usability.

The Germany Stack is Germany’s national technology blueprint, solution, platform (???)

The past month was fast over.

There are jobs that cannot (yet) be replaced by AI, but often those jobs are challenged to find people who genuinely want to do this job, too.

tl;dr the EuroStack initiative represents for Europe an ambitious vision for achieving digital sovereignty through a comprehensive technological and industrial strategy.

Thanks to Trumpy, all of a sudden, Europe remembers it can do tech too.

I often discuss the learning path to become a platform engineer.

Love it or hate it, but AI Engineering will be everywhere.

I recently stepped down as Co-Chair of the CNCF Technical Advisory Group for Environmental Sustainability, which I started 2.5 years ago, making a place for one who currently can dedicate more time to that fantastic group.

Zeitgeisters, what I have to rage these days… I had two primary funny discussions the last week.

Are Virtual Machines finally dead yet?

Hey everyone!

What a month.

Giphy Happy New Year!