For years, I relied on Microsoft’s OneDrive — not for the Office 365 suite, but for its 1TB of cloud storage. It served me well for offsite backups and seamless syncing between my computers and phone. I even used the Personal Vault feature, though more out of curiosity than necessity. Later, I joined a friend’s family plan, making it even more cost-effective.
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Recommended Read: About the Fediverse
Chris Zielecki from Sturmsucht.de has written a good blog post about the Fediverse. Luckily not focused on technology but on users and needs.
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I underestimated my dependency to OneDrive
If you’ve followed my blog, youknow that I’m trying to get rid of BigTech services — without sacrificing convenience (too much). Over the year I’ve replaced quite some services, but what I underestimated a bit was OneDrive.
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Recommended Read: Self-Hosting for Everyone
If you’ve ever wondered how to take control of your digital life without immediately diving into the deep end of server racks and command-line chaos, I want to recommend Laura Hargreaves’ latest post, “Self-Hosting for Everyone”.
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Feeling Trapped by Big Tech? Just Take the First Step
Do you feel that you are too dependent on Big Tech and overwhelmed by the number of services you use?
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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 list and I’m curious about it!
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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:
Microsoft said that Agent 365 unlocks five capabilities intended to make enterprise-scale AI possible:
- Registry, to view all agents in an organization, including agents with agent ID, agents registered by the user, and shadow agents.
- Access control, to bring agents under management and limit access only to needed resources.
- Visualization, to explore connections between agents, people, and data, and monitor agent performance.
- Interoperability, by equipping agents with applications and data to simplify human-agent workflows. They would be connected to Work IQ to provide context of work to onboard into business processes.
- Security, to protect agents from threats and vulnerabilities and remediate attacks that target agents.
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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 (The great Amazon S3 outage of 2017, Amazon And The $150 Million Typo).
Then not even 10 days later, Microsoft Azure‘s Frontdoor had a wide spread service disruption on October 29th, that affected a lot of Azure clients (Microsoft Azure Front Door Outage Analysis: October 29, 2025)
And today, on November 18th, Cloudflare experienced an outage that affects large parts of the internet (Cloudflare apologises for outage which took down X and ChatGPT, Cloudflare outage: Services globally disrupted)
As if we wouldn’t be talking about digital sovereignty enough … These incidents just show the dependency of large parts of the internet to just a small amount of companies. Not exactly what was intended when the internet was built.
Can we just count days until GCP follows? For Google, I hope that they won’t have an outage in the christmas shopping period.
Update Oct. 19th: heise online nailed it pretty well:
After a series of comments about why we find it stupid to rely on the cloud, we’ve now reached the point where we find it stupid to have to write a comment about it every week.
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