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From Data Graveyards to Knowledge Landscapes

Europe is sitting on a wealth of public data—but much of its potential remains untapped. The challenges are well known: fragmented portals, incompatible interfaces, and growing reliance on non-European platforms that slow innovation. While new industrial data spaces are emerging—enabling secure and sovereign exchange of sensitive information—public and industrial data ecosystems remain largely siloed. This article explores how Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Model Context Protocol (MCP) can help bridge that gap and accelerate Europe’s shift from Open Data to Open Knowledge—supporting digital sovereignty and delivering greater value to society.

Updating OWASP’s Microservice Security Cheat Sheet: Decision Dimensions for Authorization Patterns

Choosing the right patterns is critical, as it directly impacts the system’s security posture, performance, scalability, and maintainability.

Pragmatische Architekturdokumentation für Entwicklungsteams

Updating OWASP’s Microservice Security Cheat Sheet: Authorization Patterns

Authorization patterns explain how distributed systems organize their access control — where and how decisions happen, where policies live — and influence, in turn, how identities and related attributes travel between components.

Updating OWASP’s Microservice Security Cheat Sheet: Identity Propagation Patterns

Without trustworthy identity propagation, even strong initial authentication can be undermined — weakening trust boundaries and ultimately impairing the system’s ability to make reliable authorization decisions.

AI — Behind the Buzzword Garbage

Updating OWASP’s Microservice Security Cheat Sheet: Authentication Patterns

Without knowing who the subject is, without verifying its identity, there is only a limited way to perform meaningful access decisions.

Business Model Canvas: Geschäftsmodelle sichtbar machen

Der Business Model Canvas hilft, zentrale Fragen frühzeitig zu klären: Wer sind unsere Kund:innen? Welches Problem lösen wir? Und wie erzeugen wir damit echten Mehrwert? Gerade an der Schnittstelle zwischen IT und Business schafft das Modell ein gemeinsames Verständnis – und hilft, technische Entscheidungen mit der Geschäftsperspektive zu verbinden.

Updating OWASP’s Microservice Security Cheat Sheet: Core Concepts

What’s Wrong with the Current OWASP Microservice Security Cheat Sheet?

Modern microservice architectures require evolving security practices. Yet popular resources like the OWASP Microservice Security Cheat Sheet are starting to show their age and need a fresh look.

First Agile, Then Agentic

Agentic AI is supposed to accelerate software development. But new technologies can only reach their full potential when organizations adapt their structure, processes, and culture. Most organizations today are not yet able to truly benefit from faster software development. The prerequisite for this are the capabilities shaped by the agile and DevOps movements.

Asset Administration Shell und Model Context Protocol

Freund oder Feind?

Context Engineering

Have you ever wondered how chatbots, copilots, or virtual assistants seem to know just the right things to say — or sometimes, spectacularly fail? The difference often comes down to one crucial skill: context engineering.

Primacy-Recency

Was am Anfang gesagt wird oder zum Schluss hängen bleibt, prägt oft das gesamte Gespräch. Dieses Phänomen ist als Primacy-Recency-Effekt bekannt – und beeinflusst, wie wir Informationen aufnehmen, Gespräche bewerten und Entscheidungen treffen. Gerade in Meetings, Präsentationen oder Feedbacksituationen kann das entscheidend sein. Wer den Effekt kennt, kann ihn gezielt nutzen – zum Beispiel, um relevante Inhalte besser zu platzieren und Kommunikation wirksamer zu gestalten.

Technical and other Debt in IT Systems

A Broad Perspective

Common Approaches in the Field of Socio-Technical Architectures

In the age of digitalization and modernization, companies face the challenge of not only keeping up with technological advancements but also optimizing their organizational structures. Socio-technical architectures play a crucial role in this process by focusing on the flow of work, team collaboration, and the seamless integration of technical and social systems. This article explores two key approaches—Team Topologies and Domain-Driven Design (DDD)—and demonstrates how they can help organizations take the first steps toward consciously designing their socio-technical architecture.

Internal Development Platforms

Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) help us accelerate software development. They represent the natural evolution of developments over the past decades. We’d like to show why this is the case with a historical overview and then examine current challenges.

Don’t Forget the People

When Architectural Changes Become a Change Project

Enabling Stakeholders as a Success Factor

Sociotechnical architectures consider both technical and human-organizational aspects and promote their effective collaboration. To ensure the successful design and implementation of these systems, it is crucial to actively involve stakeholders and address their interests. In this article, we explore why enabling stakeholders represents a key function in sociotechnical projects and how you can implement this approach effectively.

Plattformen für AI: Daten und APIs als digitales Fundament

Eine aktiv gemanagte Plattform von Daten und Diensten ist die Grundlage für agentenfähige Systeme. Nur wer Daten und Dienste gemeinsam zugänglich macht, schafft die nötige Basis für AI. Agenten brauchen klar beschriebene Datendienste – und eine Plattform, die diese zur Verfügung stellt.

How Much Thinking Can a Team Handle?

Agenten - Kreise - Firmen

In Teil 2 habe ich Ihnen versprochen, die probabilistische Weltsicht zu beleuchten, mit der Machine Learning Experten schon immer vertraut sind, und die uns allen mit agentischen KI-Systemen bevorsteht. Wir befassen uns damit, was genau in unserem Fall das Lernende System ist, welche neue Rolle dabei Menschen einnehmen, und wie die Vision des CEO von Microsoft Satya Nadella zur Firma der Zukunft aussieht.

Das Versprechen der Agenten

Mit agentischen KI-Systemen wird uns eine völlig neue Welt versprochen. Was ist eigentlich die Natur dieser Systeme und was bedeutet das für die Art und Weise, wie wir mit ihnen umgehen werden? Wir gehen der Frage nach, ob wir das alles geschenkt bekommen, oder ob wir uns dafür noch anstrengen müssen.

Macht die KI die Softwareentwicklung effizienter?

Socio-Technical Architectures: Informality from Mining to Today

Informal structures are hard to spot – but they can make or break a technical solution. Sociotechnical systems show why that matters, and what mining has to do with building apps.