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99.9% availability sounds impressive. At first glance, this figure seems like a quality promise. In fact, it appears in many Service Level Agreements …
The first customers have been acquired, the product is evolving, and demand is increasing. What initially sounds like success presents a new …
Developing a SaaS application is challenging. Operating it reliably is often the greater challenge. With the first customers, expectations rise. The …
Those Developing Modern Software Need a Partner for Reliable Operations Cloud-native applications, Kubernetes , compliance requirements, and rising …
TL;DR Polycrate-portability-multi-cloud enables containerized workloads across providers and platforms. With OCI-compliant containers , open APIs, …
TL;DR Polycrate installations critically depend on clear system requirements. This checklist outlines minimum and recommended hardware and software …
The Myth of “Finished Kubernetes” “We now have Kubernetes.” Hardly any phrase is uttered more frequently in IT projects—and …
TL;DR Cloud agnosticism means describing infrastructure definitions independently of providers. Polycrate IaC creates an abstract layer that enables …
TL;DR This post demonstrates how compliance governance in Polycrate infrastructure ensures audit trails, manages policies, and makes regulatory …
TL;DR Polycrate migration succeeds with clear migration paths, targeted refactoring, and controlled integrations. A gradual transition, …
TL;DR Polycrate employs a declarative, Kubernetes-centric control approach with an execution-driven engine. Compared to traditional automation tools, …
When Hetzner announced a significant price increase for parts of its cloud portfolio in mid-June 2026, public discussion quickly focused on the most …
The decision to operate a modern Kubernetes -based platform in your own data center is a milestone towards digital sovereignty for system integrators …
TL;DR Core message: Compliance in platform architecture is achieved through standardized principles, auditable processes, and clear governance. …
TL;DR Kubernetes Registry Management requires clear guidelines for consistency, security, and governance. Digest-Driven Deployments, image signing, …
The distributed nature of modern IT infrastructures has definitively dismantled traditional network boundaries. When Kubernetes clusters operate …
Video streaming and real-time communication are considered the ultimate challenge in IT infrastructure. While traditional SaaS applications or …
The BYON Paradigm (Bring Your Own Nodes): How the Loopback Agent Decouples the Hybrid Cloud For a long time, scaling IT infrastructures was dictated …
In discussions about cloud transformation, the narrative often suggests that the future of IT lies solely in globally connected, public cloud …
In the digital age, accessibility is everything. As a company grows, internationalizes its services, or operates critical infrastructures, IT …
When a medium-sized company or corporation decides to modernize its IT infrastructure, migration is almost always on the agenda. Workloads move from …
In the digital age, one of the most important management principles is: “Do not outsource core competencies.” Companies invest millions …
In the world of IT infrastructure, there’s an unwritten rule: “Never trust a single route.” Companies naturally rely on redundancy …
Kubernetes regularly produces features that seem unspectacular at first glance—until you understand the actual infrastructure problem they address. …
Many companies today consider themselves technologically independent once their applications run on Kubernetes . The argument initially sounds …
Digital Sovereignty Requires Portability The European debate on digital sovereignty has been stuck in a remarkably superficial loop for years. …
In industrial environments, those training machine learning models, optimizing neural networks, or running complex simulations inevitably encounter …
When granting potential customers access to a test instance, you open a window into your technology. This is essential for closing sales but presents …
For many SaaS providers, winning a large enterprise client or a public sector contract is a double-edged sword. On one hand, there’s the …
In a multi-tenant environment (many customers on one platform), video is a selfish workload. If Customer A starts a massive live event with 10,000 …
Video data is highly sensitive. Whether it’s internal strategy meetings, confidential investor calls, or patient data in healthcare, the …
In the world of live streaming, ingest is the most critical moment. This is when the video signal is transmitted from the producer (from the studio …
Compared to classic web applications, video is a completely different type of workload. While a web server can often cushion a brief load spike with …
In IT procurement, monitoring is often viewed as a commodity—a standard product that should cost as little as possible. “A ping is a …
Monitoring data often has a short half-life: An alert pops up, the issue is resolved, and the alert disappears. However, for a managed hosting …
In traditional infrastructures, monitoring was a manual process: a new server was rented, an application installed, and then manually added to the …
When thinking about monitoring, many first consider technical metrics. However, monitoring endpoints inevitably involves data processing, bringing …
The internet is not a homogeneous entity but rather a patchwork of thousands of autonomous systems communicating via the Border Gateway Protocol …
Many IT departments feel secure because their monitoring dashboards consistently show “green.” The servers are up, CPU load is low, and …
In Industry 4.0, the cloud is a powerful ally for data analysis and AI. However, for daily operations on the shop floor, a strict rule applies: …
For those building modern data engineering pipelines, S3 (Simple Storage Service) is indispensable. It is the industry standard for accessing …
In theory, Artificial Intelligence is a boon for the industry. In practice, implementation often stumbles over a mundane hurdle: hardware …
In the early stages of a SaaS product or an eCommerce solution, speed is everything. To go live quickly, the path through virtual machines (VMs) and …
Monitoring alerts have become background noise in many IT organizations. When the phone rings at 3 AM, the first reaction is often annoyance rather …
In the fintech world, there’s a well-known phenomenon: the software is great, the team is convinced, but the legal and compliance department of …
In regulatory discussions with BaFin or during due diligence by major banks, the term exit strategy inevitably comes up today. For a long time, this …
What Risks Companies Specifically Underestimate Introduction The use of US cloud services is commonplace for many companies today. Platforms like …
In a traditional cloud environment, customers receive their IP addresses from the cloud provider. This is convenient but creates a dangerous …
Industrial corporations today face a paradoxical challenge: they must adapt the agility and innovative power of cloud startups while maintaining the …
In a modern data engineering platform, storage needs are not only vast but also diverse. We need space for raw sensor data, finished AI models, …
In industrial AI development, the GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) is the new gold. Whether for training complex neural networks for quality control or …
In the early stages of an e-commerce agency, the approach is usually pragmatic: each new client shop gets its own hosting package. One shop with …
Why We Consciously Don’t Have a Booth This Year – and Expect More Than Ever Before CloudFest is one of the few events where the term …
TL;DR Vendor lock-in is one of the central challenges companies face when using cloud services. Strategies like multi-cloud approaches, the use of …
Why Two Clouds Do Not Mean Independence In many companies, Multi-Cloud is now considered a shortcut to digital sovereignty. The common assumption is …
TL;DR Relational databases are the backbone of almost every business application. However, the market leader MySQL is now owned by Oracle, and cloud …
TL;DR The S3 protocol is to data storage what HTTP is to websites: the universal standard. However, “S3” is not synonymous with Amazon. …
TL;DR Relational databases force developers to squeeze data into rigid tables. MongoDB breaks this mold. It stores data as modern applications use it: …
Why Digital Sovereignty Without Competition Remains an Illusion The debate on digital sovereignty in Europe is often oversimplified. It usually …
Europe is Working on Its Own Digital Payment Infrastructure The European payment landscape has long been dominated by international providers. A …
Every year, billions of taxpayer dollars are funneled into the digitalization of public administration. Yet, this money often ends up in proprietary …
Storage as a Cloud Feature or as a Controllable Platform Persistent storage is one of the most inconspicuous yet powerful layers of modern platforms. …
Traffic Control as a Cloud Service or as a Controllable Platform Component Load balancers are the silent foundations of modern infrastructures. They …
Identity as a Service or as Infrastructure Azure Entra ID and Keycloak address the same core issue: managing identities, controlling access, and …
Buying Dependency or Building Resilience Block storage is one of the invisible yet most critical layers of any cloud and Kubernetes architecture. …
TL;DR Modern software development requires more than just code hosting. While hyperscalers like AWS attempt to lock developers into their platforms …
The classic SaaS model is simple: one cloud, one architecture, all customers share the resources. However, as a SaaS provider becomes more successful …
How Sovereign is Europe’s Data Really? Amazon Web Services is putting the “AWS European Sovereign Cloud” into operation in …
TL;DR Storage has traditionally been the heaviest “anchor element” in cloud architecture. Using AWS EBS or S3 ties your data physically …
Imagine getting the same computing power for 70% to 90% less cost. The catch? The cloud provider can take the server away from you at any time with …
FinOps in Kubernetes - 20 Answers 1. Why is the standard cloud bill for Kubernetes costs unusable? Cloud providers issue bills for instances (VMs). …
Many IT managers in medium-sized businesses feel secure because they “do backups.” However, in a serious incident—such as a massive cloud …
When discussing the shift to Cloud-Native and Kubernetes , we often focus on architecture, providers, and costs. However, the most critical variable …
What Operators Face Now – and Which Alternatives Are Truly Viable MinIO has put its Community Edition into maintenance mode. The note in the README …
TL;DR The ayedo Kubernetes Distribution offers two distinct operational variants: Loopback for European public clouds and a k3s-based solution for …
The Localmind Case: What Happens When Security Promises Are Not Kept The self-description was promising: “Local & secure AI platform for …
When Google quietly removed the “num=100” parameter from its search engine logic, hardly anyone outside the SEO bubble noticed at first. …
On October 5, 2025, it was revealed that an external support provider for the platform Discord was the target of a cyberattack. Personal data of …
TL;DR On January 17, 2025, the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA ) will come into effect for financial institutions and key ICT service …
Bonify and the Loss of Digital Identity On October 1, 2025, a data protection incident came to light that further shook trust in the digital credit …
TL;DR The EU has established a coherent framework with GDPR , NIS‑2 , DORA , CRA , Data Act , and the Cloud Sovereignty Framework, systematically …
In recent years, Cloud First has been considered an almost unshakeable maxim. Companies of all sizes were encouraged to move their infrastructure to …
Storage in Kubernetes is by no means trivial. Stateful workloads impose the highest demands on stability, performance, and availability—handling …
In industries like manufacturing, finance, or critical infrastructures, automation is not a “nice-to-have” but a mandatory necessity. …
An AI influencer is not a human who spontaneously decides whether to post a video or a post today. An AI influencer is a digital persona, fully …
Palantir in Germany is more than just a software provider. It symbolizes a quiet shift in the state: away from democratic control, towards …
70% of European companies consider their dependency on non-European technology too high. This is not a gut feeling, but the result of the current …
Cyber risks are increasing. Requirements are rising. And to be taken seriously as an IT service provider, you need more than just good technology. At …
Today, every support request influences customer satisfaction, loyalty, and long-term business success. Unstructured processes, lost tickets, and …
The question keeps coming up. Development teams deliver features, optimize releases, build clean architectures — yet they still get stuck in …
Software Development Doesn’t End with Code When developing applications for clients today, the next topic quickly arises: How is the software …
Microsoft Bids Farewell to Traditional Server Models – What’s Next? Starting July 2025, the licensing model for Microsoft’s on-premise …
Introduction In today’s software development landscape, where AI-powered tools like GitHub Copilot and similar assistants provide support, many …
Successful Partnership: ESCRA and ayedo Revolutionize ZTNA with Kubernetes and Cloud Hosting Strategic partnerships are crucial for combining …
Highly Available SaaS Infrastructure for Over 2 Billion Requests Per Month In today’s digital world, resilience and scalability are …
In this post, we will show you how to deploy the dashboard app getHomepage using Docker Compose and Traefik, and access it through a DNS entry like …
Introduction In this post, we will show you how to deploy Baserow using Docker Compose and Traefik and make it accessible via a DNS entry like …
Introduction In this post, we will show you how to deploy Mattermost using Docker Compose and Traefik, and access it via a DNS entry like …
Introduction In this post, we will show you how to deploy Paperless-ngx using Docker Compose and Traefik, and access it via a DNS entry like …
Introduction: Deploying Portainer with Traefik Labels and Accessing via DNS Entry In this post, we’ll show you how to deploy Portainer using …
Introduction In this post, we demonstrate how to deploy Stirling PDF using Docker Compose and Traefik, and access it via a DNS entry like …
Introduction In this post, we will show you how to deploy the to-do app Vikunja with Docker Compose and Traefik and access it via a DNS entry like …
In this tutorial, you will learn how to set up and configure Traefik as a reverse proxy using Docker Compose. Traefik offers a modern and flexible …
By leveraging Kubernetes , developers and operations teams can overcome the challenges of traditional hosting environments, making their PHP …
Welcome to the ayedo Cloud – your ultimate platform for zero-downtime SaaS app hosting. Designed for the creative minds who want to enrich the world …
Kubernetes - Managed or Manual? Should you manage Kubernetes yourself or entrust the responsibility to Managed Service Providers? With Kubernetes …
Criterion Kubernetes VMware Technology Container orchestration platform Virtualization platform Level of Abstraction Virtualizes applications at the …
TL;DR Criterion AWS EKS Azure AKS Google GKE Pricing Complex, based on instances, services, and data transfer Varies depending on node type and …
Criterion Kubernetes OpenShift Developer Open-source project by Google, managed by the CNCF Container platform developed by Red Hat, based on …
Deploying Kubernetes on-premise, in a private, self-managed infrastructure, can present several challenges that need to be addressed. Here are some …
Kubernetes v1.26 introduces an exciting new feature: the general availability (GA) of Kubelet Credential Provider Plugins . This extensible plugin …