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How Much of Your Life Would You Subscribe To?

Banks are moving from managing our money to bundling our lives. But how much of our lives are we really willing to subscribe to?

Grant Hamilton September 15, 2026

Banking FinTech Technology

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Fresh from the Lab

SecurityMCPAgents

Local MCP Servers: Understanding Attack Scenarios and Security Gaps

Tool poisoning, rug pulls and prompt injection against local MCP servers: how these attacks really work.

Alex Bloss September 3, 2026

Digital TransformationAILeadershipBusiness StrategyOperations

The End of “Digital Transformation” Buzzwords

Why execution, not technology, is the real driver of business transformation.

Grant Hamilton July 30, 2026

ArchitectureMonolithBCEDesign Pattern

BCE Pattern in a Monolith: Clean Architecture for Complex Systems

A practical introduction to the Boundary-Control-Entity pattern, which makes monoliths more modular, maintainable, and better prepared for future evolution.

Sebastian Kusnier June 30, 2026

RegulationEU

The Tale of the Tribe of Preventers and the Tribe of Makers

In the land of the Makers, nothing moves forward anymore. Little ropes bind the hands of those who only want to build, plant, and invent. A story about creeping stagnation, the power of the 'Preventers,' and the one question that decides everything: 'Are we still helping — or are we just tying new ropes?'

Simon A. Blick April 8, 2026

UbuntuTroubleshooting

A Detective Story - blinking lights and no sleep

Mysterious blinking lights and a system that won't go to sleep. What's going on?

Alex Bloss March 24, 2026

CalendarDevAngularNodeRaspberry PiiCloud

The Hole in Time: Why We’re Digitizing the Wall Calendar

For a long time, the paper calendar was considered the last relic of the analog era. The “Year-round calendar” project is now bringing this German office classic into the digital era. From the initial idea to the view on the 4K monitor: this is what it looks like when you solve a decades-old problem with modern technology.

Holger Kummert February 5, 2026

AILLMLanguage ModelsAgentsSoftware Development

Agent Smith - Reloaded

AI agents promise to develop software on their own and solve complex tasks, but what really lies behind the hype? We dive deep into the technology, build a real workflow step by step, and uncover the unvarnished challenges that lurk on the road to production.

Alex Bloss November 19, 2025

ArchitectureSoftware Development

Hexagonal Architecture in Monoliths? Why Not!

Hexagonal architecture in a monolith? Sounds unusual - but it turned out to be a great success for our archiving tool. A field report on challenges, learnings, and the tangible benefits for developers, users, and long-term maintainability.

Christian Schmid September 21, 2025

AIDigitalizationWorkshopMachine LearningKnowledge Graph

Data Maintenance Made Easy - AI to Support Our Personnel Profile Platform

Profilery, our platform for digital management of employee profiles, strategically leverages Artificial Intelligence to simplify manual maintenance, improve data quality, and accelerate the entire proposal process while making it more transparent. In collaboration with the Mittelstand-Digital Zentrum Augsburg and fortiss, we intensively explored innovative ways AI can improve data quality.

Alex Bloss August 3, 2025

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